Tabletop Dice Roller
A downloadable tool
So, I play a lot of Pathfinder and Dungeons and Dragons on Discord's voice chat. One thing that a person that does this can't help but notice is that not everybody has dice. So, what do they do? Why, what every netizen does: they look for a random number generator online. People who tell you that all online dice rollers are created equal either are lying to you or simply don't understand what they're talking about. If you've hopped from dice roller to dice roller, you've noticed that they all behave quite differently from one another. Well, I've got my own physical dice, so I'm likely to rarely use this, if ever, but as a GM/DM/TM/ICBM/whatever, I want to do the best I can to provide for my players.
You know how the debate exists that a random number generator can never truly be random because no matter how you program it, the computer always has to ultimately specifically choose a number? I am on the side that says that random number generators aren't actually random, and you know the argument is valid because they all behave noticeably different from one another!
That's why I made this. TADA!!! It is NOT a random number generator. Rather it is a physics environment that tumbles shapes through it at the click of your mouse. The brilliant thing about this type of dice roller is that it doesn't know there's a specific number that anyone is looking for. Rather than trying to randomly land on such and such number, it is instead trying to make objects realistically tumble through space. True, it's still looking for numbers to perform this function, but it's not randomly picking one number out of six or one out of twenty or whatever. It's trying to perform a function that has absolutely nothing to do with picking a random number. It's just trying to make shapes tumble. This dice roller is as random as a computer could ever hope to be.
The point was to provide a dice roller to my players that is as fair as it could possibly be.
The 3D dice models were created by Warcool and purchased from the Unity Asset Store. The environment and scripting was done by me. If you find this dice roller useful, please consider donating.
Status | Released |
Category | Tool |
Author | pianotm |
Tags | d20, dice-roller, Dungeons & Dragons, pathfinder, Unity |
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