TOOLS: Dice Roller w/ Characteristics rolls

[Nerun]

I have coded a small program in Python to roll dice in a terminal: download script in GitHub Gist

UPDATED to version 1.6:

• added drop lowest dice and gaussian distribution for a drop lowest roll!

Need help? Type help!

Let's roll some dice for a character?

You can calculate gaussian distribution even for the weirdest dice rolls!

Usage

Download PythonDiceRoller.py to your PC. And, if you have Python 3.9+ installed you can execute it with double-click i think. In Windows there should be an IDLE (Integrated Development and Learning Environment). Press F5 to run it. If not, use command prompt: python PythonDiceRoller.py.

In Linux (my case), Python come by default in many distros. Double click open it in IDLE, run with F5, or execute in terminal: python PythonDiceRoller.py.

Write "quit", "q", "exit", "e", or CTRL+D or CTRL+C to exit.

Edited April 18, 2022 by Nerun
Version 1.6

[Nerun]

UPDATED to version 1.4

Now with gaussian distribution!

Edited April 16, 2022 by Nerun

[SDLeary]

Ahhh, nice! Brings back fond memories of some of the RQ utilities on the old Soda archives!

macOS has a BSD userland. Think there could be any issues installed there?

SDLeary

Edited April 16, 2022 by SDLeary

[David Scott]

30 minutes ago, SDLeary said:

macOS has a BSD userland.

Runs fine on Monterey with Python 3.10.4 with the Python Launcher

 

[g33k]

1 hour ago, David Scott said:

DEX 3 / STR 5 / POW 6 ???
Your computer hates you!
😉

[Lloyd Dupont]

1 hour ago, g33k said:

DEX 3 / STR 5 / POW 6 ???
Your computer hates you!
😉

This are really good rolls! My usual luck is DEX 3 / STR 4 / POW 4! 😛 

[g33k]

18 hours ago, Lloyd Dupont said:

This are really good rolls! My usual luck is DEX 3 / STR 4 / POW 4! 😛 

You have my condolences

For all the many characters you've lost.

[robertp]

That's cool! I've been building a dice roller plus some d100 style character and NPC creation utilities for the homebrew system I've been working on. Right now it's a bit tailored to my game, but it is parameterized (i.e., races/species, characteristics, etc.) with CSV or YAML files so that it's generic within some limits.

It's not very user friendly at the moment It's in ruby - I'm going to make a gem with the generic stuff in it so that it'll work more like a utility, like you have. I have a lot of work to do on that though... here's an example of use.

You can find the project here: https://gitlab.com/robertprince/sae/-/tree/master/d100

[Nerun]

20 hours ago, robertp said:

That's cool! I've been building a dice roller plus some d100 style character and NPC creation utilities for the homebrew system I've been working on. Right now it's a bit tailored to my game, but it is parameterized (i.e., races/species, characteristics, etc.) with CSV or YAML files so that it's generic within some limits.

It's not very user friendly at the moment It's in ruby - I'm going to make a gem with the generic stuff in it so that it'll work more like a utility, like you have. I have a lot of work to do on that though... here's an example of use.

You can find the project here: https://gitlab.com/robertprince/sae/-/tree/master/d100

Looks great @robertp!

[Nerun]

UPDATED to version 1.6:

• added drop lowest dice and gaussian distribution for a drop lowest roll!