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Thread: New Guy Question
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2012-11-03, 03:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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New Guy Question
Looking at a recruitment post where stats are best 3 of 4d6 with ones rerolled.
Able to do the 6 rolls for stats, but unable to edit and add rerolls for ones. Second rolling set just shows up as the code to reroll however many d6 but no actual roll.
What, pray tell, am I doing wrong?
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2012-11-03, 03:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Guy Question
To prevent cheating, rolls can't be edited into posts and if they're removed a warning is displayed at the bottom of the post.
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2012-11-03, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Guy Question
You have to post the new rolls in a new post.
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2012-11-03, 06:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Guy Question
Got it.
Thanks.(insert clever pop culture reference here)
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2012-11-03, 10:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Guy Question
Correct, but don't. Roll 5s, and add 1 for each die. Same result, without need to waste posts or run afoul the double post rule.
A d6 in which 1s don't count as a roll is a d5, with +1 to make it so it produces a number between 2-6. In your particular case, roll 3 sets of 4d5 + 4.
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2012-11-03, 10:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Guy Question
While your advice is good, the first bolded part is incorrect. This is an exception where multiple posts in a row are allowed.
Additionally, the second bolded part is also incorrect. He wants a best three of four (roll 4d6, drop lowest). He would need to roll each d5+1 individually.
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2012-11-04, 12:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Guy Question
Actually, wouldn't it be easier to [roll]4d5b3[/roll] and then add 3 to the result to get it done all at once?
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2012-11-04, 12:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Guy Question
Correct, but +4 would not work. And he would probably need to roll 6 sets of these (the usual amount for a D&D game). Grey_Wolf_c thought he wanted 3 sets of 4d6 (reroll 1s), when he needs an undisclosed amount of 4d6 (reroll 1s, drop lowest).
Also, noparse tags don't work for dice rolls. They show here because dice rolling is disabled for this forum.
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2012-11-04, 01:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-04, 01:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-04, 02:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: New Guy Question
Going for a single post, the following would work:
[roll]4d5b3+3[/roll]
-> Works because the lowest roll is dropped, then 1 is added per die to make 1-5 into 2-6.
[roll]1d5+1[/roll]
[roll]1d5+1[/roll]
[roll]1d5+1[/roll]
[roll]1d5+1[/roll]
Manually drop lowest and add together.
-> Works because 1 is added per die to make 1-5 into 2-6 and you are manually dropping the lowest.
[rollv]4d5[/rollv]
Manually drop lowest, add together, and add 3.
-> Works because you are manually doing everything, including adding 1 per die to make 1-5 into 2-6.
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2012-11-04, 02:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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