TheMegaZZTer (10:30:46 PM): hmm so basicallt
TheMegaZZTer (10:31:06 PM): you want it where you can show a script a thread via url and it'll analyize for for keywords
TheMegaZZTer (10:31:21 PM): for like a dice roll or start/stop keywords for a chess thing
gebohq (10:33:39 PM): it doesn't even need to necessarily do that, though I suppose that's one way it could do it. I was thinking, like, you could show a script a thread and say "every time [poster 1] posts, stop clock for [poster 1] and start clock for [poster 2]." I suppose the keyword thing would give it some flexibility though so that the posters playing could post without taking effect on the script
gebohq (10:34:57 PM): *shrug*
gebohq (10:35:46 PM): whatever works
TheMegaZZTer (10:36:01 PM): well that concept is doable, except how does the script know who psoter1 and poster2 are?
TheMegaZZTer (10:36:04 PM): and the thread to track, even?
gebohq (10:37:04 PM): well the script would probably need to be told by someone. you know, "go to site, copy-paste link" thing
gebohq (10:38:05 PM): a similar thing would have to be done for assigning which posters will be the players too
TheMegaZZTer (10:38:59 PM): if you explain what this is for it might help me figure out how it should be done
gebohq (10:39:33 PM): I guess it'd be the equivalent of telling it which keywords to search for? or if you use something based on the subscription option on the forums or RSS or something, it could be a way to say "only pay attention to updates made by these posters" or something, I dunno
gebohq (10:39:52 PM): well ideally it'd be for a lot of future forum games on Massassi
TheMegaZZTer (10:41:22 PM): so someone would post like... "roll the dice"
TheMegaZZTer (10:41:34 PM): but you'd have to go to SEE the script's page to see anything
gebohq (10:42:41 PM): well that's why I said ideally it'd be nice for it to generate an image that could be posted on the first post on Massassi, but if that's not do-able, people could link to the script's page on the first post
gebohq (10:43:35 PM): but for especially the dice roll, the important thing would just be to have a method of rolling dice and having results that couldn't easily be altered
gebohq (10:43:49 PM): something tied into the "dice roll" post itself
gebohq (10:44:29 PM): the game clock is more for convinience as I can see it
TheMegaZZTer (10:44:36 PM): hmm an image
gebohq (10:46:16 PM): for dice rolls, you could probably just have 6 images (if using 1 six-sided die for example) that the script would point to, perhaps?
TheMegaZZTer (10:46:30 PM): well
TheMegaZZTer (10:47:07 PM): having the first post contain an image that points to the script could be interesting
TheMegaZZTer (10:47:35 PM): then the image would change based on the posts in the thread
TheMegaZZTer (10:48:22 PM): I'm afraid I have enough programming projects right now though, I'm not really interested in this. But there are other programmers in Massassi

But that's stupid CM. People can just keep re-rolling until they get what they like and then post it...

Apologies for expecting people not to cheat?

Implementing directly in the forum would require db modifications, etc. Besides I can always check the logs.

It's a 1 hour job, jesus.

Another method is the gamemaster can provide the rolls.