Dicenomicon

[robin_d_laws]

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[ash1977law]

but... but then you don't get the physical joy of dice.
Mmm... shiney, sparkly, marbled, opaque, transparant, metal, stone, wood. I love you all.

[lightcastle]

I have a friend who has also used the iPhone for custom damage rolling. He likes rolling his d20s the old fashioned way, though.

The grand master of die manufacturing then allowed that he would be very grateful if some enterprising RPG designer would now find a use for a d32 in a future product.

That's actually kind of sweet in a way.

[viking_cat]

Thanks for the recommendation. I use the iphone app Machdice and like it quite a bit: good animation and sound, works by shaking, and you have complete control over die colors, dice types and die roll modifiers. It even tracks totals and can display subtotals or groupings.

I don't use it too often as I prefer the real thing, but it's a godsend when my high level D&D character has to roll something silly like 1d3 + 1d6 holy + 10 + 6d6 sneak attack... 5 times in a round, and everyone is waiting for you.

[heliograph]

Did you have any trouble with MachDice overflowing the memory and crashing the app? That seemed to happen a lot to me.

[viking_cat]

I get an out-of-memory error at times, but have never had it crash the application.

[heliograph]

I get the out of memory error, and then it dies. But that's all moot, now. The Dicenomicon is now my favorite dice roller!

[harmfulguy]

Yeah, that sounds like Lou. Gamescience was effectively my FLGS for many years when I lived in Mississippi.

[ffutures]

Could you use Dicenomicon (or any of the others) for something like Diana: Warrior Princess where you roll a load of six-sided dice aiming to get a success number (usually 5+ for player characters), reroll the dice if you get a success, repeating until you get no more successes, and count the total number of successes, not the total on the dice?

[heliograph]

I know what you're trying to ask, and yes, absolutely. This app is really nifty. There are a ton of options. It does DECO dice and it doesn't even know it ;-)

[ffutures]

OK, I shall add a recommendation to use it to the next release for the D:WP rules.