A dice roller for roleplaying nerds, by Brendan Jurd
Rolling dice is annoying. First you need to have the right dice with you. Then, when the time comes to make a roll, you need to extract the correct quantity and variety of dice from the assortment scattered around the room. After rolling (and picking up those dice which fell on the floor, and re-rolling them) you need to perform some tedious mental arithmetic.
Further, the kinds of dice you can use are constrained by physical attributes; to produce fair outcomes a die must be possible to construct using some face-uniform solid.
Faced with these obstacles, I did the same thing I do in pretty much every other situation in life. I wrote a program.
Each of the icons running down the middle of the application represents a different die, with the number of sides shown on the icon. The input box next to the die selects how many of that die you want to roll.
Directly underneath the dice is the custom die. Want to roll a d17 or a d1000? No problem. Just set the number of sides you want the die to have, and how many of them you want to roll.
Underneath the custom die are the multiplier (x) and modifier (+) inputs. After your dice are rolled, the total is multiplied by the multiplier and then the modifier is added (or subtracted, if it is negative).
Left-clicking on a dice or modifier icon will add one to the count. Right-clicking will subtract one. Shift-clicking will add or subtract five at a time, instead of one.
When you've set things up to your liking, hit the "Roll" button. The results of your roll will be shown in the results box to the right, including each individual dice roll and the total result after applying modifiers.
You can repeatedly roll the same configuration by simply hitting "Roll" again.
If you are sick of your current configuration and want to start again from scratch, that's what the "Reset" button is for.
If you find yourself rolling a particular configuration of dice often, you might want to save it as a preset. Set up the configuration as if you were going to roll it, and then hit the Add Preset (+) button underneath the Presets list. This will save your current configuration as a new preset.
Once you've saved a preset you can load its configuration by clicking on it once, and roll it by double-clicking.
Presets are saved under a profile. You can maintain several separate profiles, so you don't need to worry about getting your wizard's attack roll confused with your rogue's initiative. Just set up a profile for each of your characters.
Install the app from the Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.id.swords.third2
Extract the distribution package, cd into the directory and then type make install as root.
Execute the application by running /usr/local/bin/third.py.
To uninstall, just delete the installed files. These are located at /usr/local/bin/third.py, /usr/local/share/third and /usr/local/share/doc/third.
Download the windows installer executable and run it.
Execute the application by running third.exe in whatever location you installed it, or use the Start menu/Quick-launch shortcuts if you chose to create them in the install process.
To uninstall, use the provided uninstall executable in the third Start menu folder.
third is open-source, licensed under the Simplified BSD license. A copy of this license can be found in the file named LICENSE in the topmost directory of the source code.