Tutorial continued:
I discovered that you can NOT roll dice if you are starting a brand new topic. You only get the option to roll dice when REPLYING to a topic that has already been started.
When you click on "Add Reply" to a topic in order to post, you will notice below the text window that you've got two buttons, "preview" and "send."
Immediately below those buttons you should have a category labeled "Dice Rolls."
Let's say you've got several rolls to make. You're a stone giant swinging a giant shovel that does 4d6 + 15 damage. You've got an attack modifier of +17. I'd like the post to read something like this:
Stony swings his shovel at Mylyr, attempting to bash his brains in.
Attack: + 17 =
Damage: + 15 =
Now, I'm going to look at the Dice Rolls section and take the following actions:
I know I'm going to need more than one roll, so I'll click on the little "+" symbol to the right of the Dice rolls little window. This will create another level of dice rolling options for me and now I have two windows labeled Dice rolls #1: and Dice rolls #2:
In the first window, I'll select my 20 sided dice. I only want one attack roll at this point, so I leave the number of rolls at 1. If I got multiple attacks per round or I had the two weapon fighting feat, I would change that number to reflect the actual number of d20's that I needed to roll.
In the second window, I'll select my dice which is d6, and update the number window to reflect 4d6. I hope you're with me so far, and feel free to test this out and get used to it. So as a recap, I've got two dice roll windows displayed, one with d20 and 1 for the dice and number of rolls for that dice, and the other window shows d6 and 4 to reflect 4d6.
Click send.