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Free Dice Roller

by Mike on 30 December 2024

A while back, as part of Wizards of the Coast's great hurling of D&D into a digital future, WOTC removed access to a long hosted and simple dice roller – along with everything else on the original D&D website.

Lamenting its loss with a friend, I decided to whip up a new simple dice roller that you can run online or download and run locally.

You can find it at:

https://slyflourish.com/dice/

Bookmark it and download it so you always have a copy.

I released this dice roller under a CC0 license so you can host it on your own website, share it with friends, build apps, engage in a dice-rolling interpretive dance, or do anything else you can think of with it. You can find or fork the sourcecode on Github.

This dice roller is intended to be simple – no fancy 3d dice bouncing around the screen, no crazy options for weird roll mixes. You can choose a common die, roll one or several of them, add modifiers if you want, or roll a die with a weird number of sides if you're into Dungeon Crawl Classics.

If you're on an iPhone and want to use it offline (say you're at a big convention with terrible internet connectivity), you can download it to your Files app, unzip it, and "share" it with Microsoft's iOS Edge browser. I don't know why it won't open in Safari locally, but Edge seems to work.

You can also go to https://slyflourish.com/dice/ and "add to reading list". If you have the "Automatically Save Offline" option on in your Safari settings, it'll save a local copy in your reading list so you can use it offline. By downloading the html version yourself, you'll always have a copy.

I'm giving this dice roller away completely, no attribution required, but if you dig what I do and want to see more tools like this one, check out my Patreon which has cool tools like

the 5e Artisanal Monster Database with over 2,400 5e monster stat blocks.
the Forge of Foes monster stat tool.
the Dyson royalty-free map gallery.
the Lazy GM random generator.
the Lazy RPG Talk show topic database.
the Sly Flourish Patreon Q&A database.

All these tools include downloadable versions so you can keep your copy forever.

Thank you and happy holidays!

More Sly Flourish Stuff

Last week I posted a couple of YouTube videos on the 2024 TTRPG Year in Review.

Last Week's Lazy RPG Talk Show Topics

Each week I record an episode of the Lazy RPG Talk Show (also available as a podcast) in which I talk about all things in tabletop RPGs. Here are last week's topics with time stamped links to the YouTube video.

Talk Show Links

Here are links to the sites I referenced during the talk show.

Patreon Questions and Answers

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RPG Tips

Each week I think about what I learned in my last RPG session and write them up as RPG tips. Here are this week's tips:

You don’t need to spell out every detail in a room. Let your players’ imaginations fill in the blanks.
Huge wheels, running water, and heat can power ancient machines for millennia.
Use adhesive tabs to mark important pages in your GM books you use at the table.
There’s no such thing as “official”. No single company holds a monopoly on good game design. Build your own game for your table from many sources.
Get used to averaging damage — for every two dice you subtract from a big pool of dice, add the max of one of those dice plus one to the static value. 8d8 becomes 36.
Add variance to static damage by subtracting 3 and adding 1d6.
Keep a good list of random names on hand. Write them down when you tie them to an NPC. These lists are one of the simplest examples of “preparing to improvise”.

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