You can just type URLs with dice instructions into the address bar here and it'll do what you tell it to. Yeah, you can mostly do this with Google now, too, but there are some limitations there that I wanted to overcome. Anyway, here are some examples to get you started.
larryswank.com/roll1d6 - Roll 1d6
For those of you who don't happen to have a single, standard, clicky-clack math rock around.
larryswank.com/roll2d6 - Roll 2d6
For those of you who are playing Monopoly or something.
larryswank.com/roll2d20k1 - Roll 2d20 Keep 1 Highest
Attack with advantage - yay!
larryswank.com/roll2d20k1l - Roll 2d20 Keep 1 Lowest
Attack with disadvantage - boo!
larryswank.com/roll46k3 - Roll 4d6 Keep 3 Highest
Because your DM is cool and lets you determine your attributes randomly.
larryswank.com/roll1d100 - Roll 1d100
It's like rolling both d10s to get a percentile result, but we're obviously doing it with one die that isn't real. Did you know they actually sell d100s? They're basically spheres, and while they kind of stink in their actual function as dice, they're still super cool. If they're made out of metal, they're like little cannonballs! Buy one, nerd.
larryswank.com/roll3d57k1 - Roll 3d57 Keep 1 Highest
Suck it, Euclid.
larryswank.com/roll6969d420 - Roll 6969d420
First off, grow up. Secondly, I limit everything to one hundred so you don't break my site trying to roll a jillion d bazillion or something, so 100d100 is the site's upper limit. Quite frankly, if you need to roll more than a hundred of anything, throw a party for that and do it with real dice, because that's awesome.
Could I have done this with a whole interface and everything? Sure. Should I have done this with an interface? Yes, if your premise is that I was doing it for you. I'm not doing that, though.
Remember, I fill this site with stuff that makes me happy or that I find useful. I learned how to write code on a Commodore VIC-20 with a cassette tape drive as storage, so while I'm not punch card old, I'm definitely command line old. As such, having this dice roller just be a glorified command line suits me just fine.
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