Dicebox

3d6

three six-sided dice

1d20+5

with a modifier

2d6+1d8

any number of terms

2d20kh1

advantage — keep highest

2d20kl1

disadvantage — keep lowest

4d6dl1

drop lowest

1d6!

explode on a max roll

1d10r2

reroll 2 and under

d%

percentile, same as d100

Tap dice to build a pool; the number on the left is how many each tap adds. Hold a die for advantage, exploding, and the rest. Any number of sides works, from d1 to d1000, so a d17 or a d57 is just as valid. Rolls stay on your device.

v5:5

five dice, no Hunger

v5:8h3

eight dice, three of them Hunger

v5:8h3@3

the same against difficulty 3

4d6

ordinary dice still roll as ordinary dice

Hunger dice replace dice in the pool rather than adding to it, so the pool size is whatever you set. Every die showing 6 or more is a success, and each pair of 10s adds two more on top. Set a difficulty and the roll resolves itself — a win with a pair of 10s is a Critical, and a Messy Critical if one of those 10s is on a Hunger die; a loss with a Hunger 1 is a Bestial Failure. Leave the difficulty unset and the roll reports its successes and lets the table call it.

The dice show symbols the way the official ones do — a fang for a success, the bite for a 10, a skull for a Hunger 1, and nothing at all below 6. The numbers they landed on are in the line under the result and in the history.

4dF

four Fudge dice — the standard roll

4dF+2

with a +2 skill

6dF-1

any number of dice, and a penalty

Each Fudge die is +, −, or blank — two of each on a d6 — so it reads +1, −1, or 0. The result is the net total (−4 to +4 for four dice) plus your modifier, and it lands on the Fate ladder: Mediocre, Average, Fair, Good, Great, and up.

gen:2A+2D

two Ability, two Difficulty

gen:1P+1A+3D

a Proficiency, an Ability, three Difficulty

gen:2A+1B+2D+1C

Boost and Challenge in the mix

Six narrative dice: Ability (green), Proficiency (yellow), Boost (blue) roll toward success; Difficulty (purple), Challenge (red), Setback (grey) roll against you. Tap a chip to add that die, hold it to remove one.

Success (▲) cancels Failure (▼) and Advantage (◆) cancels Threat (✕), so the result is what is left on each axis. A Triumph (★, on the Proficiency die) is a success that also triggers something great; a Despair (its inverted twin, on the Challenge die) is a failure that goes badly wrong. Both survive cancellation.

sw:2A+2D

two Ability, two Difficulty

sw:1P+1A+2D

a trained check

sw:3F

three Force dice (a Force power)

The same narrative dice as Genesys — success/failure and advantage/threat cancel, with Triumph and Despair on the yellow and red dice — plus the white Force die. Its Light (pale) and Dark (violet) pips are a separate result that powers Force abilities; they don't touch the success/advantage tally. Roll a handful of Force dice on their own for a Force check.

dh:

the Duality Dice — Hope d12 + Fear d12

dh:+2

with a modifier (negatives too: dh:-1)

dh:@15

against difficulty 15

dh:adv2@15

with two advantage dice, vs 15

Roll two d12 — a gold Hope die and a violet Fear die — and add them. The higher die sets the tone: with Hope hands you a Hope, with Fear hands the GM a Fear. Matching dice are a Critical Success — it succeeds no matter the total, and comes with Hope. Set a difficulty and the roll resolves to success or failure.

Each advantage adds a d6 and each disadvantage subtracts one; they cancel one-for-one, and stack past one (an ally's Help adds another). Tap the buttons to add them, hold to remove. The Roll Duality button throws the Hope + Fear; the dice below it roll anything else — weapon damage and the rest.

ct:8

eight d10 — count the hits

ct:8@4

the same, against difficulty 4

ct:5@6

a five-die pool at a hard task

CthulhuTech 2e is a pool of coin-flips. Roll d10 equal to your Attribute + Skill; every even die is a Hit (it glows green), every odd one misses. Count your hits and meet the Difficulty — roughly 3 for a simple task up to 6 or 7 for the near-impossible. Leave the difficulty unset and it just reports the hits.

tor:3@14

a Feat die + 3 Success dice, vs 14

tor:2fav@16

favoured — roll two Feat dice, keep the best

tor:3w@18

Weary — Success dice of 1-3 count as 0

Always roll one Feat die (a d12: 1-10, plus the Gandalf rune = automatic success and the Eye of Sauron = 0) with a pool of Success dice (d6). Total them and meet the Target Number. Each 6 is a Tengwar rune: one is a Great success, two or more Extraordinary. Favoured / ill-favoured rolls two Feat dice and keeps the best / worst; Weary makes Success dice of 1-3 count for nothing.

pbta:

roll 2d6

pbta:+2

2d6 plus your stat

pbta:-1

2d6 with a penalty

Powered by the Apocalypse: roll 2d6 and add the relevant stat. 10+ is a Strong Hit, 7-9 a Weak Hit (you get it, but with a cost), 6 or under a Miss. Set the modifier below, or type it.

mist:

roll 2d6

mist:+1

2d6 plus your Power

mist:-2

2d6 with Weakness against you

The Mist Engine (City of Mist, Legend in the Mist) rolls 2d6 plus your net Power. 10+ is a Success, 7-9 a Consequence (you succeed with a complication), 6 or under a Failure. Set the modifier below, or type it.

ms:c

Check/Save — no target, the table judges

ms:c@35

Check/Save — roll d100 under 35

ms:c@35e

the same, Expert skill (+15 → under 50)

ms:c@35adv

Advantage — roll twice, keep the better

ms:p@8

Panic — roll d20 over Stress 8

Mothership rolls 1d100 under your Stat or Save: less than the number succeeds, a fail costs 1 Stress. 00 always crits, 99 always crit-fails, 90-99 always fails, and doubles are a Critical. A Skill tier (Trained +10, Expert +15, Master +20) raises the number you roll under. Panic rolls a d20 over your Stress; roll at or under it and you Panic — look up the die on your own Panic Table. Stress is tracked here: it climbs on failed rolls and is what Panic rolls against. Damage and Wounds are ordinary dice — type 4d10 or tap the strip.

deck:1

draw a card

deck:3

draw three

deck:3 jokers

with the two jokers in

deck:1 replace

draw with replacement

A standard 52-card deck (jokers optional), drawn without replacement — the deck remembers what's gone until you Shuffle. Flip on Replace and each draw goes back in, an independent pick from whatever the deck still holds; the discard stays out of play until you shuffle. The Jokers and Replace buttons are the same as typing those words after the count — set either way, and the field always shows the deck it will draw from. Tap a drawn card to pick it up for a close look, flick it to send it to the discard without drawing, and tap the deck or table to draw; tap the discard pile to page back through it.

The courts are traced from the Great Mogul deck (Meiffre Neveu & Cie, Paris, c. 1850s), a stencilled woodcut in the single-headed English pattern; the two jokers are Fools from older tarots — Jean Noblet's (Paris, c. 1650) and a Swiss Troccas deck's. Pips, aces, and the back are original vector work. Sources and pipeline: woodcut-cards.

tarot:1

draw a card

tarot:3

a three-card spread

tarot:3 majors

just the 22 trumps

tarot:1 upright

turn reversals off

All 78 cards, drawn without replacement until you Shuffle. With Reversals on, each card's orientation is fixed when the deck is shuffled and a reversed card lands upside down; Majors trims the deck to the 22 trumps for a quick reading. The picker buttons and the typed words are the same thing — add majors, upright, or replace after the count, in any order, and the field always shows the deck it will draw from. Tap a drawn card to pick it up for a close look, flick it to the discard without drawing, and tap the deck or table to draw; tap the discard pile to page back through it.

The art is traced from the Jean Noblet tarot (Paris, c. 1650, Bibliothèque nationale de France) — the oldest surviving Tarot de Marseille — with the five Wands pips missing from the BnF's deck filled from the Jacques Viéville tarot (Paris, c. 1650), its contemporary across the city. Sources and pipeline: woodcut-tarot.

nap:1

pesca una carta

nap:3

pescane tre

nap:1 replace

pesca con reinserimento

Il mazzo napoletano di 40 carte — dall'Asso al Sette, più Fante, Cavallo e Re in denari, coppe, spade e bastoni — pescate senza reinserimento finché non si mescola: il mazzo di Scopa e Briscola. Tocca una carta pescata per prenderla in mano e guardarla da vicino, lanciala con un gesto per mandarla negli scarti senza pescare, e tocca il mazzo o il tavolo per pescare; tocca la pila degli scarti per sfogliarla.

Le carte sono ricalcate da un mazzo stampato a Napoli nel 1902 (Bibliothèque nationale de France) — l'Asso di Denari porta ancora il bollo del Regno d'Italia e l'indirizzo dello stampatore all'angolo di via S. Tommaso d'Aquino. I semi sono le stesse insegne italiane degli arcani minori dei tarocchi.

hana:1

draw a card

hana:8

deal a koi-koi hand

hana:1 replace

draw with replacement

The 48-card Japanese flower deck — twelve months, each a flower, each holding four cards: brights (光), animals (タネ), ribbons (短冊) and chaff (カス). Cards draw without replacement until you shuffle: the deck of Koi-Koi and Hachi-Hachi. Tap a drawn card to pick it up for a close look, flick it to the discard without drawing, and tap the deck or table to draw; tap the discard pile to page back through it. koi: works as an alias.

Card art by Louie Mantia, Jr. and すけじょ, in the deck's traditional colours (CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) — the one deck in the box drawn by other hands.

uta:1

draw a poem

uta:5

draw five

uta:1 replace

draw with replacement

The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu — one hundred poets, one poem each, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika around 1235, from Emperor Tenji to Emperor Juntoku. Draw a single card and the whole poem reads out beneath the result, with Clay MacCauley's translation. Tap a drawn card to read the calligraphy up close, flick it to the discard, tap the deck or table to draw; karuta: works as an alias.

For Bōzu Mekuri, draw one card per player in turn: a courtier keeps his card, a monk (13 in the deck) costs you your whole pile, a lady (21 in the deck) wins you everything discarded so far. Largest pile when the deck runs out wins.

The portraits and calligraphy are traced from Hishikawa Moronobu's illustrated edition (Edo, 1680) — Moronobu is often counted the first ukiyo-e artist — digitised by the Library of Congress. The deck reads in the book's own order, poet by poet, and is released as its own CC0 repository, woodcut-utagaruta.