Macro with if statement and absolute value

Hi fellow Roll20ers, I am struggling with an Ability Macro where I would need to : make the sum of 2 Attributes, let's call it S consider if S is positive or negative if positive I need to roll : ( 2 + S )d6k2 if negative I need to roll : ( 2 + abs(S) )d6kl2 Could someone please help me with my ambitious Macro ?

Unless you can work that into a single mathematical expression, you are probably out of luck. Macros are not really a programming language. They lack language features such as conditional logic or looping.

I cannot think of a way to work that into a mathematical expression sadly. I guess it was too ambitious. Thanks anyway for taking the time to answer me keithcurtis.

You could report both positive and negative, and choose the result. Something like &{template:default} {{name=Dice roll}} {{result=[[@{attribute1}+@{attribute2}]]}} {{Positive=[[abs(@{attribute1}+@{attribute2})+2]]d6kh2}} {{Negative=[[abs(@{attribute1}+@{attribute2})+2]]d6kl2}} (all on one line) Then choose the correct roll based on the result.

I will end up doing something like this, thanks for the advice GiGs. For what it worths, I added some square brackets in your code to have the dice rolls work : &{template:default} {{name=Dice roll}} {{result=[[@{attribute1}+@{attribute2}]]}} {{Positive=[[[[abs(@{attribute1}+@{attribute2})+2]]d6kh2]]}} {{Negative=[[[[abs(@{attribute1}+@{attribute2})+2]]d6kl2]]}}

Ah yes, good point :)