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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 5934794" data-attributes="member: 3448">For mass rolling, if you really care about speed, an electronic rolling tool can be faster.  Something like dicelog.com or Tabletop Forge or whatever.  You can often specify the success number, too, so you could do it in like three rolls.For example, on dicelog.com, if you have 20 kobolds attacking, at +3 to hit each, with advantage, against AC 15, that's 1d20+3, success if >= 15, 20 times--a single command.  Less than a second later, you get the result--I just ran that and got 7 success, of which 3 were crits.  So reroll the 13 failures--same roll but only 13 times.  4 successes, none crits.  Then reroll the non crit original successes (4 in this case), this time as 1d20, success=20.  No crits, so the total is 8 normal hits, 3 crits.  Whole thing, maybe 5 or 10 seconds.  If that's too slow for you, 20 combatants is too many. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In practice, even if I had 20 kobolds, I'd rarely be rolling twenty attacks at a time--first I'd break them up into a couple of initiative counts, second they probably wouldn't all be attacking the same foe.  If you imagine that as 20 kobolds, 4 PCs, going 5 kobolds-PC-5 kobolds-PC2-etc., running through each group of 5 kobolds would be moderately fast.  But if I really wanted a big fight (maybe it's 80 kobolds and a dragon against 6th or 8th level PCs), and I was worried about speed, I'd use an electronic dice roller.</blockquote>

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