They do. It's called sponsorships.

Absolutely, they helped me go from just using the API companion to having very well put together games using a plethora of API scripts that has improved the foundation of my games, and my players have had an amazing time.

Thank you for the kind words!

Glad you're finding them helpful, Andrew!

Thanks for the kind words, Michael!

Thanks for the kind words, Leon! I'm glad you found the video helpful.

That's a great point, Scott. Thanks!

That's a great tip, Julian!

I believe I figured it out. The stat is listed as npc_AC on cards. not sure where it pulls just AC from.

Wow, wow, and just wow. Doing more research there are 2 AC stat blocks, and both are different on all monster npc sheets. Short of going through and changing every monster sheet, the only solution I came up with was to change the reference to npc_ac. just means They can't use it against other players.

Yeah, I think that's the best bet.

I'm glad the videos are helpful! I personally haven't used spell tokens before, but I do occasionally review adventures and other add-ons.

Hi Valerio - glad you like the videos! From what I understand, many of the API scripts can work with other systems, but you're right, what I'm showing here is specific to D&D 5e. You can see how to refer to various attributes, such as Armor Class, Initiative, etc, by hovering over the attribute on the character sheet, and then you can call that attribute as part of the Power Card.

Thanks for the kind words! Honestly, I can't remember where I found the freeze ray effect. The musical samples came from the KZfaq platform. But there are a ton of places online where you can get effects.

Thanks for the kind words, Steve. You can define your own variable names. Happy gaming!

The TokenAction script would probably be your best bet there. I've got a video that shows how to use it here - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLahqaiKtbConpc.html - but once it's installed, you'd just highlight your player's token and type !ta into the chat box, and that should give them a button that lets them see all their spells & cast from that list.

One thing you might look at is the following PowerCard tag: --spell_list|@{selected|character_id} It will list all the spells for a player with clickable buttons. By default it casts the spell straight from the character sheet, but it allows you to change the configuration so the buttons cast the whatever spell macro you have developed. I've combined that tag in with some other information for a single powercard that works like a "spell book" in chat. Sample code for a 5th level Wizard is: --tokenid|@{selected|token_id} --whisper|@{selected|character_name},GM --format|Spells --name|Spell Book --leftsub|@{selected|character_name} --rightsub|Caster Level @{selected|caster_level} ~C@{selected|class_display}~C --Spell Save DC|[[@{selected|spell_save_dc}]] ^^**Spell Attack Bonus** [[@{selected|spell_attack_bonus}]] ^^**Number of Cantrips Known:** [[4]] ^^**Number of Prepared Spells:** [[@{selected|intelligence_mod} + @{selected|level} ]] --!AvailableSpell|~C ** Available Spell Slots **~C **Level 1:** [[@{selected|lvl1_slots_expended}]] of [[@{selected|lvl1_slots_total}]] Remaining ^^**Level 2:** [[@{selected|lvl2_slots_expended}]] of [[@{selected|lvl2_slots_total}]] Remaining ^^**Level 3:** [[@{selected|lvl3_slots_expended}]] of [[@{selected|lvl3_slots_total}]] Remaining --spell_list|@{selected|character_id}

@@scottpisani75 This! ^

@@scottpisani75 Thankyou so much!! This really helped alot!

That's a great question. I haven't tested this thoroughly, but it looks like you can key off of the npc_immunities or npc_resistances attributes. So if you were fighting white dragon, which is immune to cold, you could have this line --?? @{target|npc_immunities} == cold ?? No Effect!|It shrugs off the cold (That's assuming you're using the 5e character sheet, and you're attacking an NPC like a monster, of course.) And thank you for fielding some of the other questions on this thread, much obliged! :)

To be completely honest, Jim, that didn't occur to me. Give that a shot and let me know how it goes. Thanks for watching, and happy gaming!

@@NickOlivo Unfortunately I don't have a pro account yet, but I still enjoy watching the videos on advanced macros and api stuff. Thanks for your great video format, you do a great job of explaining. We all know there are tons of programming languages and they all have their owns syntax. At least I am fairly proficient with javascript, so things make sense, well some anyway. Keep up the great work.

Do you have the sound file loaded into the AM player? If you haven't taken that step, it won't work. Instruction on how to do so are in the play wiki and help menu.

Thanks for the kind words, Steven! Try typing !roll20AM --config and then click the import jukebox link. Then see if your sound plays properly. Good luck!

You can do this with melee stuff too, sure.

Yep, ScriptCards is on the list for later this summer!

This forum post has some information on how some people handled that - app.roll20.net/forum/post/4285059/script-powercards-3-thread-4/?pagenum=12

Hi Balt - you can have multiple rolls in there. I don't have a video that covers that topic, but this forum post may help you. app.roll20.net/forum/post/9516681/powercard-and-multiple-attacks

Not sure, to be honest. It'd depend on the character sheet, and you're right, NPCs and PCs sometimes have their attributes stored differently. Let me know if you figure that out.

I'm not aware of a way to do exactly what you're looking for, sorry. You could do something like this - /r 3d6>5, which prints out the number of successes, but it won't specifically call out the number of crits.(Though the crit would be highlighted in green). The folks on this forum might be able to help you out more. app.roll20.net/forum/category/19

@@NickOlivo That is how I currently do it. Print out Sucesses in the macro but have to look manually to count crit rolls - which is kind of shit ^^. I may open a topic to ask the question there. Thank you for your time and thoughts. I am very new to RollD20 since the start of Covid..

Here is some of the powercard I use for the damage caused by moonbeam: --name|Moonbeam -- Effect|The target must make a constitution saving throw (**DC @{selected|spell_save_dc}**) or take damage. -- Saving Throw|[[ [$ConSav] 1d20 + @{target|constitution_mod} ]] -- ?? $ConSav >= @{selected|spell_save_dc} ?? Saved|No damage taken -- ?? $ConSav < @{selected|spell_save_dc} ?? Damage:|[[@{selected|moonbeam_status}d10]] radiant damage Its a constitution saving throw, but you should get the idea. (the field "moonbeam_status" is something I set in a precursor casting macro so that when the damage is calculated later we know what level it is cast at and how many d10 to apply; you can replace that call with just a "2d10" or whatever your damage roll should be)

Yep, that's exactly right.

To the best of my knowledge, nothing's changed. Can you use the FX tool on the toolbar without issue?

@@NickOlivo Strangely it works if I put a pace in after the | and before the @{selected|token_id} call. I cant find that its required, but it started working after that fix. Sometime it might be 5 seconds as the servers are getting slow slow

You can have the entire powercard whispered to the GM using the --whisper flag (described in more detail here - wiki.roll20.net/Script:PowerCards) but there isn't a way to just have the AC whispered.

That's the next video ;)

I don't have plans to do conversions right now, but some of the folks over on this forum app.roll20.net/forum/category/46806 might be able to help out if you're stuck on something. Thanks for watching and happy gaming!

you can use @{target|name} (I think it's name, if not use google for the exact property) and add it to the name setting for the turnorder

@@MaierFlorian You can either use @{target|token_name} or @{target|character_name} depending on your preference.

Thanks for the kind words, Brian! I have seen this happen before, where sometimes the effects don't fire. I've found refreshing the browser usually helps, though a couple of times I've had to log out/back in again. Hope that helps, and happy gaming!

Those are read-only, just there as a guide. I like to keep them, but it wont harm anything if you ignore them in your copy of the scrip

I'm not sure about that one, sorry. Your best bet would be to post on the forums, someone there should be able to help - app.roll20.net/forum/category/46806

I think that would be possible. It would be something like api_wildshape followed by whatever parameters you need to perform the transformation. This link has more information wiki.roll20.net/Script:PowerCards#Advanced_API_Usage

@@NickOlivo Thank you. I'll give it a look and see if I can figure it out.

I've picked them up from various places over the years. Some of them came off of a sound effect CD that I picked up back in like 1999 lol

Not that I'm aware of, sorry.

You can access the proficiency bonus on a 5e character sheet using @{pb}

@@NickOlivo it works great!!! Appreciate it!

That's just powercards.

sure, just don't put the "vs AC ..." stuff in there and add another line with the condition if hit then "Hit" and one line if not hit then "Miss".

@@MaierFlorian Thank you very much! I'll have to go about and teach myself how that would look in code form or ask a friend but that's super helpful!

@@willteggin4455 hopefully youtube won't mess up the line: --Attack:|[[ [$Atk] ?{Attack|Standard, 1d20|w/Advantage, 2d20kh1|w/Disadvantage, 2d20kl1}+@{spell_attack_bonus}]] --?? $Atk >= @{target|AC} ?? Hit! --?? &Atk < @{target|AC} ?? Miss.

Didn't test it but this should do the trick. The only downside of this is that the hit and miss will show up in a new line. Maybe you can write all of it in one line (and delete the -- in the beginning of lines 2 and 3). But I didn't test this, so not sure if this would work.

@@MaierFlorian Dude you are awesome. This looks incredible! Mega props to you, hope this gets incorporated into the actual API script with credit to you :O

That's true, it can get very complex, and in some cases it's not worth trying to automate around every possibility. That said, the powercards api is very extensive, and you could probably handle resistance and stuff like that with additional coding.

I don't have anything pre-done for melee attacks, but the process would be very similar to what's in the video.

Yep, that's all possible. If you look around the PowerCards forums on Roll20, you'll find tons of different macros people have written for various spells.

@@NickOlivo I'm looking into this for a Star Wars campaign, how hard is it to design a visual effect from scratch?

@@ZmanGamesp As in, make your own fire or laser type effect? Yes, that can be done. This article talks about how to do that - wiki.roll20.net/Fx_Tool#Custom_FX_Tool and this site lets you play with the various settings to preview what an effect would look like - wiki.roll20.net/fxplayground/ That said, I seem to recall seeing something about custom effects for sci fi games over on the Roll20 reddit, so you may want to check over there, too.

that's jurst 2 more dropdown prompts like the advantage thing. One for the level (and using this value to determine the Number for the Damage-Dice) and the second one for asking how many foes to attack - this will explode your script though, because you will have to add numbers to the @target depending on that choice, forcing you to copy/paste all lines that uses the target-id for all options available and adding one more target each time.

@@MaierFlorian its not that simple actually. If you have five missiles you can in theory hit five targets, or two targets where one target gets two missiles and the second gets three missiles. Or in fact target one gets one missile and target two gets four missiles and any combination between those.

@@chrisg8646 oh, you are right, my mistake. Well, maybe you can make the script something like force the player to click 5 targets (or how many you have depending on the spell slot choice), and every target that is clicked more than once will get hit by the amount of missiles you've clicked. But in fact I think this gets so tedious that it is easier to just let the player say what he/she wants to do and the DM manually changes the hit points accordingly in this case.

@@MaierFlorian the easiest work around would probably be one missile macro and use one at a time regards of level and targets. But I thought I would throw out the challenge. Coz I like Nick's stuff.

I have something planned for next month that I thought would do what you're looking for, but the more I read this, the more I realize this is different. You're right, the easiest way would be a macro that handles one missile/target/damage at a time. Designating different targets would require multiple @{target} actions, like @Florian Maier said.

Cool! Can you send me a link?

@@NickOlivo no that is a question.

Not that I'm aware of.

@@NickOlivo I am working on It...

You could add --whisper|GM to the powercard, and that would only show the card's output to the GM, but I'm not aware of a way to suppress an individual line from the card.

@@NickOlivo follow up question. Could this be built to increase the damage based on character level or would you need to edit the code as the character levels up?

@@drshark61 That may be possible. There's a level attribute that you can query on a given character, so you could build logic around that, but it would depend on how elaborate the calculation would need to be.

@@NickOlivo another follow up. Sorry, I'm sure being a pest, but your videos have been a huge help. With the power cards is there a way for it to reduce spell slots by one when one is cast? Or does this happen automatically?

For this, you'll need another API script called ChatSetAttr, which is part of the Roll20 script library. Then you can add a line to your powercard that looks something like what's described here - app.roll20.net/forum/post/8807123/chatsetattr-spell-slot-expended-help#post-8829805

wait, apparently by default, tracks you upload are set to loop in the jukebox setting. I just needed to toggle that off. I have never used it so I didn't know.

Good to know, thanks!

I've never tried that - but you might be able to it by using the --api command in conjunction with another script like RecursiveTables (app.roll20.net/forum/post/2845333/script-recursivetables-expands-inline-rolls-in-rollable-table-results/?pagenum=1)

actually i figured it out. i made my own rollable table that shoots a little insult at my players if they miss and all i had to do was start with my if/then statement put in my header and then just go [[ name of table ]] and it worked perfectly so my line looked like this ?? $atk > @{target|AC} ?? miss|[[ taunt ]] and it was perfeck

Hi JC - I've had trouble every now and then where the fx doesn't fire right away, and then a few minutes later a whole bunch of them go off at once. I'd say refresh the page a few times and see fi that helps.

@@NickOlivo I kinda found my issue, it's the Roll20AM script. It keeps throwing a syntax error and crashing the API every once in a while, preventing the it from working. When I restart the API sandbox it will work... for a while until it crashes again at random, if I disable the AM script, the API is stable (but can't use this script as the sounds don't work). I saw someone on the forum post a similar issue and I put a message in stating I was having a similar issue.

Glad you were able to isolate the cause. Hopefully the script's author will be able to fix it.

Doesn't work in mine either: --vfx_opt|@{selected|token_id} @{target|token_id} beam-frost

Whoops - sorry about that. I've just updated the code.

@@NickOlivo I've been playing with the macros and having a lot of fun. But I have a couple of questions as a result. 1. Why are there different NPC sheets/sets of attributes? For example, you use 'pb_bonus' and a few of my npcs/monsters use that but most just use 'pb'. From what i can tell there's ~4 different types of sheets, with 1 being quite common, another being somewhat common and 1 or 2 being very rare. Which is super annoying. 2. Is there anyway to call the weapon type? I've had to go through and manually edit all my macros for piercing, slashing etc. I'm guessing there won't be as the macro doesn't really know which weapon on the npc sheet is being used. But is there something like '--bludgeoning_attack' instead of just '--attack'? 3. Which leads on to my last question. Is there a big list of callable/referencable tags anywhere? I know most of the common ones (from mining them from other people's macros, including yours) like 'target' 'selected', 'token', 'token_id', 'character_name' etc. But is there is a nice big list somewhere? There's some posts on the Roll20 forums asking t he same thing, which get pointed to partial/incomplete lists, which is better than nothing. But I'd love a nice big list in a single location...

Try typing !roll20AM --config and then click the import jukebox link. Then see if your sound plays properly. Good luck!

@@NickOlivo Thanks all fixed now!

@@NickOlivo I am also struggling to get the visuals to work. I tried this fix and it stops my powercard macro from working at all. I have to disable the roll20AM script to get it working again. Any advise?

Try typing !roll20AM --config and then click the import jukebox link. Then see if your sound plays properly. Good luck!

@@NickOlivo YES YES aaaand Yes! You have yourself a patreon! Thank you!

@@NickOlivo LOL, I wish I had seen this comment 4 hours ago.

@PrinceGolis Can you post your vfx line? FYI, here's my Eldritch Blast script: github.com/rhelwig/roll20-scripts-powercards/blob/master/Macros/Spells/EldritchBlast.txt I'm putting my scripts all up here: github.com/rhelwig/roll20-scripts-powercards but I'm still working out some details on how I'm going to proceed. For example, I'm working on tracking Hunter's Mark, Hex, and Hexblade's Curse. It'll be dang cool once I'm done.

@PrinceGolis One thing I often see commented is that the VFX only displays on the active player page, so if you're trying to do it on another page then yeah, it won't show. But I also have found many times when it just takes forever to actually play. Sometimes it's because my internet sucks, but maybe they're also a bit bogged down on their server.

There's an example of a scenario pretty close to what you want on this page, wiki.roll20.net/Script:PowerCards under the "SkipTo and Labels" heading. Happy gaming!

Not sure, sorry. I'd say post over on this forum and the script's author should be able to help. app.roll20.net/forum/post/4225825/script-update-tokenmod-an-interface-to-adjusting-properties-of-a-token-from-a-macro-or-the-chat-area#post-9790227

Hi There - I ran into this behavior once when the Player Ribbon was on a different page than the one I was using. Try moving your ribbon to that page and see if that helps. Good luck!

Hey Jeff Harbin just wanting to know if Nick's solution worked cause I'm wanting to try that out as well.

@@jaggsbs4066 It does work although I've gotten mixed success with it so I'm still looking for the pattern as to why sometimes it works and other times it doesn't

of course this is possible if you want it. However, learning it by yourself will in most cases lead to hard to maintain code, but if you just want some special small things for your roll20 campaing, this should not be a big problem :)

You totally can. I'm self-taught. :) One of my hopes for this video series is that it'll give folks who've never coded before the confidence to start tinkering. Read everything you can, watch tutorial videos, and tinker. :)

@@NickOlivo I just want to take it beyond value substitution, copying and pasting...and learn syntax! Thanks Nick

You can read attributes like the spell save DC directly from a character sheet - so if you wanted to read in the DC from a character named Darla Rickenbocker, that would look like this: @{darla rickenbocker|spell_save_dc}. You could then output that information in the card.

@@NickOlivo sweet, thanks for reaching across time. been watching a lot of your vids (just upgraded the account) and i think im beginning to understand how all this works

Looks like it's been removed from the one click install section. The creator may be replacing/updating it. It's still available on GitHub gist.github.com/vicberg/6635c77f7f730529ccf83f64819297c0

@@NickOlivo I figured it out thank you!

Have you gotten an answer or have fixed the issue? I'm having the same problem and my code is cut and pasted onto Note ++ before ROLL20's handout.