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I've been toying with the idea of using The Awesome System on his very website. However, the unusual dice-rolling system has got me a bit stumped. (it's surmised here). Basically what i'm asking is "how do I get rolld20 to roll xde6 explosive dice, choosing the highest combinaiton of rolls?" the formula needs to A) account for exploding dice and B) pick the highets roll, with explosing die combining together. Any ideas?
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Pat S.
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Exploding dice use the ! behind the die "1d6!" <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Dice_Reference#Exploding_D" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Dice_Reference#Exploding_D</a>... Keeping the highest die uses k behind the die "1d6k" <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Dice_Reference#Drop.2FKeep" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Dice_Reference#Drop.2FKeep</a> Now combining only the exploding roll is not possible that I am aware of with the normal dice engine at this time. I believe you would need to have an API (mentor level feature) script that would combine the exploding dice.
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Finderski
Plus
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Compendium Curator
So, this worked: /r {3d6!}kh2 Is that what you mean?
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
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I was under the impression that only the exploding dice being kept but I could have been wrong.
Well if one of the dice does explode, that's the one you want to keep yes. If none of them explode, you just take the highest.
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Pat S.
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Then GV's macro example is what you are looking for. If the amount of dice varies the you want to encorporate the query function into the macro. Using my phone at the moment so the link to the page will have to wait.
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Stephen Koontz
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From the description you provided you're rolling a number of d6 that explode and add on to each other and you keep the highest. The formula would be "/r ?{Number of Dice to Roll|1}d6!!kh1". Save that as a macro and be sure to share it with all your players.