Community Forums: Is there a way to show when you roll doubles/triples/quads etc?

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Can I show this in a macro? I know I can just check the hover over but I was hoping to put in some special text on a triple roll.  The case in question: there is a system that has you roll 3d6, and something unexpected happens if all 3 d6 come up as the same number, the number that actually gets you the triple does not matter.

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GiGs

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Do you just check for matches, or do you use the dice in another way too (like counting the total)? If you just check for matches, you can use Dice Matching . Examples: /roll 3d6mt /roll ?{How many Dice?|1}d6mt /roll @{strength}d6mt /roll @{selected|strength}d6mt

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Elijah C.

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Ah yes the total also matters. The flavor is that its an experimental movement system, the 3d6 total is to determine the range of a teleport every time you use it. On a triple match you disappear for the rest of the fight.

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GiGs

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You can use 3d6m (instead of 3d6mt) which will put a bar above dice that match, and report the total. So you'll be able to see at a glance if you get 3 matches.

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Elijah C.

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Ok, it took a minute but I finally got a triple, unfortunately I still need the hover-over to see that its a triple. I'm clearing the color outlines for critical success/failure, does that interfere with the bar you mentioned? EDIT:  I turned the colors back on and it doesnt seem to matter, I still have to hover over to see triples

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keithcurtis

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Can't be done as a direct whisper, but it can be done as a regular roll or a gm roll, since that will allow you to drop the inline brackets: /gmroll 3d6mcf<0cs<0

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Elijah C.

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Huh, I never noticed that [[roll]] and /roll were that different... thats really annoying tbh.  Its even more annoying that there's no default "self whisper roll" command equivalent to the /gmroll. That's an answer though, thanks!

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keithcurtis

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[[roll]] is an Inline Roll, while /roll and /gmroll are broad roll commands. /roll shows all the details openly as you can see, whereas the Inline Roll lets you treat the result as a number, for further mathematical or text parsing possibilities. Each has their uses, but I agree that adding /meroll or similar would fill in a missing gap.

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Elijah C.

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Now I just have to figure out a way to call a macro when a triple match occurs... I'm not hopeful since there's no conditional logic to work with

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GiGs

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It's impossible, without the API. All you can do is run the macro manually when you see a triple match occurs.

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Elijah C.

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I wish there was a way to add a critical success/failure message, also a matched dice message, oh well

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Aranador

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OK, so, you could make a properly weighted table, and produce results that way, but otherwise you'd be looking into API stuff.

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Danii

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there's this /talktomyself which disconnects your chatentries from the server, so no one will see them. you could make a macro like: /talktomyself  /roll 1d6 /talktomyself  only thing is if you want to use apiscripts. that wouldn't work cause the api runs on the server and won't see the roll either. 

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Elijah C.

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I would make a table but I'm not the game creator. That's another thing I wish was available lol, general player built rollable tables

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Is there a way to show when you roll doubles/triples/quads etc?