Hidden dice rolls

Module Design
1

Is there any way to simulate this?

2

If you don’t give a dice roll a Button Text or Button Icon and you don’t include them in a toolbar menu, then they can only be activated by the hotkey you give them and, therefore, they would be hidden.

3

But in that way, would the roll be hidden for the opponent?

4

You could simulate a die with a unit that has 6 layers on a hidden map and then use a key to randomize the layer.

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5

It would be hidden from everybody. By not using a Button Text or Icon and not including it in a menu, you’re basically just rolling the die to get the variable $foo_result$.

For example: If you have a Dice named D4, and you’ve given it the hotkey CTRL 4, then when the CTRL 4 is executed, the die will create the result $D4_result$. You can then use that result however you like and if it’s not Reported, no one is going to know the result is.

I make heavy use of this type of process in TBK to create random events. I use the results to determine the type of event that will occur but I don’t specifically report the die rolls to the players.