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Hook for manual dice rolling

I'm wondering if there's something in the built-in die roll routine (or a way we can hook in, to code it ourselves) similar to what exists in Foundry -- where a player could be prompted to simply enter the value they rolled on a physical die, mid-calculation. For example: If the "manual roll" option was enabled, the player could click the longbow attack, and be prompted for the d20 "to hit" roll, before getting the final result with plusses and minuses, etc, calculated in... Same with the d8 damage roll if they hit... Yes, I have players in love with their physical dice collections... and I could always disable the option if their rolls were suspiciously convenient... ;) Another question, and I should probably post this separately, but it's somewhat related: Is there a way we can force Roll20 to re-initialize its random number generator?  Because yes, it's a (VERY) old topic, and the Roll20 folks are defensive... but we DO get suspicious of long strings of crap rolls (or long strings of "can never miss" rolls, for that matter), and having some way of "re-randomizing" would be nice...
Roll20 Tricks & Tips thread:  Use Manual/In-Person Rolls Within Roll20 (D&D 5E)
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Moosey Jo said: Another question, and I should probably post this separately, but it's somewhat related: Is there a way we can force Roll20 to re-initialize its random number generator?  Because yes, it's a (VERY) old topic, and the Roll20 folks are defensive... but we DO get suspicious of long strings of crap rolls (or long strings of "can never miss" rolls, for that matter), and having some way of "re-randomizing" would be nice... Baldur's Gate 3 uses an approach like this, called "Karmic Dice", which like Apple's iTunes shuffle feature, is designed to dispose of randomness in favor of what "feels" more random. It's a very divisive topic.
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Moosey Jo said: I'm wondering if there's something in the built-in die roll routine (or a way we can hook in, to code it ourselves) similar to what exists in Foundry -- where a player could be prompted to simply enter the value they rolled on a physical die, mid-calculation. I don't believe there's a way to do that exactly. but you can enter anything in chat, like "I rolled 13" and include calculations, "I roll [[13+7[my attack bonus] ]]"