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The roll stats feature has been temporarily disabled

#1 Post by ToniXX »

I've known for years that the roll stats feature on the character page is easy to abuse. And today, someone ripped it a new one and effectively used up more than half of the free, true random numbers supplied by random.org.

So, until I can devise a better way to handle this, it is not available. If you have to roll stats, just use a macro like this

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{3d6} {3d6} {3d6} {3d6} {3d6} {3d6}
replace the curly braces with square ones.

And as of right now (12 midnight UTC) the count has been reset and we can have random numbers again, meaning rolls won't time out as they were before.
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And whichever of you kept rolling until you got those two 18's phooey on you. I punch a hole in your grognard bowler hat and turn your umbrella of holding inside out!
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rredmond wrote:And whichever of you kept rolling until you got those two 18's phooey on you. I punch a hole in your grognard bowler hat and turn your umbrella of holding inside out!
LOL yeah, and you have to live with the knowledge that you cheated.
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#4 Post by ToniXX »

The roll stats feature has been updated so that it can't easily be abused until one gets the stats they want. If anyone has a test character that they want to try it on, please do so and post results in the help and support forum.
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