Macro's and "emote as selected token"

Hello. I have an idea for a couple of new commands. I spend a lot of time pondering on the uses of macro's and how to better utilize them in my games. One issue I've come up with is that macro's with "Show as Token Action" work less than stellar with commands such as /em or /as. The first issue is that /em will emote as the person selected in the chat drop-down, and not necessarily the character the macro is tied to. The other one is that /as will write things as whomever the GM has selected in said drop-down list, but this naturally doesn't work for players. As it should, I'm not arguing that. My suggestion is that we introduce /et and /at, short for "Emote as Token" and "As Token". They should work the same way as the commands from which they derive their names, but only if the user has a selected token and command over that token. Not having a token selected, or not having command of that token should return an error-message. Thank you for your time.

/as does not speak as the character you have selected from the dropdown, it speaks as a character given by the first parameter to the command. "/as Frej Hello world" will produce " Frej: Hello world" (with no character avatar) regardless of there being a character named "Frej" or what you have selected in the speaking as dropdown. The command is useful for quick one-off characters you don't want to bother making a sheet for, but less useful for existing characters as it doesn't display the character's avatar in chat. (If you don't mind missing the avatar, though, it works fine.) You can use characters with multiple words in the name by quoting the name: /as "Frej B." Hello world While it doesn't help your players, you can create an "emote as token" macro for the NPCs with the /emas command. /emas functions the same as /as except, obviously, it emotes as the given character rather than speaking as the character. Something like: /emas "@{selected|token_name}" ?{Emote}

Wow, Thanks for this bit of info.... it had been bugging me to no end as a DM to have to change the "as" dropdown menu to emote as teh selected token (for attack rolls and the like).