Is there a macro to deal an initiative card to my tokens and players (savage worlds)

After our first combat, my players are super frustrated with the speed of the game. dealing and sorting cards for initiative is super slow. There must be a macro for this somewhere, right?

There are some API scripts (Pro Subscriber Perk) that can handle this.  There isn't a way with just macros.

If you only need to draw a card for initiative, and dont need to handle them, shuffle them, etc., you could use a rollable table to act as a pseudo deck. Have the GM create a table with 52 items and add the images, then you'd just need  to click a button to roll initiative each turn. Or you could set up a dice macro that rolls a d14 and a d4 (for clubs, spades, etc) and print that into chat. This has the downside that it doesnt track which cards have been used, so two people could roll identical results. But if its just something every player does once a turn and isnt used for anything else, that downside might be overwhelmed by the massive increase in speed and simplicity.

You can even use emojis: J♣️, 2♦️, 10♥️, A♠️ Although they will have a different appearance in different systems.

I rejected suggesting a Rollable Table as I'm pretty certain the deck only gets reshuffled under certain circumstances, and you'd have to track which "cards" had come up already as well as the current "cards".  However, it might be a viable solution...

The Aaron is right. Just to confirm, how are you dealing cards for Initiative?  Are you using the "Deal cards to turn order" functionality? If you aren't that can save a lot of time...the only downside is characters with initiative modifying Edges would still need to be handled manually.

The Aaron said: I rejected suggesting a Rollable Table as I'm pretty certain the deck only gets reshuffled under certain circumstances, and you'd have to track which "cards" had come up already as well as the current "cards".  However, it might be a viable solution... I know, I know, I was just suggesting that if the initiative drawing is painful, it might be better for the group to house rule it and bypass the part that is causing pain. 

Finderski is closest to the reality of what's going on. I can deal these cards using the table he posted, but I'm still entering the turn order manually.

Mitchel M. said: Finderski is closest to the reality of what's going on. I can deal these cards using the table he posted, but I'm still entering the turn order manually. When you say, entering the turn order manually, what do you mean?  Once you dealt the card to the turn order you need to sort them manually? Or do you mean you need to click deal => Select All players => Deal to Turn order, then deal with initiative altering edges? Or do you mean something different? I will say, if you can get your group to chip in $10 bucks a month for Pro, the API is awesome, and that would totally fix everything; I have two buttons and they handle it all. 

I'm guessing he means manually entering the number drawn on the Turn Tracker. 

Dealing to Turn Order will automatically do that, it doesn't sort them, of course (but there's a button for that, too). Initiative altering Edges would the only thing that needs to be entered manually, and even then, dragging and dropping the card onto the player's existing hand takes care of that.  Characters on Hold get in the way of dealing to turn order, unfortunately... Another option would be to set the deck up so players can draw from it.  Set it so it also is drawn face up and played face up.  Then each player could draw their own cards and you do a count down like a face to face game.  The benefit of that would be each player can take care of their own initiative altering edges.

Rich, do you have these APIs available somewhere? I didn't see much savage Worlds stuff in the API wiki.

The API I use located at:&nbsp; <a href="https://github.com/pelwer1/Deal-Init" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pelwer1/Deal-Init</a>