onDiceTotal - what is it used for? (ChatWindow)

[Varsuuk]

While learning me some die rolling methods, I came across this one. I experimented and see that if passed true, X out of it, X as instructions say will be the number totaled regardless of roll+mod - but when/why is this method use?

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/refdoc/chatwindow.xcp#onDiceTotal

[damned]

Say you want to report the number of dice that rolled 7+ rather than the total.
You can easily report it into chat but reporting it in the Dice Roll so the dragdata is correct requires you to do this.

[Moon Wizard]

This was part of allowing FGC to display alternate results for a given roll. It's used in any system where the total shouldn't match the die numbers.

In FGU, there are actually two pieces of data per die (result = die display, value = numerical value) that can be used to display alternate totals.

So, that probably won't be needed after FGC is retired, and we don't need that any more.

Regards,
JPG

[Varsuuk]

Both cool pieces of info. I didn’t have experience with rulesets who would use this. Was wondering what it did :)

[damned]

So, that probably won't be needed after FGC is retired, and we don't need that any more.

Retired? Oh FGC!

[Moon Wizard]

How about "placed in carbonite, and preserved for eternity"?

JPG

[Varsuuk]

It is The Way.