Like many others I am a table top gamer. My preferred game is Dungeons and Dragons, though I have played others. With the pandemic and subsequent lockdown my group as well as many others struggled to find a way to continue playing. When looking at online options they were often expensive or overly complicated. So I wrote a simple program for us to use to meet our needs.
As you can see when I said simple I meant it. But it served our needs and allowed us to play. I was never happy with where the project ended however. And so I decided to give the program a facelift, as well as moving from C++ to C#.
While most experienced tabletop players know which dice is which, and after playing with them a few sessions its not hard to remember. Some newer players struggle with it, and so in the facelift I went ahead and added pictures to remind players what each type of dice was.
When the die are rolled the text prints out both each individual die, allowing you to check for things such as critical hits, or if you have a trait allowing you to reroll 1s, as well as the total for easy reference.
This project along with the rest of my work can be found on github. This specific piece can be found at: https://github.com/JohnKoba2/DiceVisualizer
