betterdice

by Cooper Whitley

Overview

Inspired by a tweet by game designer Josh Sawyer praising curved probability of dice rolls for traditional rpg based video games, this is a dice tool utilizing standard DnD dice sets to bring weighted probability to your actual tabletop setup.

Inspiration

Technologies Used

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript

User Stories

Minimum Viable Product

As a user...

• I want to select from a standard set of DnD dice
  • D20
  • D12
  • 2D10
  • D8
  • D6
  • D4
• I want to be able to 'roll' the dice with the result being determined by a weighted statistical normal distribution (bell curve) of possible outcomes
• I want the result to be displayed graphically

Stretch Functionality

• I want the result to be shown and saved in a user viewable log that stores the 10 most recent rolls and can be cleared by the user
• I want the graphic to be represented by dice
• I want the die/dice to be animated
• I want to choose a color theme
• I want to be able to input stat bonuses to be applied to a given roll
• I want to have multiple profiles within the single page for each party member and the DM
• I want to be able to select how many of each die to roll with output showing
• I want to be able to choose weighting distributions (normal, skewed, equal)

Wireframes

Basic Layout

Functionality