About the RPG Dice Roller
Who made this?
My name is Christian Nikolajsen and I live in Denmark. I'm a PHP developer once working with Drupal, now more general PHP applications primarily using the Symfony framework.I'm a major Star Wars geek and Pen & Paper RPG gamer. My gaming group is old school, refusing to move on from D&D 3.5. But luckily they've also embraced the Genesys narrative dice system, mainly due to me forcing it down their throats with Star Wars :D
Why make this?
I created this dice roller app mainly because of my love of RPG gaming and especially the narrative Star Wars System from Fantasy Flight Games, but also for the programming experience.Is it free?
Yes, this is totally free and open-source, but if you love what I've created then please consider "tipping me" to support my work. This is a hobby project that once ran on a free hosting plan, but that option no longer exists so now I actually pay for both domain and hosting. Any donations will go towards maintaining and perhaps upgrading the hosting plan.
This work is licensed under a CC
BY-NC-SA International license.
I started this project using the Ruby On Rails
programming language.
But since I was forced to either upgrade the hosting to keep the site online or move on to another
platform, I decided to rebuild the entire thing as a PHP project using the Symfony 6 framework.
For the frontend I'm using Bootstrap 5.
Icons are created in Inkscape.
All the code is available online and open to
contributions from others.
I've created a package on packagist.org that contains the engine behind the dice roller (cenix/rpg-dice).
Contributions would be awesome. You are free to do what you like with the
code as long as you provide attributions and don't make money off of it.
I'm missing a feature from the old dice roller.
This site will continue to evolve. I've done the basics but still like to add more features.Check my roadmap page for a list of thing I'm planning to look into.
There's a bug
Well accidents do happen. Please report them on the issues page and I'll get right on it.