Roll different colored dice

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I want to roll one red d10, one blue d10, and one green d10 at the same time. Is there a way to do this? The color of the dice are needed for the rules of my game. I’m using Realm VTT Basic (if that helps).

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Hi there!

There is actually a way to designate dice color via the Ruleset API.

It is done by setting “diceColors” in the metadata of a roll and assigning a color by type. Here is an example of how I am doing it an upcoming Ruleset implementation, where a die type of “expertise” has a specific color:

const modifiers = [];
const EXPERTISE_DICE_COLORS2 = {
  "expertise": { "diceColor": "#ff0000", "textColor": "#ffbb00" }
};

const metadata = {
  "diceColors": EXPERTISE_DICE_COLORS2
};

const diceRoll = "1d20 default + 1d4 expertise";

api.promptRoll("Attack", diceRoll, modifiers, metadata, "attack");

(Edit: Fixed macro typos.)

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I should also mention, if you’re doing this in Realm VTT Basic (and not the Ruleset Editor) you’ll want to do it in a custom Macro (and then add the macro either to the chat, hot bar, or in a rich text field of a character sheet.)

If you need custom handling for the rolls or custom roll types — such as logic/code that runs when rolling for an attack, or some other type of roll, you’d have to build that out in a custom ruleset.

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Is there a way to do this in a macro, without having the Attack box open up? i.e. have it just roll the three different colored d10? I don’t need it attached to any Attribute, Skill, etc roll.

Also, is there a way to have the blue d10 “explode”? (roll over if the result is a 10, and keep adding to the blue total, as long as a 10 keeps getting rolled). I don’t want the red or green to “explode”

Sorry, I’m not great at writing code.

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No worries!
You can certainly have it roll without the prompt using something like this, to do d10s:

const modifiers = [];
const DICE_COLORS = {
  "red": { "diceColor": "#ff0000", "textColor": "#ffffff" },
  "blue": { "diceColor": "#0000ff", "textColor": "#ffffff" },

};

const metadata = {
  "diceColors":DICE_COLORS
};

const diceRoll = "1d10 red + 1d10 blue";

api.roll(diceRoll, metadata, "chat")

Exploding dice rolls are currently only possible in the Ruleset API using the roll handlers, though, so that’s a bit more complicated! We can look into adding it as a macro feature as well in the future though.

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Thank you so much! I’m really enjoying what I’m seeing with Realm VTT so far!

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No problem! Glad to hear it :blush:

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We now have an easier way to do exploding dice (and recoloring of dice) in macros or in the /roll command!

This command will get you I think what you’re looking for in the chat:

/roll 1d10![#0000ff]+1d10[#ff0000]+1d10[#00ff00]

And a very simple way to do it from a macro:

api.roll("1d10![#0000ff]+1d10[#ff0000]+1d10[#00ff00]");

Swap the hex codes for whatever shades you like — [#bg] with 1 hex code works if you want to just change the die color and keep use configured font color and [#bg,#text] with two hex codes also works if you want to set the number color separately from the die color.

Also, we finally updated our API docs here:

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So cool! This is perfect, and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for all your work!

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