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Add Initiative to generated token macros

February 28 (5 years ago)

I love the new macro generator to make macros for attacks and other actions for my tokens, it's saved me a ton of work. But I don't understand why, along with all the other macros generated, one for Initiative doesn't get made. So for each token I have to manually set up an initiative macro. Please add it to those automatically generated by the macro generator button.

February 28 (5 years ago)
Kraynic
Pro
Sheet Author

What macro generator are you speaking of?  I expect the hard part about generating initiative macros is that different game systems will have different ways to calculate initiative, different stats for bonuses/penalties, and even different sheets for the same game system may name the attributes slightly different.  I'm not sure a universal initiative macro is possible.

February 28 (5 years ago)

It's apparently a new feature added recently. When I go to any character sheet there is now a tab for Macro Generator. There's a dropdown where you can select the character sheet style to generate for (only the sheet I'm currently using is in the dropdown, 5e OGL), then you can select all the different kinds of actions you want to generate macros for, and then it shows a summary of the macros that will be generated, where you can deselect any you don't want. It generates macros for all actions: weapon attacks, multiattacks, special abilities, etc. But it doesn't generate an Initiative macro.button.

February 28 (5 years ago)
Gen Kitty
Forum Champion

Do you have a screenshot of what you are talking about?  Because I just checked one of my 5e OGL character sheets and I see nothing like what you describe :)

February 28 (5 years ago)


February 28 (5 years ago)
Kraynic
Pro
Sheet Author

You must be running some sort of external script or addon, because Roll20 only has the Bio & Info, Character Sheet (if you have assigned a sheet to your game), and Attributes & Abilities tabs.  All others in your screenshot are from something else.

February 28 (5 years ago)

Edited February 28 (5 years ago)

Aha! Ok. Forgive me, I thought this was something Roll20 added. Must be the extension I added. Never mind, then. ;) It would be nice if Roll20 DID have this, then....



February 28 (5 years ago)
Kraynic
Pro
Sheet Author

If it is what I think it is, it works great for some people, and breaks parts of roll20 for others.  If it works for you, great!