Spell Macro's

Hello All, I am working on my spell macro's but I have run into a road block. [[1d8+(@{selected|casterlevel},5)dh1] is the calculation I found for Cure Light Wounds. But the dh1 does not seem to work in this application. What I mean is that dh1 should mean to drop the highest roll. But I suspect that since I want to drop the highest number the dh1 is not working. My full macro looks like this. /me heals @{target|token_name} for [[1d8+(@{selected|casterlevel},5)dh1]] hit points by divine energy. I am new to this, any help would be greatly appreciated. KK

Are you getting an error?

No error. It just does not appear to calculate properly. I rolled a 3 and it says I healed 3HP. But my form says I am a 1st level cleric. So shouldn't that be 4HP of healing?

Pretty sure ( I may be wrong) all the drop and keep references require a dice roll. So unfortunately (@{selected|casterlevel},5)dh1 won't work because there isn't a roll.

Right, I had assumed the same thing. Any suggestions on how to get around the dh1. I mean is there another way to go with the lesser number?

Does this work? [[{(1d8+@{selected|casterlevel}),5}dh1]] Edit: I think I read your roll wrong. Do you add 5 or caster level to a 1d8? Or do you use the higher of 1d8 + caster level or 5?

No workaround that I can think of off the top of my head. Maybe some other will chime in. I'll give it some thought and see if I can figure something out though. For now I would just take out the extra part and just do 1d8+casterlevel and at level 5 you can just change it to 1d8+5. Seems the simplest solution.

I don't know if this would work, but have you tried: [[{(1d8+(@{selected|casterlevel}),1d0+5}dh1]]

You have parenthesis around your rolls and the dh1; don't you need curly brackets for a DH comparison? You have: ( @{selected|casterlevel},5 ) dh1 which generates an error Using: { @{selected|casterlevel},5 } dh1 works fine for me

Nice Mark G. that seems to work.

Yeah, the curly braces vs, parentheses is why I asked about errors. Couldn't check because I was in a meeting. dh/dl/kh/kl should all work fine numbers or dice, provided you don't have both. [[ { 1d3, 1d8 }kh1 ]] Should work fine [[ { 1, 5 }kl1 ]] Should also work [[ { 1d5, 3 }kh1 ]] will give you an error about mixing types [[ { 1d5, 3d1 }kh1 ]] will work though if you need to choose between a die and a number. (3d1 will be 3)

Cool. I was just coming back to post this ^^ after having gone and tried the rolls.

Mark, yes that worked. Thank you so much. Thank you all for your input.