I have noticed that if I edit a post that contains a dice roll its result remains unchanged between edits.
Is this the intended behavior? Any guide that I could read about the proper use of the dice tag besides the small hint provided in the "how to format" show button?
This is the deliberate behavior. It does make cheating more difficult, but the big reason is so that a user can fix a typo in their post (or add stuff about the result of the dice rolls) withotu changing the values.
I mean, no one wants to edit their post to say "Awesome, a crit" and see a 20 turn into a 4.
This is the deliberate behavior. It does make cheating more difficult, but the big reason is so that a user can fix a typo in their post (or add stuff about the result of the dice rolls) withotu changing the values.
I mean, no one wants to edit their post to say "Awesome, a crit" and see a 20 turn into a 4.
Thanks a lot Ross! I did appreciate a Paizo's developer answer! By the way I like the current dice roller behavior!
It also lets you edit posts with results and reactions during a play-by-post, really handy when the GM sets DCs with spoilers and you can right back to the game.
Has there been a change to the dice roller recently? Two rolls that are separated by a semi-colon now have the results mashed together instead of separated:
I've noticed this with Chrome and IE 7.
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Has there been a change to the dice roller recently? Two rolls that are separated by a semi-colon now have the results mashed together instead of separated:
1d6;1d6
I've noticed this with Chrome and IE 7.
Yeah, we changed some things with that a very long time ago. I'll see if I can figure out a simple fix. =)
I don't know if it has to do with the fix, but I noticed a change in the coding.
It used to be if you put a dice roll in a sentence like, (['dice]1d6[/dice]) it would stay there.
Now it is automatically putting the dice roll on its own line - which really breaks up paragraphs in weird manner like so:
Currently I roll dice () so that I can determine if a reflexive check works. And it breaks up my sentences.
Is this an intentional fix or a side effect from fixing the other problem?
I've noticed the same thing, chavamana, starting over four hours ago. Sometimes I feel like putting a dice roll in-line with my text. It would be nice if they could separate semicolon-delineated dice rolls without putting every dice roll on its own line.
Nod. I am very much hoping.
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Nod. I am very much hoping.
Hmmm. Well this was kind of the original way. Each die roll was it's own paragraph or block. We changed that to a span awhile back. It wouldn't take much to turn it back and we could just indent it or something. I'll take a look tomorrow when I get back in. Mostly, this was done to change it to more like it was a couple of months ago but if that's causing problems, we'll discuss it and see what seems best.
That behavior is nothing like it was a couple of months ago. I've been running a PBP on the forums for about 1.5 years, and I believe the die-roll has been on the same line as the ooc-information regarding the die-roll (on both sides of the roll) for that entire time.
I very much hope you'll change it back, because this will look horrible when I'm doing multiple attack rolls and damage rolls.
Look at this post, for instance.
The attack and damage lines originally read like this:
Greatclub attack #1: [dice-roll]
Greatclub attack #2: [dice-roll]
Greatclub attack #3: [dice-roll]Greatclub damage #1: [dice-roll]
Greatclub damage #2: [dice-roll]
Greatclub damage #3: [dice-roll]
As you can see from the link, the current behavior looks far less "elegant", for lack of a better word.
Edit: That link isn't even a "bad" example; I've had posts in that PBP with 10 or more attack and damage rolls in each paragraph, with ooc-information on one or both sides of the roll, but I don't even want to find out how they look now :)
It wouldn't take much to turn it back and we could just indent it or something.
Since the problem was with semicolon-delineated dice rolls, I would recommend a solution that only affects them, not every dice roll everywhere.
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The information I was looking at showed them as being separate paragraphs at one point in time, so I used that model, but it looks like that caused more problems than it solved. It might be that that was a much older change than I realized. I've just updated it to show on the same line and space things out some. I think that will be much more satisfactory to the way we've been doing it for a long while now.
Thank you :)
Hmm, now it seems to have changed in size which makes it slightly more difficult to read on my iPhone.
Thank you Lissa :)
So no luck on the semi-colon issue? It's still running the results together on IE 7, at least.
Those two rolls are separated (by about 3 spaces) in IE 8, for what it's worth.
Hm. I'm seeing:
1d100 ⇒ 671d6 ⇒ 1
(That's a direct copy and paste.)
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So no luck on the semi-colon issue? It's still running the results together on IE 7, at least.
So this is kind of a problem between IE 7 and iPhone. It gets hard to read on one or the other depending on what I do there. In my IE 7, however, I see a space. You might have a cached version of the css file somewhere. Can you clear the cache and check it again? Other browsers it will work fine on.
For the record, the posts in this thread make very little sense now that the changes have been applied.
That being said, I like how it looks now. (Webkit, via Sleipnir)
That is all.
You might have a cached version of the css file somewhere. Can you clear the cache and check it again?
Yes, it's better now. So it was probably a cache issue.
Looks fine to me now too! Cheers!