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Macro support to add a custom turn order item with parameters for its name and value

May 03 (2 months ago)

Summary:

I would like the ability to add a Custom Turn Order item to the Turn Tracker via a macro with specified names and values.

Ideally, if an item with that name already exists, it should instead update the value for that item.


Background:

I'm running a survival oriented campaign in DnD 5E, and find myself frequently dealing with situations that happen on an initiative count, but which don't really make sense to represent them as tokens - such as environmental effects, timers, etc.

I know the Turn Tracker supports manually added custom items without tokens associated -
https://wiki.roll20.net/Turn_Tracker#Adding_a_Custom_Item
I simply want to automate this.


Example:

We can already select a token and run /roll 1d20 &{tracker}, but this requires a token.


Perhaps something like, assuming I want a new field called "Environment", I might call /roll 1d20 &{tracker|Environment}. The tracker would see that an item is being referenced by name, skip checking for a selected token and instead check if it has an item with that name. If it does not, it would add a new Custom Item named Environment, and then regardless of whether it had that item, update the value of Environment to the 1d20 result.

There is already an existing suggestion to allow custom items via macro. So you may want to add your voice to that thread

May 04 (2 months ago)

Hey, thank you RainbowEncoder - I had searched, but didn't find that one; the posts I had found ended with people claiming, erroneously, that the turn tracker only supported tokens.

So, should anyone else come along, the post RainbowEncoder links above - here: https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/12219579/allow-and-%7Btracker%7D-to-add-custom-items-not-just-tokens - should be the one getting support.

May 06 (2 months ago)

Have you looked at AddCustomTurn?

June 04 (1 month ago)
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