Tabletop role-playing games simply wouldn’t work without dice. The act of rolling a 20-sided die sits at the core of modern games like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder, while other systems rely on 10 ...

Dungeons, Dragons and Dice—a script that lets you roll those 3d6 and 2d20 that a surprising number of games require. In my last article, I talked about a really simple shell script for a game called ...

Dungeons & Dragons is a game of chance and probability. The dungeon master can craft a fanciful adventure filled with all manner of twists and turns, but after that, it all comes down to player choice ...