Macro for Exploding Tier Dice

MapTool has a built in dice interpreter, so you can type things like [d20] into the chat panel and it will kindly obey.  Phoenix RPG uses exploding dice for most rolls, and MapTool supports this with the 'e' suffix: [d20e].

However, it doesn't show component dice involved in that roll, so if you roll [2d6e], and get a 9, it is impossible to tell whether that roll was 5/4, or 6/1/2.  (School me if you know a way around this.)  Also, it's pure text, and I prefer seeing the dice imagery.

I'm not trying to take away from the very awesome job the devs have done on this product, but for my game I would like to see all the individual dice - graphically - and have the explosions displayed in all their extra-dice glory.  The excitement of getting a die explosion is very important to the Phoenix experience, and I want virtual play to get as close as possible to the same fun!

No problem - MapTool has a macro language, so it's a good time to try it out.

Here is a macro I made which rolls mortal tier dice - 2d10e.  Or 2d*10 if you use Dicenomicon, as all good gamers should.

First, I made a table called D10, which simply has for a Range the value of the face (1-10), and then as an image, the matching die face from MapTool's default image library.

Here's the code that goes along with that table.

[h: roll1=1d10]
[h: roll2=1d10]
[h: total=roll1 + roll2]

<image src='[r: tableImage("D10", roll1)]'></image>
<image src='[r: tableImage("D10", roll2)]'></image>

[while(roll1==10), code:
{
  [h: roll1=1d10]
  [h: total = total + roll1]
  <image src='[r: tableImage("D10", roll1)]'></image>
}]

[while(roll2==10), code:
{
  [h: roll2=1d10]
  [h: total = total + roll2]
  <image src='[r: tableImage("D10", roll2)]'></image>
}]

<br /><b>Total: [r: total]</b>


Revised and simplified below:

[h: rollcount = 2]
[h: total = 0]

[r, while(rollcount > 0, ""), code:
{
  [h: roll = 1d10]
  [h: total = total + roll]
  <image src='[r: tableImage("D10", roll)]'></image>
  [h, if (roll != 10): rollcount = rollcount - 1]
}]

<br /><b>Total: [r: total]</b>



IT'S ALIVE!

Pretty easy!  They did a good job making this an easy language to learn.