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[PF] Help with this awesome Pathfinder Macro. Could be better.

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Edited 1500042993
So basically I set up this macro for the game I'm DMing (after the DM of another game I'm playing in found it somewhere). /w GM %{selected|ability_checks}, %{selected|defenses}, %{selected|attacks}, %{selected|abilities}, %{selected|combat_skills}, %{selected|skills}, %{selected|adventure_skills}, %{selected|background_skills}, %{selected|consolidated_skills}, %{selected|spellbook-0}, %{selected|spellbook-1}, %{selected|spellbook-2}, %{selected|Attacks} All comes in a single Line, and gets whispered to the GM (myself). Each player has set it to /w themselves so as to not spam me. The PCs have Pathfinder character sheets and so do the NPCs and Enemies, so by selecting their tokens and pressing this Macro they got a fast and easy way to access most of their throws. So far, so good but... Why don't I get all the info? Like, "ability_checks" (STR/DEX/CON/INT/WIS/CHA) is there, but it won't show up. However, if I place "defenses" on a different line (after pressing Enter) I will receive an extra Whisper, that one including the ability_checks. Why wouldn't they show at the same time with the rest? I honestly don't know where the DM got the macro from, because everytime I tried to google usefull Roll20 Pathfinder macros I didn't find anything even remotely close to as good/easy as this one. Can you help make it better? Can you point me towards some place with good (not over-complicated) macros ready to copy-and-paste (not example as how to build yours)? Do you have similarly good-for-everything macros to use on Roll20 Pathfinder? I also have this one: /w GM %{selected|Skills} That will show all the Skill Checks and their modifiers. Is really helpful too. But that line is also on the other macro and yet it doesn't show on the other one. What I'm missing? Is just because of a size-limit within the same message or something like that? Can anyone explain to me? I also believe that the first macro worked better (showed more info) at first, and I think we must have "broken" it at litlte when we edited it at some point and/or while sharing it :-s So yeah, would appreciate some help, and if you got similarly good general macros that tie to the players/monsters character sheets, I wouldn't mind checking them!
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Edited 1500104442
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Ahhh, we just added an "All" menus button to the sheet(currently in beta, soon to be released) that contains all of the current menu buttons on the sheet and more.  You might find it handy. The reason your macro acts strangely is because you are making 13 sheet rolls at the same time on the same line and their roll templates are more than likely "clashing" with one another. Out of those 13 rolls, there are numerous roll templates being used(pf_block, pf_defense, pf_attack, pf_ability, etc.).  Each roll template has it's own defined property/key formatting and logic for the types of attributes and information we designed the template to handle.  Normally you would use a single roll template within a given macro.  All on a single line without line breaks.  ie "&{template:default}{{name=foo}}" Adding additional roll template calls without a line break causes problems.  ie "&{template:default}{{name=foo}} &{template:pf_attack}{{name=foo}}"  AFAIK, it's just not the way they are designed to function.  It's strange that your macro mashes everything together as well as it does.  ;-P   You can give each roll it's own line in your macro. The downside is that all of the menu buttons will not be contained within one roll template, but each roll will get displayed as they were designed. try this: /w GM %{selected|ability_checks} %{selected|defenses} %{selected|attacks} %{selected|abilities} %{selected|combat_skills} %{selected|skills} %{selected|adventure_skills} %{selected|background_skills} %{selected|consolidated_skills} %{selected|spellbook-0} %{selected|spellbook-1} %{selected|spellbook-2} %{selected|attacks}
Thanks for your answer, I was already thinking that I wouldn't get any when I got a very good one. Thanks. I already realized that giving each roll it's own line made them work, but it just way too much place in the chat and wasn't really comfortable to use, so in the end we divided it into 3 working macros (Attacks, Skills, and Stats/Defenses), but I'm still looking forward to that "All" option. I was just wondering if I didn't understand something about macros because they seemed to work/not-work show/not-show randomly, but it was just it not supporting so many calls, I see. Thanks again for the answer, and if your "Sheet Author" and answer mean what I think they mean, keep the good work up; its so much more comfortable/easier/fast/nice to play Pathfinder on Roll20 with the "new" (to me, was way for like 2 years, not sure how recent they are) Character Sheets, and I'm even using them (along with the Compendium) to make more complete and faster (both while creating and while playing) enemies.