Dice Roll Problems

[Hyperventilator]

One of my players has a frequent problem in our game sessions: His rolls don't work properly. The most frequent cases are:

1) The player targets monster A, rolls attack and hits, rolls for damage, damage is applied to monster B. His target is still indicated as monster A, the game doesn't switch it but applies the damage to the wrong enemy.

2) The advantage modifier button doesn't work for him. He presses the ADV button, rolls (either the dice naturally or a check from his character sheet) but only one die is rolled. We cleared all targets and effect from his character but the problem persisted. Only once in a while, seemingly at random, a natural roll was realized with advantage after he tried rolling with the DIS disadvantage button pressed first. He never could make a Reflex save with advantage from his character sheet, not even once. Every time he tried, only one die was rolled.

Is his character data corrupted? Is there any way to fix it on my end or his?

We migrated from FGC to FGU in semptember. I'm fairly certain that the issues with his character began after that.

[LordEntrails]

I think #1 was reported and traced to an extension. Can you replicate in a new campaign with no extensions? Does it duplicate if the player uses a different character?

#2 makes me wonder if he is using something like ctrl, alt, or shift as a push to talk button and that is causing issues. Check to find the exact steps used to target and roll. Also, this could be caused by an extension as well.

Please see if you can isolate it to an extension or character (unlikely) or something that player is doing.

[Moon Wizard]

1) There was some similar issues reported much earlier in the year that people had reported; but I haven't had any reports like that in months. Can you try deleting the PC from the combat tracker, and re-adding the PC? Also, if you are running any extensions, can you try again without extensions?

2) You don't mention a game system. So, I'm confused when you mention Advantage button (5E) and Reflex save (Pathfinder/3.5E). I haven't heard any issues like this, so I'll need more information.

Regards,
JPG

[Hyperventilator]

I think #1 was reported and traced to an extension. Can you replicate in a new campaign with no extensions? Does it duplicate if the player uses a different character?

#2 makes me wonder if he is using something like ctrl, alt, or shift as a push to talk button and that is causing issues. Check to find the exact steps used to target and roll. Also, this could be caused by an extension as well.

Please see if you can isolate it to an extension or character (unlikely) or something that player is doing.


#1 I've never used any extensions.

#2 He uses the in-game software button for ADV, not a button on his physical keyboard. The advantage roll problem persists without a target. No extensions in use.

So, no extensions, and he is literally just pushing the software button ADV in the game with his mouse button. What can I do about the character if the problem lies there?

[Hyperventilator]

1) There was some similar issues reported much earlier in the year that people had reported; but I haven't had any reports like that in months. Can you try deleting the PC from the combat tracker, and re-adding the PC? Also, if you are running any extensions, can you try again without extensions?

2) You don't mention a game system. So, I'm confused when you mention Advantage button (5E) and Reflex save (Pathfinder/3.5E). I haven't heard any issues like this, so I'll need more information.

Regards,
JPG

1. I don't use extensions. Never have. I will try the removal from combat tracker, though!

2. It's 5E. I accidentally say reflex save because I played 3.0/3.5 before switching to 5E this year.

[Trenloe]

Please arrange for a screenshot of the issue - showing the results in the chat window, the PC sheet and the PC on the combat tracker.

[damned]

Also are you all on the current Live build?
Please post chat screen showing CoreRPG and 5E versions on load for both GM and player

[Hyperventilator]

Please arrange for a screenshot of the issue - showing the results in the chat window, the PC sheet and the PC on the combat tracker.

Edit: Read my next post.

40631 Player has Ogre targeted, hits, but damage is dealt to his ally instead.

40632 Player toggles the ADV advantage button, rolls d20 from the "physical" dice. No advantage roll is executed. The ADV toggle STAYS ON (the roll doesn't trigger the toggle and it doesn't go back to OFF state. Only an attack roll takes advantage into account. All other rolls ignore the ADV toggle (unless the roll is made from a quick slot, then advantage rolls work for abilities and saves *most* of the time - not always)

40633 Even I can't get the ADV toggle to trigger advantage on a natural d20 roll using the "physical" dice. This is me trying. The ADV toggle stays depressed.

At this point, I removed the character from the combat tracker and placed him back. After that, new issues emerged:

40634 I, as a DM, can not target the character using an NPC. I can only target other NPCs.

40635 Player tries to target enemy orc, no target is seen on combat tracker, rolls attack anyway, chat says he hit the ogre instead. Character rolls damage. No damage is dealt to anyone.

Please advise. Fantasy Grounds is becoming virtually unusable at this point.

EDIT: Read my next post.

[Hyperventilator]

Also are you all on the current Live build?
Please post chat screen showing CoreRPG and 5E versions on load for both GM and player

40636 My version info

40637 Player's version info

We are on the same version. What was new to me, however, is that the official desktop decal image for LMOP that we use is an extension. I had never thought about that because I really don't know much about extensions.

EDIT: New development: I removed the official LMOP desktop decal and now everything works, except the ADV and DIS toggle on natural d20 rolls (using the "physical" dice). This issue persist on both mine and the player's end.

[damned]

Language fonts, theme and decal are all extensions.

They are all pretty standard extensions and Ive not seen other persistent reports of this.

I wonder if there is some corruption in your db.xml?

[damned]

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?63235-Adv-Dis-buttons-not-working

suggests the last update did break Adv/Disadv buttons

[Hyperventilator]

Language fonts, theme and decal are all extensions.

They are all pretty standard extensions and Ive not seen other persistent reports of this.

I wonder if there is some corruption in your db.xml?

How would I go about fixing the db.xml?

[damned]

How would I go about fixing the db.xml?

that would require you to know the db structure very well.

as per the link i posted above the Adv/Disadv is broken (confirmed yesterday) and the patch should be there this week.
if other issues persist just for one character I would recreate that character and test again

[Hyperventilator]

that would require you to know the db structure very well.

as per the link i posted above the Adv/Disadv is broken (confirmed yesterday) and the patch should be there this week.
if other issues persist just for one character I would recreate that character and test again

Luckily the other issues stopped when I loaded the campaign without the Lost Mines of Phandelver decal, but I feel like I have to be on my toes regarding decals, themes, and language fonts now.

Maybe we'll go through the trouble of recreating the character.

[damned]

Are you on FGC with 32 bit windows?
Or does your player have 32 bit windows?
How much RAM is in use on your and her computers with FG campaign loaded?

[Moon Wizard]

If you run a new update, the ADV/DIS button affected dice rolls from desktop should be fixed as of this morning.

Regards,
JPG

[Hyperventilator]

If you run a new update, the ADV/DIS button affected dice rolls from desktop should be fixed as of this morning.

Regards,
JPG

The ADV/DIS seems to be working now. Thank you!


Are you on FGC with 32 bit windows?
Or does your player have 32 bit windows?
How much RAM is in use on your and her computers with FG campaign loaded?

We're on FGU (not FGC) and both me and the player are running 64-bit windows systems.

On my computer, FGU uses <1GB (out of 32GB) RAM
On the player's computer FGU uses 0.5GB (out of 16GB) RAM