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Rollable tables on the fly?

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Is there any way to do a simple rollable table purely via chat commands? I would like to be able to do something along the lines of "/roll 1d4 [Bob|Carol|Ted|Alice]", without having to precode every possible combination of valid results as a table on the Collections page.

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Guurzak

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Alternatively, is there a way to randomly select one of an arbitrary number of selected tokens?

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RainbowEncoder

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Using a modified version of skill check with text result you can. So for the example you gave it would be:- &{template:default} {{[0]}} {{[1]=Bob}} {{[[[1d2=1]]]=Carol}} {{[[[1d3=1]]]=Ted}} {{[[[1d4=1]]]=Alice}} {{[0]=Dynamic Roll Table Result}} This will give each option an equal weighting. Note that the rolls are using triple square brackets not double.

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Guurzak

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Boy, isn't that a kludge? Thanks, it works exactly as described, and I was able to puzzle out the logic that makes it work, but I wouldn't really want to be typing that in by hand every time I want to choose a random result from an ad-hoc text list. Looks like /roll 1d4 and just declaring the result table out loud is probably where I end up.

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RainbowEncoder

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Yeah, it's not the neatest. If you need to consistently choose between 4 options you could replace the names with roll queries ?{Option1}, ?{Option2} and so on then save that as a macro. Then you'd be able to just fill in the options via the roll query prompts.

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Rollable tables on the fly?