Which comes first: Chicken or the Egg

I've been working on a macro for magic missile. I have one that works for the most part but there is some functionality that perplexes me. In the following code I have a query for the number of targets followed by another query that sets up a call for each target. The macro is designed to as for a certain number of calls based on the number of targets in the first query. That said, every time I use the macro I am asked to select the target calls before specifying how many targets I select. I have a simplified version of this macro that exhibits this behavior. Is there something I'm overlooking or is this something I'll have to live with?  ?{Targets? |1 , [[ ?{Target 1 | 1d4+1 } ]]  |2 , [[ ?{Target 1 | 1d4+1 } ]] force damage and [[ ?{Target 2| 1d4+1 } ]]  }} force damage to  ?{Targets? |1 , to @{target|1|token_name}.   |2 , to @{target|1|token_name} and @{target|2|token_name}. }}

The dice roller is trying to fill in all the values from attributes (which includes target attributes).&nbsp; If you check out where that lands in the order of operations, it makes sense what you are seeing. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Dice_Reference#Order_of_Operations" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Dice_Reference#Order_of_Operations</a>

If I'm understanding this correctly, since&nbsp; you can't force a variable to be interpreted before an attribute call, the only way to remove erroneous target calls would be to have 5 different macros depending on the number of desired targets.

You could do that and use a chat menu instead of a query.&nbsp; You would trigger the menu that would have individual buttons for the macros with different numbers of targets.&nbsp; Then when you click one of those, it would ask you to select the targets. <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/5927072/" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/5927072/</a>