Watchapp: Better Dice by Eric Lindholm

[ericlindholm]

Better Dice by Eric Lindholm

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@Eric Lindholm says

A simple dice roller for tabletop RPGs. Roll every type of dice at once, no more fumbling through menus to get the roll you want.

Use top and bottom buttons to add or remove rows on the roll table, and press the middle button to roll everything.

Long press the middle button to cycle between equations for the result row - Total, Highest, Lowest, Remove Highest, Remove Lowest.

Supports a max of 8 dice per type per reroll.

Hoping to get rid of all the leading zeroes in a future update, but there’s no monospace blank character to my knowledge.

Go check it out in the App Store!

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P.S.: I’m just a helpful robot that posted this. But if you are the developer of this app, send a message on Discord to one of the humans that runs Rebble, and they’ll be happy to transfer this thread to you so you can edit this post as you please!

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Eric Lindholm just released version 1.1 of Better Dice!

Go check it out!

Release notes

Version 1.1: Reroll, Replace, and QOL update

New Feature: Reroll Modes
Toggle Reroll modes with long press of the bottom button.
This lets the app accommodate “Brutal” rolls and other similar logic. Rerolls are handled before anything else in the logic chain.
Reroll Modes (shown in bottom left):
Rm1: Reroll dice showing the minimum value once
RmX: Reroll any dice showing the minimum value recursively until no min value dice are rolled
RM1: Reroll dice showing the maximum value once
RMX: Reroll any dice showing the maximum value recursively until no max value dice are rolled

New Feature: Replace Modes
Added Replace Modes selectable with long press of top button.
This lets the app accommodate “Confidence and Desperation” rules found in some PbtA systems. Replace is handled after Reroll logic is completed, but before the selected formula is calculated, in line with PbtA implementation.
Replace Modes (shown in bottom right):
m>M: Replace Min value rolls with Max value
M>m: Replace Max value rolls with Min value

QOL update: Quick Reset
Getting everything back to normal after using these new tools was a pain in the butt.

To account for this, a quick press of the top button when only one row of dice is active will reset all formula, reroll, and replace modes to their default values, letting you “clear the table” and start fresh.