Encounters do not work with physical dice

I like to play with physical dice. When prompted for checks, I can usually type “Character rolls a natural 20 for persuasion” which generally works. However if I try to do the same for initiative, I do not get the encounter with location and damage-tracking, I must use the UI to roll a virtual dice and there’s no way to override the value. Further, if I use the UI for Initiative, damage must be handled with prompts like “Franz, deduct <n> hit points for Character “ this kind of works, but has weird edge cases where the hit points can go negative without the character going unconscious or monster being marked dead.

tl;dr it would be great to have an option to enter base roll in the roll UI!