ALIEN RPG/ROLL20 -- Why does Roll20 roll 20 blue dices ??

Hello everyone, I use the Year Zero ALiens system on Roll20 and every time I make a dice roll from the character sheet the software rolls 20 3D blue dices on the map (!!). However everything is ok in the chat window. Here is a close combat roll with STRENGTH 4 and CLOSE COMBAT 1 + 2 Stress dices... Is it a setting problem from my side ? A bug ? Thank's a lot ! Rouliaud

The 3D dice is less sophisticated that the output in the text chat, and just shows all the rolls made in a text chat command, while the roll template can be made to hide part of the result. I think with the D&D 5E sheet the most know example is when you roll attacks, the roll template hides the damage roll by default, but it's still rolled. The 3d dice will them always roll both the attack and damage dice due to this. I don't know the alien sheet, but this is what I suspect strongly, based on what I know about Roll20 sheets & chat.

To build on and further explain what Andreas is describing: The alien sheet has a roll template, which includes code to show the roll results in chat. Because of the way aliens works, and the limitations of the roll20 dice system, each Alien roll has to send over 20 dice to chat, to account for the base roll, and any stress that might be rolled. The roll template then intercepts those dice, and decides which to show and which to hide.  The problem is, the 3d system doesnt know how roll templates work, and just displays all dice in the button roll. So the value show in chat is correct, but the 3d arent. This isn't a bug, strictly speaking. It's the fact that two features of roll20 (the 3d dice, and the rolltemplate system) are completely independent, and work differently. So those systems that need convoluted rolltemplates to work properly on roll20, generally don't work with 3d dice and it can be often better to just disable that feature to stop it being distracting.

Thank's a lot for made it clear ! I thought the 3d dice was a part of the roletemplate system. Maybe I will not disabled it, a bucket of dices rolled may be better than no dice at all.

The color of the 3D dice is set by your Player Color swatch, at the bottom of the screen next to your avatar & name. Click the color square there, you can change the color of 3D dice rolled by you. To turn 3D dice off entirely if necessary, that's a checkmark setting button under the Settings button above the chat in game.

ᐰndreas J. said: The 3D dice is less sophisticated that the output in the text chat, and just shows all the rolls made in a text chat command, while the roll template can be made to hide part of the result. I think with the D&D 5E sheet the most know example is when you roll attacks, the roll template hides the damage roll by default, but it's still rolled. The 3d dice will them always roll both the attack and damage dice due to this. I don't know the alien sheet, but this is what I suspect strongly, based on what I know about Roll20 sheets & chat. Not really relevant, but the 5e sheet doesn't function like this any more - when damage is not set to auto-roll, the attack template has an API command button to roll the damage - the dice aren't rolled (chat or 3d) until that is clicked. In fact, it doesn't even roll both Advantage/Disadvantage 3d dice unless they're rolled in chat, though that was a more recent fix IIRC. A sheetworker now governs the second die roll, rather than just hiding it via the roll template. It did used to function as you describe, though :)