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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7007732" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Are you asking me how I usually do it, how you could do it, or for an exhaustive list of all the possible ways you could do it?At the risk of repeating things you already know: you can either do colors, or left to right, top to bottom (like reading English). If you don't want to worry about top-to-bottom ambiguity you could simply physically linearize your dice as part of the rolling process (e.g. roll them on a ramp one die wide so the dice come out in a line instead of a plane; or sweep them into a rough line with your hand before reading them).Once you have a total ordering on the dice, mapping those dice to specific attacks is likewise easy. For instance, you could assign dice to attacks in the same order they are written in the monster manual. If the text says &quot;Multiattack: the Balor makes one longsword attack and one whip attack,&quot; then the first die is for the longsword and the second is for the whip; and if the longsword hits and downs the PC and the whip misses, re-roll the whip because it's at advantage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7007732, member: 6787650"] Are you asking me how I usually do it, how you could do it, or for an exhaustive list of all the possible ways you could do it? At the risk of repeating things you already know: you can either do colors, or left to right, top to bottom (like reading English). If you don't want to worry about top-to-bottom ambiguity you could simply physically linearize your dice as part of the rolling process (e.g. roll them on a ramp one die wide so the dice come out in a line instead of a plane; or sweep them into a rough line with your hand before reading them). Once you have a total ordering on the dice, mapping those dice to specific attacks is likewise easy. For instance, you could assign dice to attacks in the same order they are written in the monster manual. If the text says "Multiattack: the Balor makes one longsword attack and one whip attack," then the first die is for the longsword and the second is for the whip; and if the longsword hits and downs the PC and the whip misses, re-roll the whip because it's at advantage. [/QUOTE]

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