[3.5e] Character Sheets and Weapon Damage Stats

So I'm pretty much brand new to this site, because I needed a place where I could DM a game across 800 miles. I'm making character profiles for a 3.5e game that starts later this week, using the built in sheets for 3.5 and while there's a normal stat block for NPCs, the PC character sheet (as far as I can tell) does not include an option to record weapon/attack damage anywhere at all. At present I'm using the notes section to record this information. The sheet automatically calculates the attack bonus, but not damage. Primarily because of this, I'm just entirely ignoring the existence of the macros. Am I missing something?

(Assuming you're using the "Dungeons and Dragons: 3.5 Edition" Character Sheet by Diana P.) Have you tried the "Weapons" tab?

Yeah, I'm currently looking at that, and there's a damage calculator macro (which doesn't work) but no actual place to input what damage stats it's supposed to calculate (which is why it doesn't work).

Katharine J. said: there's no actual place to input what damage stats it's supposed to calculate Presumably, you'd edit the "Damage Calc" input box to change the damage dice, and use the other fields (i.e. Weapon Specialization and Damage Ability) to modify the damage. If the damage macro isn't working, I recommend posting the contents of its input box here, and we might be able to figure out why that is.

Remove the '+' from the Weapon Enh box. The 3.5 sheet assumes all values are positive and Roll20 does not handle a ++1 calc well and the calculations will break.  You can put a - in a box since +-1 works fine in Roll20 but not the ++. Otherwise, you would edit the 1d6 to reflect the damage die of your weapon in both the Damage Calc and Crit Calc input boxes.  Those boxes are also where you could add additional effects (ie +2d6 [electricity] in the Crit Calc box for a shock on crit weapon or whatever.) Let us know if you need further assistance.

Thank you. That actually seems to be working. I'm going to have to sit and suffer through reading resources on how the macros actually work to make sure I'm actually doing it right. At the moment the extent of my knowledge is pretty much that if I look for the term "1d6" I know what happens if I change that value to "1d8" or whatever. If I may, I want to make sure these look right. This is for a (cold iron) masterwork longspear (1d8 damage): Attack Calc: 1d20cs>@{weapon1critmin} +@{bab}[BAB] +@{epicattackbonus}[Epic AB] +[[@{weapon1stat}]][Ability] +@{size}[size] +@{weapon1enh}[Weapon Enh] +@{weapon1focus}[Weapon Focus] + ?{Flank (1=yes)|0}*2[Flank] +?{Power Attack? (put in penalty with negative sign ie -3)|0}[Pwr Attk] +?{Additional Attack Bonus?|0}[Ad'l Atk Bon] Attack Macro: &{template:DnD35Attack} {{pcflag=true}} {{name=@{character_name}}} {{subtags=attacks with a @{weapon1name} }} {{attack1=hitting AC[[@{weapon1attackcalc}]]}} {{critconfirm1=Crit?:[[@{weapon1attackcalc}]]}} {{fumbleroll=Fumble:[[d20]]}} {{damage1=for [[@{weapon1damage}]] dmg}} {{critdmg1=+[[@{weapon1crit}]] crit dmg}} {{fullattackflag=[[0d1]]}} Full Attack Macro: &{template:DnD35Attack} {{pcflag=true}} {{name=@{character_name}}} {{subtags=attacks with a @{weapon1name} }} {{attack1=A1:[[@{weapon1attackcalc}]]}} {{critconfirm1=Crit?:[[@{weapon1attackcalc}]]}} {{fumbleroll=Fumble:[[d20]]}} {{damage1=D1:[[@{weapon1damage}]]}} {{critdmg1=+[[@{weapon1crit}]]}} {{fullattackflag=[[?{Full Attack? (hit space for full attack else hit return) |0}d1]]}} {{attack2=A2:[[@{weapon1attackcalc}-5]]}} {{critconfirm2=Crit!:[[@{weapon1attackcalc}-5]]}} {{damage2=D2:[[@{weapon1damage}]]}} {{critdmg2=+[[@{weapon1crit}]]}} {{attack3=A3:[[@{weapon1attackcalc}-10]]}} {{critconfirm3=Crit!:[[@{weapon1attackcalc}-10]]}} {{damage3=D3:[[@{weapon1damage}]]}} {{critdmg3=+[[@{weapon1crit}]]}} {{attack4=A4:[[@{weapon1attackcalc}-15]]}} {{critconfirm4=Crit!:[[@{weapon1attackcalc}-15]]}} {{damage4=D4:[[@{weapon1damage}]]}} {{critdmg4=+[[@{weapon1crit}]]}} Damage Calc: 1d8 +[[@{weapon1damagestat}]][Weapon Dmg Ability] +@{weapon1enh}[Weapon Enh] +@{weapon1specialize}[Weapon Spec] +?{Power Attack Bonus?|0}[Pwr Attk] +?{Additional Damage Bonus?|0}[Ad'l Dmg Bon] Crit Calc: [[(@{weapon1critmult}-1)]]d8 +[[(@{weapon1critmult}-1)]]*([[@{weapon1damagestat}]][Weapon Dmg Ability] +@{weapon1enh}[Weapon Enh] +@{weapon1specialize}[Weapon Spec] +?{Power Attack Bonus?|0}[Pwr Attk] +?{Additional Damage Bonus?|0}[Ad'l Dmg Bon]) Damage Macro: &{template:DnD35Attack} {{pcflag=true}} {{name=@{character_name}'s @{weapon1name} }} {{damage1=does [[@{weapon1damage}]] damage}} {{fullattackflag=[[0d1]]}}

Still can't figure out how to actually assign targets. It just randomly picks an AC to measure the attack against.

In Full/Attack Macro input box(es), replace hitting AC[[@{weapon1attackcalc}]] with something like hitting AC[[@{target|AC}]] (if targeted Token represents a Character) or hitting AC[[@{target|bar1}]] (if you're using Bar 1 for AC, etc.)

Silvyre said: In Full/Attack Macro input box(es), replace hitting AC[[@{weapon1attackcalc}]] with something like hitting AC[[@{target|AC}]] (if targeted Token represents a Character) or hitting AC[[@{target|bar1}]] (if you're using Bar 1 for AC, etc.) Err.. actually, don't do it that way. The default macro in the sheet does not tell you anything about your target; only about what you are doing on your attack. The hitting AC ## value is telling you what armor class the roll managed to hit. ie if you roll 5 and have a BAB of 3 and a +1 weapon it will tell you that you hit AC 9 (and if your opponent's AC is higher than 9, that means you missed). If you want it to tell you if you hit or missed the mob, you will have to have a slightly more advanced macro and will need to compare the calculated value to the target's AC. You would need to replace the hitting AC [[@{weapon1attackcalc}]] with something like: hitting [[ [[@{weapon1attackcalc}]]>[[@{target|bar2}]] ]] time(s) This would show a 1 if you hit and a 0 if you missed and assumes that you have the target's AC in bar2. Hope that helps.

Otherwise, your attack entries look good. Depending on your character, you can remove stuff if you will never use it.  For example, my druid does not ever use a power attack so I removed the +?{Power Attack Bonus?|0}[Pwr Attk] from both the damage and crit calculations as well as the +?{Power Attack? (put in penalty with negative sign ie -3)|0}[Pwr Attk] from the attack calculation. :)  Saves me from having to answer those questions on the attack rolls. (I also see that the base sheet is running a slightly older form of the macros than my current personal sheet; I'd adjusted some of the queries to dropdowns.  Might have to look at fixing that once I get my mind wrapped around the sheet workers and get it updated to use those. :)

Thank you all for the help. I've got it all working now and I'm slowly figuring out how the macros actually work.