Creating Macros in Roll20 

You don't just skip over anything, you don't briefly show the commands onscreen and expect the viewers to pause it, you don't even try to speed certain parts up. You have the whole tutorial set out for everyone to see. There are few people who make tutorials as good as this one. Thank you.

I mean this is all very helpful and well explained. It’s just so surprising to me how difficult roll20 has made this.

Took me an hour of watching drag and drop macro videos before FINALLY finding one that would just explain how to write my own. Thank you so much fornsuch an insightful video. Much appreciated

bless you for typing these out. I've been running a game for first essential workers and military, and roll20 is new to me so I've had to crash self train. You guys have been a godsend. Other videos just show them in the vid, and the only way I could read them was to stream it to my wide screen tv, pause, and then write it down. Oy.

This is brilliant! Super clear and concise. It moves you through in a step by step, and covers exactly what you need. I picked up some great skills here, which will improve my game enormously. Thank you!

I cannot get over how informative your vidoes are. You are an exceptional teacher.

Entered here from a Life Domain Cleric perspective, knowing nothing about macros. Now I fell like a PRO. Very good video. Straight to the point, comprehensive and informative. Ty very much.

OMG, words alone cannot express how much I wish to thank you for this video. I just became a user of roll 20 and bought my subscription and have for the last two days been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out almost exactly the format you have been using. Trying to find anyone to give out information as to contact and syntax as to how to create macros in this way is almost damn near impossible! Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!

You don't need a macro for the Life Cleric's *Cure Wounds.* When you go to the Cure Wounds spell in your OGL sheet's _Spells_ tab, edit the spell and simply add the bonus. So for the _HEALING_ amount you set it to 1d8+3 (+2 for life cleric, +1 for first level spell). Then for your _HIGHER LVL CAST DMG:_ you set it to 1 *d8* + 1. This automatically adds the +1 bonus per spell level that you cast it at a higher level.

Now this one here, Is the best and only real explaining video of how to make macros in Roll 20. Thanks bro, you are the hero we need AND the hero that we deserve.

Thank you for such a great tutorial video. This is exactly what I needed to see to get a better understanding how R20s macro's work at their basic level. I will need to look and see if you have something like this for the API. Again, fantastic video.

Absolutely eppic pacing on teaching this subject. You thoroughly explained all the steps at least once, then moved on without wasting time. Thank you.

These tutorials are great! You do such a good job explaining things and go into great detail without getting bogged down

This is what a Tutorial Video looks like when the presenter has worked out in advance what they are going to say, STICKS TO IT, and doesn't have to keep skipping about because they forgot something they had planned to say or suddenly remembered something they SHOULD have said. (ETA- but neither does it sound like he's reading from a script) There are so many of these, where if you are not paying ABSOLUTE attention to every moment and taking notes you can suddenly miss that the presenter said, "Oh, and I need to show you THIS" and there is a segue into something unrelated... at which point you get lost. It also goes through the stages of showing you WHY the things you might try on your own, don't seem to behave like the ones you se other people using. I'm fairly certain Nick has spent some time teaching or training. Gradual repetition and reinforcement, adding a new layer of information in each step is one of the most effective ways to teach stuff like this. I can say that with confidence because a) I used to run a Training Company and b) I am an absolute novice at any sort of coding/Macro writing or anything in that ball park. It's just not how my brain is wired. This is the first tutorial on roll20 Macros that I have understood from the start. Well done.

YOUR VIDEOS ARE LIFE SAVING!!! They actually helped me make my games much more convenient for both me and my players! keep it up!

OMG this is what I've been looking for, so many copy paste macros on the web but I couldn't figure out how they are formatted, thanks!!! Subbed liked and belled

So I thought I would know everything about macros in roll20. Seems I was wrong, thanks for all those great, well-explaned videos with inspiring ideas! :)

Thanks so much for this! The healing potion macro is really helpful, especially with a party that didn't pick any healers, so potions are a bigger part of the game. I edited your macro for Cure Wounds, simplifying it to just a "additional healing/disciple of life" macro, since the bonus applies to any healing spells cast. It's almost too simple to need a macro, but it's more a reminder to add the bonus regardless. A tip for macros like the Party Health - I had to go back and fix character names a few times that didn't work - turns out one had a space at the end, and one had a space before his first name, so it was difficult to see why the names weren't matching up. I know you said you need to make sure the characters' full names are written in the script for the macro, but that was an extra hidden challenge I didn't expect. 20 min of my life I won't get back :)

Thanks a lot Nick, as always a fantastic Macro and a succinct and helpful delivery! the best channel ive found for Roll20 macros and scripts, my players love that overland map with built in handout. I look forward every week to what you have to offer!!

Thanks for all the great videos. I am new to Roll20 and these have helped me immensely. I used this video to build a macro to roll secret perception checks for the party with built in perception modifier instead of just using the Passive Perception score.

This video right here opened my eyes to a whole new experience on Roll20! Thank you for making it easy to understand!

Great Macros...better even I am learning how their macro-scripts work. Really appreciate your videos. Please keep up the great content.

Thank you. First helpful Macro Guide I've seen so far.

Hey! Thank you so much for all these macro videos!! They've helped me transform my roll20 campaign for my players. Keep up the good work!!

When mentioning a class level, @{level}(character's total level) only works if the character only has one class. For a multiclassed character, use @{base_level} for the character's first class. For each other class, you instead use a different one I can't remember off the top of my head, but you can't miss them when finding them.

Though I am using macros for some time I learned some nice things (reuse of variables etc.). Thanks!

Super nice video, but when I watch it, it kinda makes me think that roll20 devs could do a better job, to make things a lot more easier.

thanks man. best roll20 info out there. they should pay you

Thanks a lot, you're crystal clear, and that's great!

Love this Nick. I implemented the Healing Potion macro already in my game for the players to use this Friday night. To Wayne Francis's point previously posted below, it also is giving me a few ideas to use this macro concept for other things. As always, thanks for the awesome video!

Thank you! You are a great teacher.

Excellent information, sir. I'm modifying your templates for use in my Shadowrun Game. Many thanks.

You are the best roll20 teacher ! (Energiun)

Great video. I love your content, but maybe it would be nice if some of the examples could be in the description. Anyway, nice video.

Great! Helped clear up a lot of my confusion with macro syntax. Thanks!

Love the vids man, helped me a ton with getting stuff working. one thing I don't like is how quiet your videos are

Wow, you did an amazing job explaining this! You are great! I will implement those macros right now!

Great video. Thanks. I don't use API and am glad for more macro videos

This is great, I have used many API's and Macro's from you to enhance my game. I tried seeing if my question is in the comments already and didn't find them. I have the token action API set up and the ammo tracking set up too, I'd like to change the output for my characters (as I have a life cleric) but include the spell slot expenditure.

Well presented. Inspires the creation of many useful tools. I’m off to the Macro editor.

This was insanely helpful, thanks so much! Liked + subscribed!

OMG This is exactly what I needed.

When the healing potion is ran it is outputting as follows and isn't encased in the same pretty presentation you've made it do: Harry Wraith (GM):{template:default} {{name=Healing Potion}} {{ Supreme Healing Potion Used: 38 HP recovered }} {template:default} {{name=Healing Potion}} {{ Healing Potion Used: 9 HP recovered }}

Really helpful! Thanks for sharing such useful macros!!

Thanks for the post! This helped me a ton on setting up macros for my group :)

Fantastic video, as always. Thank you.

Super helpful thank you very much for this video.

Awesome video as always. Thanks!

Great video. Could you put the macros in the description? Thank you in advance :)

This helped immensely! Thank you brother!

Hey Nick. Once again great video. Helps alot. How hard would it be to develop an API to produce a "spell book" of spells that appears in chat, Casts by clicking on spell, asks about spell level for spells that can be cast at higher levels, reduces spells slots accordingly AND applies modifiers if present (like life domain). I am think something along the lines of the magic missile API in another of your videos.

Thank you very very much for this video, my dude!

Are the macro "commands" different for 5e and Pathfinder? I'm trying to set up a macro that has a query for the saves and that then rolls the save with the character's modifier (in Pathfinder). However, the comma after my option doesn't finish the option name, it's just added... EDIT: I found my problem. The template I was using (Template:npc) didn't allow the same layout as the default template. Thank you for your video, it's been mighty helpful!

Thankyou, this has been so helpful!

Hey Nick, thanks for this. It has given me some ideas. I was wondering if it is possible to have a macro that whispers to each of the players a prompt to roll initiative from the whisper box or let them type it in and have that whispered back to me. I've got 5 players and all but one are using dice and the one that is using the Roll20 dice is completely new to D&D. Ultimately I'd want to combine this with a script that adds their response to the initiative tracker. A thumbs up if you think Roll20's macro and api would allow me to create something like this.

Man I'm really struggling making my own macros I can copy yours and they work amazing try and do my own and they just won't behave....great vid

Thank you so much! This is great!

Your channel is great. Do you know of (or have you made?) a video that explains how to make a character sheet?

GREAT basic tutorial!!!!!!!

Excellent video.

Hi Nick, is there a way to add /em descriptives to something like this? Also, for us luddites out there, these tutorials are wonderful!! Thanks!

thank you, that helped me a lot

Nested rollqueries next please hehe I have a couple of levels deep and they were a nightmare to build.

Another great video ! Your work is amazing 😁 Do you have a discord or somewhere else where you can be reached for questions?

I took a combination of the macro's here and made a Short Rest macro that is a character sheet macro that rolls the hit dice and adds the con mod for the character. It uses a variant of the Life Domain macro except I added @{hitdietype} in place of the 8 for D8.

This is very helpful!

Hecking useful. Thanks.

Is there a way to use the same roll in multiple boxes? For example, I want a macro that does Bard uses Defensive Flourish for [[1d8]] bonus damage. His AC increases to [[npc_ac+1d8]]. But I want the 1d8s to be the same roll.

Amazing Video

Hey! Greay vids, lots of help. Im wondering how could you do this randomly? Like determine thr type of potion at random

Great ! Thanks !

Doesn’t that result in your screen becoming busy? I have up to 9 players in one game, then if I have all those macro boxes in the ribbon as well I won’t be able to see the underlying map.

This is helping me so much!

I like your videos. You explain in a way that is easy to follow. I did run into some issues with the healing macro, as a GM I focus more on damage output. I've set up macros for my minions to output damage based on their weapon and stats from the sheet. I assume it would be possible to condense these macros down into 1 pull down menu macro, rather than having one for each type of attack, using the ? command. One thing I am struggling with is how to set up a macro that targets another token. For example, my goblin attacks a player within range, so during his turn he swipes and attacks, but how do I set up a macro that draws from the goblins attack and damage vs the targets AC and HP? I wish to do it straight from a macro assigned to the attacker, output the result in the chat, and if possible change the values on the target, or at least name the attacker vs the defender in the chat. Thought I could do it from the character sheet, but it doesn't seem to work either.

Nice video, how do you do a 2d20 gamesystem roll, where you roll 2 or more d20's and count each roll separately?

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This is soooooo fucking helpeful OMG my Master pls tell me eveything u know about the macroing :p. No seriously thx a lot for this awsome explenation.

Great Video.

I want to know how to change character abilities and stats with this so cure wounds actually changes their HP.

I have a spell"prayer of healing" is there a way i dont have to use all the targets to use the spell im using Casting Healing Word at @{target|Target1|character_name},@{target|Target2|character_name}, @{target|Target3|character_name},@{target|Target4|character_name},@{target|Target5|character_name},@{target|Target6|character_name}, for [[?{Spell Level|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9}d8+2+@{selected|wisdom_mod}]] HP

so how would you set these up on sheets that do not provide the @ for the modifier?

Im looking to make a viscous mockery macro will randomly generate an insult from a list any thoughts

So I know this video was a bit long ago but is there anyway to add a check to see if they have a healing potion before they use the healing macro?

pls do vid about spell costs :)

How can i put a roll dice in a rollTable.. like a random encounter table: [[1d4]] kobolds / [[1d6+2]] goblins ...

Hey Nick, do you have a good Idea how to write a macro to award players and/or the group with XP? There is this whole API of Scott (I havent tested yet), but I thought there must be an easier way. Thank you for your advice!

Thanks!

What is wrong with this one? Forceful Flail [[1d20+@{pb}+@{strenght_mod} ]] It should be my weapon attack

Awesome tutorial man, but i have a question, i want to make a macro for rolling initiative for monsters and i dont want my players to look at the rolls, how do i do that with the templates and that???

You forgot to add the Second Wind macro to the description.

Have you found it possible to trigger a roll table based on the chosen selection? I've tried a couple of different ways, including creating a macro for the table and using it instead of a dice roll after the choice name, but can't get it to display. I currently have the inline chat buttons to do this, but I was wondering if it could be a pop-up too. EDIT: I should specify I'm using the npcaction template, not the default (which seems to work).

I've tried to make a template that rolls tables and does not show rolls as inline... but I seem to be stuck. Could any kind soul take a look and advise? :( /w gm &{template:default} {{name=test}} {{?{test| table1, **Healing Potion Used:** [[1t[table1]]]| table2, **Greater Healing Potion Used:** [[1t[table2]]] } }} When I try to replace [[ with /roll it fails on me

Do you think you could link me to what API I could use if I wanted it to update automatically, though? Would appreciate it.

I'm making a macro for my Zealot Barbarian,I have Reckless Attack and Great Weapon Master. As one can imagine it's annoying to roll all those dice then add them together. So I made a Macro that rolls my attack and all the damage, leaving me to only do the math, however, I want to know if it would be possible to add a line of code that would add all my rolls after giving me a breakdown (So I can see if I'm rolling high and subtract based on resistances easily) So far I have a Roll and Damage Breakdown Macro [The lines are spaced for easy reading] &{template:default} {{name=Reckless Attack}} {{Reckless Attack=[[1d20+6-5]] | [[1d20+6-5]]}} {{Rage Damage=[[2]]}} {{Halberd Damage=[[1d10+3]]}} {{Divine Fury Necrotic=[[1d6+4]]}} {{Great Weapon Master=[[10]]}} What I want is to add a line of code that adds the rolled numbers together so I can get a total. Something like: {{Total Damage=....}} Is something like that possible, or am I getting too ambitious for an entry-level macro maker?

Is it possible to do a combo box and use "Acrobatics = %{selected | ncp_acrobatics} "for the value ?

I'm trying to do the cure wounds token action for Mass Cure Wounds and Mass Healing Word. The problem I'm having is those spells at level 3 and level 5 start with a 1d4 for mass healing word level 3 and 3d8 mass cure wounds level 5. When I try to create the macro it rolls mass healing word at 3d4 no matter how I change the line, it either rolls 3d4 or it breaks and wont post, any help? Pretty much I cant find the correct syntax to start the spell at the appropriate die for a higher level, it wants to add more dice for a level 3 spell that only starts with a 1d4 or the 3d8 cure wounds starts with.

Do you know where you can find the other templates

If I use this potion macro in a game I created, can another person promoted to GM use the macro also? or do they need to make their own?

Great video, but how would you adapt the cure wounds macro from a d8 to 2d6 for spells that have different scaling?

Mate, you've been amazing. I was wondering, I've seen people make "Master Macros" or "Nested Macros" and I've tried to copy it, unfortunately I seem to be unable to replicate it. Do you know if it's still possible?