Palm and Treo Hacks

Master the Dungeon

There are several programs that can help you with many chores associated with role-playing. These include dice rolling and mapping programs. But there are also adventuring kits (for players) and Dungeon Master (DM) aids.

If your idea of a pen-and-paper gaming session involves a bunch of people huddled around a table, rolling dice and consulting rule books, you’ll need to add another prop to this image. Imagine that the dice spend most of their time in their velvet sack, and that the dungeon master and players put away their pens, pencils and papers in favor of a Palm and stylus. Here are some programs that will help keep the game rolling.

TS-ShadowDice

TS-ShadowDice (http://www.freewarepalm.com/games/ts-shadowdice.shtml) is a specialized dice roller for ShadowRun. ShadowRun has a unique approach to rolling dice. If you roll a six (on a six-sider), then you roll again and add the result. If you roll another six, you keep going. Thus, you can get numbers like 11, 13, or even 25 out of a single six-sided die. The TS-ShadowDice program knows how to re-roll sixes and add the results. In ShadowRun, you try to meet or exceed a target number which represents the difficulty of the action you are attempting. Each die that meets or exceeds the target number is called a success. TS-ShadowDice can tell you how many successes you have for a given number of dice against a particular target number. It can also track your character’s current physical and mental conditions, which ...