Dice Roller

Rolls 1 to 1,000 dice at once with a configurable number of sides — the common tabletop set (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20) or any custom side count — showing every individual roll and their sum. A free online tool from Staaarter, right in your browser.

Runs locallyUpdated 2026-07-26

Overview

Introduction

Whether you're playing a tabletop RPG remotely, teaching probability, or just need to make a random decision with more than two outcomes, a virtual dice roller is faster and more portable than physical dice.

This tool rolls any number of dice with any number of sides — the standard d4 through d20 set plus a custom option — and reports each individual result along with the running total.

What Is Dice Roller?

A configurable virtual dice roller supporting both the classic polyhedral tabletop dice set and arbitrary custom side counts.

It reports the full breakdown of individual die results as well as their sum, matching how dice notation like '3d6' is used in games.

How Dice Roller Works

For each of the requested dice, the tool draws a uniformly random integer between 1 and the configured number of sides, inclusive.

All individual rolls are collected into an array and also summed, so both the per-die breakdown and the total are available at once.

When To Use Dice Roller

Use it for tabletop RPG sessions played over voice or video chat, where physical dice aren't practical to share.

Use it to teach or explore probability concepts, like the bell-curve shape that emerges from summing multiple dice (e.g. 2d6 vs. a single d12).

Features

Advantages

  • Supports the full standard polyhedral dice set plus any custom number of sides.
  • Rolls up to 1,000 dice in a single batch, useful for bulk simulations or probability demonstrations.
  • Reports both individual results and the sum, matching how dice notation is used in games.

Limitations

  • This uses Math.random(), which is fine for games but not a cryptographically secure random source.
  • It doesn't parse full dice notation strings like '2d6+3' — you set the die count, side count, and read the sum separately.

Examples

Rolling 3d6

Input

(no input; generated from settings)

Output

4, 2, 6 (sum: 12)

Three six-sided dice rolled together, a common way to generate RPG ability scores.

Rolling a single d20

Input

(no input; generated from settings)

Output

17

A single 20-sided die roll, common for RPG attack or skill checks.

Best Practices & Notes

Best Practices

  • Use the sum output directly for damage rolls or ability scores that combine multiple dice.
  • Roll a large batch (hundreds of dice) if you want to visually verify the distribution looks uniform per die face.

Developer Notes

Each die roll is computed with `1 + Math.floor(Math.random() * sides)`, which is uniform across the [1, sides] range for any side count, including non-standard custom values.

Dice Roller Use Cases

  • Playing tabletop RPGs remotely without physical dice
  • Teaching probability and distribution concepts with dice
  • Generating random values for board game house rules or prototypes

Common Mistakes

  • Forgetting that this tool rolls plain dice without applying a numeric modifier — add any '+X' bonus manually to the reported sum.
  • Assuming a single roll represents the 'expected' value — individual rolls vary; only large samples approach the theoretical average.

Tips

  • Use the custom sides option for house-rule dice, like a d3 or d100, that aren't part of the standard set.
  • Roll several dice at once and use the sum for RPG stat generation instead of rolling one at a time.

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