Trying to force abilitys of the current character

hey there, i'm trying to call some abilitys within others i know the way %{Bugbear|Attack} but then i can only use it for this one character so i was doing some different stuff and got a really bad solution first of all %{Attack} does not work sadly %{@{character_name} | Attack} does not work either but after the errors it displays in chat "Bugbear|character_name | Attack" so i wrapped around some %{ ... } and i got the call i want ... but with some errors in the chat :-( so my question is: is it a bug ? maybe not even this should be possible or why can i do [label](~@{charachter_name}|Attack) and not %{@{character_name}|Attack} ? or is there a solution i have not found i also tryed with macros #start that just prints "%{" and then in the ability #start @{character_name} | Attack} but the macro prints a ' ' after the "%{" so the call is %{ Bugbear|Attack} what does only print errors Gery

%{@{character_name}|attack} should work fine. Make sure "character" is spelled correctly and that there are no spaces within the Ability call.

Is it a character that you would have Selected via clicking their token? If so, what I use is the "selected" in Roll20. Like,&nbsp; %{selected|attack} Wiki docs for this, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Macros#Using_a_Selected_To" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Macros#Using_a_Selected_To</a>...

first of all thanks for the reply @Silvyre yes it should be fine but %{@{character_name}|roll} gives me No ability was found for %{@{Ikiva|character_name} Paradox G. (GM): Ikiva if i change it to %{@{character_name} |roll} it gives me No ability was found for %{@{Ikiva|character_name} No attribute was found for @{Ikiva|character_name } Paradox G. (GM):Ikiva|character_name |roll and that thing wrapped in %{Ikiva|character_name |roll} gives a fine result but the errors you know... the characters name is Ikiva and the roll ability just rolls 1d20 its just for testing @Gold yes i know about the selected but thats what it is right now and i dont want my players to have a token selected I think the problem is that first the ability get executed then the attribute replaced but in this scenario it should be the other way around is there a way to force the @Attribute to get replaced with its value at first ?

That's really weird... Try %{@{character_id}|roll}

it gives me something like No ability was found for %{@{Ikiva|character_id} Paradox G. (GM): -JuazIETHMhkrFFRD33R

Try adapting your "start" = %{ idea to use an Attribute: @{start}@{character_name}|roll}

wow thanks, that does the trick still not a really good workaround but the best for now and i found a way to force the evaluation first with %{(@{character_name})|roll} but this gives me the error that there is no ability for (Ikiva)|roll xD is there something like [[]] but just for text ?

Great! ParadoxGery said: is there something like [[]] but just for text ? Unfortunately not. HTML entities can be useful in escaping characters, but they're not helpful in conjunction with Ability/Attribute calls.

damned xD well it works now and thats what matters... it did not work with the macro printing %{ because the macro need the space to be replaced with its content but the Attribute does not because its wrapped in {&nbsp;}&nbsp; thanks again gonna get my subscription soon I'm already building my own character sheet i really like what roll20 can do all i want in addition is a custom compendium :-)

Sounds great! Here's another possible workaround, taking advantage of the HTML sanitizing that Roll20 does: %{&lt;escape&gt;@{character_name}|roll} or %{@{character_name}&lt;escape&gt;|roll} or %{&lt;foo&gt;@{character_name}&lt;bar&gt;|roll} (Note that making changes to and saving an Ability with these "tags" within triggers the sanitization.)

okay NOW i'm confused

i pasted your examples .... did not work out of .. i don't know i just closed the ability and executed it afterwards.... worked opened it its like&nbsp; %{@{character_name}|roll} and works BUT only if it is closed/saved

Haha, all for the best; on further investigation, it's not a very good workaround. :)

it's just not working during editing ... :-S

well still thank you for the help .... gonna rewrite some macros now ..

You're very welcome! Happy coding!