How to call a character's attribute using that character's name from another character's attribute?

My ultimate goal here is to create a moderately sized list of weapons, each with attributes like damage, weight, etc, and then pull those statistics into the abilities and token macro of campaign characters. Any method to that end would be acceptable, but I figure I'm just going about my attempted method incorrectly. I created a folder full of characters called 'Weapons,' named one of those characters 'sword' and gave it some attributes. I then created a 'Revanent' character with the attribute equiped_weapon=sword. With a Revanent token selected, executed the following token macro as a test: @{selected|token_name} uses their @{selected|equiped_weapon} to deal @{@{selected|equiped_weapon}|damage} damages. The result:  Revanent uses their sword to deal sword damages. I was very much expecting to be able to use nested attribute calls, but am pretty sure it's either not possible or I'm doing it wrong. Anyone have any pointers for using a character's attribute value as the selector for an attribute, or for making the kind faux inventory system I'm going for?

Take a look here and see if this Stupid Trick is of any help. That being said, creating many, many characters in a campaign is Bad Practice, if you happen to be using a character sheet. That just puts a ton of non-essential overhead on the game. Perhaps a Weapon character with many separate weapon attributes?

Thanks Keith! I was curious about the burden on roll20 if there were to be, say, three-hundred characters. Is there a general bad practices thread / wiki page? I was able to get what I wanted from a token macro by using a single 'weapons' character with a long_prefix=@{weapons| attribute. The token macro itself employed the format of @{weapons|long_prefix}@{selected|equipped_weapon}_damage}. That poor weapons character will have quite the number of attributes.

Glad you were able to make it work. Here is a wiki page that may be of some help. This page also has some helpful guidelines. RawrWolfie said: Thanks Keith! I was curious about the burden on roll20 if there were to be, say, three-hundred characters. Is there a general bad practices thread / wiki page? I was able to get what I wanted from a token macro by using a single 'weapons' character with a long_prefix=@{weapons| attribute. The token macro itself employed the format of @{weapons|long_prefix}@{selected|equipped_weapon}_damage}. That poor weapons character will have quite the number of attributes.