TOS+ Dice Roller
Introduction
Created by user marc4darkskies, the TOS+ Dice Roller (referred as TDR) is an Excel workbook developed for TOS+. For players who use TOS+ sheets dynamically, TDR will interface automatically with up to 5 TOS+ sheets to facilitate attack, damage, ability, skills and save rolls (among others). Damaging spells and other rolled spell effects can also be defined or selected from a TOS+ sheet so that they can be automatically rolled. For DMs, creature / character initiatives and dice rolls for up to 150 creatures’ weapon attacks or other effects can be tracked. The DM can also select from the built in SRD creature database (about 700 creatures) for automated dice rolls. Creatures can also be created, edited, or deleted and utilised for combat dice rolls.
Compatibility
TDR has been tested on Office 365 for TOS+ versions 5.137 and later using 3.5 and Pathfinder rules. PF testing has been somewhat limited, but it seems to be working fine. So please, PF players, report any problems discovered!
Please note, TDR will NOT work properly with Excel versions older than Office 365.
TDR Summary
- Uses highly random functions to roll dice as opposed to the very non-random VBA functions. See the section at the end of the user manual for a brief analysis
- Will issue reassuring sounds when buttons are pressed to indicate processing has completed. I even created my own real-life dice-rolling-on-wooden-table sounds!!
- Can load up to 5 TOS+ characters (.xlsb files)
- Can operate without needing to load TOS+ characters to roll ad-hoc characters or effects
- Can select from 3 predefined default “Combat” sheet layouts – “TOS Only”, “Ad-Hoc Only” and “TOS and Ad-Hoc”
- Will pull all relevant info from any loaded TOS+ workbooks and enable character dice rolls for Attack, Damage, Init and Saves, Ability, Action Points and Skills.
- When NOT using loaded TOS+ sheets, all combat parameters are derived from the characters and effects defined in the “Ad-Hoc” sheet
- Allows definition of up to 150 Creatures, NPCs, spells & effects via an “Ad-Hoc” character table. TOS+ character sheets are NOT required for ad-hoc attack and damage rolls.
- Will keep the last 40 “Combat” sheet rolls in a "History" table with detailed descriptions
- In a separate “Dice” sheet, will display 1,120 dice rolls plus the sum of those rolls within 8 “Effect” panels containing 20 rolls for each of 7 dice. The “Effect” panels enable 8 distinct (non-repeating) dice rolls for damage effects per player character weapon as well as 8 ad-hoc and characters/effects – ie nearly zero risk of duplicate rolls being seen
- Rolls and/or tracks initiative, initiative order and damage inflicted for all Ad-hoc characters / creatures. Manual initiative entry is allowed.
- Contains statistics for about 700 (mostly SRD) Creatures which can be added to an ad-hoc character table and used for combat dice rolls.
- Can filter and select creatures from the built-in TDR creature database (approx. 700 mostly SRD creatures) to enable Attack, Damage, Initiative and Save rolls
- Can create, modify and delete creatures within the built-in TDR creature database.
Downloading the TDR
To download the latest released version of TDR including a detailed PDF user manual, visit this link: