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How to get multiple rolls to act as one for less than checks

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I'm trying to combine a 4d6k3's results with a >10 operation, and I have NO IDEA how to check against the sum of the rolls, rather than each dice result individually. Pleas help?

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GiGs

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The > operator only works for individual rolls. The way to do it is to trick roll20 into treating your 4d6k3 is a single roll, using the group roll technique. For grop rolls to work there must be more than one roll, so you can add a fake roll of 0, like so /roll {[[4d6k3]],0}>10

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Travisplo

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I figured that out like ten minutes ago, thank you. I was also privately thinking to myself that this MUST be the Stupid Way, not the Correct Way.

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hehe, unfortunately, there is no correct way, because roll20 doesnt natively support it. It is a weird oversight since there are quite a few games that would benefit from it, some of them quite old and still reasonably popular.

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Travisplo

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Well, thank you for taking the time to reply. I wish they put that SOMEWHERE in their official rolling and macro documentation.  Still so bizarre, that very dumb "right" way and lack of a proper way to do it.

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How to get multiple rolls to act as one for less than checks