Dice & Roll Tables

Dice come up in three places in Encounter+: the roller you open yourself, the rolls built into stat blocks and text, and roll tables.

The dice roller

Open the Dice Roller from the game screen menu and roll whatever you need.

There are two rollers. The standard roller is instant. The 3D roller simulates physics and drops the dice on screen, and is part of the Premium subscription.

Both use the same random number generator, so they are equally fair. The 3D roller is for the feeling of it.

Who sees your rolls

The roller has a Mode setting:

Mode	Effect
Public	Rolls appear on the player screen and in the web client
Private	Rolls stay on your device

Switch to private for the rolls your players should not see, and back afterwards.

Rolling from content

Dice written into a creature’s stat block or a page are live. Tap one and it rolls.

That works because the text the app renders is Markdown, and dice expressions in it are found automatically — 2d10 in a trait is tappable with no markup at all. To be explicit, or to label a roll, link it:

[2d6+3](roll)
[2d6+3](roll "fire damage")

Under D&D 5E the app also guesses the kind of roll — a leading + is an attack, a d20 is a check, a formula followed by damage is damage — which is what lets each kind carry its own dice theme.

Pages are the exception: they use a rich text editor, so a roll there has to be a link to /roll with the formula as its text. The full syntax, including links to other content, is covered in Writing Content.

Roll tables

A roll table is a table you can roll on: random encounters, treasure, rumours, weather.

How a table decides the result

It depends on the first column:

If the first column is named after a dice formula — d100, d20 — its cells are read as ranges like 01-50, 99 or 00, and the roll is matched against them.
Otherwise rows are matched by position, and the app rolls a die the size of the table.

So a d100 table with a 01-50 row hits that row half the time, and a plain twelve-row table is rolled with a d12.

Nested tables

A cell can point at another table. When the parent is rolled, the child is rolled too, as part of the same result.

That is how a treasure table rolls on a gems table which rolls on a magic item table — one tap, the whole chain resolved.

Nesting is capped, so a table that eventually rolls on itself will stop rather than run forever.

Entries inside results

Table cells can contain content links, the same as any other text:

[Potion of healing](item)

The result then comes back with the item linked, ready to open.

Keeping results

Settings → Save Table Rolls keeps a record of each result instead of discarding it after the roll. On by default.

Useful when you roll a shop’s stock or a night’s encounters ahead of time and want them again later.

Importing tables

A .csv file imports as a table, which is the quickest way to bring in a table you have in a spreadsheet. See Import and Export.

Rolls in remote play

Players in the web client can roll too. They type /roll 2d6+3 — or /r — in the shared log, and the result appears on your device as well as theirs.

Your public rolls appear in their log the same way. See Remote Play.

Common questions

My dice text is not tappable

Check that the formula is one the app can parse, such as 2d6+3. If you wrote it as a link, the destination has to be roll.

The 3D roller is not there

It needs a Premium subscription. Without one, the Type row is not shown and the standard roller is used.

Rolls are showing up on the player screen

Set the roller Mode to Private. See Dice Roller Settings.

Where to go next

Writing Content — the full Markdown, link and dice syntax.
Dice Roller Settings — rollers, sound and dice themes.
The Library — where roll tables are stored.
Remote Play — rolling with players who are not in the room.