Advantage Reminder builds on how the D&D 5e system handles Advantage and Disadvantage on D20 Tests. While you can set Advantage on rolls like Saving Throws, it's not always clear when you should roll with Advantage or why. This module improves that by allowing you to make the default button stand out by styling it, as seen by the green button in the screenshot below. It also can tell you why you should make that roll, as seen by the "Advantage from Rage" message.
Advantage Reminder also lets you set Advantage or Disadvantage on more rolls (e.g. attacks) and in more situations (e.g. saving throw that sets a status) than the base system with Active Effects. And for those use cases that are so situational, you can add your own custom message on a roll.
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Advantage, Disadvantage, and Critical Features
The original purpose of the module was to support Midi-QOL's flags to set Advantage, Disadvantage, and Critical with Active Effects. Since then, the D&D 5e system itself has added support for doing this on some rolls (e.g. Concentration and Ability Checks) with its Advantage Mode field. Advantage Reminder supports both and will correctly merge the system's setting and a Midi-QOL flag. For example, if you used the system to set Advantage on Strength Ability Checks and a Midi-QOL flag to set Disadvantage, you will get a Normal roll and shown both sources in the Messages section.
D20 Tests
- Supports the system's Advantage Mode fields, including:
- Show source if set directly on the character sheet or with an Active Effect
- Show that Advantage/Disadvantage was overridden or suppressed if using the Override, Upgrade, and Downgrade change modes in an Active Effect
- Supports Advantage and Disadvantage rolls with Midi-QOL flags on:
- Attacks, both on the attacker and target
- Ability Checks
- Skill Checks
- Saving Throws
- Death Saving Throws
- Supports Saving Throws vs. statuses through custom Active Effect keys (e.g. Dwarven Resilience)
- Combines Advantage and Disadvantage on those rolls that are also another type of roll, for example a Skill Check is also an Ability Check
- If a source is from an Active Effect or Condition, it will be a link that you can hover over to get more information or click on to open
Damage Rolls
- If the preceding attack was a Natural 20, will show that as a Critical source
- Attacks on targets with certain conditions (e.g. Paralyzed) will be Criticals
- Supports Midi-QOL flags on both the attacker and target to make Criticals or suppress it for Normal damage (e.g. Adamantine Armor)
Messages
In addition to active effects adding advantage or disadvantage, you can also add messages to remind you of conditional bonuses or advantage. For example, if you constantly forget to add 1d4 from the Guidance spell, you can add a message on skill rolls to remember to add that. In addition, you can use the deferred inline roll syntax (e.g. [[/r 1d4]]) to make it clickable, adding it to the Situational Bonus field.
Settings
Some of the features are controlled by settings.
- Style the default button by changing the button's color, text color, or make it wider. A client setting so each player can set it themselves.
- Show the sources of Advantage, Disadvantage, or Critical. A client setting so each player can set it themselves.
- Enable conditions to apply Advantage, Disadvantage, or Critical with the system's conditions (e.g. apply disadvantage to attacks when Poisoned). A GM-only setting.
Fast-Forward Overrides
Note: This is for D&D 5e system version 5.0 and earlier. Version 5.1 adds the ability to add to Advantage and to override it.
If the player holds down one of the Ctrl/Alt/Shift/Meta keys to fast-forward the die roll (e.g. hold Alt to roll with advantage, skipping the roll dialog) then this module WILL NOT do anything. Holding down one of those keys stops the roll dialog from popping up so it's interpreted as overriding what this module does.
Compatibility
Advantage Reminder is compatible with DAE, Midi QOL, and Ready Set Roll. There are more details on that and other mdoules in the readme. Follow the Project URL link to get the latest information.
System Versions
For the most part the Foundry version determines what version of Advantage Reminder to use, but here is a listing of system versions and Advantage Reminder version to use.
| D&D 5e Versions | Advantage Reminder Versions |
|---|---|
| 4.2.0 + | 4.3.0 + |
| 4.1.0 - 4.1.2 | 4.2.0 - 4.2.6 |
| 4.0.0 - 4.0.4 | 4.1.0 - 4.1.1 |
| 3.0.0 - 3.3.1 | 3.3.0 - 4.0.2 |
| 2.0.1 - 2.4.1 | 3.0 - 3.2.1 |