Attribute Changes

I play a lot of games with dice pools. As far as I remember, you used to be able to type something like: /roll {@stat+@skill}d6 targeting Attributes and be done with it. I took a break from Roll20 a while, and now I apparently have to target a token for some reason to use attributes with inline rolls? Even when it's the active sheet for the player that's playing. Is there any way around this? I don't want to put together macros for every possible stat+skill combination (I vaguely recall drop-downs as an option for macros, but the skill list for this game is theoretically infinite and so this is also not an option), and don't want to make players reference the clunky journal before every roll. The system I'm using doesn't have character sheets made for it. Is there any way to easily allow inline rolling like this?

You can do it without tokens by using something like: /r [[@{charname|stat1}+@{charname|stat2}]]d6 or /r [[@{charname|?{first stat?}}+@{charname|?{Second Stat?}}]]d6 the second one will provide 2 popups asking which stats to use. Replace charname with the name of the sheet you're rolling from. I'd imagine it would be easiest to make a macro for each player that references their sheet specifically. If you make the macro directly on the sheet in the attributes tab, you can simply use: /r [[@{?{first stat?}} + @{?{second stat?}}]]d6

Yeah. I was hoping to not have to target anything. Too much typing slows down the game. Right now the choice seems to be between an unwieldy amount of inline typing or an unwieldy amount of macros. I'll just have to have them reference their journals. Thanks.

How did you want it to know which two stats to roll?

I was hoping it would be possible to do /roll @stat+@skill and be done with it. I tried putting them in Abilities, since the in-line roller autocompletes macro names even with the targeting, but you cannot add two macro results together so far as I can figure out. (I tried /roll %{Test Character|TEST} + %{Test Character|TEST} for the record)

You can add them together. you perform: /r [[@stat+@skill]]d6

You can do it without the inline roll also: /roll (@{stat}+@{skill})d6

In order to access it without specifying a character via selected, target, or charName you'll have to make them abilities on each specific character. Although, I'm not sure how to get around your problem of near infinite skills precisely. Making character specific abilities may help though, and then just have your players each have a dropdown in that macro specific to what they have as stats/skills.

Thank you all for the replies. There doesn't seem to be a direct solution to what I wanted, but I'll try to use one of these alternatives. Thanks again.