mus0u / f8

a tiny self-hosted discord bot for rolling fate dice (aka fudge dice), written in Ruby

F8

a tiny self-hosted discord bot for rolling fate dice

instructions

1. make sure ruby and bundler are installed on your local system
2. download the f8 script file
3. navigate to https://discordapp.com/developers/applications and create a new application. you can use the included f8.png as a logo if desired.
4. click the Bot link on the sidebar
5. add a new bot user for your new application
6. click the Copy button to copy your new bot user's token
7. add a file named config.yml in the same directory as the script file, with contents token: YOUR_BOT_TOKEN_HERE
8. back in your browser, click the OAuth2 link in the sidebar
9. click the bot checkbox in the Scopes section
10. a link should be generated below. click Copy.
11. paste the link into a new browser tab and add the bot to your server. you may have to log in again first.
12. run ./f8

to roll the dice, type f8 roll or f8 r. you can optionally specify a skill rating, e.g. f8 r 5 rolls with a skill rating of +5. the bot will listen to commands in any channel it's in. it requires permissions to be able to send and receive messages in a channel in order to do so.

thanks to discordrb for making this bot easy to implement. thanks to MusicBot for inspiration and clear setup instructions.

license

this work is distributed under the terms of the GNU general public license, version 3. see the LICENSE file for details.