Counting fudge dice rather than summing them

[spirograph]

Hey, I'm in a game where the number of pluses, the number of blanks, and the number of minuses are all mechanically useful, but the sum of the dice is not useful. Would it be possible to do something like

(+bbb+--b+b--, 3+ 5b 4-)

or some similar display to count how many dice of each type are available?

Thanks!

[ArtemGr]

Hey yourself!

Sounds useful, but how would you tell Sidekick to do that?

We need a syntax that Sidekick would recognize to print such dice.

Or do you think this should be printed by default?

[spirograph]

Hm. Maybe something like /r 4dF count would work. Adding "count" as a separate argument also opens up the possibility of requests like /r 8d6 count (which would list how many of each number came up).

To prevent this from becoming ridiculous, I am guessing that nobody will need to do this for more than 50 dice at a time. (If someone does need to do this for 200 dice, they can just /r 50dX count four times in a row, so a limit like that isn't going to cause any problems.) I am also guessing that nobody is going to need to do this for dice larger than, say, d1000, but I am less certain about that.

[ArtemGr]

This looks like something I could try squeezing into the parser. Will keep you posted.