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# Rolling with traits

Unlike other dice rollers, Inconnu allows you to roll by naming your Attributes and Skills.

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**Basic roll syntax:**

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```
/roll pool:<POOL> hunger:<HUNGER> difficulty:<DIFFICULTY>
```

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While you can supply raw numbers for each of these parameters, **Inconnu** really shines when you use *traits*. Traits are the Attributes and Skills you supplied while making the character, plus any custom traits you might define later.

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**Example:** Nadea is performing research at the library. She's at *hunger 2*, and the information is hard to find, so the roll is against *difficulty 4*. The pool is *Resolve* plus *Academics*, and she has a research specialty that grants her a bonus die.

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```
/roll pool:resolve + academics + 1 hunger:Current Hunger difficulty:4
```

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From this syntax, **Inconnu** interprets the following:

* `pool`: Resolve + Academics + 1
* `hunger`: Nadea's current Hunger rating
* `difficulty:` 4
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**Notice that we didn't capitalize&#x20;*****Resolve*****&#x20;or&#x20;*****Academics*****?** That's fine. **Inconnu** doesn't care about that. In fact, we didn't even need to write the full trait names! You can provide an abbreviated name so long as **Inconnu** can match it to a *single* trait name. Thus, we could have supplied `r` for *Resolve* and `ac` for *Academics*, making our `pool` a much quicker `r + ac + 1`!
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**You might have noticed we didn't provide a character name in our roll.** So long as you have only **one character**, you won't need to supply a character name for most functions. As soon as you add a second, however, you will need to supply the name of the character so **Inconnu** knows which traits to look up. Even then, in certain circumstances, Inconnu is smart enough to know which character can perform a given interaction. Feel free to experiment!
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