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Recursive Roll Subtracting from Randomly Generated Total

theparadoxttheparadox
edited February 2016 in Inspiration Pad Pro General
I'm messing around trying to create treasure tables. Using the 5E DMG as an example, a treasure hoard may contain 2d6 Gems each priced at 50 gp. They also have a table of 12 different gems, each worth 50 gp. At the moment I only know how to either pull 2d6 unique gems (using a deck) or just pick one gem from a table and say you find 2d6 of them.

Is there an established method, or example, of how to pull quantities from a deck that add up to a given total? For instance:

[2d6] = 9 Total Gems => [1d4]=3x Gem A, [1d4]=2x Gem E, [1d4]=4x Gem D.

I'd imagine you'd need to use recursion but I'm not having any luck getting it to work. Is there a better way?

Thank you!

Comments

  • largandollargando
    I'm not sure if this is what you have in mind, but you can use hashes to get it done. Hashes are detailed here:
    http://www.nbos.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=986&sid=f864757be3ab22f532a4b3f2c3124eb7
    use: common/nbos/Hashes.ipt

set: currHash =myHash

table: start
[@{2d6} Gems >> each AddToHash]&
[@&;#91;@HashCount&;#93; HashKeys >> each ShowResults >> implode]

table: ShowResults
[@HashGet with {$1}] {$1}

table: AddToHash
[@HashSet with {$1}, {[@HashGet with {$1}]+1}]

table: Gems
diamonds
rubies
opals
emeralds
sapphires

    Example results:
    1 opals, 3 sapphires, 3 diamonds, 2 emeralds, 1 rubies
    4 sapphires, 2 diamonds, 1 rubies
    2 opals, 1 rubies, 1 emeralds
    3 rubies, 2 opals, 1 sapphires
    1 diamonds, 1 opals, 2 emeralds, 2 sapphires, 1 rubies
  • LordGarronLLordGarron

    Hi, this is very similar to something I am trying to do and I pasted the exact code and I get this as results:

    [@10 Gems >> each AddToHash][@&;;#91;@HashCount&;;#93; HashKeys >> each ShowResults >> implode]

    [@7 Gems >> each AddToHash][@&;;#91;@HashCount&;;#93; HashKeys >> each ShowResults >> implode]

    [@10 Gems >> each AddToHash][@&;;#91;@HashCount&;;#93; HashKeys >> each ShowResults >> implode]

    [@5 Gems >> each AddToHash][@&;;#91;@HashCount&;;#93; HashKeys >> each ShowResults >> implode]

    [@6 Gems >> each AddToHash][@&;;#91;@HashCount&;;#93; HashKeys >> each ShowResults >> implode]

    I noticed my install didn't put a Hashes.ipt in common/nbos/. Where do I get that file?
    Thanks!

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