Macros which include different character names

Hello, I'm sorry if this has been answered before but I'm failing on finding good search terms to look for it.

My wife and I play in the same game and share the same computer. When I execute a macro /em or /me always indicates the same player. Is there a way to start the macro:
/charactername = "Sean" /roll d20+4 for initiative
/charactername = "Liz" /roll d20+3 for initiative?

It would be very useful to have macros for both players without needing a 2nd PC and my wifes tablet is twitchy about running roll-20.

Thanks in advance.
Sean

Any player assigned a "Character" (from the Journal tab) can choose via drop-down to talk as either themselves (their registered login name) or as their assigned character. This drop-down menu can be found directly below the chat text box.

Or you can set up all the macros to start emotes with

/em @{selected|token_name} ?{What are you doing?}

The best you could likely do as a player is to use /ooc (out of character) to make it use the name saved on your settings tab of the control bar (typically your Roll20 profile name unless you change it).

If the drop-down underneath the chat window is set to your Character; normal "/me ..." would display as that, and "/ooc ..." would display as your profile name.

I forgot to mention as a DM I set up a character sheet in the journal with just a blank space as the characters name, that way players can set that as their chat name in the dropdown box so that the only thing that shows up is whatever is on their emotes. The blank character has to be set to be able to be controlled by all players.

The /me and /ooc has potential, especially if we create an alternate log-in where /ooc displays her character name.

If all my macros start with /me and all of hers start with /em @{selected|token_name} then it should work if I remember to select her character first. That's prone to fewer mistakes then switching each time and lets me roll init, perception, and a few others for both characters with the same macro.

Still not perfect solutions. Is there a way to dummy in the character name format? That might also work since I could add clearer formatting to shared or differentiated macros. There really is no point in me using a macro for a bard song or her for a monk flurry of attack.

Sean

John R. said:

I forgot to mention as a DM I set up a character sheet in the journal with just a blank space as the characters name, that way players can set that as their chat name in the dropdown box so that the only thing that shows up is whatever is on their emotes. The blank character has to be set to be able to be controlled by all players.

That's a cool trick.

John R., that's...a remarkably clever trick. I still think we should do this though. I invite people to chime in on that thread and see if we can't get developer attention.