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Spiral Dice Hackers’ Guide
A dice-design toolkit explaining symbol probabilities, narrative checks and random generators.
Directory entry · Jon Kohlingen
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- Tool or service
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- Edition
- 2022
- Rules licence
- CC BY 4.0
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What is it about?
Jon Kohlingen is the name printed in Spiral Games’ nineteen-page 2022 Spiral Dice Hackers’ Guide. It is a toolkit for building games, distinct from the complete Sapio system.
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At the table
Roll custom twelve-sided dice in pools and tally Hits, Spare and Spiral. The guide explores target numbers, complications and alternative uses; cancelling Spare against Spiral is a design assumption that creators may change.
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The guide expressly licences its text and specified dice symbols/digital representations under CC BY 4.0.
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Include the prescribed Spiral Games/Spiral Dice attribution, CC BY 4.0 link and change indications. Commercial use of covered text/symbols is allowed. Artwork is excluded, and the author separately requires written permission to produce or resell physical Spiral Dice. Do not treat downloadable layouts or a free tool as unrestricted permission for all art, branding or physical merchandise.