Question: Dice Pools and counting hits

[manchuwook]

What would be the roll notation for 13 10-sided dice, count hits where the number on the dice is 5 or higher?
e.g. [10,5,5,4,3,1,8,8,10,4,2,10,1] = 7 hits

What would it be where 10s count as double? In the previous example, it would instead be 10 hits.

[GreenImp]

It's currently not possible to use dice pools in a success / failure way. The system isn't built to count valid rolls, based on a pre-defined target number (In your case 5).

I do think that this should be implemented.

Using the same notation as for compare points on exploding / penetrating dice is probably the most sensible, but will mean that you can't do success / failure on exploding / penetrating dice.

You get then do something like:

13d10>=5: [10,5,5,4,3,1,8,8,10,4,2,10,1] = 7 hits // success is greater than or equal to 5
2d6>=4: [3,4,6,2] = 2 hits // success is greater than or equal to 4
2d6<3: [3,4,6,2] = 2 hits // success is less than 2
2d6=6: [3,4,6,2] = 1 hits // success is equal to 6

I've opened issue #23 for implementing this feature. I welcome pull requests if you're able to implement it. Otherwise I will take a look as soon as I can.

I'm not sure how you would specify to count 10s as two hits, rather than one though. That seems a bit more difficult.

Calculating manually

I know it's not ideal, but you could calculate this manually, by looping through the roll log and checking the values.

To get the logs, call the DiceRoller.getLog() method, which returns an array of DiceRoll objects.
Each DiceRoll object has a rolls property, for each actual roll. You can check the values of the rolls, determine whether to include it (If it's greater than or equal to 5), and whether it's worth double "hits").

An example of how to read from the logs can be seen in the dice-roller.js

[GreenImp]

Closing as separate issue for functionality exists (#23)

[manchuwook]

Thank you for looking into this as a feature. I will take a look at looping through the log as you suggested.

[GreenImp]

Let me know how you get on.

This issue on next on my todo.

[GreenImp]

Hi @manchuwook sorry for the delay. I have implemented dice pools, and it's now available under v1.5.0.
You can check the related issue #23

Hopefully it works as expected. Please let me know if you have any issues.

[manchuwook]

Sweet christmas! Thanks!