@{pb} doesn't work for me or my players in any of their sheets

Hi, everyone! So, whenever any of us try to use @{pb} we always get this: "(ceil((5)/1e10) + ceil((5)/4))". We're using the 5th edition OGL. Would anyone know what could be the problem?

That formula should be correct, if you do not want to see the ceil put [[ ]] around the @{pb}

PB is a formula attribute.  If you're using it as part of a roll, it will work: [[ 1d20 + @{pb} + @{str_mod} ]] If you need to just see the value, you can access it as part of a lone roll: [[@{pb}]] If you want to just see it as a number in your rolls, you can use a nested inline roll: [[ 1d20 + [[@{pb}]] + @{str_mod} ]] And of course labeling is always nice: [[ 1d20 + [[@{pb}]][PB] + @{str_mod}[Str] ]] Hope that helps!

The way that the formula you posted works, it calculates the pb in two parts. Ceil((5)/1e10) [I am assuming that the 5 is the level of the character] will always result in 1. The second part, ceil((5)/4), calculates the remainder for the proficiency bonus. For levels 1-4, this results in a 1, which when added to part 1 gives the correct proficiency bonus of 2. For levels 5-8, this results in a 2, which gives a total proficiency bonus of 3. This continues for levels 9-12 (resulting in 4 total), 13-16 (resulting in 5 total), and 17-20 (resulting in 6 total).

I see! Thank you very much!

On a similar note, I was trying to add deflect missiles as an attack to roll damage reduced but putting DEX + [[@{base_level}]] into damage modifier does not seem to output anything but DEX. Ideas on that one? H

Do you mean: @{DEX} + [[@{base_level}]]  Or are you saying that [[@{base_level}]] evaluated to nothing? To see what something is, I'll often type it in the chat like: base_level: @{selected|base_level} ::= [[ @{selected|base_level} ]] does that expand to anything for you?

Sorry, I mean in the attack, DEX is selected. I try to add a base_level modifier and it is ignored in the roll. Edit: I tried adding @{name|base_level} and @{selected|base_level} in that attack input and it still did not work. Using both of those directly in chat provided the correct value both times. H

This is because the last input expects only flat numbers, not calculations. Move the [[@{base_level}]] into the first damage slot. So it should be d10 + @{base_level}

I see. I put d10 +@{base_level} into damage and it works fine. I can not annotate but that is fine. H

By annotate do you mean 5[level]? If so you could easily do [[@{base_level}]][level] instead of @{base_level}

Yes, that worked. I tried the double square brackets around everything instead of just base_level. thanks again H