Exploding Dice Order Question

Hi all,

I've been messing around with exploding dice and I can't wrap my head around this one.  What is the order the dice appear in? It seems like they appear in the chat box in random order.  That is to say, I need to tell which dice are the exploded results, but they don't appear at the beginning or end in a logical fashion, as far as I can tell.

For example, with 3d dice on, I rolled {5d6!}, which came out as {1, 1, 6, 3, 6} which exploded into {6, 2}, which exploded into {5}.  But the below is the output:

I can't wrap my head around which die is which, especially given there are no options to color dice. For systems where which dice are the base is important, this can be an issue.

I know as a workaround, I can just roll each die individually as 1d6!+1d6!+1d6!+1d6!+1d6!, but that seems ineligant and I feel like there should be a logical way this works that I'm just missing.

Any help or insight is appreciated

Thanks

Well, in the course of writing the above, I figured it out.  Leaving this here in case anyone else finds some use from it:  The explosion dice come after their parent dice.  So in the above example, from the 5 original rolls, it actually came out as [1]+[1]+[6,6,5]+[6,2]+[3].  With especially large numbers of dice, this could get somewhat hard to follow, but this does appear to always be true.

Yes, that's the way it works, and has confused most of us at some point.

If you use the double exploding symbol (5d6!!) instead of ! it will show just a single dice. So your roll of

would display instead as

Which might be preferable.

Not in this case, but thanks for the suggestion.  The system I'm exploring has effects on both 6s (explosions) and 1s (failures), but only if the original die is a 1 (a 6 exploding into a 1 doesn't cause a failure, only an original 1; however, multiple chained 6s can explode indefinitely).