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#840650 10/01/23 02:34 AM
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So I noticed something with the chat box while I was trying to figure out how I felt about the differences between having Karmtic Dice activated vs deactivated. While it seemed like the rolls are WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY off on deactivating karmatic dice (it seems that FAR, FAR, FAR too many times I rolled 2-4 on my attack rolls), I was in a spot where 2 NPC's were having a conversation. I kept scrolling up to try to figure out what my rolls were everytime I cast Eldrich Blast with Wyll, I discovered that the NPC's Stonemason Kith and Stonemason Gergerann's conversation kept scrolling the chat box to the bottom consistantly. I could not find a feature in the options to turn this off. Maybe it's there and I'm just blind. But it was twice as irritating that 1) Turning off Karmatic Dice seems to make the game feel like my dice rolls fail 60-70% of the time. And 2) While trying to figure out if I'm just being an annoyed baby about my rolls, I couldn't get accurate numbers because the chat box kept automatically scrolling to the bottom everytime an NPC talked.

I'll look again just to make sure I didn't miss a place in the options to turn off the automatic scroll feature so I can read past rolls.

But if it happens to not be there, I hope it gets added. Because the frustration of what seems to be broken rolls by turning off the Karmatic Dice + not being able to get accurate numbers in the chat box is a frustrating thing.

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I agree the way that ambient dialogue makes it hard to review the combat log is annoying.

But with respect to the effect of karmic dice vs normal dice, some forum members did some useful analysis recently. This implies that the behaviour of karmic dice might not be quite what we'd expect, but does make higher rolls more likely, whereas non-karmic dice rolls do seem to be fairly distributed, despite what it feels like sometimes.

See https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=838898 for the full discussion.


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