(Big) Feature request: Skills Management and Rolling
I realize that this would be a major new feature and take a fair bit of work, but I thought I'd plant a bug anyway, for some time you're feeling ambitious, jase.
Most Gaming systems have some concept of skills, with a value of some sort associated with it -- either just a number like d20 games or a dice specification. As a GM, I frequently find myself looking through all the character sheets to find what everybody's value is in a particular skill. I already have saved as dice commands the ones I commonly roll for everybody at once (Spot, listen), but even that is a pain because I have to update my command when they level up and improve in the skills -- it isn't tied to their sheets at all.
So here's the feature:
1. New GM page where GM defines the skills available. You want the GM rather than the players to define them, because if each player enters his own skills by name, there will be spelling and abbreviation differences.
On this page, the GM also defines how skill values translate to a dice command. For example, in a d20 game where the skill is a value that is added to a d20, the GM selects "Append Value to" and enters "d20+" in a text field. Other choices would be to prepend value (for instance, where the skill value is a number of d6 to roll) or just the value itself is a dice command. I don't think you'd want this to be different per skill, but maybe in some systems you would.
2. The players would have a new page, or a new section in Character Details, in which they fill in their current skill values. It may be a little d20-centric, but the ability to sum up these values from a few different columns would be very helpful. I can see, however, the database explosion that creates. (games x players x skills x modifier columns)
3. Finally, the GM has, either on the same page as the setup or on a new page, a place to view and roll the skills for all the players. In a table with the skills as rows and the players as columns, each value is a link to make a dice roll. In addition, there is an extra column for "Roll All" that has a similar effect as my dice command here: [dice=d20+11,d20+4,d20+7,d20-1,d20+3,d20+0 memo="Spot: Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, Pebbles, Bambam"], where it rolls for every player and puts a comment of the players names so I know how to correlate rolls to players. Since I'm often going to be making several different rolls, I wouldn't want this to take me to the Dice Roller page, I just want it to do the roll, perhaps with a shortened view of the dice log below but also putting the values in the regular dice log. (I guess that means that I need the secret roll checkbox, here, too, maybe some of the other settings?)
This message was last edited by the user at 16:15, Sun 25 Oct 2020.