Hi! I am trying to get something going for our homebrew Mutant Chronicles (MC) games in order to speed up combat. Our DM's account is "Plus", not PRO. IMPORTANT: all of the stuff below was done in a legacy game. The jists of the MC system is: you use a skill value (SV), apply penalties/bonuses and get a target number. Roll a d20 (lower is better, 20 always a fumble), and depending on the difference between your roll and the target number, you score a critical, heavy, medium or light hit. Each weapon has a fumble/light/medium/heavy/crit (F/L/M/H/C) damage value. You roll on a d12 to see which body part you hit. For each attack, you deduct any armor value of the specific body part to the damage, except 1d4-1 (min 0). Some weapons, ex: grenades, work slightly different in that you roll with your thrown skill to see if you throw it where you intended to and each target gets hits in a certain number of body parts (target areas) for a number of dice (depending on grenade type, but let's say 2d8) using 1 armor deduction (1d4-1) for all body parts. One important thing to note, is that determining fumble/light/medium/heavy/crit is not from a formula, but from a chart the DM has. What we wanted: 1) We wanted to speed up combat, so if we could get all in a single click: the d20 roll, the result (F/L/M/H/C), the hit location and armor deductions for normal gun fire and melee damage, that would be awesome! 2) What takes a lot of time are explosions (grenades, rocket launchers and grenade launchers), so we wanted to get as much of the info from as few clicks as possible: the initial d20 to hit where you wanted to land the projectile, the result (F/L/M/H/C), the armor deduction (1d4-1), the blast radius in squares (called SR), the target areas number (body parts hit) and the damage to each (2d8 for example). Keep in mind that there could be 1 to 23 (random high number) targets caught in the explosion. What I was able to do: I have created rollable tables for each attack skill value (minus a few that we never use) called: attack6 -> attack50. In each, I add 20 entries of equal weight and add: (1) Crit, (2) Heavy, (3) Medium, (4) Medium, (5) Medium, (6) Light, (7) Miss, (8) Miss, (9) Miss, (10) Miss, (11) Miss, (12) Miss, (13) Miss, (14) Miss, (15) Miss, (16) Miss, (17) Miss, (18) Miss, (19) Miss, (20) Fumble It's a lot of work, we COULD group the same results together and adjust weights, but as players, we NEED to know how we rolled ;-) Then I created macros (visible to all players) to call each one (precision, some armor deduction of melee weapons can be 1d8-1, so I have both here, we pick the one relevant): &{template:default} {{name=Attack(6)}} {{ (Roll) SuccessLevel=[[1t[attack6] ]]}} {{Location=[[1t[HitLocation] ]]}} {{Armor Deduction=1d4-1: [[ {1d4-1, 0d0+1}kh1 ]] 1d8-1: [[ {1d8-1, 0d0+1}kh1 ]]}} Then, for grenades, I created GrenadeRegular macro (see below for code). It is visible to all. It has a nice touch in that it includes a clickable call to itself, that way it's easy to roll for damage to extra targets caught in the blast area! &{template:default} {{name=Regular Grenade}} {{SR=2}} {{Armor Deduction=[[ {1d4-1, 0d0+1}kh1 ]]}} {{TargetAreas=[[1d3+1]]}} {{Area1=[[2d8]] to [[1t[HitLocation] ]]}} {{Area2=[[2d8]] to [[1t[HitLocation] ]]}} {{Area3=[[2d8]] to [[1t[HitLocation] ]]}} {{Area4=[[2d8]] to [[1t[HitLocation] ]]}} {{=[EXTRA TARGET](`#GrenadeRegular)}} Then I created a CombatHelper macro, visible to all, to display a Menu of all the things you can do: It has all attack skill values, all normal skills and then multiple explosive weapon types. I also included some dice heavy spells (the MC version of mass heal kind of thing). The macro is monstreous, here it is and abbreviated code below: &{template:default} {{name=Macro Combat Helper}} {{Attacks=[6](`#Attack06) }} {{Grenades=[Regular](`#GrenadeRegular)}} Final touch, I added a character in the journal for each PC character (we are 2 players, playing 2 characters each). 1 of each player's character has an ability called: CombatHelper, that whispers the CombatHelper macro to himself so it doesn't polute the chat logs for everyone: /w fish #CombatHelper I think this will speed up combat a bunch. It all works relatively well with the complicated MC system and the fact that we can't use the API calls. There seem to be 2 problems with what I have so far: 1) I (a player) created these in a test game. These macros seems to be linked to my account, since the DM cannot see them. 2) When we'll want to use these in another campaign, it'll be a pain to move everything to the new game I've been researching and it seems the best way to go around this is to use a MacroMule character. I've tried to get it going but I cannot get it to work. If I could get things going for a single one, I bet I could figure the rest out. In my MacroMule character, I added 2 abilities: Attack06 and CombatHelper (I'll only show a short very of CombatHelper). MacroMule:CombatHelper (Show in macro bar checked) &{template:default} {{name=Macro Combat Helper}} {{Attacks=[6](`%{MacroMule|Attack06}) }} {{Grenades=[Regular](`%{MacroMule|GrenadeRegular}) }} MacroMule:Attack06 &{template:default} {{name=Macro Attack(6)}} {{ (Roll) SuccessLevel=[[1t[attack6] ]]}} {{Location=[[1t[HitLocation] ]]}} {{Armor Deduction=1d4-1: [[ {1d4-1, 0d0+1}kh1 ]] 1d8-1: [[ {1d8-1, 0d0+1}kh1 ]]}} MacroMule:GrenadeRegular &{template:default} {{name=Regular Grenade}} {{SR=2}} {{Armor Deduction=[[ {1d4-1, 0d0+1}kh1 ]]}} {{TargetAreas=[[1d3+1]]}} {{Area1=[[2d8]] to [[1t[HitLocation] ]]}} {{Area2=[[2d8]] to [[1t[HitLocation] ]]}} {{Area3=[[2d8]] to [[1t[HitLocation] ]]}} {{Area4=[[2d8]] to [[1t[HitLocation] ]]}} {{=[EXTRA TARGET](`%{MacroMule|GrenadeRegular})}} In one of the character, I created the CombatHelperMule ability in order to whisper it to the player: /w fish %{MacroMule|CombatHelper} When I click on the MyPlayer :CombatHelper Mule or MacroMule:CombatHelper button my menu bar (bottom left), the only thing that is printed in the chat window is the title. There is no error though: Am-I missing something as far as the macroMule is concerned? Any ideas how I could of implemented all of this homebrew MC system in a more efficient manner? I'm all ears! Thanks for reading until the end, David
