About BardRoll
BardRoll is a small tool for one job: making a bard's turn feel like a performance instead of a number.
At most tables the bard casts, rolls, and reads the modifier out loud. The mechanics work, but nothing is performed. The one class defined by making music is the one class whose music never actually happens.
BardRoll fills that gap. You pick the spell you are casting and the instrument you carry, then either roll in the app or type in the number you just rolled at the table. What comes back is a short performance - words and a melody - written to match all three.
The roll is the interesting part. It does not grade the result, it picks a register. A high roll writes something the party will quote for the rest of the campaign. A low roll writes something funky in a language nobody knows, and that is just as good a turn.
You can play it two ways. With a Google account your bards follow you between devices and survive a cleared cache. Or you can play on this device alone, with no account: it downloads once, works with no signal, and everything stays in that one browser - which also means it goes when the browser's data does. Neither is the lesser version, and you can move from the second to the first later without losing a bard.
It is free, and it works on the phone already in your hand at the table.
See also
owlect is a mobile-first app for cataloguing a collection: board games, vinyl, dice, whatever you have too much of.
- Collections with the fields you actually care about, rather than a fixed form somebody else designed.
- Items with photos, added from the same phone you are holding.
- Share a collection publicly by link or QR code, or keep it to yourself.
You may already have an account. BardRoll and owlect share one sign-in, so a session started here works there too - nothing to create, nothing to remember.
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