Prism Dice
Written by Frank J.
Perricone
copyright © 2001-8, all rights reserved; free to use and
distribute (unmodified, not for profit)
Summary
Prism Dice is a versatile, configurable dice program for use
while playing Prism or any other
roleplaying game. Rather than locking you into one person's idea of what dice
should be available and how they should be arranged, Prism Dice
gives you a page of eight buttons to set up as any kind of dice you can think
of. If that's not enough, create as many more pages as you need. Prism
Dice supports the dice used in almost every roleplaying game: roll any
number of any size of any type of dice, and modify dice and totals with adders
and multipliers.
Roll standard, open-ended, FUDGE, Ars Magica (quality and stress), Champions
damage (stunning and killing), averaging, series count, divided, count under or
over, total under or over, total highest or lowest, and other types of dice. A
dice wizard automatically configures buttons for common types of rolls
like Rolemaster, GURPS, FUDGE, Prism, Trinity, Ars Magica, Champions, and AD&D. There's even a nifty
dice-rolling sound.
Prism Dice is free. Permission is granted to use it
anywhere, for any purpose, and to redistribute it to anyone, provided no
for-profit fee is charged for it. Source code may be shared upon request.
Prism Dice isn't public domain; I retain copyrights, just so I
can retain credit for my own work.
For more details, see the help file.
Prism Dice isn't meant to replace those wonderful clanky bits of
polycarbonate we all know and love. But in some situations, a software dice
roller is more convenient, so why not have both?
Screenshots
System Requirements
Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista. The full installation package may not be required if you've
installed another VB6 application with the same dependencies, but it's
recommended you use the minimal package only to
upgrade an older version of Prism Dice.
A Windows Mobile version is planned but will require an almost complete rewrite
thanks to Microsoft making it harder than it needs to be to migrate from VB for
Windows to VB for Mobile.
Technical Support
Please send questions, comments, bug reports, and suggestions to hawthorn@foobox.com. I'd really like to
hear from you if you're using this program; just email me to say hi.
Version History
- v0.9.0: Public beta version
- v1.0.1: Now tested on all current versions of Windows.
Added a rolls log that stores the last 1000 rolls (even when hidden). Added Ars
Magica and Champions dice types. Updated help file and
About box.
- v1.1: Added Exalted dice; fixed some omissions in the help
file.
- v1.1.1: Fixed a small bug with divided dice. Updated About
information (but not yet help file).
- v1.2: Added WEG Wild dice. Can clear the log by
double-clicking it. Another update to contact information.
Mirrors
Other places you can download Prism Dice, though not
necessarily always the most current version:
