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How can i make a macro to choose another macro from a set

i ask this cause im in a Shadowrun game as a rigger that means i have a total of 4 DIFFERENT initiative formula and i want to know if i can make a macro that i can use to choose between them i have no idea of how to pull this off in the macros though.
You really can't, unfortunately.
The way Macros parse prevents them from using a Query to get user input for a macro name.

You can do this with the API and Mentor level support, though.

An alternative that I think may work out better for you overall is to get your GM to make Character Sheets for each of your drones and link their token to them. This will allow you to make Token Actions instead of Macros and let each drone Token have its own set of actions/macros when you click on the token.

https://wiki.roll20.net/Token_Actions

I might be mistaken and will test it, but if each Drone, and yourself all have a modifier for INIT, would it not be plausable that you select all the tokens and an @selected would roll for them all... though now that I think about it I have my doubts. Perhaps if nothing else have an over-all macro on your main bar and select each token, trigger macro for them one at a time
Sorry, but initiative rolls can't be run on multiple tokens, only one at a time.
As a GM, you can highlight and "Add a Turn" to get them on the Turn Order, but they'll all enter with a zero value.

Initiative is one of those macros that do extremely well as Token Actions for every player. As a token action, the token will already be selected in order to access the button, so you don't have to worry about folks using the macro without their token being selected. (which breaks the typical initiative macro)