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Savage World RPG Type Dice Rolls

A topic by Legion created Jul 04, 2020 Views: 185 Replies: 2
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Hello!

I'm trying to roll dice in the Savage World (SW) RPG style, but I cannot get it to work right.
In SW most of the time you roll two dice, one from d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20 and one other d6 (this can change sometimes, perhaps d4 or d8). Both rolls can explode, then after explosions (were you differentiate between the two dice) you count only the highest roll.

Example: 1d8 and 1d6 showing 8 and 6, so both explode and show 2 (on d8) and 5 (on d6), which leads to the result 10 (on d8) and 11 on d6, then you disregard the 10 and have a result of 11 on you roll.

So I tried something like this:

[1d8!, 1d6!]L But it throws a coin with that Text printed on it on both sides.
My other tries failed to, 2d6!L does not count each dice explosion as separated throws (as is expected, I guess).

Kind Regards!

Developer

hey, sorry but it’s not possible to do in a single roll expression right now, using the L roll condition won’t work because each roll condition applies to one dice pool only. You’ll have to roll two times and then disregard whichever is lowest yourself.


I do have plans for improvements to the roll expression system that would allow what you’re trying but they will require some pretty substantial changes to how it works, so it probably won’t be part of the next update, sorry!

Thank you for your answer! No problem, I just wanted to make sure that I did not miss anything that could help me.