@2toad/d20

d20

A magic bag of JavaScript dice (with TypeScript support)

Getting Started

Install package

npm i @2toad/d20

Usage

import { d20 } from '@2toad/d20';
// or
var d20 = require('@2toad/d20');

d20.roll('1d20');

API

Methods

roll(notation: string): number

• Rolls NdX specified dice
• Where N is the number of dice, and X is the number of sides each die has
• Returns the sum of the resulting rolls

// roll one 20-sided die
d20.roll('1d20');
// Possible results: 1-20

// roll four 6-sided dice
d20.roll('4d6');
// Possible results: 4-24

dice(notation: string): number[]

Same as roll(), except the result of each die roll is returned in an array

// roll one 20-sided die
d20.dice('1d20');
// Possible results: [1-20]

// roll four 6-sided dice
d20.dice('4d6');
// Possible results: [1-6, 1-6, 1-6, 1-6]