TOSFive Dice Roller
Introduction
Created by user marc4darkskies, the TOS 5e Dice Roller (referred to as TDRFive) is an Excel macro driven workbook developed for TOSFive.
Primary Goals of TDRFive
- Enable hassle free digital dice rolling for more streamlined dynamic play. The need to find, roll and add up physical dice for attack, damage, ability, skills and save rolls (among others) is eliminated. Damaging spells and other rolled spell effects can also be defined or selected from a TOSFive sheet so that they can be automatically rolled.
- Free DMs from using manual notes during an encounter Creature / character initiatives, combat order and damage received can be tracked and combat attacks for up to 150 creatures’ or other ad-hoc effects can be automatically rolled.
For Players
TDRFive will interface automatically with up to five TOS-Five character sheets to facilitate attack, damage, ability, skills and save rolls (among others). Damaging spell effects within the players sheets can also be defined or selected so that they can be automatically rolled. If you're playing with paper sheets, either use the Dice sheet OR enter your character's combat stats into the Ad-Hoc sheet and roll from there or roll from the ad-hoc tables in the combat sheet.
For DMs
Creature / character initiatives can be tracked, and dice rolls for up to 150 NPCs and creatures’ weapon / spell attacks can be made. The DM can select creatures for combat from the built-in creature database. Creatures / NPCs can be created, edited, or deleted and utilised for combat dice rolls. Most creatures and their full stat blocks, including images and web links, are viewable.
DMs can also easily select and save one or more creature images (without stat block info) to a suitable network location for player characters to view.
Compatibility
TDRFive has been tested and is fully functional on Office 365. Although reports indicate it will work on Excel 2019, there may be some issues.
Main Features
1. Can load up to 5 TOS-Five character sheets (.xlsb files)
2. The "Combat" sheet facilitates all combat rolls for PCs (TOS-Five sheets) and NPCs (Ad-Hoc characters)
3. Combat attacks can be done as Normal, Advantage and Disadvantage rolls
4. The "Combat" sheet can be configured to show 3 “Combat” sheet layouts – “TOS Only”, “Ad-Hoc Only” and “TOS and Ad-Hoc”
5. For those playing with "crunchy crits", the option is available on the combat sheet to enable them
6. Can operate without needing to load TOS-Five characters by a) allowing definition and rolling of up to 150 ad-hoc characters or effects via the "Ad-Hoc" sheet and b) using the miscellaneous roll options
7. "Ad-Hoc" sheet entries for creatures, NPCs and other attacks can be individually specified as having a sneak attack
8. When using TOS-Five sheets, all combat parameters are derived from loaded TOS-Five workbooks to enable dice rolls for Attack, Damage, Init and Saves, Ability and Skills.
9. When NOT using loaded TOS-Five sheets, character combat parameters and spell effects can be defined in the “Ad-Hoc” sheet
10. Will keep the last 50 combat dice rolls in a comprehensive "History" table with detailed descriptions
11. Rolls and/or tracks initiative, initiative order and damage inflicted for all characters / creatures. Manual initiative entry is allowed
12. Contains statistics for approximately 365 Creatures which can be added to an "Ad-Hoc" character table and used for combat dice rolls.
13. Can filter and select creatures for combat from the built-in TDR-Five creature database to enable Attack, Damage, Initiative and Save rolls
14. Can create, modify and delete creatures within the built-in TDR-Five creature database editor
15. Can export Ad-Hoc creature images (without statistics) to a designated location to allow viewing by players
16. Uses highly random functions to roll dice as opposed to the very non-random VBA functions
Please report any bugs or suggestions within the appropriate Discord Dice Roller section or the forum post
Downloading the TOSFive Dice Roller
To download the latest released version of TDRFive including a detailed PDF user manual, visit this link:
TOOL: TOSFive Dice Roller - THE ONLY SHEET: Community Forum