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Heightening spells

i need to heighten spells for the pathfinder 2e game im in, and am still pretty new at Roll20. ive tried following what little i can find online. one reddit post suggested a way to add the input in the character sheet but it ended up making my damage 190 with a crit of 410 with a level 2 based spell... no way thats right. first spell im looking at is Vomit swarm, level 2 spell, H+1. can anyone give me some pointers.
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Bronson H.
Roll20 Team
Hey Lunchbox, There are a few ways to accomplish this for a damaging spell like Vomit Swarm: If you want to be queried each time you roll the spell for what level you're casting it at, you can replace the damage box with "?{Heightened Level}d8"  (without quotation marks).  You can replace the words Heightened Level with any prompt you want here, but the spell will bring up a box whenever you roll it, allowing you to specify what level you're casting it at, and then calculate the damage from there.  Downside is that this query will come up every time you cast the spell, even if you're not intending on heightening it at all. Alternatively, you can replace the damage box with "@{current_level}d8".  This won't prompt you for a Heightened Level, but will instead use whatever value is in the spell's level field.  That way, if you want to heighten a spell, you simply edit the spell's level to the spell you want to cast it, then change it back after.  It's a bit of work to change the spell each time you want to heighten it, but this way you can just click to cast when you're not heightening the spell at all.  I've known players who like to add multiple copies of spells they frequently heighten, at different levels - though this can take up a lot of space in the spells tab! You can also simply add double square brackets "[[ ]]" around the dice value of 1d8 in the "Heightened Effects" field of the spell.  This will roll an extra 1d8 every time, but keep it separate from the damage, for you to add on your own if you're heightening the spell.  It won't be calculated in the crit roll, and you'll need to do mental math (or roll more d8s) if you're heightening it past level 3, but this is probably the most fire and forget solution. Similarly to the other two solutions, you can replace the 1d8 here with "[[[[@{current_level} - 2]]d8]]" or the entire Heightened field with "Heightened (+[[?{Heightened Levels}]]) Increase the damage by [[?{Heightened Levels }d8]].". For more complicated spells, or more complex queries (like dropdown queries), I'd recommend giving this  page  a look.  Most of the logic that works there for /r rolls will work on your sheet as well, and you can experiment with how you'd like to customize your spells.  In general, using "?{Query Text}" for queries and "@{attribute_name}" for sheet attributes are quite useful.   Let me know if you run into any issues or have any questions! Best of luck, Bronson