Select and run abilities from list

just because of a bit of laziness during a game i am trying to do a macro button to give me a list of my abilities and then execute them based on the one i select the one i have go to so far is ?{Ability|Attack, %{Ghrom|Attack} |Bezerk Attack, %{Ghrom|Bezerk-attack} |BronzeSword, %{Ghrom|BronzeSword} |Initiative,%{Ghrom|Initiative} |Intelligence,%{Ghrom|Intelligence} |Perception,%{Ghrom|Perception} |PsychicTalent,%{Ghrom|PsychicTalent} |Reflexes,%{Ghrom|Reflexes} |Social,%{Ghrom|Social} |Strength,%{Ghrom|Strength} |Unarmed,%{Ghrom|Unarmed} |Dagger,%{Ghrom|Dagger}} but doesnt seem to work right, am i missing a piece if syntax ?

With abilities you run the risk of the abilities themselves having characters that would end a query before you want it to. This is because due to Roll20's order of operations, ability/macro calls are processed before queries. So if an ability/macro uses a roll template or query, there will be '}' characters which your macro will read as an 'end-of-query' character. Rather than trying to accomplish this macro through a query, I would recommend that you use Command Buttons .

thats a shame, i have too many macros, and the token actions/bar etc fills up quickly.

Peter M, look at  Chat Menus . They are much easier to format and far more forgiving. Your macro above would be: /w gm &{template:default} {{name=My Abilities}} {{=[Attack](~Attack} [Bezerk Attack](~Bezerk-attack} [BronzeSword](~BronzeSword) [Initiative](~Initiative) [Intelligence](~Intelligence) [Perception](~Perception) [PsychicTalent](~PsychicTalent) [Reflexes](~Reflexes) [Social](~Social) [Strength](~Strength) [Unarmed](~Unarmed) [Dagger](~Dagger)}} This would need to be saved as an ability on the same sheet as Ghrom's other abilities. You can probably come up with a prettier template than the default, but it is universal. Also, the /w gm is at the beginning to avoid spamming the chat of other players.

actually worked it out, for some reason works with macros not abilities , but either way works fine, ?{Select Ability|Attack,#Attack |Bezerk,#Bezerk-attack |BronzeSword,#BronzeSword |Initiative,#Initiative |Intelligence,#Intelligence |Perception,#Perception |PsychicTalent,#PsychicTalent |Reflexes,#Reflexes |Social,#Social |Strength,#Strength |Unarmed,#Unarmed |Dagger,#Dagger }

The reason it works as macros is what Kyle G pointed out above. Those } brackets are tricky to use.