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Pathfinder and attack rolls

Ive had this issue before and never solved it. Now i know that in 5e you have advantage and disadvantage. You roll two d20 and take the higher or lower depending on situation and such. but in every pathfinder game i do...it does the same thing.(example in pic) you can see i get two attacks with the fellow in question..but count the dice rolled, there are 4 d20's rolling for to hit...like its rolling advantage in pathfinder which  makes no sense to me. Its also rolling 6d10....it should only roll a single d10 per attack right? am i missing something?
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Kraynic
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When you make an attack roll in Pathfinder, you are rolling your attack, and a critical confirm roll in case the primary roll was a critical threat.  You see that in the number of dice rolled, but the roll template is set up to hide the critical confirm roll in chat (in the html/css code) unless the primary roll was a critical threat. What I just typed out for attack rolls is also true for damage, because the damage is rerolled to calculate critical damage.  The roll template also hides the additional damage calculation in chat unless the primary attack roll was a critical threat. Basically, what you are seeing is normal, because the roll template code only affects what is visible or not in chat, but not whether the 3D dice are visible.
So its not really rolling all those rolls for to hit then....whew..i was like...uh....that dont look right. Thanks for clearing it up.
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Kraynic
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Basically, in your screenshot, 2 of the D20 rolls are the attack rolls and the others are critical confirm rolls in case the attacks are critical threats. It works this way because the dice roller can't do the logic of "if critical threat, roll another die", so it has to roll everything up front.  You can hide stuff in chat as I mentioned before, but the 3D dice show all rolls made.  It definitely takes people by surprise comes up on the forums now and then.  lol
ahhh ok....kind of an odd way of doing it...but as long as its working.