Dice symbols for GM use
Dice symbols for GM use
Here's a bunch of images sized for use in text if anyone's interested. I'm planning to use these in Hyperlight Echoes, and I thought other GMs might find them handy. Just quote this post to see the code, copy it, and paste into your text. (No need to actually reply to this post, but you have to quote it to see the markup.) Hardly necessary, but pretty nonetheless.
Ability Die:
Proficiency Die:
Boost Die:
Difficulty Die:
Challenge Die:
Setback Die:
Success Symbol:
Advantage Symbol:
Triumph Symbol:
Failure Symbol:
Threat Symbol:
Despair Symbol:
Ability Die:
Proficiency Die:
Boost Die:
Difficulty Die:
Challenge Die:
Setback Die:
Success Symbol:
Advantage Symbol:
Triumph Symbol:
Failure Symbol:
Threat Symbol:
Despair Symbol:
Last edited by SavageBob on Thu Nov 22, 2018 1:13 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Awesome dude
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These are great, thanks!
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Ditto that 'awesome' sentiment. Well done!!!
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These are awesome enough to use in my offline games
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Glad folks might find this useful! For offline use, you can download specialized fonts that might work better. Check it out here.
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@swrider, did you recently change the paths on the dice symbols this site uses? I've noticed that a lot of the ones I've been using are no longer showing up. For instance, http://gaming.riderweb.net/boost/b--.png now gives an "image not found" symbol: .
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Well, now it's showing up again. Weird.
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The Url has changed but the path has not. We are no longer hosted on riderweb.net. Additionally, I have let the domain registration expire. Any references using that domain will stop working if they have not already.
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That fixed it. Thanks!
As a wish-list item, it would be awesome if there were some code to make a dice symbol appear in messages. Like, maybe, [sb][/sb] would make a show up.
As a wish-list item, it would be awesome if there were some code to make a dice symbol appear in messages. Like, maybe, [sb][/sb] would make a show up.
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The inline dice symbol BBcodes are now ready to be used. Go wild!
This is what a hard check looks like. You can add one of these, , just about any time you want to make things a little tougher on players. There's a long list posted of all the reasons for doing so, and you can add if you're feeling particularly nasty. If there's a chance for a catastrophic failure, don't forget to upgrade a to a !
This is what a hard check looks like. You can add one of these, , just about any time you want to make things a little tougher on players. There's a long list posted of all the reasons for doing so, and you can add if you're feeling particularly nasty. If there's a chance for a catastrophic failure, don't forget to upgrade a to a !
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This has actually been in my personal to do list. Shado is better at programming the BBC than me so I'm grateful he is taking it on.
Thanks shado
Thanks shado
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This is great! Thanks, Shado!
If you'd like to add to your future Awesomeness rolls, you could also add codes for these:
Success Symbol:
Advantage Symbol:
Triumph Symbol:
Failure Symbol:
Threat Symbol:
Despair Symbol:
If you'd like to add to your future Awesomeness rolls, you could also add codes for these:
Success Symbol:
Advantage Symbol:
Triumph Symbol:
Failure Symbol:
Threat Symbol:
Despair Symbol:
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I use them in Hyperlight Echoes. Example: The Deception works beautifully () The guard even reveals that his boss has an off-planet account on Alderaan (). Unfortunately, he also reveals that that planet just got destroyed by the Empire ().ShadoWarrior wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:20 amWhile I like to be awesome, I didn't add those because I didn't see much point to it. Would anyone ever use these when writing a post?
Granted, it's not as helpful as the dice pool stuff is. It just makes the text look closer to what you'd see in official FFG publications
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I don't really see how adding three success images does anything to improve on "The Deception works beautifully". Your example is something that I would include in a spoiler block (to explain which result goes with which dice), but not in regular text in an IC thread (as it disrupts the flow of the narration). If you look at the FFG publications, they do NOT use dice images when describing results to the players (the text in the reddish sidebars).
Example:
Same info delivered to the players, and it's easier to type "3 successes" than it is to hit the BBcode button, move the cursor to the end of the sentence, hit the BBcode button again, move the cursor again, and repeat a third time.
Does anyone else want these result BBcodes added?
Example:
Spoiler:
Does anyone else want these result BBcodes added?
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I may use them on occasion. My question is why not set them up. If they will be used in even one game then that is good enough reason for me. Just because it can be done in a spoiler does not mean that is a better way to do it. Most of the games on this thread are a little more loose about having OOC and IC information mixed. Deepspacer frequently puts descriptions or calls for rolls in the IC without spoilers. He marks them, and that works in his games. I prefer the look of @SavageBob's description than the example in the spoilers. But that is personal preference.
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Yeah, it's not a big deal; I have a document with the [resized] tags prewritten so I can just copy and paste, but having them in the code would just simplify things. So if it's time-consuming to set them up or it takes up site resources, it's no biggie. Just something pretty to have easier access to.
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lolShadoWarrior wrote: ↑Fri Nov 23, 2018 12:22 am@SavageBob gets the surly admin to work on a holiday , due to a timely assist by the other admin, achieving despite said surly admin's counter arguments . Luckily for Bob, the holiday suppressed any desire to inflict upon Bob's ass. And the holiday has also been pretty good IRL, so no .
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I have fixed the broken links in the BBcode for images that were hosted on Rider's old test site so that they now point to hosting on nemeses.xyz, so all old posts should look proper again.
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Thanks Shado!
Give me about 5 minutes after a post, I'll probably edit it a bit before it is finalized.
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