On 2 Feb 2002, at 5:07, Steve Barr wrote: > Coyt D. Watters wrote: > > The problem I am having with MOST dice rollers (and almost has driven me to > > update GMCALC) is Sanguine's IRONCLAW system, where > > > Eek. It's harder to explain than to use. In use it's very elegant - I toss some dice, you toss some dice, and we compare from highest to lowest. If my highest beats yours, then I win, if your is higher, you win. If we tie on the high die, then the next die is compared. Thus it's marginally possible for a character of low skill to get in a lucky blow and defeat a character of high skill. > > For a palm, it'd be nice if the dice results could be beamed via the IRDA to > > another palm. That way, for an opposed roll, the GM and player could both > > "roll" then beam the results to each other's device. > > > Picky/paranoid GMs might want a timestamp and a type of role > description. :-) Well, if not a timestamp, at least hearing the Palm beep or something as the player taps the roll dice button... B^) > > > As a GM, I'd like a resettable countdown timer, where I can give the players > > 10- 30 seconds to make a decision - like a chess clock. But, I'd also like a > > device for counting "game time" which could track several events, and give > > alarms as needed - the GM would determine when a "time event (tick)" takes > > place - so we could resolve combat round 1, TICK the clock, which might > > decrease the time remaining on a spell, the amount of O2 left in the room, the > > timer on a bomb, etc. > > > That is pretty cool. I guess you could have some sort of geometric > increase or decrease option in addition to simple + or - an amount for > each event. Definitely, and if the items could cross-trigger or cascade (so one event could start another in motion) that would be even nicer. It would also be nice if the events could also be set to self-reset if needed. (the searchlight comes around this way every 30 seconds - so have the event set itself to happen again in 30 seconds) > > > I've been eyeing a handful of different Palm SDKs, but (not to start a holy > > war) with seeing the market share drifting towards the fatter WINce/Porkette > > Windows, thinking maybe I should develop that direction. > > > If you want market share, the answer is Java, surprisingly enough: > http://www.javamobiles.com/ > Even the new iPaq 3800 series is shipping with a Java VM: > http://www.compaq.com/products/quickspecs/10977_na/10977_na.HTML > > The Java used by some phones looks particularly promising as a lot > more people carry phones than PDAs. > > Steve ================================================================ -Coyt "The Internet, billions of electrons with nothing better to do." ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
