Current Behavior: When you modify (particularly add a dice roll) to an edited post it changes the dice rolls for all other dice within that post.
Expected Behavior: All dice rolls from the post are kept and the new dice roll is added.
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I could be wrong on this...however...
There seems to be a new issue with dice rolls on the Play by Post forum / Paizo Forums.
Previously, when you edited a post any dice rolls within that post would be kept after the edit was completed. If I rolled a set of dice, submitted the post, then edited the post and modified something about it (even changing the +/- addition to a roll) the base roll was kept and only the changes were applied. If I added a new die roll to the post all of the old dice rolls were kept.
In other words, once rolled a die roll could not change no matter the edit or modification made to a post.
I JUST finished posting a set of initiative rolls (8 of them), within my campaign. I realized I'd missed a set of initiatives (for the NPC friendlies traveling with the party) and went back to edit the initiative post...low and behold, after submitting the edit, the dice rolls for all the previous initiatives changed.
Wondering about this, I went back and edited the post AGAIN to add another initiative. Again, all of the previous 9 Initiatives changed with the submission.
This creates a situation where players can 'game' the dice system by editing and submitting posts over and over again till they get their dice rolls how they want them.
I don't BELIEVE this used to be the case. I suspect this is a bug/problem based upon the code surrounding the new "quick post" system.
Any advice/fixes would be MOST welcome.
--Illydth
Reproduction of this Error is not easy. Steps:
1) Create a set of dice rolls via OOC in the following format:
[ ooc ]Text Here: [ dice ] XdYY+Z [ /dice ][ /ooc ]
2) Copy the line above to multiple new lines, changing "Text Here"
3) Submit the post and get a set of results.
4) ABOVE THE FIRST [ ooc ] LINE: Create a new [ ooc ] Line of the same format with a new roll.
5) Submit the post.
The old rolls will change.
The dice results are tied to the post in order. If you roll Perception, Initiative, Attack, you'll get 3 d20 rolls. If you go back in and add an Acrobatics check between Init and Attack, you'll get the same 3 results, plus one more; the old Attack result will go to the Acro check, and you'll get a new d20 for the Attack.
The software doesn't care what text goes with which roll, just that the results stay in the same order. If you want to add a new roll and don't want to cheat, you just need to add it at the end.
Yep, you are absolutely correct.
Apologies for the Chicken Little post, I guess after 2 years on here I've never done that...or at least noticed when I did it.
Also it seems to keep the rolls separated: so 1d20 rolls and 1d8 rolls are tracked "differently".
Adding a 1d8 above the 1d20's does not change the numbers whereas adding another 1d20 above does.
Thanks for the info, apologies for the alarm.
--Illydth