Can someone explain these stupid dice rolls?

[Martin]

It gives me 2 dice rolls.. I roll a 20 and a 10 it picks the 10.. not the 20.. wtf? I roll a 15 need 10 and it picks the 3.. what's the point of rolling 2 dice if it just picks the lower one?

[Lax]

Probably because you have disadvantage.

[Alealexi]

It means you have disadvantage. When ever you roll it will show you what is affecting your roll some where below it. With disadvantage you roll two dice and pick the lowest. With advantage you roll two dice and pick the highest.

[Martin]

Originally posted by Tinball:

https://5thsrd.org/rules/advantage_and_disadvantage/

That doesn't really help.. what's advantage and disadvantage? I see the dice and roll the advantage one and it gives a better roll? Why would I choose the disadvantage?

I was at the goblin at the windmill, my "rage" was trying to kill the goblin and it made me roll twice, the first time I won, then it just made me roll again and I lost, then killed the goblin. Then wyll got pissed at me. So I reloaded and didn't use rage at all. Wyll then found out where spike was and killed the goblin anyway..

It really doesn't make any sense to me this system..

[desrtfox071]

Originally posted by Martin:

Originally posted by Tinball:

https://5thsrd.org/rules/advantage_and_disadvantage/

That doesn't really help.. what's advantage and disadvantage? I see the dice and roll the advantage one and it gives a better roll? Why would I choose the disadvantage?

Maybe actually read the link they provided:

When that happens, you roll a second d20 when you make the roll. Use the higher of the two rolls if you have advantage, and use the lower roll if you have disadvantage.

[Martin]

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

Originally posted by Martin:

That doesn't really help.. what's advantage and disadvantage? I see the dice and roll the advantage one and it gives a better roll? Why would I choose the disadvantage?

Maybe actually read the link they provided:

When that happens, you roll a second d20 when you make the roll. Use the higher of the two rolls if you have advantage, and use the lower roll if you have disadvantage.

Well that's the confusing part.. you get 2 dice.. one is disadvantage and one is advantage.. why would you ever roll the disadvantage dice? What would be the point in that? Originally I thought I was rolling both and it would pick the higher roll but instead it picked the lower one.. which is just stupid imo.

[desrtfox071]

Originally posted by Martin:

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

Maybe actually read the link they provided:

When that happens, you roll a second d20 when you make the roll. Use the higher of the two rolls if you have advantage, and use the lower roll if you have disadvantage.

Well that's the confusing part.. you get 2 dice.. one is disadvantage and one is advantage.. why would you ever roll the disadvantage dice? What would be the point in that? Originally I thought I was rolling both and it would pick the higher roll but instead it picked the lower one.. which is just stupid imo.

No, that's not what it says at all.

If you have advantage, you roll two dice.

If you have disadvantage you roll two dice.

If you have disadvantage, you take the lesser of the two rolls.

If you have advantage, you take the greater of the two rolls.

You cannot simultaneously have advantage and disadvantage at the same time.

It's all in the short paragraph in the link.

[Kryldost]

For some interractions, you will be either at advantage or disavantage. There's a green or red icon respectively if I recall well.

[Lax]

Watch this. It's pretty straightforward on how he explains it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9wI9naiw38&ab_channel=HowtoD%26D

[WeenerTuck813]

Originally posted by Martin:

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

Maybe actually read the link they provided:

When that happens, you roll a second d20 when you make the roll. Use the higher of the two rolls if you have advantage, and use the lower roll if you have disadvantage.

Well that's the confusing part.. you get 2 dice.. one is disadvantage and one is advantage.. why would you ever roll the disadvantage dice? What would be the point in that? Originally I thought I was rolling both and it would pick the higher roll but instead it picked the lower one.. which is just stupid imo.

You only roll one die unless there is something giving you advantage or disadvantage. You don’t always roll 2 die.

Normal circumstances you just roll 1

If, say, you’re poisoned or cursed or something and it’s causing disadvantage, then you roll a 2nd die and take the lower roll.

[guard65]

Now that you know that Advantage is a bonus and Disadvantage is a penalty you just need to sort out the hundreds of circumstances that cause each

[Martin]

Yeh but you roll the green advantage die before hand, and the game then takes that roll as the winning number, you don't roll both dice then select the higher result, you must choose before hand.

It would make sense if you deducted the disadvantage roll from the advantage one, so if you roll 20 on both, your roll equals zero. But the current system only works on paper ie in a game irl. But it doesn't work at all in the game.

[Martin]

Originally posted by Lax:

Watch this. It's pretty straightforward on how he explains it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9wI9naiw38&ab_channel=HowtoD%26D

Doesn't explain why you'd roll a disadvantage die.. it explains what the disadvantage is ie wearing heavy armour, being blinded, searching for items in the dark.. but why would I want a worse roll? If I roll 2 die and it is only going to take the highest number, why roll the one most likely to get the lower number?

[Dragon Master]

Originally posted by Martin:

Originally posted by Lax:

Watch this. It's pretty straightforward on how he explains it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9wI9naiw38&ab_channel=HowtoD%26D

Doesn't explain why you'd roll a disadvantage die.. it explains what the disadvantage is ie wearing heavy armour, being blinded, searching for items in the dark.. but why would I want a worse roll? If I roll 2 die and it is only going to take the highest number, why roll the one most likely to get the lower number?

More often than not it's because the player gets caught up in something, or they say or do something that puts them at a disadvantage.

Sometimes the whole party is trying to sneak somewhere and the DM asks everyone to make stealth rolls. Anyone wearing heavy armor and some medium armor will roll with disadvantage by default because of *clank clank clank*.

You may not want to have disadvantage but sometimes your character and/or build just isn't skilled or equipped for an action that the player is taking and thus has disadvantage.

[Martin]

Yeh in a dm run paper game.. that works. You're wearing heavy armour, we'll use the disadvantage die.. but in the game.. you select which die you want to count.. and it uses that number, the other die.. doesn't even need to be present.

[Cirrus]

Originally posted by Martin:

Yeh in a dm run paper game.. that works. You're wearing heavy armour, we'll use the disadvantage die.. but in the game.. you select which die you want to count.. and it uses that number, the other die.. doesn't even need to be present.

Of course it needs to be present. It is absolutely no different from paper game. Dice propabilities work (or reduction of success propabilities) work exactly same in paper and in computer games.