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Alchemist 3.5 Potion Help

I've been trying to set up my alchemist from a previous campaign and I'm having a lot of trouble with his potion spells and was wondering if anyone had any assists or help they can offer? 
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Ziechael
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The 3.5e sheet is highly customisable so the sky is the limit really... what do you have so far? What would you like help doing? I recommend checking out the 'roll template' section found at the bottom of the sheet to find one that can display the information you need, you can then use that template and the example code to start building your own. I'd recommend storing them either as sheet abilities or as 'spells' if your character doesn't also have magical abilities. You can then call them using a chat menu or drop down query (the latter being less chat clutter for you but harder to implement).
Well I have the whole character set up besides his spells. If it were normal spells I'd be done already but I don't get how to get his spells into that of a potion flask and then the whole ranged attack business. Everything I've looked into offers no help and my dm is even having some problems trying to figure it out. This is also our first campaign on roll 20 so were all just a bunch of beginners trying to figure out the systems.
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Ziechael
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Ping me an example of what you are trying to do, with details, and I'll try to provide you with an example that you can use to reverse engineer and populate the rest of your spells/potions.
&amp;{template:DnD35StdRoll} {{spellflag=true}} {{name=@{character_name} }} {{subtags=grants ?{target|@{character_name}} [Bull's Strength](<a href="http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Bull%27s_Strength" rel="nofollow">http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Bull%27s_Strength</a> )!}} {{check=For the next @{casterlevel} mins, }} {{checkroll= ?{target|@{character_name}} is stronger, receiving a +4 enh bonus to Strength with the usual benefits to melee attack rolls, melee damage rolls, and other uses of the Str modifier. }} This is what i have for now. I get how to get the spells up and running but cant figure out how to get the ranged in there and the slash damage/ aoe in there
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Ziechael
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Ah ok, I see now... this is how I'd likely handle it: &amp;{template:DnD35StdRoll} {{spellflag=true}} {{name=@{character_name} }} {{subtags=grants @{target|character_name} [Bull's Strength](<a href="http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Bull%27s_Strength" rel="nofollow">http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Bull%27s_Strength</a> )!}} {{compcheck= Ranged Attack: [[ {1d20 + (@{rangedattackbonus}) }&gt;[[@{target|armorclass}]] ]] }} {{succeedcheck=success, the potion hits! For the next @{casterlevel} mins @{target|character_name} is stronger, receiving a +4 enh bonus to Strength with the usual benefits to melee attack rolls, melee damage rolls, and other uses of the Str modifier.}} {{failcheck=success... The potion misses landing x distance in a random direction}} {{notes=Targets within 5 feet are hit by the splash for (insert splash details here) .}} Things to note: Your target call wasn't working as intended, it was set up as a query with the default being your own characters name, I've changed it to be a simple target call for the character_name attribute I've put the attack using the compcheck tag to all for a success and fail mechanic I've moved the bulk of the text to the success tag since that it when it will be effective and saves chat space when you miss I've added a place to insert a 'miss' mechanic depending on your DMs rules for that I've put the splash option as part of the notes tag since that will be in effect for every potion thrown? You can move it to the success and/or fail if that it preferable. This will function from the spell section of the sheet, there may be some attribute tweaking you want to do if the ranged attack calculation isn't quite right but it should be a reasonable place to start for most of your usecases :)
Omg I get where I've been messing up. Thank you so much this makes way more sense now!