Stupid Tracker Tricks

The new(-ish) custom item feature of the tracker has a lot of useful applications. It's replaced my old Round Counter macro trick, for one thing. But there is a lot I haven't figured out. Like how do you set a number (5, for instance) and count down to 0? So if you and your group have figured out any cool tricks for tracker items, post em!

I don't know that you can force the item to stop at 0, but setting the equation to "-1" ought to subtract 1 from the value each round.

The way I do a count-down timer in the turn order is just put a -1 in the round calculation box and then manually edit the 0 on the list and set it to the number you want (say your 5). Sadly we don't do anything particularly fancy with it. (and Brian is faster then I am! .. but less verbose.)

Diana is correct in how to do the count down. Add custom item, put the -1 in the calculation box, and edit the item to have what number you wish in the main tracker. This is very useful for counting down spell duration, potion duration and such. Now if you are wanting to count up for like rounds, you add +1 to the calculation and set the item to 0 or 1 or what ever number you wish. Brian is correct in the fact there is no way to stop the count at 0, it will continue to count into the negative (there might be an API script that can help with all this, just poke around in the API forum or ask there).

I wrote one to handle the Escalation Die from 13th Age: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1319616/script-e" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1319616/script-e</a>... Counts up and stops at 6. Some maintenance features.

Last game I plugged in 5-1 and it started spitting out multiples of 5. 5-10-15-20. Can't imagine any real game application, but who knows?