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Hi all, I'm trying to figure out how to imbed a simple skill roll into an emote or text. For example: /e tries to be cool but [[charisma]] happens Can you tell me how to do that?
you pretty much have the syntax down except for a few issues. /e is not a valid command. As a gm you can use /emas to specify who you are talking as or /em to use who you are speaking as atm. Players can use /me (and maybe /em) for the same effect as /em. Then you'll need to reference the attributes of the character that you need or do the actual roll. If this macro is entered as an ability on a character's sheet then you can just do: /em Tries to be cool, but [[@{charisma}]] happens. This assumes you have an attribute on the sheet named "charisma".
You need to include the name of the character, like /em Tries to be cool, but [[@{Bilbo|charisma}]] happens. or, while you have a character's token selected: /em Tries to be cool, but [[@{selected|charisma}]] happens.
I don't know the sheet or system you're using, but there are several ways you can turn that into a roll Assuming you are rolling 1d20+ stat, it would be /em Tries to be cool, but [[1d20 + @{Bilbo|charisma}]] happens. That sentence doesn't seem to make much sense to me, I'd go for something like /em Tries to be cool, with [[1d20 + @{Bilbo|charisma}]] for a Charisma roll.
It's the D&D 5e by Roll20. (SRD) If I were to do: /em Tries to be cool, with [[1d20 + @{Bilbo|charisma}]] for a Charisma roll. wouldn't that return 1d20+14? 14 is the characters CHA attribute. How do you isolate the CHA bonus value?
The bonus attribute should be on the character sheet somewhere. You use that attribute name in place of charisma. Keith can probably tell us. I'd try cha_mod or charisma_mod.