Dice

Add dice rolls using the [dice] bbcode:



You can do some math with the rolls:



Dice rolls can be displayed in a few different ways:







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You can choose how dice images are displayed in your user control panel, under Board Preferences > Edit display options > Display dice.

Cheating precautions:

The dice rolls are reasonably secure against "cheating" the rolls.

• Dice are not rolled until the post is submitted, so you can't just preview your post until you get numbers you like.
• Rolls quoted from other posts are always displayed with a link to the original post, so you can't quote rolls you like to copy them. Like so:
  
  
  Someone else wrote:
  Original post: GobO_Welder rolled 3d12 and got a total of 17:
  

  In inline mode: 17^[here]
  
  
• Removing rolls from a post leaves a notification that a roll has been removed, so you can't roll dice a bunch of times until you get results you like.

Best-of rolls:

You can also do "best-N-of-M" rolls: to roll 4d6 and keep the best 2, you would do "[dice]4d6b2[/dice]" to get
All the usual tricks -- arithmetic, different display modes -- work for best-of rolls as well.

Things you can't do:

Unfortunately, the mod we're using to implement dice has some limitations. The biggest ones are:

• You can't do multiple rolls in one: [dice]3d6+1d10[/dice] doesn't work.
• "Best of" rolls don't work: [dice]4d10b2[/dice] for "4 d10s, best 2". This works now!