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Is it just me, or is the dice roller down right now?

Working for me at the moment.

I just saw this now. The roller is working fine for me.

Are you still having the same issue?

I am. I tried deleting all cookies for the last 4 weeks, which is way before I registered at US, restarting Chrome, and re-logged in to US and the dice roller, but I am still getting the following error. The dice sandbox roller does work for me. I even tried using Edge (gah!), but I am getting the same error.

The weird thing is that yesterday I was getting the same error message but with a background graphic (a guy on a beach? and a shark? something like that). Today I only get the error message with a white background.

Maybe I should try reinstalling Chrome? But if Edge didn't work either, that's probably not it.

This might be a Greg thing, but can you also share the text of the roll you're making?

For example:

• Attack with sword: [1d20], [1d8]

I tried the lower macro field, and now I get the error with the background graphic. Here is the macro I am trying, could it be that?

Str: [3d6] Dex: [3d6] Con: [3d6] Int: [3d6] Wis: [3d6] Cha: [3d6]

StevetheNPC wrote:I tried the lower macro field, and now I get the error with the background graphic. Here is the macro I am trying, could it be that?

Str: [3d6] Dex: [3d6] Con: [3d6] Int: [3d6] Wis: [3d6] Cha: [3d6]

You found a bug in my code. I'll have it resolved hopefully tomorrow.
Thanks for the info!

Was the string too long? That was what I was thinking.

Ok, so doing stat rolls in the 'on the fly' feature was not expected. The string of characters that displays the result is too long to go into the database. So, in the meantime, break up your stat rolls into two 'on the fly' rolls, like this:

Str: [3d6] Dex: [3d6] Con: [3d6]
Int: [3d6] Wis: [3d6] Cha: [3d6]

I'm working on a solution but I must warn you that it may not be all that pretty.

If there's a limit to the db field, you might as well limit the length of the input field. That might be quicker than validating or extending. I assume it's rare for the roll result to be longer than the macro that generates it.

The roll result is always longer because it includes HTML markup to display the results in bold and red. So with a macro with a lot of dice expressions (the parts within the square brackets), the result is usually pretty long.

ToniXX wrote:Ok, so doing stat rolls in the 'on the fly' feature was not expected.

Sorry about that, it was my first time using the dice roller. Still learnin'.

I was trying to have stat rolls recorded in the database for a game in which we were not using the character sheets, just the dice roller. I ended up creating a dummy character, called "Steve01", and then made the stat roll with that character. I also made a macro for the Hit Point roll.

Is there a better/easier way to do something like this, when not utilizing the character sheet but still needing the dice roller?

Cheers! Steve

The easiest thing is to do what I outlined above:

ToniXX wrote:break up your stat rolls into two 'on the fly' rolls, like this:

Str: [3d6] Dex: [3d6] Con: [3d6]
Int: [3d6] Wis: [3d6] Cha: [3d6]

Does that answer your question?

It does indeed. Thank you for your support!