Dice Roll Expressions
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Advanced Dice Roll Expressions
Cheat Sheet
Basic Arithmetic
11/3 - divide and round down
7+/3 - divide and round up (2.333 -> 3)
8~/3 - divide and round up or down, whichever is closer (2.333 -> 2)
7/4 (or 7-/4) - divide and round down (1.75 -> 1)
7%4 - divide and get the remainder (3)
2+**-2 - 2 powered to -2, rounded up (0.25 -> 1)
2~**-2 - 2 powered to -2, rounded to whichever is closer (0.25 -> 0)
2**3 (or 2-**3) - 2 powered to 3, rounded down (8)
Basic Dice Rolling
2d6 - roll 2 dice of 6 faces (1 to 6)
2d[2..4] - roll 2 dice with faces valued 2, 3, 4
2d[-1, 0, 1] - roll 2 dice with faces valued -1, 0 and 1
2dF() - roll 2 fudge dice (same as 2d[-1, 0, 1]
2dUB() - roll 2 ubiquity dice (same as 2d[0, 1]
Drop Highest/Lowest
4d6{dl1} - roll it and drop the 3 lowest dice
6d4{dh3} - roll it and drop the 3 highest dice
3d10{d<=3} - roll it and drop any results <= 3
Keep Highest/Lowest
5d8{kl4} - roll it and keep the 3 lowest dice
4d3{kh3} - roll it and keep the 3 highest dice
4d12{k>=4} - roll it and keep any results >= 3
Count Successes/Failures
Note that successes count as 1, failures as -1 and neither as 0
5d6{>=4} - roll it and count results >= 4 as successes
6d4{>=4 - <=1} - roll it and count results >= 4 as successes and <= 1 as failures. If you get
more successes than failures, it will only show the successes. If you roll more failures than
successes, it will only show the failures.
5d8{>=4 or <=2} - roll it and count results that are >= 4 or <= 2 as successes
6d12{>=3 and <=10} - roll it and count results that are both >= 3 and <= 10 (between 4 and 5)
as successes
5d6{>=4, <=2} - roll it and count separately results >= 4 and results <= 2
Exploding Dice
Exploding dice use parentheses, not curly brackets.
5d6e - roll it exploding 6s (exploding means if you get a 6 reroll it and add it to the pool of
results)
5d8eo - same as above, but each die can only be exploded once
6d12e(>=5) - roll it exploding 5s and 6s.
5d6ep - penetrating exploding; roll it, but each exploding die has -1 each time it is exploded
(can be used with 'o' at the end for once)
5d6ec - compounding exploding; roll it, but each exploding die is summed to count as a single
big die (e.g, if you do 2d6ec and one of the die gets a 6, a 6 and a 5 that die will count as a 17)
(can be used with 'o' at the end for once)
Rerolling
5d6r - roll it rerolling 1s (rerolling replaces the old result with the new one)
5d6ro - same as above, but rerolling 1s can only be done once
5d6r(<=2) - roll it rerolling 1s and 2s
Combining Expressions
5d6{kh4}{/5} - roll it, keep highest 4 dice and then divide each one by 2
5d6{k>=4}{len} - roll it, keep dice >= 4 and then count how many dice are there (mostly the
same as 5d6{>= 4} really)
Arrays
Expressions such as 5d6 are ultimately expanded into arrays (e.g. [3, 3, 6, 1, 2])
[3..6] - 3 to 6, expands to [3, 4, 5, 6]
[4x3] - a 4 repeated 3 times, expands to [4, 4, 4]
[3, 3, 6, 1, 2]{kh2} - keep highest 2 values, so [3, 6]
Value Functions
COERCE_VALUE(1d6, 2, 4) - coerce the value between 1 and 6 to be >= 2 and <=4
MIN_VALUE(1d6, 1d6) - returns the min value between the 2 given
MAX_VALUE(1d6, 1d6) - returns the max value between the 2 given
ABS_VALUE(-5) - returns the absolute (positive) value (5 in this case)
Array Functions
COERCE_ARRAY(5d6, 2, 4) - roll it and make each value be between 2 and 4
SORTASC_ARRAY(5d6) - roll it and sort results from lowest to highest
SORTDESC_ARRAY(5d6) - roll it and sort results from highest to lowest
ABS_ARRAY(5d6) - roll it and make each value absolute.
