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Entry: The Handy Political Opinion Generator - A4266425
Author: RFJS__ - hiding behind the waterfall. - U524615

Since the promised Political Party Generator is taking forever (existing in part but still a long way from completion) I thought I'd send this down here in the meantime, for the benefit of anyone who didn't check the thread it began as during the election.

I need one of these but I haven't got a dice - so I haven't tried it yet. And I don't want to read your options until I can try it. It would spoil the fun.

What about putting the number of options in after each letter in the paragraph? Then the diceless like me could randomly pick a number and know what we think about things.

There are many applications for something like this. Don't suppose you have a 'Handy What to Say in a Conversation about Football' one? Could do with that for this weekend.
Waz

You'll need a D&D-style set off oddly-shaped dice in order actually to try it, I'm afraid -- an upshot of its origins in PCG's generic RPG plot generator. As an admittledly slightly clumsier alternative you could try the random number generator at http://www.random.org/nform.html , and I'll add a link to the Entry. (I don't think you really lose anything by reading it through first, though; certainly you get a feel for the full range of options and the potential silliness...)

As for your other suggestion, football isn't my thing, but if anyone else wants to have a go...

'set off' --> 'set of'

Link added, anyway; the parameters need changing to simulate different dice, but it works.

Very amusing.
Damn those Republican orcs...

I like it alot, very useful and im printing of my own copy, you could instead of using the D&D style dice use two ordnary dica nad add the score together some how, the peice would need some changing but it could be done some how

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Maybe now I'll get around to finishing the 'Political Party Generator' people were asking for when the Opinion Generator first appeared in an election discussion thread, all that time ago.