Neat Macros

Hi, I've been playing around and failing to make a specific macro. I would like to make GM rolls for specific passive skills for the entire group, and ideally have it output as a compact output. So for a group perception macro, once the perception bonus is added in the macro (no modifier dialogue box as I want to speed the process up) it would output something like 19 for Steve 17 for Alice 24 for Boraxxious The Obnoxious 4 for Little Steve So far I get error messages for "/Gmroll [[1d20 + 4]] for Steve" Any help appreciated. Then I can populate other passive skill macros.

- And then of course I instantly find the answer on <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Pathfinder" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Pathfinder</a> . Headslap

paul p. said: So far I get error messages for "/Gmroll [[1d20 + 4]] for Steve" paul p. said: - And then of course I instantly find the answer on <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Pathfinder" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Pathfinder</a> . Headslap That is great news that you found the answer to the problem. Your example above was trying to make the dice roller do two things at the same time. The [[ ]] is for inline brackets while the /Gmroll is for the gm to whisper himself the standard roller. You could just "/Gmroll 1d20+4 for steve" or you could do like this /w GM Perception check: Steve [[1d20+4]], Alice [[1d20]], Boraxxious The Obnoxious [[1d20-2]], little steve [[1d20+6]] That will give you a string of perception checks in a neat line. If you want it list style (like your post above) then you would have to alter it slightly /w GM Perception check: /w GM Steve [[1d20+4]] /w GM Alice [[1d20]] /w GM Boraxxious The Obnoxious [[1d20-2]] /w GM little steve [[1d20+6]] That will give you a line by line break down of the inline rolls that only you would see. I think the wiki says this but I haven't looked at it closely. Good luck and have fun.

If you wan to get fancy with it, you can have all your players include a "Perception" attribute on their Character Journals. You could then write your macro to automatically pull in those values instead of having to automatically update your macro any time there's a change. /w GM Perceptions /w GM [[ 1d20 + @{1stCharacter'sName|Perception} ]] /w GM [[ 1d20 + @{2ndCharacter'sName|Perception} ]] Etc.. I know you mentioned not wanting to do queries, but if you throw in a query with the same text, it will only ask once and use the value throughout. /w GM Perceptions /w GM [[ 1d20 + @{1stCharacter'sName|Perception} + ?{Perception Bonus?|0} ]] /w GM [[ 1d20 + @{2ndCharacter'sName|Perception} + ?{Perception Bonus?|0} ]] Etc..

Thanks for the replies. Since I use Hero Lab, I haven't been involved with the journals but will look into it.

You don't have to do a complete set of stats, you can just do the ones you use in your macros. Think of the "Charactersheets" as character variables