Macros: one roll with skills to pick

Roll a d20 and add the skills you pick on the spot, as one roll with a breakdown: the ready-made macro, how to make it yours and how to ask the table for it from Ask for a roll.

A macro is a button that does several things in a row. This guide builds the most requested one at the table: roll a d20 and add one, two or three skills you choose on the spot, as one single roll in the chat with its breakdown.

Example: the GM says "dance". You roll d20 + Performance + whichever you decide (Seduction, Dexterity, Stealth...). The chat shows one roll with the total and how much each skill adds.

No code, and nothing fixed in advance: the skill list comes from your sheet.

For players: your macro in 4 steps

You can create your own macros at the table without asking the GM. By default the whole table sees them; to keep one to yourself, change Who sees it and who uses it.

  1. Open Macros at the table and press New macro.
  2. Among the templates pick Roll with skills to pick. It comes ready made.
  3. Name it and Save. To keep it one click away, put it on the macro bar (drag it to a slot, or Shift + the slot number).
  4. Done.

To use it: press the bar button. A window shows the fields on your sheet that have a number. Tick 1 to 3 and press Answer. Once you reach the maximum, the rest grey out. The chat publishes a single roll:

Roll with Performance, Seduction · 21 · [14] Performance +4, Seduction +3

Running it costs one click on the button, the ticks you want, and one click on Answer.

Make it yours

Open the macro and change the ask someone step:

  • fields to pick from: write only the skills you want to offer, comma-separated (Performance, Seduction, Stealth). Accents and capitals don't matter. Empty means every numeric field on your sheet.
  • must pick at least and can pick at most: from how many to how many.
  • name of the answer: what the later steps call it (hab by default).

And the roll dice step, where you can add anything fixed:

1d20+{{ficha.Performance}}{{respuesta.hab_formula}}

That is "d20 + Performance always + the ones you pick". What the question leaves for later steps:

WriteWhat it is
{{respuesta.hab}}the picked names: Seduction, Stealth
{{respuesta.hab_formula}}what they add, to paste after a die: +3-1
{{respuesta.hab_suma}}the sum already done: 2
{{respuesta.hab_desglose}}Seduction +3, Stealth -1, for the visible breakdown box of the roll step
{{respuesta.hab_n}}how many you picked

If your sheet has no numeric skill, the macro stops and says so instead of rolling blind.

For the GM: ask the table for it

From Ask for a roll:

  1. Pick who (one, several or everyone).
  2. Write or pick what is rolled (for example, Performance).
  3. Under Have them roll with a macro pick Roll with skills to pick. The first time it is saved in the table; after that it is already in the list.
  4. Send.

Each player gets their request. When they press Roll, their skills window opens, they pick what they want, and their roll closes the request with the total (with a DC it also says whether it passes). If they cancel, the request stays pending.

You can pick any macro of the table in that dropdown, not only this one: whichever rolls the dice the way your system needs.

Whoever answers picks from their own sheet: nobody sees or touches anyone else's.

GM macros

You can make the same macro for yourself (for example, for your NPC rolls) and leave it visible to the table: in the macro settings, Who sees it and who uses it.

If something goes wrong

  • "There are no numeric fields on your sheet": select your character on the map, or open the table with the system sheet. The macro reads the sheet of the token you have selected or, if none, your character's.
  • The list shows fields that aren't skills: write the ones you want in fields to pick from, comma-separated.
  • "What it would do" doesn't look like the real thing: the editor shows the macro without asking; the question appears when you really run it.

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