Enter the dice you want to roll in the box, in the usual
format
1d20, 2d6-2, 1d10+1, etc.
Enter as many dice sets as you want, separated by
commas.
Use 1d100 for percentile dice and dF for Fudge dice.
Clicking on the radio buttons underneath the box
loads the box with predefined dice sets. You can use these, modify them however
you wish, or enter your own.
Click the Roll Dice button or hit [Enter]. Your results
will be displayed in the order you specified them.
The dice sets you specify will also become part of the
URL of the page, so that after you click Roll Dice, you can bookmark the page, to
save those dice sets. Anytime you come back to that bookmark or refresh that page,
the dice will be re-rolled the same way you specified them.
Advanced Instructions:
In addition to dice sets, you can specify overall
modifiers that will affect only the total, not the individual rolls. For example,
1d4+1, 2d6, 2.
In a pinch, you can use this page as a crude
calculator, by entering plain numbers separated by commas:
4, -2, 13.
Dice sets can include multiple die types and modifiers added
together, like
2d6+1d4+2, 5, 1d20, 2d6-12, 1d100-1d10+1, -1d4.
Dice can be added or subtracted in the set, just like modifiers.
If you click on "sort dice and mods," the
individual dice results and modifiers
in each dice set will be displayed in order from highest to lowest.
If you click on "don't sort dice and mods," the dice and modifiers will be
listed in the order that you entered them. For example, if you choose to roll
d6+1d20+2 and choose "don't sort," the results of the two d6 will appear first, followed by the results of the d20, followed by the modifier 2, possibly like so:
, 6, 13, 2. If you had chosen to sort that result, it would have come out 13, 6, 5, 2.
If you check the box next to "Average set values and die rolls," an additional line
will be displayed underneath the total, showing the average of the dice sets
(including their modifiers) and the average of the individual die rolls (not
including their modifiers, just the individual dice, averaged together). This is
mostly useful for game designers, but might be of interest to curious players.
The dice format is not limited to realistic dice. If you
want to roll 2d37, you can. You can also include modifiers with decimal values
(2d37+1.23). This page does not (yet) handle decimal-value dice or adding/subtracting a
value from each individual die within a set.
To save time, specify the dice sets for all the
dice you roll during a game, and bookmark it. Then, whenever you need to roll
any dice, just roll all of them at once by refreshing the page, and
only look at the value of the dice you need at that moment.
If you need multiple combinations of dice sets, make one,
bookmark it, then make another, and make a separate bookmark. That way, those two
sets are each one click away.