Dice Rolls By Email

Welcome to the dice server at nomic.net. The dice server provides impartial rolls for players of board games by mail. To use, send a message to dice@nomic.net containing:

   #P <mail address of a player>
   #S <no. of sides on every die>
   #D <no. of dice for every roll>
   #R <no. of rolls requested>
   #L <no. of rolls printed per line in output>
   #C <comments>
   #T <subject line of returned mail>

Limits:

For example:

   From: uckelman@nomic.net (Joel Uckelman)
   To: dice@nomic.net
   Subject: sample

   #P uckelman@nomic.net
   #P another.player@somewhere.com
   #S 6
   #D 1
   #R 2
   #L 2
   #C Line 1: 7 German subs (restricted) vs. 4 fleets, 3 ASW
   #C No SAC.
   #C Please declare sub warfare for next turn.
   #T A3R Game 3H, Spring 1942, SW Resolution

Response:

   From: dicemaster@nomic.net (Dice server)
   Subject: A3R Game 3H, Spring 1942, SW Resolution
   To: uckelman@nomic.net, another.player@somewhere.com
   Dice rolls requested by: Joel Uckelman <uckelman@nomic.net>

   # Line 1: 7 German subs (restricted) vs. 4 fleets, 3 ASW
   # No SAC.
   # Please declare sub warfare for next turn.

   No. of sides on every die:      6
   No. of dice for every roll:     1
   No. of dice rolls requested:    2
   No. of rolls per line:          2

     4 6

The dice server PGP signs all responses. The PGP public key for the dice server appears below. Do not encrypt your submissions to the dice server. The PGP block is provided so that you may verify the signature on messages received from the dice server, if you are so inclined.

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This dice server is a clone of Rick Skrenta's dice server at pbm.com. For problems with and inqiries about the dice server, please email dicemaster@nomic.net.