RPG library¶ ↑

A simple Ruby library for role playing games.

Implemented functionality¶ ↑

• Character class with name and basic attributes (aka “traits”) like :strength, :agility, :charisma, :intelligence, :constitution

• Yaml Serialization

• Inventory for keeping tracks of items

• Dice rolling, e.g. 1.d6.roll => 1-6

• Weapons with random damage, e.g. 1d6+1 (like Dungeons & Dragons or The Dark Eye)

• Events (e.g. successful evade, hit, death)

Basic rules¶ ↑

Dice Rolls¶ ↑

In order to do a successful attack or evade the character rolls a D20. The action is successful if the result is lower or equal to it’s associated attribute value (e.g. “attack” or “evade”). That means low dice rolls are actually a good thing, in fact if you roll a 1 you get a perfect bonus (e.g. double damage for attack rolls). On the other side rolling a 20 is an epic fail for any action roll and has various bad consequences (e.g. chance to drop weapon).

Characters¶ ↑

Have a name, inventory, can equip items (weapons and armor for example). Every character has 5 base attributes that influences the probability to success in various areas:

• Strength (influences base damage and chance to hit)

• Agility (influences chance to hit and to evade for example)

• Charisma (will be used for e.g. NPC interaction later)

• Intelligence (also influences chance to hit for now and will be the basis for magic)

• Constitution (influences total health and evade chance, probably more later)

There are other sub-attributes (TODO: find better term) like:

• Attack (chance to hit the target)

• Evade (chance to not get hit)

• more to come

TODO¶ ↑

• Fighting (blocking, armor)

• Specializations

• Maps

• Web Service interface (e.g. creating characters, starting fights)

• much more

IDEAS¶ ↑

• Use URLs as levels: parse the resources and convert them to maps somehow with <a> links being doors to other maps

• IRC interface