I wanted to see what a dice roller in Shmeppy might be like so this last week I made a rough prototype as a standalone page in Shmeppy. You don’t need to be logged in to use it, check it out at https://testing.shmeppy.com/dice.
Playing DnD while using Shmeppy on my phone and doing chores around my house the last year or so has made me want to see if I can integrate a dice roller into Shmeppy. So my focus is on mobile.
The buttons are tailored specifically for DnD 5e, with the idea of separate sets of buttons for each system if the basic idea feels alright.
The buttons can only modify simple expressions. You’ll see them disable themselves if you write out a more complex expression that they don’t understand.
I made a dice roller before my first ever game of a TTRPG many years ago and have kept using it over the years. The feature set of this experimental dice roller is modeled after my original one, though there’s a lot of differences.
love the dice roller! I would like to see it later added to Games as a toggleable pane or window with a shared roll history for players, plus secret/silent rolls toggle.
maybe even a button where the GM can say “roll me a d20” - and the player is prompted to click them button themselves and input any bonus they have, which then sends the result to the GM only.
It’s going to stay on its own page for awhile, though I think it’s interesting enough to push to the main site (still as a standalone page) so more people will stumble across it. I’ll likely do that after poking at it a bit more and building in some guidance for users.
I think it’ll make its way into the game page if I manage to get good-feeling chat into Shmeppy. This is super experimental though, I don’t even have a great idea of the problems I’m solving with this dice roller.
I have a great idea of the problems you are solving with a shmeppy dice roller. Youre eliminating the need to alt-tab or switch views to a separate application when you need to roll dice.
