[OT] Dice Servers

3 posts ยท Jan 22 2002 to Jan 23 2002

From: Denny Graver <den_den_den@t...>

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:48:41 -0000

Subject: [OT] Dice Servers

Anywone know of any Email Dice servers that are working?

I've tried irony game and shadow island games but keep drawing a blank.

Thanks in advance,

From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:11:41 +0000

Subject: Re: [OT] Dice Servers

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 06:48:41PM -0000, NeoMatrix wrote:

You could use mine. :-)

I don't particularly want it bruited to the world, but I'm happy for the list
to play with it. Use it by sending an email message to infobot @
firedrake.org, with the subject line "dice EMAIL", where EMAIL is the address
of the person against whom you're playing. (Or just "dice", if you're playing
solo.)

The body text of the message, which should be plain text, will be copied back
to you and to your partner. Any line that looks like a die roll request will
be evaluated as such, and the results added. So you might send something along
the lines of:

HMS Repulse is firing 3 class-2 beams at point blank on the Ibiza,
giving 6 beam dice. 6 d6 The next ship...

This would be sent out by the server as:

> HMS Repulse is firing 3 class-2 beams at point blank on the Ibiza,

> The next ship...
Dice signing off.

Dice rolls are defined as: (optional # rolls) (optional # dice)d(#
sides)(optional # to
add/subtract)

So all the following are valid:

d100 (roll d100) 3d6 (roll 3d6)
6 3d6+5     (roll 3d6 six times, adding 5 to each result)
4d3-8       (roll 4d3 and subtract 8)

If you find any problems, let me know.

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)

Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 06:20:36 +0100

Subject: Re: [OT] Dice Servers

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