A table-top RPG utility comes to the Linux desktop and to aid the Dungeon Master!
Turn Watcher is an application designed for table-top role play games, specifically for the people who organize said gaming events. Some examples of these events include Dungeons and Dragons and d20 Modern. The idea is to organize the dice-related combat, miniatures, and a grid-based board or mat.
Turn Watcher allows the GM (game master) to input the players' characters and the imaginary monsters said players will face and then arrange them in the order of combat (usually determined by dice rolls and modifiers). But Turn Watcher does more--it keeps track of the health of all of the combatants, it allows secret checks to be made and it also has a Heads Up Display mode so the players can see the order of the action.
The application was designed by Doug Barbieri under the GNU/Linux operating system and built using GTK+ libraries. The programming language used is C++, and is based on Made to Order Software Corp's "sandbox," a cross-platform toolkit which deploys easily for multiple platforms.