Story Templates not Generating Unique Values

[LordEntrails]

You lost me at "the part I don't think.can be done"... 藍

lol yea, well a lot of what I've done is trial and error to see what might work etc. I find the wiki article hard to follow and I don't learn well from videos. But Marmas and TJ certainly seem like they don't have my short comings on this topic so Besides, If I document here what I learn maybe it will be useful to others.

Those it may already be obvious to others, I did some other fun little things with the story templates that I will share as well. This here is taking results from the rolled tables and performing math on it and having FG give results. Some of it works, and some doesn't. Specifically the second equation for Diameter doesn't work. Haven't figured this one out yet either, would love some suggestions

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Works: [:2d10/10:diam]

Does not Work:
[: (1d100+40)/70:diamTwo]
[:1d100+100:diamThree]
[: (1d100+100):diamThree]
[:[1d100+100]:diamThree]

(where ": (" has extra space removed, forum changes it to sad face)

[Nylanfs]

Does not Work:
[: (1d100+40)/70:diamTwo]
[:1d100+100:diamThree]
[: (1d100+100):diamThree]
[:[1d100+100]:diamThree]

(where ": (" has extra space removed, forum changes it to sad face)

For Forums using [ code ] shouldn't sub emojis.

[:(1d100+40)/70:diamTwo]
[:1d100+100:diamThree]
[:(1d100+100):diamThree]
[:[1d100+100]:diamThree]

[tjlee]

According to the CoreRPG documentation, the following works as expected:

[:?1d10:value]
[<value>/2]

As we see, the template evaluates as expected:

2.5

However, this:

[:?1d10+40:value]
[<value>/2]

Results in:

:?1d10+3:value  <-- should not appear
6.5

In the above, it performs the assignment to value as expected but the ? hide directive doesn't have an effect.

These expressions don't quite work as expected either:

[:?1d10+3:value]
<value>             <--- only line that works properly
[:<value>/2:divide]
<divide>
[:<value>+3:add]
<add>

Results:

:?1d10+3:value <-- should not appear
10             <-- from <value>
:10/2:divide   <-- should evaluate and assign to divide
<divide>       <-- this shows up because it wasn't assigned
:10+3:add      <-- should evaluate and assign to add
<add>          <-- this shows up because it wasn't assigned

Testing against my extension produces expected results:

10     <-- from <value>
5      <-- from [:<value>/2:divide]
5      <-- from <divide>
13     <-- from [:<value+3:add]
13     <-- from <add>

I should note that the math calculations are delegated to CoreRPG DiceManager.evalDiceMathExpression(sDiceExpr)

[(10+3)/4/2]

Evaluates to unexpected result: (seems to multiply by 2 instead of divide by 2 - (10+3) = 13, 13/4 = 3.25, 3.25/2 = 1.625, 3.25*2 = 6.5)

6.5

But if you include additional parentheses, it computes correctly:

[((10+3)/4)/2]

Evaluates to:

1.625