Star Wars RPG Online Dice-Roller
Proficiency
Ability
Boost
Challenge
Difficulty
Setback
Force
Roll Result
About/Notes
- These dice are for the Star Wars tabletop role-playing game by Fantasy Flight Games. Check it out here!
- The (psueudo-)randomness for this application is generated by random.org's API, which generates randomness through atmospheric noise.
- My application calls random.org's API to generate random integers like so: given a user request for n dice rolls, I request n random integers from random.org, each in the range of 1 and 24, inclusive. This is because the three possible dice sizes are 6, 8, and 12 sides, which have a least common multiple of 24. This way, I can just use the modulus operator to generate random numbers within any of the three dice size ranges. With this approach, I can minimize the requested integers' range while only needing one API call for each set of dice rolls.
- Note: This does not work on Internet Explorer (IE). However, it works on all other updated, modern browsers (including mobile). This is due to my use of the fetch() JavaScript function for the API call.