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Replicating a dice pool that has 1 or more different colour dice?

Hi,  Is there a way to simulate a game mechanic - roll a pool of dice, but one or more dice are a different colour and if they come up with a certain number it's a crit/fumble? Specifically for my game - roll a pool of D6, 1 die is a 'drama die' and if it rolls a 1 there is a story complication and on a 6 a boost to the outcome. The target number for every dice in the pool (including the 'drama die') is 4+ (So far I have just been manually reading the first die in the line-up as the drama die, and using >4 to count successes. Is there anything better?) Many thanks! B.
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
The easiest way that I know of is to make rollable tables with images of the dice sides. Set up two different color tables and use them to form your dice pool.
That's interesting! Thanks, I'll give that a try!
Can you write a macro that rolls the pool of dice and rolls on the rollable table?
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Finderski
Plus
Sheet Author
Compendium Curator
Is there ever only 1 Drama die?  Because you could use inline rolls to accomplish this, too... Drama Die: [[1d6]] Die Pool: [[?{Number of Dice|1}d6>4]] Something like that...I'm being too lazy to look up all the die macro code...
Yes, there's only 1 drama die, that seems to work pretty well! Thanks! (Sort of... The 'die pool' part of the macro asks for a number of dice, but only ever shows 1 result... but by having a separate line with a normal dice pool roll and then the drama die line - that seems to work pretty good! THANKS AGAIN!
Pat S - thanks as well to you, I managed to get the rollable table idea working as well, so I have 2 options now! Many thanks!
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Glad you got it working. Sorry about not responding sooner but have been busy all day.
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GiGs
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
Are you sure that macro Finderski provided isnt working properly? Try just copying the text from the post, pasting it into the chat window, and hitting enter. It should work perfectly. Hover your mouse over the yellow coloured dice roll, you should see each individual die listed.
Doh!! Yes, you are absolutely right, as was Finderski - i'm a total noob. :)  Thank you GG and all!