Pseudobot - Random Stats Roller

Similar to my pointless slaying and looting random character generator, but this one just randomly spends a given amount of points on attributes and secondary characteristics. Now you can have "balanced" random stats if that is your thing. I dunno why I made this, but I did.

Pseudobot - Added DFRPG version of throwing damage/range calculation

It's not that different from GURPS' version; but it's slightly different. So, enjoy, I guess.

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Pseudobot - Added some more critical failure tables

Added all the critical failure tables from the back of GURPS Thaumatology to the critical miss/failure command. No more flipping through books. Roll that Spirit table.

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Pseudobot - New Last Gasp Helper and all around small performance enhancement

By default, Pseudobot blocks on all service calls apparently, which is weird, because I would automatically assume that each event interrupt would spawn its own thread at least, but apparently, by default, that is not the case. So that is fixed, this means that if Jon Doe is hammering the bot on some server, it doesn't stop Jane Doe from hammering it on another.
Also, a new command is added to let people do the quick and dirty last gasp roll for mooks who are not important enough to have AP. Take a look if you like The Last Gasp, but you are like me, and can't be bothered to memorize two tables with three possible outcomes.

Pseudobot: Heroic Background Generator

Batmom has fallen in with the
hobgobs.

For giggles, the heroic background generator. It's kinda rough, grammar errors still pop up like mad, but meh, it mostly works. If you like it, buy the original issue to get some more ideas about how to actually use the generated background. If you find some icky grammar, let me know.

Pseudobot: Malfunction roller and Last Gasp Long Term Fatigue lookup.

Someone asked using the feedback command if the bot had a malfunction command. I can't respond to feedback, and the feedback is anonymous, so I dunno from who or where it came, but in any case, since it wasn't much trouble, I added it.
I also made a function for calculating a bunch of thingies quickly from The Last Gasp more because I plan on having a campaign where I'll be using it.
In other news, I plan on trying to have either a bot update or a blog update once a week in 2017; and definitely at least one programming update every month. I am starting to get back into a bit of a creative groove and feel like writing a bit more soon.

Pseudobot: Announcement and Feedback functions; more book indices

Feedback works!

I added two new functions to the Pseudobot today. The first is a function for myself only that allows broadcasting messages, usually for when Pseudobot is expecting a downtime or similar, or when new features are added. I've also added a feedback function if people need to leave me a message to share their dissatisfaction with any recent changes. Besides that, the book index now contains Banestorm, Banestorm Abydos, and Template Toolkit 1.

Pseudobot: Reduced Swing Damage mode and Improved Basic Lift output

Haven't posted in a while, but I've been doing some teensy things on the bot, some cleaning up of code here and there and so on. First, because I'm playing in a game using No School Grognard's house rule for reduced swinging strength, I've added a switch so you can calculate your thrust and swing damage using those rules. Secondly, I was thinking the Basic Lift output could use a little bit of razzle dazzle and column alignment, so I reformatted that a bit to use embeds. Perhaps I should do that on more functions in the future.

Pseudobot: New Explosion Calculator Function

Screenshot! So much text! But also, if my math is correct, that's
29 dice rolls resolved nigh instantaneously!

Nah, it's not the same thing as the GURPS Calculator demolition calculator. This is a tool for quickly rolling the results of explosion and shrapnel damage to several potential targets in one, hopefully easy to use command. It accepts arguments to adjust what level of the explosion enhancement is used, so for example if the damage dissipates at a divisor of 1 x yards in distance away from the blast like an Explosion 3 attack, you can do that. It also does the random hit locations for shrapnel automatically, but assumes a bipedal human-like character. Have fun!

Pseudobot: Fixed Regex in search commands.

For some reason, the default behavior of the argument parser in the discord.net API is to delete any slashes, so neat. I've hacked the heck out of this thing now so that regex searching works. Hooray.

Pseudobot: Documentation Updated and Bot Updated to use new Discord.Net API.

So, got some patrons, so the bot command documentation has been spruced up a bit. I invite everyone to poke around with it and look for bugs, or point out places where the help is still found wanting. Thanks everyone for the support, and I hope to continue making Pseudobot bigger and better.

Pseudobot: Updating Libs and Documentation!

I've hit the first Patreon goal! Thanks for the support everyone. I'll be updating the built-in documentation for all the functions in Pseudobot to be completely up to date. And as an extra handicap, the Discord.net libs (in non-programmer speak, the tools that make it easier to write the discord bot functionality) have been updated in a way that breaks a lot of functionality, but admittedly, is much better than before. In closing, I leave a screenshot of a working, but very ugly pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha version of the GURPS Mass Combat Calculator. Don't tell me the screen can be arranged better or that some buttons are too big, or that there is too much white space here or there; I know, and I am not working on the UI right now. I'm just trying to get all the rules working well enough first, then I can make it look nice.

Pseudobot: Index search

I added a book index search to Pseudobot, my Discord chat bot.
For example:

Pseudonym-Today at 10:30 AM

@Pseudobot lookup index sword

PseudobotBOT-Today at 10:30 AM

@Pseudonym: Found 29 result(s). Showing 10

Broadsword loadout, DF13:8, DF13:33
Shortsword/smallsword loadout, DF13:21, DF13:45
Shortsword-and-main-gauche loadout, DF13:27, DF13:50
Smallsword-and-cloak loadout, DF13:27, DF13:50
Sword loadouts. See Rapier-and-Buckler Loadout
Sword-and-cloak loadout, DF13:10, DF13:34
Sword-and-shield loadout
    knight, DF13:20, DF13:44
    bard, DF13:10, DF13:34
Two-handed sword loadout
    knight, DF13:21, DF13:44
    barbarian, DF13:9, DF13:33
Sword-and-buckler man character type, DF15:17
Golem-armor swordsman, DF2:24

So, yeah, add Chen to discord, and you can look through a buncha books real fast.

Pseudobot: Timer

It's a weirdly easy, but I'm also finding it, an extremely helpful thing to have programmed. It allows setting an arbitrary count of reminders simultaneously, so one person can track all the luck and abilities that require recharge that they want at a time. I've even just been using it for real life stuff. In any case, if you want to be able to set timers in your own discord server, just add Pseudobot and use the timer command.

Pseudobot: Damage and Basic Lift

The discord bot, Pseudobot now, given an effective ST level, can automatically calculate Basic Lift or Damage automatically. What's more, both commands have a Know Your Own Strength option for the fairly popular Pyramid article. This is a nifty tool for making on the fly adjustments in a game where ST buffs and debuffs are a thing.

Pseudobot: Fright Checks

My GURPS discord bot now does fright checks. This includes awe and confusion checks. If you use discord for GURPS and want a bot that does a lot of things for you, you can follow this link.

https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=242855270076645377&scope=bot&permissions=0

If you want the bot to do cool different things, maybe I should start a patreon and get rich begging on the blog?