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To save time running a game I thought it might be handy to have a pre-generated list of die rolls to use during encounters. A spreadsheet like Excel seems to be an ideal place to do this, but my knowledge of this type of app is sorely lacking in just how to do this.

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[–] Uprise42@artemis.camp -2 points 2 years ago

I’m not sure about a formula but you can use Visual Basic to make a random number generator for a bunch of rolls and place those values in an array and then place the array in the appropriate cells.

I can’t tell you exactly how to do
This as I haven’t used excel or Visual Basic in a while and never actually linked them together myself. I don’t know if you can even do it for free as I think visual studio costs money, though that may show how long I’ve been away from that side.

I can say you can also do the same as what I describe above using Google Sheets and App Scripts in probably 20 lines of code. I am more fluent with those and I think it would be pretty easy even if you don’t know how to code.