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72 lines
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DiceCloud
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This is the repo for [DiceCloud](dicecloud.com).
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DiceCloud is a free, auditable, real-time character sheet for D&D 5e.
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Philosophy
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Setting up your character on DiceCloud takes a little longer than
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just filling it in on a paper character sheet would. The goal of using an
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online sheet is to make actually playing the game more streamlined, and
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ultimately more fun. So putting a little extra effort into setting up a
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character now pays off over and over again once you're playing.
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The idea is to track where each number comes from, and allow you to easily make
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changes on the fly. Let's look at a hypothetical example.
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> You need to swim through a sunken section of dungeon to fetch the quest's Thing.
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> You'll need to take off your magical Plate Armor of +1 Constitution to swim
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> without sinking, of course.
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>
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> Taking it off will take away that disadvantage on
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> stealth checks, change your armor class, your speed and your constitution, and
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> which in turn changes your hit points and your constitution saving throw.
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> Working out all those changes in the middle of a game will drag the game to a
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> halt.
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>
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> Fortunately you have DiceCloud, so it's a matter of dragging
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> your Plate Armor +1 Con from your "equipment" box to your "backpack" box and
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> you're done. Your hitpoints change correctly, your saving throws are up to date,
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> your armor class goes back to reflecting the fact that you have natural armor
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> from being a dragonborn. Your character sheet keeps up and you
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> ultimately get more time to play the game. Huzzah!
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Getting started
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Running DiceCloud locally, either to host it yourself away from an internet
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connection, or to contribute to developing it further, is fairly
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straightforward and it should work on Linux, Windows, and Mac.
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You'll need to have installed:
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- [git](https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/install-git)
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- [Meteor](https://www.meteor.com/install)
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- [Bower](https://bower.io/)
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Then, it's just a matter of cloning this repository into a folder, installing the bower dependencies and running
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`meteor` in the app directory.
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`git clone https://github.com/ThaumRystra/DiceCloud dicecloud`
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`cd dicecloud`
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`cd app`
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`bower install`
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`meteor`
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You should see this:
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```
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=> Started proxy.
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=> Started MongoDB.
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=> Started your app.
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=> App running at: http://localhost:3000/
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```
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Now, visiting http://localhost:3000/ should show you an empty instance of
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DiceCloud running.
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