Cause damage to players?

[stranf]

I can't seem to find a function that damages players.

What I'm looking for is a way to hurt a player who puts something on:

IE:

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 OnEquip()

{
  Damage(mChar, damageAmount)  


}

Also, is there a way to specify random numbers through the JS engine? It would be fun to do:

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Damage(mChar, 3d20)

or something to the effect, to get some randomness in the game.

Thanks!

[Maarc]

Short answer, yes, long answer, yes with a but

You didn't need any way (and for your purposes, still don't) till now to do damage to a person. You could have used code looking like:

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mChar.health -= 23;

That would reduce 23 health from a player. However, something I am committing shortly will adjust that. You can still use that method (and for your purposes, it being an item, that's fine) but there will be a better way for other characters to do damage, and that will be.

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mChar.Damage( 23, [attacker] );

The [attacker] part is entirely optional, so if no character does the damage, you don't have to pass it. But if you do, it gets tracked that that player did the damage. There's also a Heal() varient that will be added too (healing is +=, not -=, btw).

And as for randomness, yes, dice exist. For your example there, it would be

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mChar.health -= RollDice( 3, 20, 0 );

RollDice takes 3 parameters (eg RollDice( a, b, c ) )
1) The number of die
2) The number of faces on each die
3) The number to add.

As a dice, the formula would be

aDb + c

Hope that helps.

[stranf]

Sweet! nice explaination. That's exactly what I wanted.

I already released my cursed items, so I guess I'll add some damage-causing cursed items with the release of my magic items 3.