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About

JDice rolls dice. A simple yet rich language allows to express several kinds of roll schemes, including any dice type, rerolling, selecting highest/lowest, counting, etc.

JDice is intended for:

game designers who need help to put up balanced systems
dice servers developers who want something beyond d20+2 and 2d6
power-gamers who thrive to optimize their characters/army
gamers fed up with rolling dice (whatever it takes to make a world)

Documentation

There is a JDice User Guide in PDF format. The JDice shell has a builtin help system.

Download

JDice is written in Java and requires a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with the Java Development Kit (JDK) version 5 or higher. You can get one from Sun or GNU. It is built upon the external libraries JLine and JFreeChart. Both are included in the JDice distribution.

The last version of JDice is 0.2rc.

JDice is distributed under the BSD license

Binary distribution

A standalone binary JAR file is available at sourceforge, all external libraries are embedded so it requires nothing else than the Java Virtual Machine. This will work on any platform supported by the JVM; for instance the Sun JVM is available on Windows and Linux.

Download the standalone JAR