Adding Buff bonus damage to weapon damage but NOT to fire damage

Hello! I have a buff on my character for power attack that adds +9 to Melee damage AND to the fire damage for his flaming great sword: How can I use the power attack macro without applying the bonus to damage to the fire damage? Here is the macro my friend made for me: Thank you!!!

Hi Joel,  Which character sheet are you using? If you don't know please supply a screenshot of the character sheet.  The macro your friend made for you did not post, please post it. 

It is the Pathfinder character sheet. Thanks!

There are five Pathfinder character sheets across two editions of Pathfinder, please supply the exact name of the sheet or a screenshot. 

Hi Joel, There are multiple Pathfinder sheets... Official by roll20 sheet, the Community sheet, the Simple Sheet?  Is this 1e or 2e/remaster?  Can you post a copy of the macro you are using as well? edit: what Gauss said. ;-P

vÍnce said: Hi Joel, There are multiple Pathfinder sheets... Official by roll20 sheet, the Community sheet, the Simple Sheet?  Is this 1e or 2e/remaster?  Can you post a copy of the macro you are using as well? I suspect this is not a macro, that this is directly being added to the attack sequence of the sheet.  I remember one of the PF sheets had a problem with this, just don't remember which one. 

If this is the pf community sheet, it allows macro-text editing at various stages for attack and damage.

It's 1e, but it won't let me post screen shots here.  Every time I try, it says "Page Not Found". But it sounds like it's the Pathfinder sheet with this problem.

Joel V. said: It's 1e, but it won't let me post screen shots here.  Every time I try, it says "Page Not Found". But it sounds like it's the Pathfinder sheet with this problem. There are four Pathfinder 1e sheets.  How are you trying to post the screenshot? Are you saving it to your computer first and then dragging and dropping the file? Are you just hitting paste? 

I am using Snip and Sketch to get the screen shot and then pasting it here.  I'll try saving it and adding it.

For future reference that is the "Pathfinder by Roll20" character sheet.  What is the modifier you are using in your buff? Also, could you edit the attack and supply a screenshot?

This is an issue I have encountered. It appears to be an issue with the sheet itself, as far as I can tell.  The "damage" modifier is applied to both the primary damage for the weapon as well as the additional damage entries when the desired usage is to add to the total (not each part separately) or only the primary damage entry.  For example., "Power Attack" applies a scaling penalty to attack rolls and a damage bonus of 2x that penalty's value. This should be applied once, so that if a weapon deals 1d6 slashing damage normally and has an added effect of 1d6 fire, the net damage should be (1d6+[power attack bonus]) as slashing + 1d6 fire. However, the "damage" modifier field is applied to both, yielding  (1d6+[power attack bonus]) as slashing + 1d6+[power attack bonus] fire.  The fields are "attack_bonus", "damage_bonus", "melee_damage_bonus", and "ranged_damage_bonus". Although the melee and ranged damage bonuses apply to the appropriate weapons, they still add to the "rider" damage as well as the primary in each case. 

Hi Mark G.,  I will ask the same thing I asked of Joel, could you supply a screenshot of an attack while it is in edit mode? Additionally a screenshot of the buff while it is being edited would also help.  That will give me the best chance to replicate the issue and find a solution.  The reason I need the screenshots is because there are hundreds of character sheets. When someone has an issue I often go into a sheet without any knowledge of that sheet, then I set up the sheet the way the user(s) had it, replicate the problem, then look for a way to deal with it.  So while the text you provided helps, the screenshots are what I really need. 

The character and an affected attack:  The attack without the buff:  The buff definition:  The attack with the buff applied:  The 4 circled in red should not be there, or should be 0. 

Alright, the solution here is actually pretty easy. In the fire damage line place:  "-@{melee_damage_bonus}" (without quotes) like so: 

Thanks! That should probably be -(@{melee_damage_bonus}+@{damage_bonus}) to account for either bonus being mis-applied.