Will you ever make it so that jack of all trades adds half proficiency to general ability checks when using the dice roller?
The dice roller already does this; your bonus for any skill you're not proficient in already includes the Jack of All Trades bonus, which is subsequently added to your dice roll.
For skills checks, yes. For skill-less ability checks, it does not. When I click my dexterity modifier to roll a general dexterity check, it does not add my jack of all trades bonus to the result.
I rolled this on my sixth level bard. My dex modifier is +4, but with Jack of All Trades, this result should be 25.
Ah, I see what you mean now. That is likely due to how the dice work with clickable values. Jack of all Trades isn't added to your ability modifier, just ability checks. The sheet has no space to display ability checks no associated with a skill, thus no value that represents Jack of all Trades not associated with a skill. I believe features like this are planned.
The dice roller won't add half proficiency because that's not where the 'checks' are. Only in the "Skill' section. But a work around would be to add a custom skill. All the way on the bottom you'll see a small gear symbol. Click it and add your own check. I personally use it for Tool checks (usually thieve's tools). There you can add which stat governs it, and which proficiency level you want to apply (unfortunately, setting it to 'no prof' does not have Jack of all Trade apply so you'll have to manually set it to 'half prof'.
Just call it 'Str', 'Dex', 'Con', etc and set it. You can choose to add a description (or not) you can add an override bonus, a magical or misc bonus too (you can customize this for existing skills too, like if you want to learn a skill that's not RAW in the builder, like they did training during downtime, you can choose to override and add prof, expertise or even reduce it to half or no prof), when doing this, the little black dot showing your skill level will turn blue showing that its a custom set, don't be alarmed
They aren't going to do piety for a lonnnnnnnnnng time, that's for sure. Doesn't have support for a lot of books older than Theros, so Theros support is a long time away
They aren't going to do piety for a lonnnnnnnnnng time, that's for sure. Doesn't have support for a lot of books older than Theros, so Theros support is a long time away
Yea but boons and the like is from the DMG. Once they have a system for one of these features it should work for all
They aren't going to do piety for a lonnnnnnnnnng time, that's for sure. Doesn't have support for a lot of books older than Theros, so Theros support is a long time away
Yea but boons and the like is from the DMG. Once they have a system for one of these features it should work for all
also leveling up more than 20. and ability scores higher than 18
The dice roller won't add half proficiency because that's not where the 'checks' are. Only in the "Skill' section. But a work around would be to add a custom skill. All the way on the bottom you'll see a small gear symbol. Click it and add your own check. I personally use it for Tool checks (usually thieve's tools). There you can add which stat governs it, and which proficiency level you want to apply (unfortunately, setting it to 'no prof' does not have Jack of all Trade apply so you'll have to manually set it to 'half prof'.
Just call it 'Str', 'Dex', 'Con', etc and set it. You can choose to add a description (or not) you can add an override bonus, a magical or misc bonus too (you can customize this for existing skills too, like if you want to learn a skill that's not RAW in the builder, like they did training during downtime, you can choose to override and add prof, expertise or even reduce it to half or no prof), when doing this, the little black dot showing your skill level will turn blue showing that its a custom set, don't be alarmed
It may be a little late but Jack of all Trades DOES apply to Initiative checks. Didn't even think about it applying but then I noticed one of my players (who is a bard) had his init higher than his dex on the DNDB character sheet. Took me a second but found that enlightening.
So... what is Stream Hero's and how do I join/participate?
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For skills checks, yes. For skill-less ability checks, it does not. When I click my dexterity modifier to roll a general dexterity check, it does not add my jack of all trades bonus to the result.
I rolled this on my sixth level bard. My dex modifier is +4, but with Jack of All Trades, this result should be 25.
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ModeratorAh, I see what you mean now. That is likely due to how the dice work with clickable values. Jack of all Trades isn't added to your ability modifier, just ability checks. The sheet has no space to display ability checks no associated with a skill, thus no value that represents Jack of all Trades not associated with a skill. I believe features like this are planned.
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The dice roller won't add half proficiency because that's not where the 'checks' are. Only in the "Skill' section. But a work around would be to add a custom skill. All the way on the bottom you'll see a small gear symbol. Click it and add your own check. I personally use it for Tool checks (usually thieve's tools). There you can add which stat governs it, and which proficiency level you want to apply (unfortunately, setting it to 'no prof' does not have Jack of all Trade apply so you'll have to manually set it to 'half prof'.
Just call it 'Str', 'Dex', 'Con', etc and set it. You can choose to add a description (or not) you can add an override bonus, a magical or misc bonus too (you can customize this for existing skills too, like if you want to learn a skill that's not RAW in the builder, like they did training during downtime, you can choose to override and add prof, expertise or even reduce it to half or no prof), when doing this, the little black dot showing your skill level will turn blue showing that its a custom set, don't be alarmed
They aren't going to do piety for a lonnnnnnnnnng time, that's for sure. Doesn't have support for a lot of books older than Theros, so Theros support is a long time away
Yea but boons and the like is from the DMG. Once they have a system for one of these features it should work for all
also leveling up more than 20. and ability scores higher than 18
It may be a little late but Jack of all Trades DOES apply to Initiative checks. Didn't even think about it applying but then I noticed one of my players (who is a bard) had his init higher than his dex on the DNDB character sheet. Took me a second but found that enlightening.
So... what is Stream Hero's and how do I join/participate?
Remember there are Rules as Written (RAW), Rules as Intended (RAI), and Rules as Fun (RAF). There's some great RAW, RAI, and RAF here... please check in with your DM to determine how they want to adjudicate the RAW/RAI/RAF for your game.