Tokens with randomly generated attributes.

I make characters for each monster I'm running, so I can have their attacks and everything predone before the game starts. I also prefer rolling randomly for each monster's hit points rather than using the average. There is a site called donjon that has an initiative tracker that allows dice rolls to be put in instead of set numbers. I'd love for there to be a way to do this in Roll20 when spawning a new token of a character. The hope is maybe check a box to say that a character is non-unique. An Orc for example, I could check this, set the HP attribute to 2d8+2 and each time I make a new token of the Orc, it rolls the 2d8+2 for the HP and assignes it to that token.

I have a script that rolls monster hit dice individually. I wrote it quite a long time ago, but I think it could be updated to do what you want, possibly by adding an attribute to the creatures that need to have unique hit dice. Here is the current script: GIST: <a href="https://gist.github.com/shdwjk/7377de58100f4e813432" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/shdwjk/7377de58100f4e813432</a>

So, I'm totally in the dark when it comes to reading this kind of stuff. So I have a couple questions. -Using your script, what would the attribute be named? hp? or HitDice? reading through it seems like it'd be one of these two. Or do I create both fields, and for the HitDice attribute type in say, 2d8+4 and then leave hp blank? -Also, do I need the double brackets around the HitDice to indicate it's a dice roll?

Ok, I think I figured this out, I made the HitDice attribute and it's generating it now. Thanks, this is really great.

No prob! PM me if you'd like it to do something more and I'll see what I can do. =D

Hello The Aaron - I just saw this conversation and I really love this idea. If I may ask - Where do I place this script in order for it to work on a token in my journal?

Barry, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Use_Guide" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Use_Guide</a>

Hey, this one is really handy! Is there a way to make it only roll the attribute if holding down the Ctrl key or something along those lines? I don't want it rolling health for every token I drag in.

It will only roll health if the field it puts the HP into is set to "None" in the pulldown menu. So lets take my Orc for example. I drag a token for the Orc out, open the options for it and set Bar 1 to Speed from the pull down menu, then set Bar 2 to None, then set Bar 3 to AC. Then I save that as the default token for my Orc. Now any time I pull out a token, it'll randomly roll the HP and have the Speed and AC already set up in those fields. Now for a reoccurring Named Orc, I obviously don't want him to have random hit point. So lets call him, Krug. I'll make a copy of my Orc, rename it Krug then save it. Then drag out a Token for Krug and open the token options. Like before, I set Bar 1 to Speed and Bar 3 to AC, but this time instead of leaving Bar 2 set to None, I'll set it to HP. Then like before, I save this as the default token for Krug. Now when I pull out a random Orc, it will have random Hit Points from the Script. However when I pull out Krug, he will have a set amount of hit points because Bar 2 has already been saved as something else.

hiya guys, Testing out the MonsterHD script, I took your script and change the (name: 'HitDice') to (name: 'npc_HP_hit_dice') in the script for use with the NPC Monster Sheet, but I might be missing something as its not generating HPs. Something else I need to tweak? Thanks.

Greg B. said: hiya guys, Testing out the MonsterHD script, I took your script and change the (name: 'HitDice') to (name: 'npc_HP_hit_dice') in the script for use with the NPC Monster Sheet, but I might be missing something as its not generating HPs. Something else I need to tweak? Thanks. well never mind, it looks like HP in the script is set to Bar2 which I was using for speed. Changing that around and seems that it did the job.

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