Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems When Rolling Two Dice, Game is Choosing the Lower Roll!

I'm really confused. My character is a Bard, if this matters.

I spoke to Shadowheart in camp. This was when she had that injury to her hand. When I clicked persuade to get her to discuss this, the game showed that I needed a dice roll of 15. But it also gave me two dice to roll. This is supposed to be great, because the game is supposed to pick the higher of the two rolls. Well, it isn't doing that. The game rolled my two dice, one was an 18, the other was a 2. The silly game chose the dice with the 2, added my +5 bonus to it, and it failed. I was shocked. I reloaded a previous save. I went to camp again, spoke to Shadowheart, it rolled two dice, and once again it chose the lowest roll, and I failed. A third reload, and it just did the same thing again.

What the heck is going on? Am I missing something? Why isn’t the game choosing the dice with the higher roll?

Oh crap, never mind. I was rolling with a "Disadvantage" Guess people like me need dice with red letters on them, cuz we don't pay enough attention to see the word "disadvantage" as the bottom. Oops.

you have disadvantage = 2 dice pick the low one

advantage = pick the high one

Well you are correct, and you are really fast with the reply too

Yeah, disadvantage can be a bit sneaky like that—it’s easy to miss. That lower roll rule really changes the game when you’re used to aiming for the best roll!

If you ever want to mess around with rolls yourself without the in-game mechanics, a dice roller online can let you simulate it and see how often those low rolls come up with disadvantage.