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joshuaandClaude Opus 5.5 8811f14732 V1.26.0: dice that tumble, rolled by the server, seen by the DM

- Each die is drawn as its own shape, tumbles in and lands on its result;
  a natural 20 glows, a natural 1 shakes; respects reduced motion
- In a campaign the server makes every digital roll and keeps it
- The DM sees each roll as it lands: an "Everyone's rolls" tab in the
  roller, a pop-up beside the dice button, and a list on the encounter page
- Players see everyone's rolls or only their own, by the campaign setting;
  the DM can roll hidden
- Physical dice are typed in, one box per die, and checked; with "both",
  each person chooses in the roller
- game/dice.js: parsing, rolling, checking typed dice, critical damage

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-10-12 08:46:22 +02:00

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Campaign Settings

Each campaign has its own settings. The DM changes them on the campaign page under Campaign Settings → Edit, and players read them but can't change them. They are columns on the Campaign row (backend/prisma/schema.prisma), returned with the campaign by GET /campaigns/:id, and changed with PATCH /campaigns/:id (DM only). A world seed can set any of them (SEEDS.md).

Changing a setting never rewrites what already happened. For example, turning XP tracking off keeps everyone's XP; it just stops showing it.

Characters

Setting	Default	What it does
`startingGold`	0	Gold every new character starts with.
`startingItemCount`	0	How many starting weapons and items (together) the builder lets a character take.
`startingSpellCount`	0	How many starting spells the builder lets a character take.
`abilityScoreMethod`	`ROLL_4D6`	How the builder makes the six scores: `ROLL_4D6` (roll 4d6 and drop the lowest, six times, then place them), `STANDARD_ARRAY` (place 15, 14, 13, 12, 10 and 8), or `POINT_BUY` (every score starts at 8 and is raised with 27 points, to 15 at most).
`skipMotivationRoll`	off	Leaves the motivation step out of the builder.
`subclassesEnabled`	on	Characters choose a subclass. Off: each class follows its first subclass, unasked and unnamed.
`multiclassEnabled`	off	On a level up, a character may take the level in another class whose ability requirements they meet.
`maxEquipped` / `maxEquippedWeapons`	2 / 1	How much a character can have equipped at once, and how much of it can be weapons.

Dice and rolls

Setting	Default	What it does
`diceMode`	`BOTH`	`DIGITAL`: the app rolls every die. `PHYSICAL`: everyone rolls real dice and types in what they show (the server checks each value is on the die). `BOTH`: either. In the builder each character picks one before their first roll; in the dice roller each person ticks "I roll real dice" when they want to. It covers the builder, the dice roller and the hit point roll on a level up.
`rollVisibility`	`ALL`	Who sees a roll made in the dice roller. `ALL`: everyone sees every roll. `OWN`: a player sees only their own rolls. The DM always sees every roll, and can roll hidden either way.
`hideMonsterRolls`	on	The DM's rolls for monsters and NPCs stay hidden from players until they are put into play.

Combat

Setting	Default	What it does
`autoRollMonsters`	off	When a monster's turn comes up in a battle, the server picks its target, rolls the attack and the damage, and offers the result to the DM to accept, change or throw out.
`autoRollNpcs`	off	The same for NPCs. Friendly NPCs attack monsters; hostile ones attack the party.
`showMonsterHp`	on	Players see the exact HP of monsters and NPCs. Off: they see a health bar.
`critRule`	`DOUBLE_DICE`	What a critical hit does to damage. `DOUBLE_DICE`: the damage dice are rolled twice. `MAX_PLUS_ROLL`: the dice count at their maximum, plus one roll of them.
`areaAttackAcPenalty`	2	In an attack on several targets, each target's AC counts this much higher for every target after the first. 0 turns it off.

Progression

Setting	Default	What it does
`trackXp`	on	Experience points are kept: on the sheets, awarded after encounters, with "level up due" shown. Off (milestone levelling): no XP is shown or awarded, and the DM decides when the party levels.
`hpOnLevelUp`	`AVERAGE`	How maximum HP grows on a level up. `AVERAGE`: the hit die's average, rounded up, plus Constitution. `ROLL`: a roll of the hit die plus Constitution.

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