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5e Monk Macros

I am trying to help one of my players out by automating their monk, but I've reached the limit of my abilities. What I'm Trying to Accomplish:  I'm trying to build macros for all of the Monk abilities that use Ki.  This will let the player quickly and easily track the amount of Ki they have...when the player clicks on "Ki-Fueled Attack," for example, the character makes an attack roll and spends 1 Ki point. The Issue:  Flurry of Blows .  Per the rules, the character makes 2 attack rolls for the cost of 1 Ki point.  But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make this work.  Does anyone know how I can configure an attack to make 2 attack (and damage) rolls for the cost of 1 point of "ammunition"?
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Gauss
Forum Champion
I assume you are using the 5e by Roll20 character sheet and the 5e OGL companion script for keeping track of ammunition? If so here is what you do:  1) Build an attack in the attacks section for the unarmed strike.  2) Click the attack. 3) Go to the Chat Tab, click on the chat window, hit the up arrow, copy the attack.  4) Paste that attack somewhere (word doc, macro, whatever)  5) Repeat steps 1 through 4 but this time when you build the attack, fill the ammunition field with your Ki field.  6) Now, you build a macro in the Attributes & Abilities tab paste the results from step 5, then paste the results from step 4.  Now you have a macro that attacks twice and keeps track of the Ki on only one of the attacks. There are other ways to do this, but that is a relatively simple method.  A second alternative:  Build an attack in the attacks section, make it completely blank except the ammunition field.  Follow steps 2-4 above.  Then you make a Flurry of Blows attack WITHOUT it deducting Ki as per steps 1-3 above.  Now, you make a macro, post the "blank attack" that just deducts ki. Then you call the Flurry of Blows attack twice (in the macro). If you need further help on this send me an invite to your game and I can show you how to do this in more detail.
Thanks Gauss, that worked perfectly! One of these days, I'm going to write the whole suite of Monk utilities into a single API Script.  But alas, it is not today.