Nytmare
David Jose
I was talking on Reddit yesterday with someone who was looking for a way to play Dread virtually for Halloween, and I was struck by how unexciting all of the Jenga replacements out there were. None of the replacements really seemed to capture and translate the shared threat and doom that a teetering Jenga tower seemed to instill in Dread players.
Early on in the pandemic, I had been playing around with a replacement that involved a deck of "the tower stands" and "the tower falls" cards that you would draw from but I was lazy and never got around to figuring out the math to do it properly. I was overjoyed when the person I had been talking to floated a Jenga replacement mechanic they had found that already had the math all worked out. Unfortunately, the replacement was just a d20 and a piece of paper and it wasn't especially terrifying to watch. So I got it into my mind to try and fix that.
I've spent the last eight months cobbling together a lot (A LOT) of different games and game tools into Google Sheets for shared virtual play, and decided to see if I could find a way to display a boring list of d20 rolls and character sheets in a way that was more visually appealing.
[EDIT] It keeps posting it as media, gonna try posting it as a hyperlink instead.
It's still a work in progress, but at this stage it's at least functional. You'll also need to authorize the JS if you want the buttons to do anything when you push them.
Early on in the pandemic, I had been playing around with a replacement that involved a deck of "the tower stands" and "the tower falls" cards that you would draw from but I was lazy and never got around to figuring out the math to do it properly. I was overjoyed when the person I had been talking to floated a Jenga replacement mechanic they had found that already had the math all worked out. Unfortunately, the replacement was just a d20 and a piece of paper and it wasn't especially terrifying to watch. So I got it into my mind to try and fix that.
I've spent the last eight months cobbling together a lot (A LOT) of different games and game tools into Google Sheets for shared virtual play, and decided to see if I could find a way to display a boring list of d20 rolls and character sheets in a way that was more visually appealing.
[EDIT] It keeps posting it as media, gonna try posting it as a hyperlink instead.
It's still a work in progress, but at this stage it's at least functional. You'll also need to authorize the JS if you want the buttons to do anything when you push them.
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