We at The Gauntlet are unabashed fans of the story game Cheat Your Own Adventure.

We at The Gauntlet are unabashed fans of the story game Cheat Your Own Adventure.

We at The Gauntlet are unabashed fans of the story game Cheat Your Own Adventure. Remember when you read those Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid and would keep your thumb in the spot where you had to make a decision so just in case it was the wrong one you could come back? Well, imagine a simple story game like that… Anyway, we are putting together a collection of story starters for the game and we would love your pitches!

Head over to http://tinyurl.com/Gauntlet-CYOA. There you will see a folder of examples pulled from our monthly zine Codex, the actual pdf with the rules for the game (which fit on half a page), and a form for submitting your pitch. The entries in the example folder will give you a good idea of what you’d eventually end up writing. (Likely 250-500 words (you’ll be paid $0.05/word if we use your submission)) The form is just for your initial pitch – a one-line idea and a few quick categorization questions. Feel free to put in as many pitches as you’d like. Once we’re ready we’ll get in touch with you if we’re interested in having you write up and submit your full scenario.

Roll For Your Party (https://rollforyour.party) has gotten a pretty major update and a few minor ones:

Roll For Your Party (https://rollforyour.party) has gotten a pretty major update and a few minor ones:

Originally shared by Shane Liebling

Roll For Your Party (https://rollforyour.party) has gotten a pretty major update and a few minor ones:

* New dice graphics!!! Jesse Ross graciously created amazing SVGs for all of the dice (including all the DCC funky dice!)

* Jesse also created a new token image as well – now when you double click it a black circle shows on it instead of it turning white. (Though there is a checkbox to do the white token thing if you want.)

* The color of the arbitrary-size dice (XdY) will now match the rest of the dice.

* Fixed a bug where sizing for added images wasn’t respected.

As always, if you have any issues or feature requests, head over to https://github.com/shanel/roller/issues

https://rollforyour.party/

Roll For Your Party (https://rollforyour.party) has gotten a few updates:

Roll For Your Party (https://rollforyour.party) has gotten a few updates:

Originally shared by Shane Liebling

Roll For Your Party (https://rollforyour.party) has gotten a few updates:

* Clocks!!! For all you fans of countdown clocks (I’m looking at you scoundrels skulking around in the dark!) we’ve got 4/6/8/threat clocks – give them a title and then double-click (ie reroll) to advance them and long press to decrement them.

* Speaking of rerolling… If you hold down shift while selecting things it will prevent you from accidentally rerolling anything.

* Even more rerolling news: the button is now green! (I got feedback that people didn’t use it because they didn’t notice it.)

* Added a visible count of the tokens out on the “table.”

As always, if you have any issues or feature requests, head over to https://github.com/shanel/roller/issues

https://rollforyour.party/

Roll For Your Party (https://rollforyour.party/) has gotten a few updates and bug fixes:

Roll For Your Party (https://rollforyour.party/) has gotten a few updates and bug fixes:

Roll For Your Party (https://rollforyour.party/) has gotten a few updates and bug fixes:

You can add arbitrary images to the room – they act just like dice and cards.

There is now a button to roll XdY – it’ll output just like the Funky dice do.

Fixed a bug where custom sets would include a blank member.

As always, if you have any issues or feature requests, head over to https://github.com/shanel/roller/issues

https://rollforyour.party/

Roll For Your Party (that dice roller thingy) has been updated in a variety of ways to improve your dice rolling…

Roll For Your Party (that dice roller thingy) has been updated in a variety of ways to improve your dice rolling…

Roll For Your Party (that dice roller thingy) has been updated in a variety of ways to improve your dice rolling (and card drawing) experience:

* Minor UI improvements and bugfixes.

* Support for funky/weird dice from DCC. (Though no custom images… yet.)

* Double-clicking (ie rerolling) tokens will set them to the color white, doing it again will set them back.

* Double clicking the labels for inputs (eg “d6” or “tokens”) will get you a single one of those.

* Move multiple selected things as a group. (Long press on the last selection (the one you move the group with) if you happen to want them all to end up in a single stack. Then click “reveal selected” (if what you selected wasn’t hidden) or “hide selected” (if it was hidden) to deselect the stack.)

As always if you spot bugs or have feature requests, hit up https://github.com/shanel/roller/issues

https://rollforyour.party/

Roll For Your Party (that online multi-user dice rolling thing) has been updated in a variety of ways to improve…

Roll For Your Party (that online multi-user dice rolling thing) has been updated in a variety of ways to improve…

Roll For Your Party (that online multi-user dice rolling thing) has been updated in a variety of ways to improve your dice rolling (and card drawing) experience:

* Color choices stick: now when you choose Orange as your die color it will stay that way until you change it again.

* Choose to have dice sorted or not.

* Custom sets (ie custom decks/pools): Have a set of images you’d like to use as a randomized deck? (Tarot cards perhaps? (https://gist.github.com/shanel/e8e1e41f7a92c6a89172ccb7643eff4e)) Make a list of all the urls to those images and paste it into the form!

* Hidden draws: When pulling cards from the playing card deck or custom sets you can choose to have them only visible to you until you explicitly select and reveal them. (Yes, you can re-hide a selected card too.)

* You can save the previous roll’s inputs.

* Modifiers are now a thing.

*Fixed a bug where extra Aces would show up in a re-shuffled deck.

Coming soon: screencasts covering how to use all of the site’s functionality and how to use the site to help you play +Paul Czege’s The Clay That Woke.

https://rollforyour.party

Updates to my real-time-watch-everyone-roll-and-move-things-around online dice rolling app Roll For Your Party:

Updates to my real-time-watch-everyone-roll-and-move-things-around online dice rolling app Roll For Your Party:

Updates to my real-time-watch-everyone-roll-and-move-things-around online dice rolling app Roll For Your Party:

* Now supports open (ie not hidden) playing card draws (no jokers though)

* Safety Tools! Buttons for using John Stavropoulos​’ X-Card and Brie Sheldon​’s Script Change tools

* Double click already rolled dice to reroll them

* Set a background image (great for maps or play mats)

* See totals of last rolled dice and of all dice on the table

So I made a thing…

So I made a thing…

So I made a thing…

It’s a dice roller that creates a custom URL for your “room.” You can then send that to the friends you are playing with and you can all watch/use the same dice at the same time… You can move the dice around real-time, group them, delete some or all of them, reroll some of them, etc. (It should make playing games like Dogs in the Vineyard and In A Wicked Age easier…)

It is still very much in beta, so if you run into issues, take a look at https://github.com/shanel/roller/issues to see if your problem is there, and if not log it!

If you get some use out of the site please consider making a donation to http://www.shantibhavanchildren.org/

Happy rolling!

https://rollforyour.party/