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I was trying to roll first 2d6 on exploding and then 8d6 on exploding so I could see each individual die.  When I was rolling 2d6 I got a range of 2 to 6d6 and when i was trying to roll 8d6 it ranged from 8 to 12d6 every time.  More often than not it was over the number of dice i was looking for.

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Scott C.

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what syntax were you using? The exploding dice can themselves explode, so it sounds like you were getting additional explosions

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QRob001

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I used the generic option when you click on the dice symbol.  It came up, I chose the number of dice and clicked the explode button.

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Silvyre

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What is the behaviour that you were expecting? If you roll exploding dice a bunch of times, you'll inevitably come across scenarios where a 'chain' of explosions occur. If you would like to place an upper bound on the sum of exploding dice, you could do so using a keep/drop function . e.g. /r {8d6, 60 + 0d0}kl1

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QRob001

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I was expecting to roll 8d6 and see the individual rolls and not get 12d6 instead.

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Silvyre

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It sounds like, when you rolled [[ 8d6! ]], you got 4 explosions. I recommend checking out the Exploding Dice section of the Roll20 Wiki; there's even a dice roller that you can /roll 8d6! within and see that it's not uncommon for 4 or more explosions to occur.

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QRob001

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Is my understanding of the exploding incorrect.  I was thinking all it did when rolling 8d6 would show the individual rolls and not just the sum total.

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Silvyre

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Compounding Dice do sum the exploded dice; Exploding Dice do not. Is it possible that you're confusing Compounding Dice for Exploding Dice ? If you don't think this is the case, it might be helpful if you posted the roll expressions you've been referring to.

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