All this software is freeware; however, if you want to pay anyway, just make a contribution to a local environmental charitable organization, or the Nature Conservancy.  Though it's all free, we retain the copyrights and distribution rights; if you want to distribute any of this, check with me first.  Please don't host this software on your own site -- just link to this copy.  Support for all these programs can be had by sending some polite email to Frank.

Roleplaying Game Software:

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  Prism Dice: The most flexible dice rolling program for Windows.  Works with almost any roleplaying game you like.  Set up dice the way you want them!  v1.2 adds WEG Wild dice support.
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  Hârn Astrolabe 1.0: For the Palm OS v3.5 or later. Displays weather, religious calendar, sunrise and set, moonrise and set, and moon phase in a concise single-screen display, for any day from Nuzyael 1 715 to Morgat 30 734, according to the Hârn rules (published by Columbia Games).
• Prism Encounters: Helps generate random encounters and weather changes for overland travel.  Configured for a fantasy world, but you can create your own encounter tables.  To keep the file size reasonable, this is just the program and necessary files, not the whole setup program.  If you've installed another VB4-or-later program (like Prism Dice for instance!) just put it in a directory and create a shortcut.
• IRIS: Automates initiative and combat in Prism.  Same installation instructions as for Prism Encounters above.  v1.7 adds a player display window for a second monitor (in my case, a big-screen HDTV), and expands the recent files menu to ten items.
  

Palm Software:

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  Outlook Weather: Always have current forecasts for one or more locations on your Palm in a concise, easy-to-read format (but with actual prose forecasts, not those two-word psuedo-forecasts) using no additional software. This program gets the forecasts from the NOAA website, puts them in a tidy format into notes in Outlook, and then HotSync brings them to your Palm's MemoPad, easy as that.
• Hârn Astrolabe: see above.

HomeSeer Scripts and Stuff:

See the Rover for HomeSeer site for all my home automation software currently being supported.

mIRC Scripts:

To download these, right-click on the name and then choose Save Target As, or shift-click -- the exact method may depend on your browser.  Save the file to your mIRC directory, then in mIRC type /load -rs scriptname.mrc (for instance, /load -rs trollbane.mrc for Troll Bane).  If you aren't using v5.6 or later of mIRC, this is a good reason to upgrade -- these scripts require it.

• RPProfile (rpprofile.mrc, current version 1.0): allows you to set a description and situation, and discreetly query the description and situation of other people, to facilitate roleplaying in a channel that's treated as a room.  Very simple, but useful, so long as a lot of people are using it.
• Troll Bane (trollbane.mrc, current version 1.5): automatically blocks unsolicited msgs and/or notices.  You can grant permission to people to msg you, and anyone else who tries, gets an optional message sent to them and their msg is closed (but saved for review in case you need to see it).  It's entirely menu-driven and very configurable.
• ASCII Bane (asciibane.mrc, current version 1.1): filters out popup ASCII art (that stuff with lots of lines and colors that tries to draw out some cute picture), by using a clever algorithm comparing text content of each line with fluff content, then comparing the resulting score with a threshhold.  You can specify people who are exceptions to your filtering, configure its behavior, and review filtered text.  Like its spiritual forebear Troll Bane, it's entirely menu-driven and user-configurable.
• Spam Blocker: A few years back, when mIRC v5.51 was still current, I wrote a simple one-liner that blocked 95% of the spam msgs people got, and shared it around a few busy channels on DalNet, most notably #submission.  Over the years I adapted it to later versions of mIRC.  I dropped out of busy channels for a while and then came back and was surprised to find that this one-liner was still being shared around, sometimes in a slightly mutant form, and often without credit being given to me.  And as simple as this one-liner is, I bet a few other people have hit upon the same technique and actually reinvented it, though they probably wouldn't use the same variable names and such, so I can still tell a descendant of my original one-liner.  More amusingly I've seen fifty-line script files which do the same exact thing as this one line of code.  So for your entertainment, and for what little historical significance can be had from a paragraph on a little-seen web page, here's my original spam-blocker, in the same format I've been sharing with people for several years now:
  
  • for mIRC 5.51: on ^+1:open:?:/if ( http:// isin *1 ) { /inc %deadspam | /echo -s Spammer $nick killed! ( $+ %deadspam kills) | /ignore -u60 $nick | /saveini | /halt }
    
  • for mIRC 5.6: on ^+1:open:?:*http*: /inc %deadspam | /echo -s Spammer $nick killed! ( $+ %deadspam kills) | /ignore -u60 $nick | /saveini | /halt
    
  • for all later versions: on ^+1:open:?:*http*: /inc %deadspam | /echo $colour(info) -a Spammer $nick killed! ( $+ %deadspam kills) | .ignore -u60 $nick | /saveini | /halt
    
  • simplified version without counting: on ^+1:open:?:*http*: .ignore -u60 $nick | halt
    
  To use any of these, copy it exactly and paste into any blank line in Tools | Remotes.

Miscellaneous Software:

• Crossword Tool: a program that helps you make and solve crosswords.  Comes with a setup program.