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I've found that Crit Roller is my favorite. I like that it lets you save your most common rolls, and it really works graphically.
Most dice apps I've used are random enough to not bother with this point, so the main concerns are just about sensory pleasure and having smartphones around the table.
As a GM, I allow (and use) them but will not let my players go to Facebook or whatnot. CritDice is straightforward and works for me.
My name is Dan Chartrand and I wrote CritDice. If you like real dice, this app probably isn't for you. Personally, I always had a least a couple dice in my bag that I didn't trust and seemed to consistently roll low. Maybe it was just in my head, but the little dimples and imperfections on my dice made me doubt I was getting truly random rolls. Also, as my D&D 5e character gained levels, I found myself rolling more and more dice, which really slowed down the gameplay - especially if I had a few too many beers.
Being a cheapskate, I didn't want to invest in fancy precision-machined dice. Being a programmer, it occurred to me that (a) I already know how write code that can roll random numbers, (b) calculators are faster at adding numbers than beer-addled brain tissue, and (c) the current dice roller apps on Google Play are mostly yuck.
That's when I had my eureka moment and wrote CritDice. Now I'm getting truly random dice rolls and nobody needs to wait for me to add up my dice. Plus I can drink as much as I want, so that's a win-win.
What do you think? Has the time for dice roller apps like CritDice arrived? Or do you still prefer the real thing? Please consider trying CritDice just to compare with what you're currently using, be it real dice or another app. If you don't like it, please let me know so I can make it better. Or if you think it's the best dice roller ever, I'd love to hear that too. :)
CritDice is available on Google Play. You can also learn more on the CritDice website.
> 11.I could use a dice roller for Android that has a tracking feature of all my rolls, any advice?
This is the best one i've found, very easy interface, you can save rolls with modifiers and give them names so you can just tap the "Perception" roll, and it'll do everything for you.
While it might be a lot easier to use an app, I guarentee you that it will be more satisfying to use normal dice, even though it's far less convenient. The feeling of rolling a nat 20 on physical dice vs the feeling of a nat 20 on an app isn't even comparable.
If all you need is an app to roll dice, I use Critdice. It's made by one of the Redditors here and has all the basics needed for a good dice roll app: a nice calculator interface, a satisfying rolling sound, and the ability to create roll macros for common rolls and even sort them into categories. It also has the feature to play a custom sound when a specific result is made (like a trombone on a nat 1). I beleive you have to pay for that, but it's not that steep. I've been very satisfied with it.
The rogue in my party uses the CritDice App for the full-attack & damage & sneak attack, certainly speeds things up at high level play.
As a wise man once said: Imagination
My froup does not have someone visually impaired but thanks to a low budget we use the theater of mind for our campaigns. As for dice rolling CritDice is an app that can give out the rolled number as a sound or just tell you what number was rolled.
Hope this helps as I thing everyone should be able to enjoy DnD.
on ios i use lions den game master 5e to organize and run my combat encounters, mainly because (using custom xml files) i can easily pick monsters including their full statblocks with a few taps instead of either writing extensive notes beforehand, tracking everything by hand or fumble around with the big ass monster manual mid game, hastily flipping pages like a dumbass. itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/game-master-5th-edition/id908176026?mt=8
on android i use critdice elite to organize my traps and calculate their damage on the fly. play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vuesoft.critdice
If you don't want to alt-tab and you have an Android phone, then a really quick (and free) dice roller app is CritDice. You can get it from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vuesoft.critdice
I know it's a late response, but I just finished developing a free dice roller for Android. If you're still searching for a nice dice roller, or would like to try something new, check out CritDice: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vuesoft.critdice
The CritDice website provides more information: http://www.critdice.com
Feedback and suggestions welcomed!
The old Pixel is great, too. One Android app I really like is CritDice.
Dungeons and Dragons, and tabletop roleplaying games in general, can be very expensive. The books, the dice, the miniatures, the terrain. There is a lot you could spend money on. And that can feel like a barrier into the hobby. I want to layout how someone could run or play dungeons and dragons for FREE. All they should need is a bit of time, a printer if they want the physical version of some things, and a desire to get started. Will be using "you" as subject for ease of writing. Feel free to share this with anyone you think wants to get into DnD, but thinks it is too expensive to try.
RULES
The first thing you will need is rules. The players handbook, dungeon masters guide, and monster manual will run you about $25 US dollars each, which as you can tell, is not free. Instead you will be using the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition SRD, which stands for System Reference Document, and the Basic Rules. The both are free, and give you everything you need to run and play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. The SRD alone is 400 pages long, which can be very daunting, but you don’t need to read it all.
For the SRD, the basic rules start on page 76 and go to page 104, laying out how to play, including when to roll dice, how to make attacks and saving throws, and everything in between. Pages 3 through 75 layout how to make player characters including options for their race, class, background, and equipment. If you have any spellcasters amongst your players or monsters, pages 105 through 194 list all the spells they could need. Pages 206 through 253 lists magic items you can use in your game and page 254 onwards is a big list of monsters you can use to populate your world and use in combat. You don’t need to know everything in this document. Just choose a few monsters, a few magic items, a few player character options and run with that.
These are incredible resources that you should think of as the DnD demo, and I thank wizards of the coast for making them available to everyone for free. These do not have as many options as the full rulebooks have, but if this is your first time playing, you don’t need a bunch of options right now. You just need to get a feel for the game and how much your group likes it.
SRD pdf
https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/DND/SRD-OGL_V5.1.pdf
SRD WOTC article
https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd
Basic Rules
https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules
SRD and Basic Rules combined on DnD Beyond!
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules
Essentials Rules, incase you want more rules
https://media.wizards.com/2020/dnd/downloads/dnd_essentials_rulebook.pdf
Character Sheets
The Basic Rules does come with a player character sheet at the very end, but that is not your only options. Wizards of the Coast has a lot of free character sheets for you to use. If you just want some pre generated characters, wizards of the coast has some of those as well.
5e Fillable Character Sheet
https://media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/downloads/5E_CharacterSheet_Fillable.pdf
5e Pre-generated Characters
https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/trpg-resources/trpg-resources
DnD Beyond Character Builder
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/builder#/
Adventure
Alright, so you have some rules, but you need an adventure to apply them to. There are tons of free adventures online, but again you don’t need a bunch of options right now. I recommend the Delian Tomb by Matt Colville. It is short, made for level 1 characters, and even comes with a map! The monsters of the adventures are also in the SRD! The bugbear on page 266, goblins can be found on page 315, and the undead in room 6 will be 2 ghouls, from page 312. The scythe trap in area 3 is not in the SRD, but we can just use the trap table in the SRD to choose its properties. This is your first adventure, so lets make this a level 1 setback trap. So characters will need to make a DC 10 dexterity saving throw to avoid it, or take 1d10 slashing damage. If you don’t understand those terms yet, don’t worry, the basic rules will explain them.
If this adventure is too short for you, or you would like to find another one, DMsGuild.com an online store where you can buy adventures, optional rules, and a lot more, has a free adventures section you can look through. Again links in the description.
Delian Tomb Adventure
https://mcdm.fandom.com/wiki/The_Delian_Tomb
Free Adventures on DMsGuild
Best Free Adventures, Courtesy of M.T. Black
https://www.mtblackgames.com/blog/top-20-free-dnd-adventures
Dice
Okay, you have rules, and an adventure, but you are missing a key component, dice. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a lot of spare dice lying around. If you do have a bunch of boardgames, you might be able to cobble together enough dice to get this gaming going. Otherwise, you will need to use an online resource, or get creative.
For online resources, there are free dice rolling phone apps like Critdice. Google has a built in dice roller, or you can use a website like a.teall.info.
If you want physical dice for free, you might have a hard time. But Dice are just an easy way to roll a random number. If you have another fun way of generating random numbers, then use that instead. Whether that means, cutting up some paper squares with numbers on them and putting them in a hat, or cutting little blocks of wood into dice is up to you.
Dice Rolling App - CritDice
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vuesoft.critdice&hl=en_US&gl=US
Google’s Dice Roller
https://www.google.com/search?q=dice+roller
Web Based Dice Roller
Dungeons and Dragons, and tabletop roleplaying games in general, can be very expensive. The books, the dice, the miniatures, the terrain. There is a lot you could spend money on. And that can feel like a barrier into the hobby. I want to layout how someone could run or play dungeons and dragons for FREE. All they should need is a bit of time, a printer if they want the physical version of some things, and a desire to get started. Will be using "you" as subject for ease of writing. Feel free to share this with anyone you think wants to get into DnD, but thinks it is too expensive to try.
RULES
The first thing you will need is rules. The players handbook, dungeon masters guide, and monster manual will run you about $25 US dollars each, which as you can tell, is not free. Instead you will be using the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition SRD, which stands for System Reference Document. The SRD is free, and gives you everything you need to run and play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. This is 400 pages long, which can be very daunting, but you don’t need to read it all.
The basic rules start on page 76 and go to page 104, laying out how to play, including when to roll dice, how to make attacks and saving throws, and everything in between. Pages 3 through 75 layout how to make player characters including options for their race, class, background, and equipment. If you have any spellcasters amongst your players or monsters, pages 105 through 194 list all the spells they could need. Pages 206 through 253 lists magic items you can use in your game and page 254 onwards is a big list of monsters you can use to populate your world and use in combat. You don’t need to know everything in this document. Just choose a few monsters, a few magic items, a few player character options and run with that.
The SRD is an incredible resource that you should think of as the DnD demo document, and I thank wizards of the coast for making it available to everyone for free. It does not have as many options as the full rulebooks have, but this is your first time playing, you don’t need a bunch of options right now. You just need to get a feel for the game and how much your group likes it.
SRD pdf
https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/DND/SRD-OGL_V5.1.pdf
SRD WOTC article
https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd
Character Sheets
The SRD unfortunately does not come with player character sheets, but thankfully you have some options. Wizards of the Coast has a lot of free character sheets for you to use. If you just want some pre generated characters, wizards of the coast has some of those as well.
5e Fillable Character Sheet
https://media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/downloads/5E_CharacterSheet_Fillable.pdf
5e Progenerated Characters
https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/trpg-resources/trpg-resources
Adventure
Alright, so you have some rules, but you need an adventure to apply them to. There are tons of free adventures online, but again you don’t need a bunch of options right now. I recommend the Delian Tomb by Matt Colville. It is short, made for level 1 characters, and even comes with a map! The monsters of the adventures are also in the SRD! The bugbear on page 266, goblins can be found on page 315, and the undead in room 6 will be 2 ghouls, from page 312. The scythe trap in area 3 is not in the SRD, but we can just use the trap table in the SRD to choose its properties. This is your first adventure, so lets make this a level 1 setback trap. So characters will need to make a DC 10 dexterity saving throw to avoid it, or take 1d10 slashing damage. If you don’t understand those terms yet, don’t worry, the basic rules in the SRD will explain them.
If this adventure is too short for you, or you would like to find another one, DMsGuild.com an online store where you can buy adventures, optional rules, and a lot more, has a free adventures section you can look through. Again links in the description.
Delian Tomb Adventure
https://mcdm.fandom.com/wiki/The_Delian_Tomb
Free Adventures on DMsGuild
Best Free Adventures, Courtesy of M.T. Black
https://www.mtblackgames.com/blog/top-20-free-dnd-adventures
Dice
Okay, you have rules, and an adventure, but you are missing a key component, dice. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a lot of spare dice lying around. If you do have a bunch of boardgames, you might be able to cobble together enough dice to get this gaming going. Otherwise, you will need to use an online resource, or get creative.
For online resources, there are free dice rolling phone apps like Critdice. google has a built in dice roller, or you can use a website like a.teall.info.
If you want physical dice for free, you might have a hard time. But Dice are just an easy way to roll a random number. If you have another fun way of generating random numbers, then use that instead. Whether that means, cutting up some paper squares with numbers on them and putting them in a hat, or cutting little blocks of wood into dice is up to you.
Dice Rolling App - CritDice
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vuesoft.critdice&hl=en_US&gl=US
Google’s Dice Roller
https://www.google.com/search?q=dice+roller
Web Based Dice Roller
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vuesoft.critdice
This is what I personally use. It's all structured like a calculator, so it's neat and easy to use.
I'll add one to that list: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vuesoft.critdice
I like using CritDice , works very well
I use CrtiDice on Android. Simple and efficient.
Dungeons and Dragons! The basic rules are available for free. You might want to spend 3-5 dollars on a set of polyhedral dice, but there are apps on Android, iOS, and web for free if you want to use those instead. Character sheets can be found here, both pregenerated (if you don't know where to start) or simple printable ones!
The only thing that is a bit hard to find for free is an adventure, though you can make your own simple one, or find one for cheap to free - if you want, you could PM me, and I can direct you to some of the highlights, or share some adventure pdfs, if it interests you!
Well, if he's gonna do that, and has an Android phone, I recommend CritDice
Oh and Crit Dice for when your d20s are in your other bag of holding
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vuesoft.critdice
Welcome!
>I have a 3.5e players handbook and complete warrior that my brother bought a long time ago, but never played it. We know no-one who do know how to play and we all start from scratch. I've read online that its easier for new players to start with 5e but if i have these books, maybe we could just use them. 1) what do you recomend to do?
Contrary to the 5e zeitgeist, I'm a proponent of starting with whatever edition you have handy (and of 3.5 in general), and you're in luck! D&D 3.5 came out under an ambitious open license that made public all the core information. It's contained in what is called the System Reference Document, the most friendly online version of which is probably the hypertext d20 SRD. With that, your Player's Handbook, and the optional Complete Warrior book, you have what you need for both players and the Dungeon Master to play.
However, for your first time, I would recommend a pre-made adventure. The Dungeon Master can create any adventure he wants out of the monsters and traps and such in the SRD, but it's a lot of work and takes some practice to get right. So it's best to start with something pre-made, so the new DM can focus on the basics of DM'ing. Here is an archive of free adventures you can download and run as-is. I've heard Wreck Ashore is a pretty decent 1st level adventure.
>2) what dices do we need to get either way?
You don't need to buy dice. There are online and app-based die rollers that do just fine.
That being said, it really does make for a more delightful experience if you can roll real dice, at least for me. A set like this goes for about $20, and should be enough for everyone to share.
>3) do we need to get board/minutures?
People will tell you you don't need them, but the game is written assuming you have them (regardless of edition), and many of the effects include exact details that require them. So you need some kind of way to keep track of it.
That being said, you can use a piece of grid paper and coins, or a white board and a dry-erase marker, or any of a number of online virtual table tops to do this for free or very, very little. Roll20 is a good option here, as has been mentioned.
ohh iphone...