WTF : Weird Tools Files #6

I stumbled upon this article on how to kill your iPhone cool factor - if you’re not a geek, that is. I know that if I showed up for a game with a iPhone that has a dice roller on it, I’d be the coolest person in the room for at least 12 seconds.

Maybe more.

The iPhone dice roller

After a little research I found a bunch of websites talking about this dice roller. It’s great that D&D gets some publicity in the iPhone-totting in-crowd. But after reading different articles on this dice roller I get the feeling it doesn’t look as cool as the picture here suggests.

Wait! Doesn’t this look like crap?

I’m not sure how the iPhone works but the commercials seem to suggest that you can surf the web with it. If you can surf the web, why would you use the crappiest-looking dice roller on the internet? This is the webiste that is referred to as a D&D roller web-app. Maybe it fits on the iPhone screen? Maybe the dice appear on the screen like they do in the picture? Maybe there is something special that I don’t know about. Let me know if you have an iPhone.

Feel free to forget your dice

Anyhow, you can now feel free to forget your dice bag if you have an iPhone. But it never is an issue for my D&D group because everyone brings one set of dice and all the players have a binder with their character sheet, dice, pen and paper, etc.

Does anyone use online or software dice-rollers?

Let me know.