Die rolls in the GM Note section of the Journal?

Hi all, Is it possible to add a die roll mechanism to the journal entry for the DM?  Basically whenever the entry is opened a roll is made.  This is useful as I use it for random encounter tables related to the journal.  For example in a web choked passageway handout I may have this in the GM's section: "giant spiders attack on a roll of 1-2 on a d6"  Would like to have a die roll in there too. Thanks in advance.

You could set up a rollable table and just roll [[1t[table-name]]. You could have results weighted differently to affect chance of occurring. 

Not really.  There might be a way to add a button you could click to perform the roll, but that might require the use of an API script, or at least a javascript bookmarklet.  Maybe Silvyre knows...

Alternatively, you could probably repurpose the It's A Trap API to roll on an encounter table when a token moves into the web filled corridor

It is possible to use the api button format to roll a macro from a link in a handout. I started using that sort of thing with the players' spell book so they can cast right from the handout. Add the link to some text and in the URL section type ! & % # 13 ;%{Charname|Abitily} Take out the spaces there and it will roll that ability when you click on the link. Be careful not to re-open as it will revert the special characters and become gobbledy gook.

To add to what Ed S. suggested, check out: Journal Command Buttons

I would use Token Actions for this situation. It would not be within the "Web Choked Passageway Handout", but would be a clickable button to-roll on a token (graphic image) of a web in the web-choked hallway. &nbsp; So when the Players get to the hallway, as GM you can click on that Token Action to roll that roll, and it can be a hidden GM roll if you want only GM to see. You could also have the same or another token action that spits the Hallway Description text into the chat, and even putting a picture into the chat. Token Action wiki, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Token_Actions" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Token_Actions</a>

Thanks all for the ideas.&nbsp; Ed S. that's not quite what I was after - just looking for a straight roll. &nbsp;Can you take your idea and have it echo a role to chat by chance? Gold, that's a solution sure, but since I run 5e and most of my combats are abstracted and the tokens/maps generally only used as decoration (or for battles involving more than 5 combatants) it would actually be faster to type /gmroll 1d6 or familiar.

The function of the link-button in the handout is that it will activate a macro from a sheet and if that macro has rolls for the chat, then yes it will output to the chat. I have a character sheet that has most of my macros on it in the Abilities section of the sheet. You could have a macro there to roll anything. One caveat, the button links won't work with a sheet that is popped-out.&nbsp; Roll20 is good for having many ways to skin the cat as they say.

Thanks Ed. &nbsp;So I created a simple macro called Random-Encounter-1d6 and all it does is /gmroll 1d6 how do I then link it in the handout so when I click it makes the roll? &nbsp;Tried a few different things but couldnt get it working.

Take a look at the jouranl command button wiki entry that Silvyre linked above. It works perfectly.

Works perfectly, thanks both.