Dice Rolling

Myth-Weavers has a built-in dice roller wired directly into the posting experience. Rolls are server-side, timestamped, and tamper-proof — no external bots, no copy-pasting from third-party sites, no "I swear that was a 20" arguments.

How to roll

In any topic, open the Dice Roller panel. Standard dice notation:

1d20 — one twenty-sided die
2d6+3 — two d6, sum, add 3
4d6k3 — four d6, keep the highest three (the classic D&D ability score)
1d20+5 Attack Roll — append a label so you (and everyone else) remember what the roll was for

Type, click Roll, or use ⌘/Ctrl+Enter for the keyboard shortcut.

A single roll line is capped at 200 dice (counting any rerolls or exploding dice it generates) — well beyond any normal roll. If you exceed it, the roll is rejected with a "maximum of 200 dice" message and nothing is posted; split it into smaller rolls.

Visibility

Decide who sees the result before you roll:

Everyone (default) — the roll and result are visible to all topic readers.
GM Only — only the GM(s) see the result. Other players see that you rolled, but not the outcome.
Blind — you see that you rolled but not the result; only the GM(s) see the actual number. Useful for perception checks, saves, anything where the player should be in the dark.

The pending-and-claim flow

After rolling, the result sits in your Pending Rolls panel. Pending rolls aren't attached to any post yet — they're staged.

This is the core anti-cheese mechanic: roll first, then write the post and claim the rolls you want to attach. The rolls appear inline in the timeline, timestamped to when they were originally rolled, not when you claimed them. Nobody can roll, see a bad result, and quietly "forget" to include it.

Under the hood: why pending-and-claim matters

PBP runs on trust, but pure trust scales badly across years and dozens of players. The pending-and-claim model makes the trust mechanical: every roll is permanently recorded and timestamped at the moment of rolling, not the moment of claiming. A GM can see that someone rolled six times in a topic and claimed two — visible, not necessarily punishable, but a basis for a conversation if the pattern matters. Most players never need to think about it; it's there for the rare case where it does.

In the timeline

Claimed rolls show up inline in the topic, in chronological order. Each displays:

Who rolled and when
The dice expression and label
Individual die results and the total
A visibility indicator if the roll is GM-only or blind

Roll history

Every roll is permanently recorded. The full roll history for a topic shows every roll ever made there — who, what, the results, the visibility. Useful for the rare audit and for the always-interesting "wait, when did Jen's character last crit?" stats.

Deleting rolls

You can delete your own pending rolls if you rolled by mistake or no longer need them.

Once a roll is claimed into a post, it's part of the permanent record and is not deletable by players. GMs can delete rolls within their games when a situation calls for it (a genuinely stuck roll, a misclicked label that's confusing the table, etc.).

Next steps

Your character probably needs a home. Characters, Resources, and Maps covers sheet linking, wiki pages, and the rest.