I don't know any coding language. I've been teaching myself HTML to make the character sheet. The folks on the Roll20 forums have been super helpful to make things work.
Statistics:Posted by Dougansf — Thu Aug 24, 2017 6:45 pm
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If you understand python -> here is how I generate the scripts:
I am still working on a 'fuller' script
- Talent Name - the name of the talent
- Attribute - the name of the roll20 Attribute to use for AttributeRank
- TalentName - the name of the roll20 Attribute to use for TalentRank
CODE:
jason@jason-HP-Pavilion:~/projects/r20EDMacro$ python ability2.py Talent Name: Melee WeaponsAttribute: DEXTalentName: MeleeWeaponsTargeted Ability: [Y/n] yCODE:
import sysBASE = "&{template:default}{{name=@{selected|token_name}: Attack}}-t-{{Step: [[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]] Karma: ?{Karma #|0} Result [[ [[{1e3, 8}<[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]] - 11, 0}kh1 % 11]] + floor([[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]] - 11, 0}kh1]] / 11)]]d20! + [[{2, 4, 5, 6, 7}=[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1 % 11]] + {1, 3}=[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1]] + {1e3, 3}=[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]] - 11, 0}kh1 % 11]] * 2]]d[[{{([[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]] - 1) * 2, 4}kh1, {12} }kl1]]! + [[{1e3, 8}<[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1]] * (1 - {3, 6, 10}=[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1 % 11]] + {1, 4, 8}=[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1 % 11]])]]d[[10 - {4, 5, 8, 9}=[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1 % 11]] * 4]]! + [[{1e3, 8}<[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1]] * ({0, 5, 7, 9}=[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 1}kh1 % 11]] + 2 * {6, 10}=[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1 % 11]])]]d8! - [[{1, 2}=[[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1]] * (3 - [[{[[8 - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1]])]] + ?{Karma #}d6! ]]}}"def query_yes_no(question, default="yes"): """Ask a yes/no question via raw_input() and return their answer. "question" is a string that is presented to the user. "default" is the presumed answer if the user just hits <Enter>. It must be "yes" (the default), "no" or None (meaning an answer is required of the user). The "answer" return value is True for "yes" or False for "no". """ valid = {"yes": True, "y": True, "ye": True, "no": False, "n": False} if default is None: prompt = " [y/n] " elif default == "yes": prompt = " [Y/n] " elif default == "no": prompt = " [y/N] " else: raise ValueError("invalid default answer: '%s'" % default) while True: sys.stdout.write(question + prompt) choice = raw_input().lower() if default is not None and choice == '': return valid[default] elif choice in valid: return valid[choice] else: sys.stdout.write("Please respond with 'yes' or 'no' " "(or 'y' or 'n').\n")def main(): talent = raw_input("Talent Name: ") attr = raw_input("Attribute: ") rank = raw_input("TalentName: ") #step = raw_input("Effective Step: ") target = query_yes_no("Targeted Ability: ") if target: target_replace = "{{Target: @{target|token_name}}}" else: target_replace = "" print BASE.replace( '8 ', '@{selected|' + str(attr) + '} + @{selected|' + str(rank) + '} ' ).replace( 'Attack', talent ).replace( '-t-', target_replace )if __name__ == '__main__': main()Statistics:Posted by Jason — Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:43 pm
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Jason wrote: ↑
Yeah, I have a generic macro for ED4 that doesn't require the API scripts, but once I fell down the API hole, there wasn't much looking back. Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:52 am
Ahh... but my method gives me dice rolling and some of the character sheet stuff. The only reason the current one doesn't work for rolling is it uses some API scripts. It could be done without them.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FL_ ... thh_o/edit
Thanks for sharing that.
I only recently figured out how to make the targeting a selected token work, and counting successes at the same time. I'm hesitant to hard code it into the sheet though. Some people may not be using it quite so strictly.
Let me know if you figure that out. The best I've heard of is to give the spell effect a slot on the Turn Tracker.Jason wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:52 amStrain and karma usage has to be manually tracked. There is a few things that makes me consider the 'top' level - the api script access so I could automate some of this. What would be really nice would be the ability to auto decrease buff/debuff counter duration at the end of turns.
For better or worse, you can't let a macro affect the attributes of a token you don't have control over. So no automatically assigning damage or debuffs. At least, the PC's can't.
Statistics:Posted by Dougansf — Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:24 pm
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For example My Melee Weapons Script:
It expects to have your DEX step in an attribute called "DEX", melee talent rank in an attribute call "MeleeWeapons", and your current wound count to be traccked in bar2. It pops up a target select box, prompts for any modifiers (IE aggessive attack), & karma, then rolls. I don't have it currently addressing karma step modifiers, but that hasn't come up in our game.
Strain and karma usage has to be manually tracked. There is a few things that makes me consider the 'top' level - the api script access so I could automate some of this. What would be really nice would be the ability to auto decrease buff/debuff counter duration at the end of turns.
&{template:default}{{name=@{selected|token_name}: Melee Weapons}}{{Target: @{target|token_name}}}{{Step: [[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]] Karma: ?{Karma #|0} Result [[ [[{1e3, 8}<[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]] - 11, 0}kh1 % 11]] + floor([[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]] - 11, 0}kh1]] / 11)]]d20! + [[{2, 4, 5, 6, 7}=[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1 % 11]] + {1, 3}=[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1]] + {1e3, 3}=[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]] - 11, 0}kh1 % 11]] * 2]]d[[{{([[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]] - 1) * 2, 4}kh1, {12} }kl1]]! + [[{1e3, 8}<[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1]] * (1 - {3, 6, 10}=[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1 % 11]] + {1, 4, 8}=[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1 % 11]])]]d[[10 - {4, 5, 8, 9}=[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1 % 11]] * 4]]! + [[{1e3, 8}<[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1]] * ({0, 5, 7, 9}=[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 1}kh1 % 11]] + 2 * {6, 10}=[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1 % 11]])]]d8! - [[{1, 2}=[[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1]] * (3 - [[{[[@{selected|DEX} + @{selected|MeleeWeapons} - @{selected|bar2} + ?{Mis Mod|0} ]], 0}kh1]])]] + ?{Karma #}d6! ]]}}
Statistics:Posted by Jason — Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:52 am
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It will lack the functionality of rolling dice and such, but it will serve as an online record of your characters.
Statistics:Posted by Dougansf — Thu Aug 24, 2017 2:36 am
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That is some fairly good thoughts.
I am also playing over roll20, however the core of the group (me and the two players) started playing Face to Face at a game shop, and we switch to roll20 when I moved across the country for family reasons. I have pondered ways to get some more players, but given the time to vet random players, I haven't taken the time yet.
Statistics:Posted by Jason — Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:14 pm
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Since you happen to have what appears to be a rather highly ranked servant entity of one of the passions right there... Well when you think about it, you actually do have a god in a machine right there, Literally. Use it.
Somebody could have been in suspended animation in any of those places for centuries. Ether in a magical trap or ... Well you need to think of why somebody went to the trouble of putting them into suspended animation but it is OK to release them now. Also, the player would need to be OK with being a character out of time. Runvars' tomb has been sealed since before the scourge was even predicted. Character would have no knowledge of centuries of history.
I would go with the disease/oracle/sleeping beauty option, I would have them wake up in one of the Questor's rooms. One of the previous party asked about curing his disease, was told to mix a certain combination from the 3 pools, and that he would sleep for a number of weeks during which time he would heal, and awaken among friendly namegivers. This was OK since the goal of the previous party was to reopen the shrine to pilgrimages again (It's location was lost to the public since before Runvar's day), so he was not planning to wake up trapped in an abandoned place. He drank the mixture of waters and fell asleep. He wakes up in one of the (unbroken) beds in the nearby questor's rooms. He is distraught to find that all of his companions are dead.
If asked why the last remaining member of that party starved to death instead of taking the same combination of waters, a successful knowledge test (or question to the Oracle) will reveal that the potion causes you to sleep until all your diseases are cured. If you aren't almost dead from disease, you are suspended for a very short period of time. If healthy, you get one good nights sleep.
Adventurers typically adventure in highly magical places. As other people have pointed out, nearly any place can have somebody caught in some weird effect. Magic, Poison, captured and dragged back to the lair to be eaten later.
Sometimes it strains the imagination. I run my campaign on Roll20, where turnover is notoriously high. Occasionally I have ended a session mid-battle, and at the start of the next session just had to say "hey guys, alter reality, You did not meet a Warrior named X last week who entered this cavern with you, instead you met a Thief named Y".
Statistics:Posted by ChrisDDickey — Wed Aug 23, 2017 6:42 am
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Also, there is at least one artifact class magic item down there, so having a teleport or suspended animation artifact (non-portable) would not be adding too much.
That was related to one of my ideas, of having the new character in suspended animation in the Grand Hall. I was just having trouble coming up with how it wouldn't be overly deus ex machina, but some of this suggestions are helping.This is good. I could definitely use this as something. Would just need to think about why they didn't see him in the pool.The sleeping beauty idea is also workable. Somebody from the last party was told by the Oracle that the way to cure his incurable disease was to immerse himself in the pool and sleep until the next person took a drought from the pool. Or maybe he was told he would sleep until X days after the next person took a drought if you need that to explain why he did not wake up until now.
Locations that the player characters haven't been/seen
- Servants' Burial
- Grand Hall and beyond
- Questor's rooms
- behind the Crumbled hall ways
Statistics:Posted by Jason — Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:39 am
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The sleeping beauty idea is also workable. Somebody from the last party was told by the Oracle that the way to cure his incurable disease was to immerse himself in the pool and sleep until the next person took a drought from the pool. Or maybe he was told he would sleep until X days after the next person took a drought if you need that to explain why he did not wake up until now.
Statistics:Posted by ChrisDDickey — Tue Aug 22, 2017 9:33 am
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Comatose T'Skrang could work too actually. Only one of his Tribe to be woken up
I forgot all about the T'Skrang method of making it through the scourge.Statistics:Posted by Jason — Mon Aug 21, 2017 8:48 pm
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One thing to keep in mind is that you can always let the player change characters once they get into a new location if they want to play something else. You could have a comatose obsidiman for them to come across.
Statistics:Posted by Slimcreeper — Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:29 am
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