YakiSauce

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   by YakiSauce 3y ago

   Ooof sorry about that load time. I had been monitoring the site for most of the day and it seemed to be holding up pretty well. It was probably under a fair bit of load because of this post. Or maybe it happened to be while I was doing a
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   by YakiSauce 3y ago

   Thanks for checking it out and for the feedback! Definitely agreed that map creation would be nice - something I'd like to get to.
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   by YakiSauce 3y ago

   Thanks so much to everyone for all the feedback and great comments. It's been really great reading through them all If anyone's interested in following along as I keep building Diceright, I just set up a discord server: https:&#
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   by YakiSauce 3y ago

   For us, we'd definitely prefer to play in person if we could. But like you mentioned, geography can be a real restriction. The times we have managed to play in person have been great.
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   by YakiSauce 3y ago

   Thanks! Appreciate that
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   by YakiSauce 3y ago

   Wow, great feedback. Thanks! Someone else suggested something similar about the main menu and the right sidebar. I can't quite picture what that would look like but I'll definitely experiment with it. And on merging the left and
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   by YakiSauce 3y ago

   Interesting ideas. I'll take a look at how those would feel. Thanks for the feedback!
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   by YakiSauce 3y ago

   Thanks! Appreciate the kind words
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   by YakiSauce 3y ago

   Thanks for taking a look! So one of my goals with Diceright was to make it as welcoming as possible to new players (not really an easy task given how complex DnD is). To that end, I wanted to make it easy to sign on and get started, right
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    by YakiSauce 3y ago

    Thats a really interesting question. When I first started playing DnD the thing I loved the most was the combat. Loved the mechanics and loved that it was basically a big complex board game. Over time, I have started moving more towards t
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    by YakiSauce 3y ago

    Yeah, you make a good point. Definitely something I've thought about. When I started working on Diceright, DnD Beyond hadn't even been acquired by Wizards yet, so a lot has changed in relatively short time. That being said, the
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    by YakiSauce 3y ago

    Totally makes sense - different groups are different and whatever works for your group, works. With Diceright (and Im sure with other VTTs), my goal was to help streamline certain aspects of the game so players can focus on the fun stuff.
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    by YakiSauce 3y ago

    Yeah, DnD is a weird one and it's hard to describe because it's really not like much else. I like to say it's one part shared storytelling and one part complex board game, but I do think you're right that in the end it&
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    by YakiSauce 3y ago

    Great question. So far, I've just been doing this myself as a side project so I haven't spent much time thinking through how I would or could monetize it (open to suggestions on that). That being said, I think eventually, it wou
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    by YakiSauce 3y ago

    Hey yeah, totally sensible question - wish I had a better answer. Unfortunately there isn't a great way to transfer an ongoing campaign. That's one of the main issues with getting folks to try out new virtual tabletops - there&#
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    by YakiSauce 3y ago

    Hmmm yeah that's a good point. The site does work pretty well on mobile but I didn't make any mobile videos. I'll put that on my todo list. Thanks for the feedback! And if you do get a chance to check it out on desktop, I&
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    by YakiSauce 3y ago

    Thanks! Man, so many things. I think maybe the hardest thing was really getting into the weeds of all the class/race features and modeling them all in a way that made sense to the user and would 'just work'. There are featur
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    Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons(diceright.com)

    395 points by YakiSauce 3y ago|115 comments
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    by YakiSauce 15y ago

    New York. Full Time. Sales Position. Wholeshare is a web startup making local and organic food more accessible to everyone. We help people who live or work near each other organize into groups, which buy directly from wholesale natural foo
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    by YakiSauce 16y ago

    In defense of Cucumber, I've been a rails developer for more than 2 years and I still find it easier to read English than Ruby. I think the extra layer of abstraction is well worth the effort when reading over other people's tests.
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    by YakiSauce 16y ago

    "In Defense of Food" - Just finished. "Long Walk to Freedom" - Currently reading. "Good to Great" - Up next.
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    by YakiSauce 16y ago

    Make username on log in not case-sensitive. I just spent a while trying to log in because I didnt realize I needed to capitalize my username. I don't think its possible to create two usernames that differ only in capitalization, so Im no