Dice rolls are some of the best sources of drama in board games. They focus risk and tension into a single moment that acts as the culmination of strategic decision. The kinetic force of tossing hunks ...

Dungeons, Dragons and Dice—a script that lets you roll those 3d6 and 2d20 that a surprising number of games require. In my last article, I talked about a really simple shell script for a game called ...