Defender Macro

Hey, I have been attempting to make a macro for one of my players but I am pretty bad at this sort of thing (Furthest I got was trying to makeshift one by changing a Divine Smite macro and placing it in the magic bonus area to no avail) who has a Defender - as he always seems to forget to declare the # of AC he is giving himself or vice versa how much Magic bonus hes getting for his attacks. Is there a way to create a macro asking him to make that decision and possibly change his AC and attack/damage rolls accordingly?

You'd need the API (pro level perk on the game creators part) to actually change  attributes with a macro but you could certainly represent the change visually in a chat output with a standard macro: [[ @{De Fender the Defender|armorclass} + ?{Additional AC|0} ]] That basic example would output the new AC (note that the attribute name likely isn't correct as I'm not familiar with the sheet in question... I'm assuming D&D 4e by the context?). If you have an example of the current macro for their attacks I'd be happy to show you how to incorporate a damage increase into that too... it's much the same concept ( + ?{Damage bonus|0} )... if the ability being used affects both things simultaneously we can limit the number of queries to answer too but a bit more info and a current macro example would be a huge help :)

I'm using D&D 5e actually, we put ?{Divine Smite Level|Level 1, 2d8|Level 2, 3d8 |Level 3, 4d8|Level 4, 5d8|Level 5, 6d8} into the global damage modifiers so it can be turned off and on.When I said I makeshift one by changing the divine smite I changed it to something like this: ?{Defender AC|3 AC, 0 |2 AC, 1 |1 AC, 2 |0 AC, 3} and attempted to put it into a magic bonus section. How would I be able to implement the API in a D&D 5e Character sheet as I am not familiar with it?

Ah I see, 'Defender' the item type, not the class... my bad :) I expected the following to work: Putting [[?{AC Boost|0,3|1,2|2,1|3,0}]] In the attack/damage modifier or just the magic bonus on the item itself and AC boosted by [[ 3 - ?{AC Boost|0,3|1,2|2,1|3,0}]] until the start of the next turn. In the attack description to give a non-API visual representation of the boost (the API would require that the creator of the game has a Pro subscription). However, it doesn't work... the sheet simply doesn't see queries in those areas for some bizarre reason lol... the description bit works at least :/ I then thought of putting the main query as a bespoke attribute and calling that as part of the attack/damage bonus to see if it would resolve it that way, no dice... literally... it just ignored it, stupid sheet! Finally, I'd suggest something nice and simple that requires a little bit of manual mathematics, put this into the attack description: Attack/Damage boosted by [[ ?{AC Boost|0,3|1,2|2,1|3,0} ]] and AC boosted by [[ 3 - ?{AC Boost|0,3|1,2|2,1|3,0} ]] until the start of the next turn.

Meh, it's a hack but if you have the reduced version of the final suggestion above as part of the weapon attack description and the following as global attack/damage modifiers (with auto roll damage enabled) you'll only have one query to answer and enough information to streamline battle:

That's pretty clever. I knew roll query results are repeated in a macro, but it's never occurred to me to record them like that on the sheet.