Coyt D. Watters wrote: > I have a dice roller, just normal dice for the PALM. Not quite as complex as > my dated GMCALC which handled a lot of gaming systems, but ok. > > http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/9565/dicepro.htm You're the second person to point me to that, so clearly most rational die rolling needs are met. > The problem I am having with MOST dice rollers (and almost has driven me to > update GMCALC) is Sanguine's IRONCLAW system, where [....] Eek. > For a palm, it'd be nice if the dice results could be beamed via the IRDA to > another palm. That way, for an opposed roll, the GM and player could both > "roll" then beam the results to each other's device. Picky/paranoid GMs might want a timestamp and a type of role description. :-) > As a GM, I'd like a resettable countdown timer, where I can give the players 10- > 30 seconds to make a decision - like a chess clock. But, I'd also like a > device for counting "game time" which could track several events, and give > alarms as needed - the GM would determine when a "time event (tick)" takes > place - so we could resolve combat round 1, TICK the clock, which might > decrease the time remaining on a spell, the amount of O2 left in the room, the > timer on a bomb, etc. That is pretty cool. I guess you could have some sort of geometric increase or decrease option in addition to simple + or - an amount for each event. > I've been eyeing a handful of different Palm SDKs, but (not to start a holy > war) with seeing the market share drifting towards the fatter WINce/Porkette > Windows, thinking maybe I should develop that direction. If you want market share, the answer is Java, surprisingly enough: http://www.javamobiles.com/ Even the new iPaq 3800 series is shipping with a Java VM: http://www.compaq.com/products/quickspecs/10977_na/10977_na.HTML The Java used by some phones looks particularly promising as a lot more people carry phones than PDAs. Steve -- http://www.stevebarr.com I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room. _Farewell, my Lovely_, Raymond Chandler ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
