The Fun of Rolling Dice
From ancient games of chance to modern tabletop role-playing games (RPGs), dice have been a source of excitement and unpredictability for centuries. This digital dice roller brings that classic experience to your screen, allowing you to roll various types of polyhedral dice for any purpose.
Common Dice Types (Polyhedral Dice)
- D4 (Tetrahedron): A 4-sided die, often used for small damage rolls in games like Dungeons & Dragons.
- D6 (Cube): The classic 6-sided die, used in countless board games like Monopoly and Yahtzee.
- D8 (Octahedron): An 8-sided die, commonly used for weapon damage.
- D10 (Pentagonal Trapezohedron): A 10-sided die, often used for percentile rolls (in pairs) or specific game systems.
- D12 (Dodecahedron): A 12-sided die, used for certain powerful weapons or abilities.
- D20 (Icosahedron): The iconic 20-sided die, the core of many RPG systems for determining success or failure of actions.
Did you know? The concept of probability theory was largely developed from studying games of chance involving dice rolls in the 17th century.