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Rolling ability checks in Age of Sigmar: Soulbound

I am currently looking into running a game of Age of Sigmar: Soulbound with some of my friends, and I ran into a small problem related to rolling checks in this system. This system is fully d6 based, with the slight twist that for tests the player is able to have a certain level of focus in the skill. The checks are deemed succeses or failures based on how many of the rolled d6's are above a certain threshold. Each level of focus results in the ability to add +1 to a single dice in the roll, so for instance a character with 2 focus would get the following results of a skill check with a difficulty of 4 with 5 dice. (1,3,3,4,6) = four succeses (+1 to each of the 3's) (1,1,2,4,6) = three succeses (+2 to the 2) I can see that using the command "/r {5d6}>4" would give me the amount of succeses if there were no focus. And I can even get the sorted results through "/r {5d6s}>4". But I cannot add the focus in an easy way to the result. So my question is; Is it possible to create a custom roll command or a macro that can take care of this mechanic?
I don't have anything to add, but I'd be very interested in finding out if this is possible.
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This cant be done without the API, a Pro subscriber feature. then someone would have to write a script to handle it. Roll20 dice macros cant do conditional effects, like "if this die is 1 short of the difficulty, add 1 to it".  The best you can do is report the dice roll, with bonus beside it and, and leave players to work it out. As you found you can sort the dice-  that's the only option you have right now. Sort the dice, which will make it easier to tell how to spend the focus.
Thank you for the replies. I think I will hold off on the pro subscription until after we have tried a few games, but I will keep this solution in mind for later.
Have you had any success in trying since? 
Yes, I have made some preliminary stuff for the simple skill checks. I want to finish it soon, but it is/will be very basic as in "!r arcana dn3:2"  can let you roll an arcana check and apply the arcana skill and mind and then add focus to your result.