Gen Con 2026 ran from July 30 to August 2 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, and it was the biggest Gen Con yet. I was not there. I was at my desk in a different hemisphere, refreshing three liveblogs at once and doing the time zone arithmetic every non-American gamer does in early August. So this is not…
Six numbers decide whether your wizard can hit a door with a fireball and whether your barbarian can spell "door". The method your table uses to make them sets the campaign's power level and fairness before anyone says a word in character. Some methods make lopsided, memorable heroes. Some keep the party level. Some reward nerve. This guide shows the…
. . . If a character sheet, spell or stat block has ever shouted this at you, you were reading dice notation: a shorthand for how many dice to roll, which kind, and what to do with the result. It looks like algebra for about five minutes. This guide gets you through those five minutes, then into drop, reroll and…
Greetings, noble adventurers, rogues, and people who press the refresh button too often! I want to step out from behind the curtain (and the code) to say this: the dice roller you've been using, through crits, fumbles and the occasional emotional breakdown, is no longer a small hobby site. I built it for fun, hoping it might help the D&D…
An anthropological study of the bizarre rituals players perform with plastic polyhedrons. Yes, I'm included. Yes, I have a dice jail. When I first started playing D&D, I was a rational person. A man of science and art. I understood dice were random number generators: small plastic objects governed by physics and probability. Then I met my d20. Now I…
DnD Dice Roller is quick for a single and flexible enough to hold a whole character: a multi-line combat setup, a 5E ability score roller, or AD&D and homebrew rolls that physical dice can't do. This guide covers the controls, the advanced options, and worked examples with the odds behind them. Figure 1. Overview of the main controls. The basic…
