Dice roller ...

[Feliks]

I need a good die rolling program that can run in windoze and wont tax a p133 system.

Free of course.

 

[James McMurray]

irony.com has a web-based die roller that is prety nice. It has the perk of being able to email die results to people if you need to. I'm not sure if they have a downloadable version of it, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did.

 

[RigaMortus]

Open up Excel...

Go to the first cell...

Type:

=randbetween(1,6)

That's for a d6...

=randbetween(1,20)

That's for a d20...

=randbetween(3,18)

That's for 3d6...

Figure out the pattern yet? Good luck!

 

[MerakSpielman]

Yeah, I like irony.com's utilitys. I suspect, however, that he needs an actual program, and probably won't have web-access where he's using it.

Feliks, did you get yourself a crappy old laptop and dedicate it to D&D purposes, like I did?

I'm interested in a dice-rolling program, too.

 

[jgsugden]

For online randomization (when designing D&D adventures during lunch, primarily), I use this site:

http://www.randomizer.org/form.htm

I also have the WotC utility on my desktop:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20010427b

 

[DarkMaster]

irony.com has a web-based die roller that is prety nice. It has the perk of being able to email die results to people if you need to. I'm not sure if they have a downloadable version of it, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did.

I did my own in excel took two minutes and I can customize it to roll hundreds of dice at the same time if I want.

 

[Feliks]

I am getting a craptop to dedicate as a gaming machine. I wont have web access most of the places I will be at so I need one that works from the drive.

Going to look into that excel one but fear that the HD wont hold office on it.

 

[jgsugden]

Open up Excel...

Go to the first cell...

Type:

=randbetween(3,18)

That's for 3d6...

Figure out the pattern yet? Good luck!

Gah! No! A random number between 3 and 18 is not the same as 3d6. The probability distribution is all wrong! Instead of a bell curve for probability, you end up with a box!

 

[RigaMortus]

Gah! No! A random number between 3 and 18 is not the same as 3d6. The probability distribution is all wrong! Instead of a bell curve for probability, you end up with a box!

I know, I know... I just took the easy way out with that one... I didn't feel like typing up the whole expression... But I'll take a crack at it here, why not:

=SUM((randbetween(1,6))+(randbetween(1,6))+(randbetween(1,6)))

Is that about right?

 

[MerakSpielman]

You need:

=(randbetween(1,6)+randbetween(1,6)+randbetween(1,6))

or something...
edit: You beat me to it. But I don't think you need the SUM function unless you're pointing at other cells.