Rolling more dice without summing up

Hello, I want to roll something like 3*(1d4 + 1) without summing up, e.g. a mage is firing three magic missiles on three different targets and I want to have the damage result for every missile in one roll. I played around but could not find any solution. The background is a roll template for the magic missile spell that gives the result by using the casterlevel-attributes to determine the number of missiles and their damage. My workarround is to have the damage output making x separate dice rolls. This means I have to edit the macro if the player levels up. Thank you for your help, Moriz

This might be of interest to you Moriz D&D 5e - Universal Cantrip Formula (Works, just not with rolls) basically; Brian said: When calculating the number of dice to roll, round(x) is automatically applied to the formula. Therefore, you can use [[((x + 1) / 6 + 0.5)d4]] for example, to roll the appropriate number of d4s. This is consistent with your supposition for extending the level to 30, too. =)

&{template:default} {{name=Magic Missile: ***[Link]( <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/m/magic-missile)***" rel="nofollow">http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/m/magic-missile)***</a>} } {{Range:=[[130]] *ft*}} {{Area:=*Target*}} {{Duration:=*Instant*}} {{SpellResist:=[[1d20+3[Caster Level]]}} &{template:default} {{name=Effect}}{{Dart1:=[[1d4+1]]}}{{Dart2:=[[1d4+1]]}}{{Dart3:=[[1d4+1]]}} Looks like hell to read, but results in: Note: Forum formatting breaks the [Link] URL, so don't copy that exactly. If you want a much simpler approach, just use a plain macro where you roll it three times. /me shoots bolts of magical energy out of his arse! SpellResist: [[1d20+3]] Bolt1: [[1d4+1]] Bolt2: [[1d4+1]] Bolt3: [[1d4+1]]

I set up the roll template as Mark has posted. Calculating the number of darts by casterlevel (to a max of 5 even if you are level 20) works the same way as the dex-modifier to AC in the character sheet taking in concern the dex-max of the armor. What I want to avoid is repeating the damage roll in a static way. Maybe the API can help ...?

Yeah, if you're willing to use the API, you could do something like: var cmd = "&{template:default} {{name=Magic Missile}}"; for (var i = 0; i &lt; NUM_MISSILES; i++){ cmd += " {{missile" + i + "=[[1d4+1]]}}"; } sendChat("Enchanter Tim", cmd); where NUM_MISSILES is set/computed elsewhere in the script.

Actually, you could probably do better than that: &{template:default} {{name=Magic Missile}} {{missile1=[[{{(@{casterlevel}/2)d1cf0cs2, 0d0}kh1, 1d1cf0cs2}kl1*(1d4+1)]]}} {{missile2=[[{{(@{casterlevel}/2-1)d1cf0cs2, 0d0}kh1, 1d1cf0cs2}kl1*(1d4+1)]]}} {{missile3=[[{{(@{casterlevel}/2-2)d1cf0cs2, 0d0}kh1, 1d1cf0cs2}kl1*(1d4+1)]]}} ... The missiles that are above the current caster level will all give 0, the others will give 1d1*(1d4+1). If you don't care about max/min highlighting, you can do away with the "cf0cs2" on the d1 "rolls," which will highlight all the rolls blue (because 1 is both min and max on 1d1).

thank you manveti. this really helped.