[Help] NPC Action / Token Action Question

I can set up 'Actions' for my monsters in 5ed perfectly.  I can also set up non-API macros for the same monster and use macro as 'Token Action' However, is it possible to make my NPC 'action' used as a 'Token Action' (avoiding Abilities as much as possible) This would really speed up things so I don't have to write macros in 'Abilities' Also.... I am new to the mentoring so new to API. I stored the API for power cards in the Game Settings, and tried to create a API power card macro under 'Abilities' Didn't work... for me.... :-(   I was hoping to get that working with character_id for the NPC or my avatar as the emote. I couldn't get that to work, because I don't exactly know what is a character id.... Would that just be 'Skeleton' ?

I think I have this one solved now...

As far as using character ids in the power cards goes, id are unique identifiers stored for all Roll20 objects by the API, and they are not normally user-facing. They tend to look something like "-IpzPx2j_9piP09ceyOv". Obviously, since they're essentially random strings of characters and the ids aren't actually displayed  anywhere, you can't just type them into your macro. However, the id of a character or token is available as an attribute: @{character_id} or @{token_id}. Just like normal attributes, if you're putting it in a macro rather than, for example, a field on the character sheet, you'd need to specify which  character/token you're talking about with either @{Name|character_id}, @{selected|character_id}, or @{target|character_id}. Just like regular attributes, @{selected|character_id} and @{target|character_id} only work if the selected/targeted token is representing a character. (@{token_id} works with selected/target regardless of representing a character.)

So if I want to put it into an 'ability' to show the NPCs token every time I use an ability. What would the code look like? This code, is wrong. @{token_id}%{selected|Perception_Check}

Something like @{selected|token_name} %{selected|Perception_Check}

Cool. That works for a text output. How about an icon output for his token image? Will it resize automatically? if not, may i be as brave to ask what would be the 'code' for dimension also.

!power --charid|@{selected|character_id} --emote|@{selected|character_name} does something awesome! --name|Example power --leftsub|Coolness --rightsub|Radicalness --Foo:|Bar Gets you something like this: The image will be 50x50 pixels (with 2px padding on the right and 4px padding on the bottom). Using token_id won't get you an avatar with the Power Cards script, but it also won't break anything.

Well I tried, and can't get it to work ( I know that's going to bother someone ) So hell with it. :_)