BrokenDice

The host opens a game from the Host tab or a slash command such as /bd hl 100. The addon detects whether you are in a raid or a party, pins all announcements for this game to that channel, posts the game's rules line and a randomly picked opener, and starts the join window (30, 60, or 90 seconds; 60 by default). The join window you last picked on the Host tab is saved, so a game opened by slash command uses that same length. Countdown pings go out at 30, 10, and 5 seconds remaining (a 30-second window only pings at 10 and 5). With a window of 45 seconds or longer, at 15 seconds before lock there is a 50 percent chance the pit calls out one random group member who has not entered yet. Players type 1 in party or raid chat to enter; the Host tab shows the live roster.

When the window closes, or when you click Lock Now, entries lock. Fewer than two entrants cancels the game. Otherwise the pit announces the lock, fires any matchup lines for pairs who both entered, may issue a prophecy naming the entrant with the best win rate (only if someone has at least three decided games), and starts the mode's roll phase. Rolls are read from the client's own system roll message, so only genuine /roll results count; a non-entrant's roll is ignored silently, and an entrant's invalid roll (wrong range, rolling twice, rolling before lock) gets a whisper explaining why.

At payout the pit announces the winner, the payer, and the amount, plays win and loss lines, judges the prophecy once, records wins and losses to per-character stats, adds the debt to the ledger, and bumps tonight's session tally. Nothing from a canceled game is recorded.

High/Low (/bd hl <stake>): everyone rolls 1 to the stake once, within 60 seconds. The highest roll wins and the lowest roll pays the difference between the two rolls; everyone in the middle is safe and simply gets a game recorded. Zolana's Revenge (/bd revenge <stake>) is the same game inverted: the lowest roll wins and the highest pays the difference. The addon's own tooltip describes it as named for the guild's legendarily unlucky member, and the shipped announcer carries special entry and win lines keyed to that name; like the other personal lines, that is guild-specific content.

Fusion Roulette (/bd roulette <ante> [trigger]): every entrant antes each round and rolls 1-100. Rolling the trigger or higher (default 90, valid 2-100) takes the pot. If nobody hits, the pot carries and everyone antes again; if several players hit in the same round, they death-roll for the whole pot. In round one there is a 60 percent chance of a line about the absent legend the game is named for, and from round two on, once the pot reaches three times one round's total ante, there is a 70 percent chance of a pot alert. The pot equals ante times entrants times rounds, and each loser owes the winner ante times rounds. A player who never rolled in any round owes nothing, so the announced "Each player owes" line is the number to trust, not the displayed pot.

Death Roll (/bd dr <wager>): two players alternate /roll 1-(previous roll), starting at 1 to the wager; whoever rolls 1 pays the full wager. With three or more entrants the addon shuffles them into a single-elimination bracket with byes, pays each match out individually, and announces a champion. If the host forfeits a stalled player in a Death Roll match, that player is treated as having rolled the 1 and pays the full wager. Twenty-One (/bd 21 <wager>): each player rolls 1-11 to hit and types STAY to hold. After every hit that does not end the hand, the pit whispers the player their running total ("You're at N. Roll 1-11 to hit, type STAY to hold."); typing STAY before rolling at all is refused by whisper. Closest to 21 without busting wins the wager from every other player, busted players included. Exactly 21 auto-stays; 25 seconds of inactivity auto-stays a partial hand (35 seconds for the first roll); a player with no roll at all is treated as absent. If everyone busts, the round is a wash.

Every tie goes to a death roll. On the winning side, tied players roll down from 1-100; rolling a 1 eliminates you, the range resets, and the last player standing wins. On the paying side, the first tied player to roll a 1 pays and the rest are safe. The amount owed always uses the original roll spread, so the tiebreak decides who, never how much. If everyone rolls the same number, the round is a wash with nothing owed.

A player who enters and never rolls is announced as absent, takes a loss on their record, and never pays. If everyone but one player goes quiet, that player gets a recorded win for zero gold. The host's controls each work in one phase: Lock Now (or /bd lock) only while the join window is open; Resolve Now (or /bd resolve) only during a roll phase and never during a death roll; /bd forfeit <name> only during a death roll and only for a player still in it; Cancel (or /bd cancel) at any point. Forfeiting is not always harmless: in a winner-side tie it just knocks the player out, but in the Death Roll game or a paying-side tie the forfeited player becomes the payer, for the full wager or the tie's original spread. During a death roll the pit whispers the current roller every 30 seconds and, every second nudge, posts a public reminder that the host can forfeit them.

Stakes must be whole numbers between 2 and 1,000,000 (Fusion Roulette and Twenty-One accept 1). The roulette trigger must be between 2 and 100. You must be in a party or raid to open a game unless test mode is on.

Everything the pit says lives in Phrases.lua as categorized pools: openers, countdowns, lock, entries, roll reactions, payouts, ties, absent players, washes, cancel, nags, and the whispers sent for invalid rolls. For pools with three or more lines the picker never repeats either of the last two; pools with one or two lines (several shipped pools are that short) are picked at random and can repeat back to back. Openers are weighted: a generic line half the time, otherwise a line about a random group member, a line about the guild's unlucky member, or a line about an absent legend. Tokens such as {player}, {amount}, {pot}, and {creditor} are substituted; raid-target icons written as {skull}, {star}, {triangle}, {moon}, {diamond}, {circle}, {square}, and {cross} pass through so the client renders them as icons.

When someone joins, the pit fires at most one reaction, chosen in priority order: a mode-specific special line, that character's personal entry line, a contextual line (first-timer, three-game win or loss streak, reigning winner, last payer), or a generic line. The generic line is throttled: it fires for the first joiner and then every Nth joiner after that (N is the entry throttle, default 3, so joiners 1, 4, and 7), and because of how the check is written a throttle of 1 turns the generic line off entirely. Roll commentary only applies to roll ranges of 10 or more: maximum rolls and 1s always get a line, and rolls within 5 percent of the top or bottom of the range react 40 percent of the time. The dead-center reaction only exists for ranges of 50 or more. Personal lines are keyed to exact in-game character names on the author's roster; they are guild-specific content, and a key that does not match a real name never fires and never errors.

Each character accumulates wins, losses, games played, gold won and lost, biggest single win, current and best win streak, current loss streak, a per-mode breakdown, and first-seen and last-seen timestamps. Stats are stored forever in the host's saved variables. The Boards tab shows an overall board (net gold, with per-mode win counts) and one board per mode, ten rows per page; each row shows the rank, the name with any linked alts in gray after it, the W-L record, and net gold in the accent color when positive or red when negative. Below the rows sit three superlatives: biggest single win, longest win streak, and most generous (most gold lost). Pit Royalty (top three winners) and the Hall of Generosity (top three losers) can be posted to the group from the Boards tab or with /bd top3 win and /bd top3 lose.

The debt ledger records who owes whom after every payout and persists between sessions. New debts net against reverse debts first: if A owes B 100 and B later loses 60 to A, the ledger shows A owes B 40; if B loses 60 more, the entry flips to B owes A 20. Same-direction debts merge into one row. Each row shows how many days the debt has been outstanding. Mark Paid clears a row from the Ledger tab (or /bd paid <debtor> <creditor>), /bd debts prints the whole ledger locally with each debt's age, and Nag All Debtors (or /bd nag) whispers every debtor one of three reminder lines naming the creditor and the amount; only one of the three also states how many days the debt has been outstanding.

Alt linking (/bd link <alt> <main>, or the Settings tab) merges an alt's rows into a main for display only. Raw stats stay per character on disk, so unlinking is lossless. Chains resolve to the final main and loops are rejected. Tonight's session (rounds, gold moved, biggest pot, top earner, most generous) survives /reload and resets only when you click Reset Session or type /bd session reset; it can be posted to the group as The Pit Report.

Test mode (/bd test on, or the switch on the Settings tab) sends every announcement and whisper to your own chat frame instead of the group, so you can run a whole game against yourself. It is saved between sessions, so remember to turn it off. Whispers addressed to yourself always print locally, even in live mode. A game opened in test mode has its channel pinned to the local echo, so it stays local even if you toggle test mode off while it is running.

Rolls are matched against a pattern built at runtime from the client's own RANDOM_ROLL_RESULT string rather than a hardcoded English line, so roll detection works on any client locale. All outgoing chat runs through one paced queue with 0.35 seconds between messages, so a burst of openers, reactions, and payouts never trips the server throttle or arrives out of order. Every message is scrubbed of the | character (WoW's chat escape, which once wedged the entire queue in 0.9.0) and every send is wrapped so one bad line cannot stop the rest.

Participants who also install the addon get nothing extra today: no window, no roster view. An addon-message sync layer that would give them a live client-side view is the biggest planned feature and has not been started. A "Degenerate of the Night" single-callout announcement was designed but never wired. Active game state is not saved: if the host reloads or disconnects mid-round, that round is lost, though stats, ledger, and session are safe.

Ideas that have been floated but not committed to include whisper-to-join for shy pugs, per-player wagers, date-range leaderboard filters, a minimap button, and an in-game phrase editor. For now, custom lines mean editing Phrases.lua.