Nov-07-2016, 08:50 PM
What you're doing sounds very similar to something I wrote a few years ago: http://dnd.nilamo.com/ (it's javascript, so if you look at the source it might give some ideas on how you can write yours)
It rolls a d6 4 times, rerolls all ones (over and over until they're not 1s anymore), and adds up the highest 3 rolls. You can hover over any of the numbers to see the actual "rolls" that went into generating that number. It's a matrix of roll results, because the way we did character generation is that you got to pick any row/column and use those values for your character. We also had another modification, such that if none of the values were 18, you changed the lowest value to 18. So it was very common in our group for 15-16 to be your lowest stat.
It rolls a d6 4 times, rerolls all ones (over and over until they're not 1s anymore), and adds up the highest 3 rolls. You can hover over any of the numbers to see the actual "rolls" that went into generating that number. It's a matrix of roll results, because the way we did character generation is that you got to pick any row/column and use those values for your character. We also had another modification, such that if none of the values were 18, you changed the lowest value to 18. So it was very common in our group for 15-16 to be your lowest stat.