Alien RPG Freeleague character sheet question

Hi all, I was adding some custom content and have been trying to use the roll template along with the character sheet. Regardless of what I enter after &{template:alien} I just get an empty template. I tested the same script with the default template and it works fine. Is there something about an official character sheet as opposed to a community one that blocks me from using the template? Thanks

Hi VonKlement,  Templates are baked into the character sheets. If you are not using the character sheet that the template is built for then it won't work.  The default template is a universal template that can be used no matter what character sheet you are using, or even if you are not using a character sheet.  To clarify, which character sheet are you using? 

I understand. I'm using the free league official sheet. ALIEN: The Roleplaying Game by Free League by Authors:["Medieve", "Scott Casey", "Sigil Services"]   I know the macro I'm using is good because I tested it with the default template first. When I use the alien template it populates but is empty.

I'll see about getting the template fields documented somewhere. The more advanced features of the template require some functions on the sheet, and can't be used in custom macros, but in the meantime, what are you trying to do and what's your current macro?

My suggestion regarding character sheet templates is to use the character sheet to generate an example, then click on the chat box, hit the up arrow, and copy that.  T hen modify the template one step at a time until you break something. 

Thanks Scott, I was mainly trying to add a few house rule macros or things like technobabble generators and so forth, simple stuff. I was thinking of buying some of the bundles but while the Starter set and Destroyer of Worlds bundle clearly has a contents, the Core rule/ Compendium set doesn't list what's in it so buy one/ both? I already purchased most of this physically with PDF's. Curious if there's added value there, like more rollable tables etc. like the Blade Runner VTT stuff has. The Alien CSS is a lot nicer than the purple box :/ @Gauss- Thanks! The up arrow thing is a sneaky feature- very cool. In this case though I get @{char_name|template_start} which I tried to pull apart or replace some syntax "&{template_start}" or "&{template:start}" but didn't work.

I got some dice rolling macros written, but I never thought to tease apart the other macros. You can get content with just the following. &{template:alien} {{character-name=Character Name}} {{roll-name=Roll Name}}  I'll put the rollers below. For a straight dice roller: &{template:alien} {{character-name=Basic Role}} {{roll-name=Rolling ?{Number|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10} Dice}} {{base-dice=[[ ?{Number|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10} ]]}} {{base-roll-one=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-two=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-three=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-four=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-five=[[1d6]] }}  {{base-roll-six=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-seven=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-eight=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-nine=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-ten=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-eleven=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-twelve=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-thirteen=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-fourteen=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-fifteen=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-sixteen=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-seventeen=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-eighteen=[[1d6]] }}  {{stress-dice=[[0]] }} {{stress-roll-one=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-two=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-three=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-four=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-five=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-six=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-seven=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-eight=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-nine=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-ten=[[1d6]] }} And for a roller that also prompts for Stress dice: &{template:alien} {{character-name=Role with Stress}} {{roll-name=Rolling ?{Basic|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10} Basic and ?{Stress|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10} Stress }} {{base-dice=[[ ?{Basic|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10} ]]}} {{base-roll-one=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-two=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-three=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-four=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-five=[[1d6]] }}  {{base-roll-six=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-seven=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-eight=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-nine=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-ten=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-eleven=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-twelve=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-thirteen=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-fourteen=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-fifteen=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-sixteen=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-seventeen=[[1d6]] }} {{base-roll-eighteen=[[1d6]] }}  {{stress-dice=[[ ?{Stress|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10} ]] }} {{stress-roll-one=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-two=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-three=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-four=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-five=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-six=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-seven=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-eight=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-nine=[[1d6]] }} {{stress-roll-ten=[[1d6]] }} I also wrote something that will fake roll Stress dice for an android character, but I can't find it.

@Dr DM I have the Alien Dice Roller API which is awesome. It uses the game dice images and also has a nice template.