Rolling dice for a Ubiquity game

Ubiquity uses a dice pool mechanic where all even dice are successes.  This could also be simulated by numbers over half being successful.  they key is counting the number of successes, rather than totaling the dice.  On a PBP forum, I have simulated it by rolling "x d2 - x", this will give the number of 2s rolled out of the total. D2s do not seem available in the dice roller, so I was trying to figure out the best and easiest way for myself and my players to roll.  I do not know if a macro or API would do the job.  I know that you can roll in the dialog box, so I suppose it could be done there, but I would prefer the ability to say "roll 10 dice" and the players can do it easily and quickly.

You can count successes with the roll20 parser. If using a d6, typing /roll 6d6>4  will show you the dice, and give you the successes that are 4 or over (roll20's > operator is actually an => operator). If you type [[6d6>4]] It will just show you the successes, and you can hover your mouse over the result to see what each die rolled. You can of course replace the 6 or the 4 in the above examples with Attributes.

G G said: You can count successes with the roll20 parser. If using a d6, typing /roll 6d6>4  will show you the dice, and give you the successes that are 4 or over (roll20's > operator is actually an => operator). If you type [[6d6>4]] It will just show you the successes, and you can hover your mouse over the result to see what each die rolled. You can of course replace the 6 or the 4 in the above examples with Attributes. Which also means you can do: /r xd2>2 Where x = the number of dice.  You can even set up a macro that prompts for the number of dice to use.  

You can absolutely roll d2s as shown in the posts above. If you haven't already, take a look at the Hollow Earth Expedition character sheet that was built for the Ubiquity system. There's a number of inline rolls that could be turned into macros if you don't want to outright use that sheet.

Finderski said: G G said: You can count successes with the roll20 parser. If using a d6, typing /roll 6d6>4  will show you the dice, and give you the successes that are 4 or over (roll20's > operator is actually an => operator). If you type [[6d6>4]] It will just show you the successes, and you can hover your mouse over the result to see what each die rolled. You can of course replace the 6 or the 4 in the above examples with Attributes. Which also means you can do: /r xd2>2 Where x = the number of dice.  You can even set up a macro that prompts for the number of dice to use.   Doh! oh yes, that's true. I was thinking of maintaining the feel of rolling d6s though and completely overlooking using actual d2s.

G G said: Doh! oh yes, that's true. I was thinking of maintaining the feel of rolling d6s though and completely overlooking using actual d2s. To be fair, I don't believe you can use d2 if you want to use 3D dice...I could be wrong, I don't use 3D dice and never have. :)

Alan W. said: I would prefer the ability to say "roll 10 dice" and the players can do it easily and quickly. Getting back to this question, as Finderski suggested, you can prompt players for how many dice to roll. The macro you'd need to use is /roll ?{Number of Dice}d2>2 or /roll ?{Number of Dice}d6>4 if you wanted to use 3d dice. This will prompt players for how many dice to roll. Make it a global macro, visible to all players, and they can add it to their menu bar for instant access at the click of a button. As I mentioned earlier, you can enclose it in double brackets if you just want to display the result, like so [[?{Number of Dice}d6>4]]

Thank you for the responses.  I hadn't thought to see if there was a HEX sheet, so that is a bonus win from the thread!  I will play around with the suggestions and see how it flows best.