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[3.5] NPC Attack Buttons

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In my campaign, it really slows things down every time I have to switch from this NPC sheet to that NPC sheet to roll attacks. How do I go about adding their attacks to the bar with the initiative button? This is a 3.5 D&D game. Not sure what else might be relevant for that. Any help would be highly appreciated. P.S. I have no scripting experience, so if it requires that, is there a scripting for dummy's readable somewhere?
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Diana P
Pro
Sheet Author
When using the D&D3.5 sheet, there are 2 ways to get a token action (the buttons that appear on the top of the screen when you have a token/character/npc selected) from one of the rolls.&nbsp; You do not need scripting (the API; a Pro subscription level perk) to do this, only normal macro stuff.&nbsp; You could create a universal macro or a character specific one.&nbsp; The character specific one would appear only on the character (npc) that you created it on so you would need to make one for each npc character sheet that you have.&nbsp; To do that, you click on the Attributes and Abilities tab at the top of the character sheet, click on the +Add button next to Abilities, mouse over the new ability and click on the Pencil icon to edit it, give it a name you like, and for the body of the macro enter either @{npcfullattackmacro} for the full attack or @{npcattackmacro} for the single attack spot.&nbsp; After saving (click on the check-shaped icon), you can click in the box next to Show as Token Action, to get it to appear at the top of the screen when that token is selected. See:&nbsp; <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Token_Actions" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Token_Actions</a> for more information about Token Actions in the Wiki. A universal macro will show up on all tokens you click on, whether they have the Attack/Full Attack spot filled out or not.&nbsp; To create one of those, click on the Collections tab (looks like a menu/list icon) on the top of the chat area.&nbsp; Then click on the +Add next to Macros.&nbsp; In the pop-up that appears, fill out the name and either @{selected|npcfullattackmacro} for the full attack or @{selected|npcattackmacro} for the single attack spot.&nbsp; These macros need to have the selected keyword in front of the name for the attack button so they know which character sheet to use the values from.&nbsp; Then click on the box next to Show as Token Action? and save it and you should be good to go. :) More on Macros in the Wiki at: <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Macros" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Macros</a> Hope that helps.
Thank you! I found the option to do it on their sheets under attributes and abilities, which will work for what I wanted for that. However, I will make a general attack button for future use.
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Diana P
Pro
Sheet Author
Excellent!&nbsp; Glad you got it working. Happy Gaming!