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Roll and Chat different windows?

Hello, I'm noticing in my adventure that dice rolling take a lot of space in the chat and sometimes people need to scroll up to read things that are important and need to be noticed by all. What about a separate window with the "Rolling History" that is actually a table like this: Who? Action Dice Result Total Jeremy Sneak Attack Damage 4d6+5 (4+3+1+5)+5 18 Annabel Cure moderate wounds 2d8+4 (4+6)+4 14
Not as a comment on your suggestion, but something that might help with the issue of rolls taking up a lot of space in the chat window: Have you had the opportunity to try out the inline rolls? <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Dice_Reference#Inline_Dice_Rolls" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Dice_Reference#Inline_Dice_Rolls</a>
You could write something like this with the API and have all the die rolls stored on a journal... once journal bio/gm entries are accessible to the API again. Not sure how well it would perform, but I think it would work.
Sarah A. said: Not as a comment on your suggestion, but something that might help with the issue of rolls taking up a lot of space in the chat window: Have you had the opportunity to try out the inline rolls? <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Dice_Reference#Inline_Dice_Rolls" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Dice_Reference#Inline_Dice_Rolls</a> Yes, I know about that. Thank you. But I think that separate Story telling from Dice Rolling, could be a great thing.
I would love this :) I'd make it optional, though. I think a fair few folks may be used to or prefer having rolls in the text. More options, however, is always excellent, dude!
I think this problem originates from the default dice rolling taking up so much space. Inline rolls certainly help but so many people use the dice rolling window and it clogs up the chat fast.
That is a nice idea. I would be even better if it could be implemented in a separate popup window (like Dice Roller currently is)
I would like this as an option but wouldn't want it as the standard.