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Source: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/real-dice-roll-app


Bizarre new DnD fan site will roll your D20 for you, live on camera

This hilarious DnD DIY dice project combines digital convenience with
physical clickity clacks, and the rolls are already in the thousands!



Gab Hernandez


Dungeons and Dragons has attracted some of the most passionate and
talented nerds on the planet. All the wonderful fan art and
ever-expanding homebrew campaigns are proof of that creative spark.
Sometimes, these projects may even fulfill a niche that no DnD fan
thought they needed before. Realdice.org is one such project, and it's a
blast to play with.

Created by u/Lazy_Hovercraft_420 on Reddit, Realdice.org is yet another
DnD dice rolling app. While these apps are a dime a dozen, what makes Realdice.org stand out is that it's a digital app that actually rolls a physical die. The creator has a 24/7 camera trained on a 20-sided die,
which users can roll at any time through the website.

What makes the project so charming to me is how jank the setup is. It's
a basic $10 dice roller placed on some random desk with very visible
wires. At peak hours, the dice essentially never stop rolling, which
makes it a poor app for use in actual campaigns. I thankfully managed
to capture my Nat 20 roll before it was unceremoniously replaced by a
meager seven.

Personally, I find the overcomplication of a physical dice roll a real
rib tickler. I've never been one for dice rollers, towers, and
what-have-you, but I can't deny how fun they are to play with. I always appreciate the passion DnD fans have for the game, especially with silly little projects like this.

The creator continues to improve upon the concept, such as increasing
video resolution and framerate. The site is rather stable now, so if
you feel like killing a few minutes, give the app a few rolls. As of
this writing, the app has rolled 18,700 times. Yours truly was the
18,700th roll.

The less said about that roll, the better.

In the market for a new DnD party? The Wargamer Discord has plenty of dice-rolling DnD fans to talk to. If you'd rather stay on top of DnD
releases, the DnD release schedule should get you caught up.
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On 9/25/2025 11:48 AM, Kyonshi wrote:

Source: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/real-dice-roll-app

Bizarre new DnD fan site will roll your D20 for you, live on camera

This hilarious DnD DIY dice project combines digital convenience with physical clickity clacks, and the rolls are already in the thousands!

I'm not sure why this is hilarious.


In the late 70's I had a little plastic 'die roller' basically a clicker
thing on the bottom that you'd press and it would pop the dice up into
the air inside. It had 2 tiny d6s in it. I used that a bit just
because I thought it was fun, also handy to bring with me, and I
remember using it with the fighting fantasy books later.

I may still have that somewhere, or it may have been stolen with my
figure and die collection in the 90's.

As to this, I'm not sure how it's any better than having roll 20 roll
for you if you're playing online. I suppose because it's actually
random vs. computer generated rng?
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On 9/26/2025 4:08 PM, Justisaur wrote:

On 9/25/2025 11:48 AM, Kyonshi wrote:

Source: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/real-dice-roll-app


Bizarre new DnD fan site will roll your D20 for you, live on camera

This hilarious DnD DIY dice project combines digital convenience with
physical clickity clacks, and the rolls are already in the thousands!

I'm not sure why this is hilarious.

In the late 70's I had a little plastic 'die roller' basically a clicker thing on the bottom that you'd press and it would pop the dice up into
the air inside.-a It had 2 tiny d6s in it.-a I used that a bit just
because I thought it was fun, also handy to bring with me, and I
remember using it with the fighting fantasy books later.

I may still have that somewhere, or it may have been stolen with my
figure and die collection in the 90's.

As to this, I'm not sure how it's any better than having roll 20 roll
for you if you're playing online.-a I suppose because it's actually
random vs. computer generated rng?

I think the main idea is to have actually built something like that.
There is no actual need for it, it's just the joy of weird machinery.
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