Are global macros possible?

Sorry if this has been asked before I searched and found nothing but a suggestion. Is there a way where the macros that appear under the settings tab be global macros or macros I can see across all my games? Would save a lot of time.

That isn't currently possible. Sounds like the seed of a fine suggestion though!

Brandon F. said: Sorry if this has been asked before I searched and found nothing but a suggestion. Is there a way where the macros that appear under the settings tab be global macros or macros I can see across all my games? Would save a lot of time. Within a campaign, the GM can make them available to all players and they can choose to view them or not. Also, I believe any token ability macros created for a character journal entry will "travel" using the Transmogrifier or the character vault. So you could bring your macros with you across campaigns of the same GM.

I'm spread across a couple different GMs so that wouldn't really assist me I was hoping I could order some basic macros and have them be attached to my profile and usuable by all my characters.

Not currently. If you were a Mentor, I can imagine a script that would at least automate the process of copying them. (I'd build a JSON object containing them, Base64 encode it and set it as text in a special handout, you'd use the Transmogrifier to move it to the other campaigns, then run a script to extract it and recreate the macros. Not trivial, but probably only a few hours actual work.)

Without dipping into Mentor level API's you can just do what I do for one-shots; Keep a Notepad or other text document on my desktop with all my common macros in it and copy/paste them into a new game. It's not pretty, but only takes like, 5 minutes to transcribe it and update the numbers. Especially if you combine related rolls into single macros. (all conversation skills, all knowledges, etc)

Brandon , if you upgrade to supporter you could use the Vault to transfer your character between campaigns. Then, if you put your macros in as Character Ability macros (rather than setting tab Macros) you will have them available in any campaign. Note: the GM will need to enable importing characters into his campaign.

I'm broke I don't have the extra money to spare for a simple quality of life thing. Thanks for your input though! :)

Mark G's approach is a good one. I also keep a word doc with a 2-column table. 1st column, the name of the macro, 2nd column, the actual macro. This can also come in handy when trying out variations of a macro. Copy/paste can be done fairly quickly. BTW, one of the new features coming soon to roll20 is the ability to drag and drop sheet rolls to the macro bar which should eliminate the need to create as many macros.