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GcL

3:16 AM

@ThomasMarkov i concur. Map to technically compatible version of explicitly unwanted solution is not a good answer.

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HighDiceRoller

6:38 AM

@AncientSwordRage AFAIK AnyDice doesn't support string-valued outcomes. I think you're better off using a conventional language for this one. I may also try implementing easier sampling into my Icepool Python module.

Here's an example script (page and API still WIP, link may break at any time): tinyurl.com/5dhcvna7

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AncientSwordRage

10:39 AM

@HighDiceRoller I'm ok, I think I found how to do it on random.org

(And I'm not very trusting of shortened links, and I could just implement it in JS now I'm not on mobile)

StuperUser

10:53 AM

Morning all, The comments under rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/199700/… have descended into an extended discussion (to which I've been a part of) Not sure whether it needs cleaning up.

AncientSwordRage

@StuperUser I don't see any comments

StuperUser

@AncientSwordRage, sorry, under the question that that answer's for

AncientSwordRage

@StuperUser ahh that threw me off

flag it I guess?

StuperUser

Done. Thank you @AncientSwordRage

AncientSwordRage

11:12 AM

@StuperUser no worries, you're welcome

Picking random character traits in JS

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AncientSwordRage

4:27 PM

@HotRPGQuestions optional rules can be tiring...

Thomas Markov

5:21 PM

AceCalhoon just made their first post in almost three years.

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Yuuki

8:42 PM

@AncientSwordRage Mobile won't let me reply to specific messages from the transcript, so here we go: the CRPG uses Pathfinder 1e rules.

So prepared casting involves preparing specific spells for each spell slot, like 3.5e that Pathfinder is based on.

How many Scorching Rays do I want? Should I prepare a See Invisibility just in case? What if I don't use it?

AncientSwordRage

@Yuuki oh good grief I forgot 3.5 did that 😩

Yuuki

I don't know if PF2e is different, but I'm glad D&D moved away from that.

I've also been dealing my old Pathfinder nemesis: type bonuses.

I supposed "bonus types" is a more accurate way of describing it.

AncientSwordRage

@Yuuki ooof

Yup

Yuuki

@AncientSwordRage On the other hand, at least Pathfinder provides a lot of spell recovery features.

One thing I do now is just prepare the general combat spells I want and then when I run into a situation that requires something niche like See Invisibility, I can just prepare it in a spent slot and then use the wizard's arcane bond feature to recover the slot and be able to cast it

I hadn't ever thought about doing it that way in PnP.

@AncientSwordRage but yeah, I'm not enjoying having to micromanage which buffs give which type of bonus so I don't overlap and waste casts on the wrong spells.

AncientSwordRage

8:59 PM

@Yuuki still feels like it should be simplified 🤔

Yuuki

It's better than in 3.5e where you were just out of luck.

As a wizard, you basically had to dedicate a good number of spell slots for niche utility.

But yeah, I'm glad 5e spellcasting is "prepare these spells, you can cast any of them for a total of X spells" instead of this.

HighDiceRoller

Fair enough, there's no telling what's hiding behind a shortened URL.

Though now that you mention it, a base64-encoded Python script in a query URL doesn't seem super great either. Hmm.

Is sandboxing enough?

AncientSwordRage

@HighDiceRoller did you see my bookmark above?

@HighDiceRoller I trust tio or ato

Yuuki

9:34 PM

@HighDiceRoller Conversely, a lengthened URL is the most transparent: aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.co…;

Looks like that doesn't hyperlink properly, nor did I expect it to.

HighDiceRoller

9:53 PM

@AncientSwordRage It seems TIO effectively offloads the risk to the server? Though I don't think it can install packages from PyPi.

AncientSwordRage