Dreaming of another RPM tool

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by ULFGARD

why not just use yum?

I only know that word as something you say when you've just eaten something tasty...

[ULFGARD]

Originally Posted by Bruno

I only know that word as something you say when you've just eaten something tasty...

Yum is a package management tool for versions of linux which use RPMs. Every time I see "rpm" somewhere, this is exactly what I think of. Apologies for turning this thread sideways. Please proceed.

[seasong]

Originally Posted by Edges

RPK's calculator is great.

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

Originally Posted by Edges

Any chance there's an eager programmer out there that wants to make my dream come true?

I wrote almost exactly that for my own nefarious purposes back in May, and never got around to making it well-known.

It's not fancy-looking (RPK handled the CSS on that other calculator I wrote), but it will take a skill level and a target energy level, and make all of the rolls for you, and then tell you the results (including quirks, how much energy had been accumulated before critical failure, number of rolls, and so on).

It doesn't pre-calculate probability. That's too big of a mess :-)

[Kalzazz]

I made an Excel file which does that and will do it 20 times so gives you a rough guestimate of chance of success and average quirks

[Edges]

Originally Posted by seasong

I wrote almost exactly that for my own nefarious purposes back in May, and never got around to making it well-known.

Excellent. Thank you.
Dreams really do come true.

[Edges]

Originally Posted by seasong

I wrote almost exactly that for my own nefarious purposes back in May, and never got around to making it well-known.

Sorry for the thread necromancy. But this link no longer works for me. And I loved it so much.

I wonder if we could get something like it in the GURPS Game Aids thread or something. Anyone? With sugar on top? :D

[seasong]

Apologies: corrected ritual path magic tool link.

I switched over to secure HTTPS only a while ago and missed a redirect somewhere.

[Edges]

Originally Posted by seasong

Apologies: corrected ritual path magic tool link.

I switched over to secure HTTPS only a while ago and missed a redirect somewhere.

Many thanks.

[JMason]

I created a page like this awhile back. You input the skill and energy needed then it processes. If it rolls a quirk then it will ask if you wish to continue.

There are a couple of other options (crit success clears quirks, or crits give double energy) that were house rules (and I am not sure they are even working since I added them right before we stopped playing our MH game).

https://googledrive.com/host/0B--YaH.../rpm_calc.html

[nick_coffin]

Originally Posted by Edges

So there's this for calculating how much a ritual costs, there's this for finding how much energy one can accumulate from a given number of rolls, and there's that table in MH4 for making charms, but what we need at our table is something different.

We need something that we can input the ritual cost and effective skill level and have an output of whether it succeeded (and if so how many quirks) or crit failed and how many rolls it took either way. (Ideally, it would also have a "chances of success" that could be calculated before hitting the "roll" button so a caster can know if they want to try it at all.)

Any chance there's an eager programmer out there that wants to make my dream come true?

I'm the programmer for this and I've done just what you've described. Give me a week or so and I'll upload it to the server.