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Nameable Rolls / Roll Queries

I'm finding roll queries very useful, but they can also be very, very long if you need to include any description. It would be nice to be able to give them a short name, a separate optional description, and then be able to reference just the name anywhere else that needed to come up. For instance: ?{Name|Description|Default Value}, and then later on if you want to call that same thing, you just type ?{Name} Example: Let's say we have a macro to cover a system where the number of dice rolled are often variable, and are based on a value used for, say, damage as well. Let's say both are based on something figured from applicable abilities (minus applicable weaknesses), which can vary depending on the described actions, so players need to manually input the total. So, currently, you'd have to do something like this: Attack: [[(?{Input Applicable Abilities|0}-?{Input Applicable Weaknesses|0})d6]] Damage: [[2+(?{Input Applicable Abilities|0}-?{Input Applicable Weaknesses|0})]] With this suggestion, you could instead put: Attack: [[(?{Abil|Input Applicable Abilities|0}-?{Weak|Input Applicable Weaknesses|0})d6]] Damage: [[2+(?{Abil}-?{Weak})]] Not the best example, but it could come in handy. To expand the concept, though, it would be very cool if rolls themselves were nameable, allowing their results to be referenced elsewhere in a macro. For instance: Attack: [[Attack|2d6+@{Dexterity}]] Defense: [[Defense|2d6+@{target|Target1|Dexterity}] Hit Damage: [[!{Attack}-!{Defense}]] (Again, not the *best* example, since that could lead to negative values if Defense is higher, but...working off the top of my head here!)
Can this not be done by making the query a macro?
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