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Multiple Separate Rolls at once?

So as a GM using d20, I often find myself dealing with large groups of opposition and need to make a lot of separate rolls for attacks/saves/what-have-you, and for the life of me I can't seem to find how to do it. Say, for example, I have five goblins making ranged attacks. Some have to shoot around cover (taking penalties) and some don't. Logically, I would perform something along the lines of /roll 1d20+6, 1d20+6, 1d20+2, 1d20+2, 1d20+2 with, say, commas or semicolons or something separating the individual rolls. But for the life of me I can't seem to find a way to do it. Am I missing something? Or is this just not an option in Roll20?
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Gauss
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What you are trying to do is not currently possible. Here are a couple alternatives: Assuming you are typing it in the chat box Shift+Enter will put each roll on a separate line. If you are making a macro you can also put them on separate lines.  Example for chat box: /roll 1d20+6 <shift+enter> /roll 1d20+6 <shift+enter> etc... Alternately, if the person you are attacking has an AC of 15 you could do this: /roll {1d20+6, 1d20+6, 1d20+2, 1d20+2, 1d20+2}>15 - Gauss
The separate line thing is a perfect fit for what I was hoping for, thanks Gauss.
Gauss said: What you are trying to do is not currently possible. Here are a couple alternatives: Assuming you are typing it in the chat box Shift+Enter will put each roll on a separate line. If you are making a macro you can also put them on separate lines.  Example for chat box: /roll 1d20+6 <shift+enter> /roll 1d20+6 <shift+enter> etc... Alternately, if the person you are attacking has an AC of 15 you could do this: /roll {1d20+6, 1d20+6, 1d20+2, 1d20+2, 1d20+2}>15 - Gauss Oh hey, both those examples are very handy! Thanks! I didn't know you could do multiple lines in the chat box like that.  I really need to play with that thing more often. :)
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Yup, you should always play with things to figure out how they work. :) - Gauss
A couple more ways: You could also just use the roll tool and then hit the "reroll" button a bunch of times, keeps you from having to type "/roll" over and over. I usually make abilities for my monsters so I just click the macro multiple times.  This is mainly useful for preplanned "module" style of campaigns where you already know all your encounters far in advance and are willing to spend the time to set it up. If you're rolling the same thing a bunch of times you can press the up arrow to retype the last thing you just typed, so you could do /roll 1d20+2, up, enter, up, enter, up, enter...etc. to quickly reroll the same thing.  If it's all d20 rolls you can quickly change the last number if you need to as well. If you're really desperate for another option there's always Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V =). Hope that helps!