Dropdown with number, dice, and tables as answers

ok, here is what I want to do followed by what I have done that is not working. all of this uses !powercards and in the long run the answer will be used as a conditional but I nuked all that for now. Query if a player has a roll modifier (3 answers) -- [[ ?{Roll Modifier|None, 0|Boon, 'x'|Bane, 'y'} ]] if 0, all I want is 0 to kick out as my answer, no more queries. if 'x', Query how many d6 to roll (default 1) and keep highest one -- x = ?{Number of Boons|1}d6kh1  if 'y', Ask how many table rolls to roll (default 1) and keep lowest one -- y = ?{Number of Banes|1}t[BaneDice]kl1  so to insert the 'x' and 'y' into the original query, adding in { } (per previous thread) I get this --  [[ ?{Roll Modifier|None, 0|Boon, {?{Number of Boons|1}d6}kh1|Bane, {?{Number of Banes|1}t[BaneDice]}kl1} ]]    results: Main query asks 'None, Boon, 1' If select None - asks 'Number of Banes' If select Boon - asks 'Number of Boonsd6' If select 1 - asks 'Number of Banes' What did I miss?

I don't think you can nest Roll Queries like that...? I'll have to test. 

well if not then at least I am not just going crazy :) just noticed I did not mention... the RT [BaneDice] is basically a negative d6  -1 thru -6 all weighted at 1 each. this, in theory, allows me to add a negative d6 (net: subtract a d6) if bane is chosen inside the same marco that adds a d6 if boon is chosen, without having to have two sets of output... basically if this can work it cuts my macro size by about 40%

It's a problem with the roll query breaking on commas, closing braces, and the vertical bar. (There is a bug report in on this; Riley says he'll look at it for the next content patch.:&nbsp; <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/2220058/new-roll" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/2220058/new-roll</a>... If you replace those with html entities, you can get it to work. [[ ?{Roll Modifier|None, 0|Boon, {?{Number of Boons& #124;1& #125;d6& #125;kh1 |Bane, {?{Number of Banes& #124;1& #125;t[BaneDice]& #125;kl1 }&nbsp; ]] here I've done so (and it worked best I can tell without building a bane dice table :) to get this to work, you will have to remove the spaces between the & and #1 in the html entities.&nbsp; You also cannot save it as a general macro; it MUST be saved as a character sheet Ability to work (the general macros convert the html entities back to the character, breaking it.) Hope that helps.

ok, that was an option I thought of but was swayed away from it --- probably because I gave incomplete information in another thread&nbsp; Thanks - trying that now EDIT: Perfection! ... now to plug in the !powercard info and set up the conditionals to see if I can re-break it :)

:)&nbsp; I have one for weapon skills with nested queries I'm working on for my character in a campaign and have yet to get it to work properly, but then it was quite complicated to start with so I may still be missing more commas, closing braces, and vertical bars.&nbsp; They can be pesky to find!

if I want to call out my answer again later in the output - I thought I read that you can just use the initial query... but what is the format? &nbsp;?{Roll Modifier} in my case? Edit: testing as I typed it looks to be working. Edit2: wow this is rocking, cut 7 lines of 22 on my test macro... (not really the cultists attack, but he perfectly average and makes best test subject).

It should be. I tend to use copy/paste so I don't bother taking out the default value for small queries but obviously you don't want to do that in this case; it's too long! Edit:&nbsp;&nbsp; :)&nbsp; Looking good!

Diana P said: It's a problem with the roll query breaking on commas, closing braces, and the vertical bar. (There is a bug report in on this; Riley says he'll look at it for the next content patch.:&nbsp; <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/2220058/new-roll" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/2220058/new-roll</a>... If you replace those with html entities, you can get it to work. [[ ?{Roll Modifier|None, 0|Boon, {?{Number of Boons& #124;1& #125;d6& #125;kh1 |Bane, {?{Number of Banes& #124;1& #125;t[BaneDice]& #125;kl1 }&nbsp; ]] here I've done so (and it worked best I can tell without building a bane dice table :) to get this to work, you will have to remove the spaces between the & and #1 in the html entities.&nbsp; You also cannot save it as a general macro; it MUST be saved as a character sheet Ability to work ( the general macros convert the html entities back to the character, breaking it. ) Hope that helps. Just FYI - I found out that this is not exactly true. You can in fact create a nicely multi-layer nested macros with html entities and have them as General Macro, but you can never go back to edit that macro (not even once), because like you said, it converts the entities back and breaks the macro. What you want to do is create your html-entities infused macros in some text editor (wordpad will do the job nicely) then copy and paste into general macro edit window, then click save and try it - you'll see that it works. Until the moment you open the edit macro screen and it breaks. :-) Hope this helps. EDIT: So just to be clear you can make changes in the macro, but each time you have to make them in wordpad and copy entire thing over to the macro window, save and enjoy! EDIT2: Going back into edit screen just to look at the macro and clicking Cancel instead of Save does NOT break the macro.

Diana P said: to get this to work, you will have to remove the spaces between the & and #1 in the html entities. &nbsp; Just an FYI, on the forum, you can enter & as &amp; to prevent it from getting parsed out: ?{Number of Boons&amp;amp;#124;1&amp;amp;#125;d6&amp;amp;#125;kh1 |Bane, {?{Number of Banes&amp;amp;#124;1&amp;amp;#125;t[BaneDice]&amp;amp;#125;kl1 Which then gets you: ?{Number of Boons&amp;#124;1&amp;#125;d6&amp;#125;kh1 |Bane, {?{Number of Banes&amp;#124;1&amp;#125;t[BaneDice]&amp;#125;kl1

Html entities within html entities???&nbsp; It's html entities all the way down. Also, I didn't think of that. Thanks :)

Diana P said: Html entities within html entities???&nbsp; It's html entities all the way down. Also, I didn't think of that. Thanks :) You ain't kiddin'. I actually had to type that as: &amp;amp;amp; ...which I just typed as: &amp;amp;amp;amp; ...which I just typed as: &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; ...which I just typed... =D

Using &amp;amp; for & to nest entities is much cleaner than what I've been using up to this point (&amp;#35; for #). Thank you for the tip, Scriptomancer!

No problem! &nbsp;I documented this and some other things in the wiki a while back:&nbsp; <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Chat#Entering_API_Butt" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Chat#Entering_API_Butt</a>...