Hey there, first time posting to the forum. Been a Pro member for over a year now, pretty much since the Pandemic broke out, we had to swap our games to online. So I run 2 games currently as DM, sometimes I do One-Shots and other games as well, now all online. I had a pretty good setup when running every game in person. I am a professional digital artist (3D/2D Animation, Illustration, Web Design, Game Design, Video Editing, etc.). So I am a tech enthusiast, I just liked running D&D in person with some digital aides, like my Tablet, Laptop, DnDBeyond, Bluetooth Speakers, etc. I have been playing around with Roll20's Macros as of recently trying to get some things to work that can help me out when I run games. We were using Beyond20 Chrome Extension, but it's recently not been having good results. We now use the Avrae bot with Discord, to do all of the rolling from DnDBeyond straight to Discord to avoid having to buy all the 5e stuff a third time. But I still want to use the Turn Tracker on Roll20. Hence my struggle and this post. I have searched and tried many different things I found online as well as tried mixing and matching, reading the wiki and help for Macros, but it isn't working as I need it to. My goal is to purely have a Macro for each player that they can select their token , then press the Macro, and have it Query them for " Normal, Advantage, or Disadvantage" , then roll their Initiative accordingly on Roll20 and add them to the turn tracker . I punched all of their initiative bonuses into their Character Sheets on Roll20 and set Bar2 to be the Initiative . The idea being I can just reference Bar2 to use as the modifier. Here is what I have so far: /em @{selected|token_name} rolls a ?{Type of Roll?| Normal, [[1d20+@{selected|bar2}]] | Advantage, [[2d20k1+@{selected|bar2}]] | Disadvantage, [[2d20kl1+@{selected|bar2}]]} &{tracker} for initiative! What Happens? Well it asks the question, and the choice does act accordingly. It uses the proper bonus, does the math, says the selected token's name, but it doesn't add it to the turn tracker. I tried this to see if it would work: /em @{selected|token_name} rolls a ?{Type of Roll?| Normal, [[1d20+@{selected|bar2} &{tracker}]] | Advantage, [[2d20k1+@{selected|bar2} &{tracker}]] | Disadvantage, [[2d20kl1+@{selected|bar2}]] &{tracker}} for initiative! But it doesn't. It just breaks, won't even query properly. I tried making nested Macros and Query those. /emas @{selected|token_name} rolls a ?{Type of Roll?| Normal, #Init | Advantage, #Init-Adv | Disadvantage, #Init-Dis } for initiative! But that breaks on the Query because each nested macro is using the brackets and commas which will break the syntax. I'm running out of ideas I was wondering if anyone knew a way to get this concept to work with the method I am trying (using Bar2 as the modifier and adding the selected token to turn tracker).
