How about

[nickwalls]

A way of dealing with exploding dice?

For instance, in 7th sea, it's a roll-and-keep system, but if a dice rolls a 10, then you reroll the dice, adding the value to the original 10. You continue to reroll until the dice does not come up 10. Thus, 1 in 1000 times, you can have a total above 30 for an single d10 rolled.

eg: I roll 5d10k3, and the results are:
10, 4, 7, 10 and 1
I reroll the 10s, getting:
10 and 2
I reroll that 10, getting
5
Thus my final totals are:
25, 4, 7, 12, and 1
Hence my 3 kept dice are
25, 7 and 12
and my total is 44.

Is this something that could be built in? Or is it too complex? I suspect the latter, as I've never seen provision for it in any online dice roller...

[ToniXX]

Thanks for the suggestion. This has come up one other time as well. As most of you have probably guessed, I wrote this dice roller with D&D in mind (pre-3rd edition), and as far as I know, exploding dice aren't used in any of those systems.

This does seem a little complicated, but I may be able to work something out, but I make no guarantees. Thanks for the example as well... it helps me understand. I'll have some time off between the holidays and I'll see what I can do.