I made a dice results calculator.

By Kestin, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

Most of us roll physical dice, so it's an easy matter to group dice that cancel each-other out and get an easy-to-read result. Those of us on Roll20 often use the Google Hangout roller, and that gives results as well. Even Orokos gives a final tally.

Some of us, though, we use dice roller that don't tally things for us. I frequent RPG.net, and their on-board dice roller for FFG's dice doesn't even consistently display the images for each dice (most notably the 1 Fail / 1 Threat Challenge face), leaving me to look at the mess of results for each individual dice type that displays on the right. I wanted a design challenge, so I went into Google Sheets and designed a way to input summed results by dice type (all the Successes and Advantages from you Ability dice, the same from your Proficiency dice, etc.) and have it output useful totals and a concise result. I ended up diving into conditional formatting and javascript to dynamically format the results table (which should work for other people?).

I don't know if others can use it, but here it is. If you go under File -> Make a Copy..., you should be able to get your own version that others won't be messing with.

Some pictures of it in action:

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That looks great but honestly, by the time you finish utilizing the table you've already done the math. Plus, after a session or two you'll be able to read them as they fall with zero effort.

31 minutes ago, Scambler said:

That looks great but honestly, by the time you finish utilizing the table you've already done the math. Plus, after a session or two you'll be able to read them as they fall with zero effort.

True. It'd be way more useful if it actually also generated rolls (for offline use). OTOH, the cloud storage links to the dice symbols are quite useful for forum posting. :D

This seems like a cool project. I've always just used http://game2.ca/eote/? which can show a random roll tally or odds. I was hoping you had found a Google App that added the eote dice systems font but I see you just used images. Still, nice work.

On 2/10/2017 at 9:27 AM, Scambler said:

That looks great but honestly, by the time you finish utilizing the table you've already done the math. Plus, after a session or two you'll be able to read them as they fall with zero effort.

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, just images. I have a repository that a friend and I put together that links to average font-size images for dice and dice symbols. I have black and white dice symbols for various backgrounds. No actual fount, though.

As for results, like I implied, I'd just use orokos if it were available. :P I made it for the RPG.net roller, which doesn't display images. I can read regular dice as they fall with little effort, though I still like to group; without all the dice being "present", that's impossible. And I don't trust my own mental math, and using this is much easier than second-guessing myself... and then triple-guessing, and so forth. The output of a roll looks something like that attached image.

Just made it for others who are as neurotic as me. ^_^

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google play store. there are several dice apps with this systems dice that just tells you the net

On 2/12/2017 at 2:29 PM, thecowley said:

google play store. there are several dice apps with this systems dice that just tells you the net

13 hours ago, masterstrider said:

I'm aware of these. :P I already said I prefer to use Orokos , but there are specifically times that I have to use RPG.net's dice roller. As it has this problem, I made this solution.