{"id":5689,"date":"2020-06-28T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/?p=5689"},"modified":"2020-06-28T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:38:32","slug":"dndbeyonds-digital-dice-make-gaming-more-inclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2020\/06\/dndbeyonds-digital-dice-make-gaming-more-inclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"DnDBeyond’s Digital Dice Make Gaming More Inclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"D<\/a>D&D Beyond recently introduced Digital Dice<\/a>. Players can access the dice directly from their character sheet. The digital dice are an excellent alternative for those who don’t want to use a bot in Discord to make a roll for them. They are also good for when you are playing D&D at night, and don’t want physical dice rolling to bother your roommates or family members.<\/p>\n

\"Advantage<\/a>For me, the best part of the digital dice is that it accommodates my dyslexia. I have, over the years, figured out ways to work around my issues with spelling and language. Numbers, however, continue to perplex me. No matter what I try, I just can’t make the math work in my head.<\/p>\n

Digital Dice make things easier for people like me. For example, let’s say Ownka, my half-orc cleric, wants to cast Mass Healing Word at Level 5. The character sheet says 3d4+3 and has a little heart symbol next to it (indicating this spell heals).<\/p>\n

With\"blue<\/a> one button click, Digital Dice rolls three d4 die across my character sheet. At the bottom, it adds up all the numbers for me. At a glance, I can see that Ownka just gave her party members 11 hit points back.<\/p>\n

When my kobold Path of the Berserker barbarian Zax wants to hit an enemy with their Hammer of Thunderbolts, the damage area on their character sheet says 2d6+8 and has a little icon that indicates this action can cause bludgeoning damage.<\/p>\n

When I clicked that box, Digital Dice rolled two d6 for me, and added up the totals with Zax’s bonus included. Just like that, I know Zax did 16 bludgeoning damage to whatever was making them angry.<\/p>\n

Another really cool thing about Digital Dice is that the come in different colors. Those who were in the alpha test have access to \u201cOld School\u201d, a white die with black numbers. This one is my favorite because I find it easiest to read numbers (or letters) that are in dark print on a light background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D&D Beyond recently introduced Digital Dice. Players can access the dice directly from their character sheet. The digital dice are an excellent alternative for those who don’t want to use a bot in Discord to make a roll for them. They are also good for when you are playing D&D at night, and don’t want … Continue reading “DnDBeyond’s Digital Dice Make Gaming More Inclusive”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[318,295,332],"class_list":["post-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ttrpg","tag-dnd","tag-dungeons-and-dragons","tag-tabletop-rpgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}