Anima: BF Sheet Auto initiative

Hello, I'm looking for a way to make the existing Anima: Beyond Fantasy sheet to automatically add and update the initiative tracker when a macro is pressed. The biggest problem I'm having is that I don't think the value is stored as an attribute on the sheet, and adding a brute force macro (adding another attribute to the character and referencing that) wouldn't really work either. I don't have the API level sub, but if it's the only way I can do this I'll upgrade.

Hi Jeff! I'm the creator of that sheet, and that should definitely be possible. The main reason I didn't have the character sheet's button for initiative do it automatically is that in playtesting having characters open roll made it useless / annoying (and I had to keep asking 'are you done rolling?' instead of just watching the initiative tracker). What you should be looking for is @{init_final}, which since it is in a repeating section may be modified to be @{init_final1} or somesuch. If you want to use the formula manually, this is what is used to calculate the final value: @{agi_mod}+@{dex_mod}+@{init_armor}+@{init_weapon}+@{init_class}+@{init_special}+20+@{ki_increasedSpeed} With all but the last value (for the increased speed ki ability) being inside the repeating section. Adding this to a macro and adding the &{tracker} flag should put it in the initiative tracker as you want, but watch out for those open rolls!

Thank you for the reply. Hmm I didn't think about open rolls. I know there was open macro code floating around the forums, is that functional? Or if it isn't functional would it be possible to develop it? I don't mind coding it myself, although I don't know the limits of the roll20 api. I do know Java though. Edit: I tried it with both the init_final and the manual calculation, but it seems the system doesn't store repeating attributes for use in macro's, or at least I couldn't figure it out. I tried init_final, init_final1, init_final(1), init_final[1], and init_final{1}. The same for 0's.

Repeating sections are a bit tricky. Calling a value from a repeating section would look something like this: repeating_<section name>_#_<attr field name> So, for example, if my fields class was repeating_skills and I had a field called attr_skillDie that had what I needed to roll I would call that field via: repeating_skills_0_skillDie The zero represents the placement of the repeating row. The first row is zero, the second row one, etc. And when I say row, I'm talking about an entire repeating section, not actual physical rows in the html. Does that make sense? If it doesn't make sense, post your fieldset html and I can probably guide you better.

It makes sense, but does that work for the macros you can program in the client? I tried it and it didn't seem to work. This is the sheet's github listing Anima: Beyond Fantasy sheet