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More compact dice rolling layout in chat

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Dan W.
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I know this has been suggested before, but I'd like to bump the idea again. I also know that inline rolls exist, but I can't get my players to always use them. So, it would be great to have an intermediate option for viewing dice rolls between the regular dice rolls and the inline dice rolling view. Something that the DM can control. To this end here are some suggestions. I'm not aware of how difficult any of these are to implement so apologies if these are unreasonable: Have a checkbox in settings tab or campaign settings for 'compact dice roll view'. That would implement some of the following ideas Simply stop putting everything on 3 lines. Allow for the 3 pieces of information ( who rolled, dice quantity & face ) + ( individual dice ) + ( summation and high-entropy/Quantum symbol ) to immediately follow each other. For simple dice rolls this would be a great space saver. In conjunction with 2. If possible, put the high-entropy/Quantum symbol behind the sum rather than to the left. In conjunction with 2. Stop using the word 'rolling' in the first line. Is it not obvious that's what is happening? In conjunction with 2. If no die font symbol is going to be put behind the individual die roll (or when rolling >50 dice) can the numbers be compressed together? Then if 'Enable advanced dice' in Settings is unchecked, things will be pulled together a bit more. Allow the user to choose which of the 3 pieces of information they would like to show. Perhaps they don't care about #dice+die face or individual dice. If that can be done, can a user also choose to show only their image without their name or vice versa?
Have you tried the in-line dice rolling format? [[7d10>7]] produces a single number not much bigger than a bolded number showing the number of successes rolled on seven dice, or [[1d20+7]] will give you a random number between 8 and 27 right there in chat. You can mouse-over the number to see the exact die rolls, formula, and such, and it will be bordered by a color in the case of min or max rolls to indicate if something special might have happened (although for expanded crit range weapons in systems like Pathfinder you'll probably still need to mouse-over to see if you rolled a threat). It works great in my games.