API Question

In cWOD there are wound penalties at different health levels and I want to find a way to automatically add the penalties into my macros. I know how to add/subtract an attribute in a macro, but not sure how to 'script' the different health levels vs the penalties. Since i don't code, is there any way to put the data into a table and use an API script to track it into an attribute I can use in a macro ?

How exactly does this work in your system? If there is a % reduction in abilities, you could do it in a macro like [[1D100 + @{selected|attribute}- ((@{selected|max_health}/@{selected|health}* (some_number))]] If it is more complex, try Powercards, a bit of work to set up, but it opens a lot of options for you not possible without it.

Wound penalty: [[ -1 * ( floor(?{Health Level|Perfect, 0|Bruised, 1|Hurt, 2|Injured, 3|Wounded, 4|Mauled, 5|Crippled, 6} / 2) + {?{Health Level} + d0}=6 * 2 ) ]] The above maps inputs to outputs as follows: Input 0 → Output 0 1 → 0 2 → 1 3 → 1 4 → 2 5 → 2 6 → 5 You could replace the Roll Query with an Attribute, and adjust the value of that Attribute from 0 to 6 as applicable (e.g. by linking it to a Token's Bar).

Silvyre said: Wound penalty: [[ -1 * ( floor(?{Health Level|Perfect, 0|Bruised, 1|Hurt, 2|Injured, 3|Wounded, 4|Mauled, 5|Crippled, 6} / 2) + {?{Health Level} + d0}=6 * 2 ) ]] The above maps inputs to outputs as follows: Input 0 → Output 0 1 → 0 2 → 1 3 → 1 4 → 2 5 → 2 6 → 5 You could replace the Roll Query with an Attribute, and adjust the value of that Attribute from 0 to 6 as applicable (e.g. by linking it to a Token's Bar). Something like that would be perfect but I'm not sure I understand. The script above assigns a value of 0 to -5 according to the Health Level of the character (Which is exactly what WOD uses) and assigns that value to an attribute called Wound Penalty ?   I have no knowledge of scripting and don't follow the above example very well.

[[ -1 * ( floor(?{Health Level} / 2) + {?{Health Level} + d0}=6 * 2 ) ]] The above inline roll is just a bit of math to demonstrate how a wound penalty Attribute might look like. I might replace ?{Health Level} with an Attribute (e.g. @{HL}), which players would control the Current value of (which would range from 0 to 6, corresponding to the Health Level). Then, I might create an Attribute for wound penalty (e.g. @{WP}), with a Current value as follows: [[ -1 * ( floor(@{HL} / 2) + {@{HL} + d0}=6 * 2 ) ]] Then, you could add "+ @{WP}" to your Ability macros (or "+ @{ keyword |WP}" to your My Settings macros) as you desired.

Silvyre said: [[ -1 * ( floor(?{Health Level} / 2) + {?{Health Level} + d0}=6 * 2 ) ]] The above inline roll is just a bit of math to demonstrate how a wound penalty Attribute might look like. I might replace ?{Health Level} with an Attribute (e.g. @{HL}), which players would control the Current value of (which would range from 0 to 6, corresponding to the Health Level). Then, I might create an Attribute for wound penalty (e.g. @{WP}), with a Current value as follows: [[ -1 * ( floor(@{HL} / 2) + {@{HL} + d0}=6 * 2 ) ]] Then, you could add "+ @{WP}" to your Ability macros (or "+ @{ keyword |WP}" to your My Settings macros) as you desired. OK I understand the part of creating the attribute for the character's wound level (0-6) and how to add the calculated modifier (@{WP}) to all macros that could be effected by wound penalties, but how do I get it to calculate @{WP} so that whenever their would level changes it recalculates @{WP}?

Every time you use a macro that uses @{WP}, it will automatically pull the Current value of @{HL} from the relevant Character. :)

Silvyre said: Every time you use a macro that uses @{WP}, it will automatically pull the Current value of @{HL} from the relevant Character. :) excellent. Thank you very much. One day I should pick up a Java book and read it.

Be sure you get one on Java script. Java and Javascript are almost completely unrelated and knowing one certainly won't help you to any great degree with the other.

The Aaron said: Be sure you get one on Java script. Java and Javascript are almost completely unrelated and knowing one certainly won't help you to any great degree with the other. yes Javascript :)  See... back was it was simple I knew a lot more--- Basic or Machine Language... not much choice then. Now there are probably 50 programming languages.

Silvyre said: Every time you use a macro that uses @{WP}, it will automatically pull the Current value of @{HL} from the relevant Character. :) OMG I've been using roll20 for a year and just realized you can assign a calculation to an attribute :(  I feel stupid now... I plugged in my own attribute names and it works perfectly. Thank you.

There's always something new to learn about Roll20! Happy rolling!

Xargun said: Now there are probably 50 programming languages. Only 50? There's  a website that has at least one program to print out the lyrics to "99 Bottles of Beer" written in each of over 1500 different languages. Some of them are rather esoteric and wouldn't see much use (for example, the language 99 takes an empty input file and produces a program to output the lyrics to the song), and some language groups can be very similar (compare Fortran, FORTRAN 77, Fortran 90, FORTRAN IV, FORTRAN-II...), but 50 is still way on the low end of things. =)

Coughs, wandering by with a broom.   Y'all are heading off-topic :) Xargun, do you have any more questions on this topic or is Silvyre good to close this up?

GenKitty said: Coughs, wandering by with a broom.   Y'all are heading off-topic :) Xargun, do you have any more questions on this topic or is Silvyre good to close this up? Good to close up shop.. thanks again guys