About us
Real dice belong at every table
Rolling a handful of dice, feeling them tumble and watching them settle is a tactile, viscerally appealing aspect of tabletop roleplaying. Playing online usually means giving that up for a button. Rollcaster exists so you don’t have to.
What we’re building
Rollcaster is a dice tray with an overhead camera and an app that reads every die the moment it settles. The result goes wherever your game is: the other players in your shared session, your group’s Discord channel, or your virtual tabletop. Friends who don’t have a tray can follow along live with Rollcaster Eye.
It’s built around the Rollcaster rig: a round tray with a gently curved floor and a ring light with the camera at its center, held at a fixed height. Our first rig is a small-batch prototype, and it’s what the dice reading is tuned for today.
We know that making the experience of rolling physical dice for a VTT game needs to be seamless and as near perfect as possible. We're refining Rollcaster to provide exceptional quality and the features that are important to players, because we know that you want to be focused on the game, not fiddling with the tools you use to play it. Soon we will be ready to offer Rollcaster in its first production release to the tabletop gaming community and share in its continued development.
What we believe
- A wrong number is worse than a question. When Rollcaster isn’t sure about a die, it stops and asks a person. It should never quietly guess.
- Honest numbers. The accuracy ratings on our dice packs are deliberately cautious: each is the level we’re confident the dice reach, measured on rolls the pack wasn’t trained on.
- Your camera is yours. The picture stays on your computer. Rollcaster only ever connects out, never opens your computer to the internet, and shares pictures of your dice only when you turn that on. Our privacy policy has the details.
- Credit without exposure. When players share dice packs with the community, we list them as “Community Contributor” unless they ask to be named.
Where we are
Rollcaster is in early release. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and we’re working closely with a small group of tables to make every roll read right. Follow our progress on the news page, and if you’d like to be part of it, get in touch.