MidiQOL

[vast bane]

I don't automate darkness at all other than an animation. 99% of the time everyone is rolling straight anyway as I don't have a warlock in the party

[errant cosmos]

I added this "Description" to the "Shield Bash" item:

Target one enemy within 5' and roll your Athletics opposed by their Acrobatics. If you succeed, you may either shove that enemy backward 5' or knock them prone.

You may only Shield Bash a creature that is smaller than you or up to one size category larger.

[vast bane]

I deleted the description because when we share things here like that, the moderators get upset

Shield bash is technically a non srd feat, Shield Master

Its also Shove

[errant cosmos]

I need to talk to the moderators about that. "Descriptions" cannot be copyrighted and are not copyrighted by WotC. Rules systems and procedures are explicitly excluded from copyright. What can be copyrighted are creative works of authorship, like stories, novels, movies.

In addition to WotC's descriptions not being protected by copyright, you yourself are welcome to write your own description.

The belief that descriptions are WotC's IP is incorrect. I am happy to introduce the mods to a pro-bono lawyer to discuss the topic.

[errant cosmos]

I don't expect you to fight that battle, it's easier to go with the flow of what the mods believe. But that doesn't change the facts... 🙂

*In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work. 17 USC 102(b) *

So the narrative story of "Curse of Strahd" can by copyrighted, but a procedural description of how a vampire lord attacks is explicitly excluded from copyright.

And bonking someone with a shield, with no narrative "authorship" of any form, is also excluded.

[vast bane]

none of that matters, all that matters is keeping the bosses here happy with you as losing access to this great server is too great a loss as a foundry DM 😉

[errant cosmos]

Yeah, I'll take it up with them. They probably don't have access to an IP lawyer.

For now, know that you can write your own descriptions. Don't copy WotC's text. As long as you're creating your own description you're golden. The technical legal term is your own "selection and arrangement of non-copyrightable material."

[vast bane]

Typically the only thing they ask is to remove the descriptions

yeah thats ok too

but mine was the official wotc one

[errant cosmos]

I'm less clear on whether a word-by-word copy of their text would be permissible, but I agree it is safest not to run afoul of the moderators or of WotC. 🙂

Thank you for the Shield Bash macro... I got MTB installed and tested it and it's great. 🙂

My Paladin will thank you

[vast bane]

MTB by default might need to have the "players can request" turned on, its in the last section of it in its settings

[sharp knoll]

What's the end goal, do you want the Template to remain, be transparent, and have a Sequencer effect playing?

[vast bane]

I think we all wish that TMFX auto hide and hover feature was possible without using its graphics

[sharp knoll]

ah

[vast bane]

I use both AA and tmfx so if you are pondering it I'd love that too!

Pretty sure the reason why we all don't want tmfx's graphics is cause we're all using Jb2a/sequencer/AA lol

[sharp knoll]

lol, can't promise anything but I'll take a look and see if it's something I can add to make the templates at least transparent (remove grid squares)

[coarse mesa]

Nailed it… TMFX is just a catch all for anything undefined for me (by damage type)

[vast bane]

the only other module I can think of that might have scope in this would be maybe the successor to dnd5ehelpers, I'm guessing simbuls

[pine forum]

yeah: when a graphic/animation is present the template boarder and coloured highlighting not be visible but the highlighting squares showing up on hover

[vast bane]

Whatever happened to SIFT?

didn't SIFT do this in v9?

[errant cosmos]

I didn't realize that TMFX and AA are in conflict. I've been using AA and just installed TMFX this week

[vast bane]

they aren't in conflict, the templates just look really ugly when both are active

[scarlet gale]

They don't hard conflict

[errant cosmos]

BaileyWiki made some super sweet macros for TMFX

[errant cosmos]

Huh, interesting.

[vast bane]

TVA has some amazing synergy with TMFX

[errant cosmos]

TVA?

[vast bane]

Token Variant Art

also Aedif has the module Mass Edit, and theres a macro that comes with Mass Edit I think that is a tmfx token filter editor and its absolutely amazing

[errant cosmos]

Mass Edit is cool. 🙂

[vast bane]

pretty sure its in mass edits module

actually I don't see it, I'll share it here:

This is a system macro so import it onto a system macro.

[vast bane]

@hoary reef I don't know the exxacts but I do know that most folks use Effect macro with midi for most turn based active effects now thanks to zhells hooks in the module

[sharp knoll]

Yay found out how to just hide the grid highlighting

[coarse mesa]

If they're using DAE already, this should do it right?

[violet meadow]

Last time I checked all the repos had been purged.

I had found an older version and repurposed it to make a functional installation out of it and play around in v10.

[coarse mesa]

If you have that kinda time on your hands I think you should adopt TMFX 😆

[white turtle]

Can I use midiqol to set the initiative of a companion (artificer's homunculus) to always be, for example 0.1 lower than another specific actor?

[vast bane]

I don't bother with shared init actors, they just act on the owners turn, familiars and mounts roll though

[white turtle]

it's not a big deal or anything but was just looking if I can make it so the player can actually move their own companion on their turn instead of needing me to do it

[vast bane]

locking movement is not core, you have a setting on, very likely Monk's Tokenbar. You can turn this off. I do, and there is a toggle for it situationally on the actual MTB window:

[white turtle]

oooh right, thank you very much

[vast bane]

theres a setting that lets you move all owned tokens on a turn but I never got that bugger to work so I just turned off locked movement entirely

[white turtle]

I'll experiment around a bit see that feels most natural, but thank you!

[cerulean phoenix]

what's the damage type thing for temp hp/healing? 2d8[???]

[cerulean phoenix]

temphp, it was temphp

[uncut citrus]

Hey guys, anyone have a good automation settings for midi-qol?
for some reason i cant do the aoe atacks auto damage

[vast bane]

gonna need some clarification, what exact feature/spell/attack are you trying to do

[uncut citrus]

someone can share a midi-qol sttings in json file to I import

[vast bane]

sharing that is akin to nuking your midi, I would not go crazy like that

what feature, atttack, or spell is giving you issues

[vast bane]

Also you sound new to midi so we should probably clear up this issue that you might be dealing with:

Midi does not work with:

Ready Set Roll
Better Rolls for 5e
Roll Groups
ANything with "Fast Rolls" in its name
Dice Tooltips
Gm Paranoia
WIRE
Minimal Roll Enhancements
Retroactive Advantage/Disadvantage```

[uncut citrus]

all AoE spells are out of order, cone of ice, fireball... they just don't calculate damage

[uncut citrus]

oh, i use the better rolls, maybe this is the problem

[spice kraken]

That is 100% a problem

Especially if you're on v10

[vast bane]

You must stop using any module listed in my post above if you want to continue using midi as none of them work with midi

But also you should go through your modules and clean up compatibility issues. Alot of modules did not properly convert to v10 and require you to sus out whether they are indeed stuck in v9 modes or were abandoned, if any module is v9 or lower yellow compatibility you should remove them, if they have a v10 alternative you need to uninstall and reinstall. The Update button in the addons menu is unreliable after a v9 to v10 update sadly, the update got really screwy with module authors and some break that button when going from v9 to v10

If you have BR in v10, you clearly have not gone through and cleaned up your modules for v10

[uncut citrus]

this resolve my problem, ty guys

better rolls really is the problem

I have another question if I may ask. Attacks are all being rolled automatically in advantage. I finally found a configuration that I like and I'm afraid to try to change something and ruin it, because unfortunately English is not my native language. Could you explain to me how I disable the automatic advantage?

[vast bane]

that sounds very not midi to me

can you show me what chat looks like when you roll?

[vast bane]

those look like 2 attacks at normal to me

[uncut citrus]

oh, really?

[opaque current]

Left is attack, right is damage

[uncut citrus]

oooh, my mistake

[vast bane]

Yeah you have merge cards turned on which is a good thing, merge is a popular feature

[uncut citrus]

i feel dumb now hahaha thanks again guys

[opaque current]

Happy to help

[vast bane]

the rolling two d20's is one of the biggest things that made people turn to ready set roll and abandon midi fwiw

so if thats one of your hiccups you have to learn to live with managing your d20 rolls in midi instead of just blindly tossing 2 each attack and picking the right one

You can either turn off fast forward and use the popout windows for managing advantage/disadvantage and crit/normal or you can rely on midi's automation to guess at what the roll should be and/or use the keybindings for advantage/disadvantage

[uncut citrus]

turn off fast forward works to me, ty again

[vast bane]

keep in mind theres 3 places you need to adjust fast forward. The abilities/saves setting outside in main midi menu settings and then the player/DM tabs in workflow for attacks as well

[spice oracle]

Greetings 🙂 has anyone played a class with a toggled feature and can speak to how well they automate? Astral Monk lets you use your WIS modifier instead of STR for Strength checks and saves, and I'm curious if that can be automated

[hoary reef]

This is very very close, and already better than what i had so thank you
The only issue is that when it expires it doesn't automatically reapply at the start of the turn.

Now i'm wondering if i can make an effect that applies it at the start of every turn...

[violet meadow]

Yes you can.
What Lukas showed will make a macro execute at the start of the combatants turn. In that macro you can add the displacement effect again if not already present

This is the macro I use to add the effect when needed. Mind you I have created a DFreds CE which handles the relevant part of disadvantage MidiQOL flags. ```js
const lastArg = args.at(-1);
const uuid = lastArg.tokenUuid;
const hasEffectApplied = game.dfreds.effectInterface.hasEffectApplied('Displacement cloaking', uuid);
if (args[0]==="on" || args[0]==="each") {
if (hasEffectApplied) return;
else return await game.dfreds.effectInterface.addEffect({ effectName: 'Displacement cloaking', uuid });
}
else if (args[0]==="off") {
if (!hasEffectApplied) return;
else return await game.dfreds.effectInterface.removeEffect({ effectName: 'Displacement cloaking', uuid });
}

A DFreds CE named Displacement cloaking in my case

[hoary reef]

I made a CE called Displacement
Just editing the name in that macro doesn't do it i'm afraid

[violet meadow]

You need to create a DAE on the Cloak of Displacement item. Something like this

[hoary reef]

OHHHHHHHHHHH

Create it on the item

Got it

[violet meadow]

Then the DFreds CE should be something like this

[hoary reef]

Yeah, i made it by editing a copy of Dodge to figure out how to make disadvantage work

Is there a way to make the midi QoL damage cards visible to players?

[violet meadow]

The GM card is only visible to the GM.
There is an option to show a Player's damage card in MidiQOL settings => Workflow settings => Workflow tab

Play around a bit to see if any of the options do it for you

[hoary reef]

Yeah, that shows me the card

I wanted players to see it as well

[violet meadow]

The Show a players' damage card should do exactly that

Choose show player and npc results

[drowsy crow]

Hello.

[violet meadow]

@drowsy crow const damageDealt = args[0].damageList[0].appliedDamage

You can use that as a script macro, called by the onUse MidiQOL field, After Active Effects

[drowsy crow]

Yes, that worked!

Thank you so much!

[hoary reef]

Actually, what that does is show a damage card when a PC gets damaged. In fact i have it on by default.
I always go for showing everything whenever possible

[violet meadow]

I do not recall any options to make the GM card appear. A macro could do it by changing that to be visible to all after it is created

A world script to be precise

[verbal tide]

Hey, I have a questions. I have Midi QLL and was wondering is there a way to keep things automated, but make it so when you click the attack button it first gives you query for Advantage/Disadvantage? Cuz currently that doesn't seem to be an option, even in the workflow.

[spice kraken]

I think if you hold T before a roll that comes up (maybe?)

If it's not that, check keybinds. There might be an option there. Otherwise someone else is gonna need to pick up helping cause I won't be near my PC till Sunday

[verbal tide]

Fair enough!

[vast sierra]

For GM's

for Players

[spice kraken]

Oh I misread. Yeah, so what Mythano showed

[vast sierra]

The T is for if you have those checked, and dont want to auto fast forward. If want off all time, then the screenshots 🙂

[verbal tide]

oOooh! But then does it automate anything else if it doesn't automate rolls?

[vast sierra]

(I dont automate rolls, or damage, so couldnt tell ya ... but guessing it will still work, just requires player input before carrying on)

[verbal tide]

I set checkboxes as you showed, but it still doesn't allow for it and simply creates this kind of box. Is there a way for it to not make a box and just immediately give you a pop up which allows you to choose Adv/Dis?

Or are there any other rolling modules that could simplify it that way?

[spice kraken]

Well if you have those boxes checked, you could hold alt (adv) or ctrl (dis) and it'll do that accordingly

If you wanna go the route of another roller module, then you can't use midi

[verbal tide]

hmmm....

I see

and what are some other options?

[spice kraken]

^

Although there are v9 modules on that list so do research first

[verbal tide]

Alright, will go check it! Thanks!

[spice kraken]

What all do you use midi for?

[verbal tide]

Mostly for some small neat things like concentration tracking more neat rolling, bleeding effect and thats about it.

Still kinda new to VTT

[opaque current]

You want "auto roll" ON, but "fast forward" OFF.

This will give you what you want

[verbal tide]

Alright!

[verbal tide]

Yes!! Thats what I was looking for!!

Thanks!

[short birch]

I know this has been asked a bunch of times but what is a good way to do artificer infusions? I gave my player a +1 shield to emulate one of them but is there a drop down menu macro floating around? Foundry v10 D&d 5e, dae, times up, Babonus, CE, item macro installed

[spice kraken]

So just +1 to AC?

[short birch]

Well he has 3 infusions I’ll message him and find out

[spice kraken]

Sounds good. Don't post the full description of the infusions since they're not srd, but just the jist of them

[short birch]

Ok thanks

[opaque current]

I create an item for each infusioj and mention in the title whether it is currently "active" burt honstly its a tough one to do well

[spice kraken]

Yeah, I have an artillerist in my game. Fortunately he's picked easy ones so far

And the hard ones we just do manually

[vast bane]

you could use macro.createitem for this pretty well. Have the infusions setup as trinkets that are equippable. When equiped the infused magic item appears in inventory, when you unequip it poofs.

if you can get a macro guru to work on it you could make it all a dialog item macro single item

[weary rune]

is it possible to customise the template flags after placing template in ItemMacro? ie after calling AAhelpers.applyTemplate(args); and then do something like this.effect.color=0.5 ?

[violet meadow]

What is this supposed to do?

[weary rune]

Modify the template appearance so it's not red and maybe vision settings too in the case of darkness spell.

[violet meadow]

You can get the last template placed with canvas.templates.placeables.at(-1)

[scarlet gale]

Midi args also has the template ID in it

[weary rune]

Mainly not sure how to modify it

[violet meadow]

if you have the template you can do something like ```js
await template.document.update({fillColor:game.user.color})

[vast bane]

Could you fill the color with transparency instead?

As in no color?

[violet meadow]

Not exactly. fillColor:null defaults to black iirc

You will need to turn the highlights off

[scarlet gale]

You can also remove the fx flags if that's what you're aiming for

[vast bane]

I'm just trying to think of a way to achieve the tmfx setting we all want but can't use due to automated animations and tmfx animations looking ugly when combined

[scarlet gale]

Remove the tmfx flags

[vast bane]

wouldn't that also stop the hover thing?

[scarlet gale]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[vast bane]

yeah I think we just have to wait and see if Otigan manages to figure it out for AA

[violet meadow]

Try this @vast bane ```js
canvas.grid.getHighlightLayer(MeasuredTemplate.${canvas.templates.placeables.at(-1).id}).visible = false;

If you reload it will be shown again though

[vast bane]

I'm up to my neck in a levels map making project I can't fiddle with it now lol

I told myself I wouldn't do this ever again but here I am 800 walls in 7 levels made.

[rancid tide]

Hello I'm having this error from a macro like this, the second item that the mixedItems.obj_secondItem reference is a flag that has a duplicate of an item that no longer exist, I think that's why I'm getting this error but idk how to make it work regardless.

let lastArg = args[args.length-1];
let mixedItems = args[0].itemData.flags.dae.originalMixedItems;
let targetUuidsArr = [];

console.log("\n\nMIX, mixed items =>", mixedItems);

if(lastArg.item.system.save.ability){
    if(lastArg.failedSaveUuids.length === 0) return;
    lastArg.failedSaveUuids.forEach((targetUuid) => {
        targetUuidsArr.push(targetUuid);
    });
}
else{
    if(lastArg.hitTargetUuids.length === 0) return;
    lastArg.hitTargetUuids.forEach((targetUuid) => {
        targetUuidsArr.push(targetUuid);
    });
}
if (targetUuidsArr.length === 0) return;

const options = {
    showFullCard: false,
    createWorkflow: true,
    targetUuids: targetUuidsArr,
    configureDialog: false,
    versatile: false,
    workflowOptions: {}
};
const item = new CONFIG.Item.documentClass(mixedItems.obj_secondItem, { parent: actor });
await MidiQOL.completeItemUse(item, {}, options);

The key the error reference is the key of the obj_secondItem in question btw

[vast bane]

I get that error all the time with active auras and its just telling you that its trying to do something to a nonexistant document

[rancid tide]

Doesn't it need to be an object for it?

I've made it work with simple objects before via CONFIG.Item.documentClass

[scarlet gale]

What are you trying to do? I've never seen the original mixed items thing used

[rancid tide]

I'm trying to mix together two items, the second one is destroyed when creating the mixed item and the duplicate is stored in a flag inside the first one, then I do that

[vast bane]

is it like the EGW magic items that evolve?

[rancid tide]

I don't know what that is sorry

[vast bane]

Magic items that gain in potency as you accomplish things for them

The vestiges of divergence from Explorer's Guide to Wildemount

[rancid tide]

Sorta I guess? It's more of a feature that combine the effects of two different weapon items

Like idk I have Alchemist's Fire mixed with an Acid bottle that deals 2d6 acid damage

So I mix the two items and get an item that has the active effect of Alchemist's Fire plus the damage of the bottle of Acid

that's why I use await MidiQOL.completeItemUse(item, {}, options); to roll the second item

But idk why it doesn't work CONFIG.Item.documentClass(mixedItems.obj_secondItem, { parent: actor }); worked with objects that I created inside the macro, so idk why it doesn't work now

Maybe mixedItems.obj_secondItem isn't an object? How do I make sure?

[weary rune]

thanks that works and I worked out how to set perfect-vision to block sight as well. Here's an ItemMacro in case anyone needs it. Requires perfect-vision and tokenmagic and maybe active auras too?

   `if (typeof args !== "undefined" && args[0]) {
if (args[0].tag === "OnUse") {
    // set up template effect
    AAhelpers.applyTemplate(args);
    await this.templateData.document.update({
        borderColor: "#23ff17",
        fillColor: "#6ba36c",
        texture: "modules/tokenmagic/fx/assets/templates/black-tone-strong-opacity.png",
        tmfxPreset: "Smoke Filaments",
        tmfxTextureAlpha: 0.35,
        tmfxTint: "#68b064",
        flags:{'perfect-vision':{sightLimit: 0}},
    });
    //console.log(this.templateData);
}

}`

[astral wren]

Need help trying to get a weapon to function in a particular way. I have created this magical weapon for one of my players. 3 times per day, she can activate it when attacking to add the following: Chill the target, (basically reduces movement speed by 50% and imparts a -4 to hit when they attack next)...these apply for only one round of combat. I've successfully created the active effect and added it to the weapon. What I WANT to do, is now only apply that active effect if the user wants to, and if so, reduces the use count by 1.

As it is now, it applies the active effect every time she hits with it. I tried to go into the Details Section on the weapon and indicate Limited uses to 3 per day, resets daily. But Cant seem to get it to no apply the effect automatically.

Any help/suggestions on how I should be handling this will be greatly appreciated! 😄

[vast bane]

sounds like an optional macro setup to me but I'm not sure exactly how to do it atm

its in the readme though

the modification to movement speed you probably want to set higher than the default priority cause alot of modifiers to movement speed are out there in ae's.

My issue with these sorts of things is that it prompts every time they attack, I personally would just make them document links in an advantage reminder cause I don't fast forward

I don't do optionalname macros cause when you don't fast forward you are literally adding another prompt to the workflow and people don't like too many popupls in workfows

[astral wren]

👍 I'll check the priority I used, but the AE is working great when applied. I just don't want it ALWAYS applying.

[vast bane]

you need it to be an optional.name.macro key kinda like the premade for indomitable, look them up in the readme its pretty easy to setup

[astral wren]

I guess, I can either keep just removing the effect, or create a Convenient effect that applies the effect and manually add it when she indicates she wants to use one of the uses.

[vast bane]

or look up bugbears divine smite

[astral wren]

I'll take a peek.

[vast bane]

I dunno if midi's divine smite premade is an optional name macro

[weary rune]

I'm having trouble trying to apply multiple effects but maybe it's because Overtime breaks that?
Only the last Effect in the list applies to the token.

[vast bane]

This is what indomitable looks like @astral wren

this is obviously not what you want but its similar, find the section in the midi readme for attack modifiers and you can use this setup for that instead

[vast bane]

this is apparently a bug or limitation but I think you can pull it off if you set one of them to macro.ce instead of statuseffect. You could also combine them into a singular effect with all the keys and call it Blind and invisible

[errant cosmos]

I didn’t know all this. I have like 21 errors. But I’m a full year into Curse of Strahd and the idea of reinstalling things and possibly breaking stuff in the process is daunting.

[vast bane]

if they aren't content modules they likely have a v10 sitting there, I don't think you lose anything if you uninstall/reinstall but you can also go to the foundry page for the module and right click the module.json link and paste it into the field at the bottom of the addons menu to manually install it over the funky v9

its very rare that a v9 module is functional in v10 but they do exist

I can count mine on one hand

Mobile Improvements, Jb2a, and Touchvtt

[sharp knoll]

something like this workable?

The templates are weird. You can completely destroy the Highlight layer for them, but they'll always return on a refresh

[errant cosmos]

I use “Update All” on my modules so they updated after I switched to v10, but throw a lot of console errors. I can’t tell if anything is broken - stuff seems to be working. But it is really unsettling, there are probably lots of bugs in my setup.

[vast bane]

the update button does not work for many modules that are sitting on v9 branches you have to manually google their module page on foundry and check if they have a v10, and either uninstall/reinstall or copy the newest v10 url link at the bottom of the page and paste it into the manual install field in the add on menu

[errant cosmos]

Okay I’ll do that housekeeping some day soon.

Thank you for the tip.

[vast bane]

Its not that the modules are broken, its that the module authors kept functional v9 and v10 branches and there were issues and now folks have to manually bump everything over to v10

[errant cosmos]

I considered just making a new clean Foundry game world and starting with all good stuff. Over the past year j have installed and uninstalled dozens of modules.

[vast bane]

When I updated from v9 to v10, I did not copy over my module folder, instead I used that folder as a list to install the v10 versions

[errant cosmos]

But I’m worried my characters will lose their inventory and all the monsters and feats and macros you and others have helped with…

[vast bane]

and I had absolutely no problems at all cause of this

I can't tell you what can and can't happen, but that stuff sounds like it could easily be solved by simply backing up before you update

you should be backing up constantly anyway

[errant cosmos]

I back up weekly

And okay weekly.

(Play)

Yeah. I’m nervous about losing all kinds of tweaks I’ve made. Starting fresh is appealing and scary.

[coarse mesa]

That’s really impressive! The feature we’re all missing in v10 though is the TMFX ‘only show template grids on mouse hover’ setting. For instance, that way we can have the cool A-A/JB darkness animation going for that spell, but you can mouse over it to see the exact grid squares that are affected. That’s how it used to be in v9

It’s really for templates that have a duration and you’re navigating around them

[sharp knoll]

Yeah it's a crazy walk trying to get the on-hover effect to show the highlights

[coarse mesa]

SecretFire is a magician for sure. Did you peek at their code? I’m not sure what’s broken now

[vast bane]

I mean, ultimately if wecould just get Secretfire to untether the setting from the template images that'd work

the only reason why we can't use it is cause the AA animations play on top of the tmfx graphics

[dire aurora]

Howdy. I'm trying to get False Life to add temporary life to my character sheet but the spell is acting funny. I think it's got something to do with a couple of automation modules my DM has installed, one of which is MidiQOL. Would this be the place to ask?

[vast bane]

Temp hp and hp in general must be done via a macro because active effects should never be used to modify them as they constantly undo any damage done to the actor

Actually false life doesn't even need any automation

It just should work, the only time it doesn't work is when you have dfreds CE installed

because dfred made the mistake of automating it via an ae I think

[rigid trail]

I have exactly that installed lol

[vast bane]

So when you roll the item in midi midi might be trying to apply the CE

[rigid trail]

(DM)

[dire aurora]

Hi DM 🙂

Speak of the devil

[vast bane]

On the false life spell, there is a checkbox for apply ce

temp hp should be setup like my image and it should just put the temp hp on the actor just fine

[dire aurora]

Awesome, thanks! I'll try that rq

[vast bane]

I personally also put a blank AE in the item

and I just remove the ae once they lose the temp hp, you could probably get an effect macro to turn it off when the actor loses all temp hp fi you were really wanting it automated perfectly but I don't care for it and just do it manually

[rigid trail]

Thank you so much

[dire aurora]

I have it working now. Disabling CE for the spell fixed one of the two issues, and the other issue (the level scaling healing me instead of adding to +Temp) by moving the level scaling formula of (@item.level - 1) * 5 from the Level Scaling box directly to the Healing Formula box. Now it seems to be working just fine.

[vast bane]

It should work as is, do you not have a damage formula in it?

I think if you put the formula in other it won't use level scaling

[dire aurora]

It did not originally work as is. The Level Scaling formula was adding to my health instead of +Temp (i.e. level 7 would give me 30 health instead of 30 additional +Temp), but moving that to Healing Formula fixed it.

I can give more examples if needed, like what my character sheet looks like before and after a roll of the original spell sheet for False Life.

[vast bane]

Yeah I'm just not seeing that in my world but if it works then great!

you don't have CUB installed too do you?

[dire aurora]

That'd be a question for @rigid trail, my DM.

[rigid trail]

I don't believe so

[vast bane]

Combat Utility Belt

[rigid trail]

Oh, no

[vast bane]

or does it have a macro in it

[dire aurora]

Regardless, JS do as JS does.

I've only been casting from my spellbook on my character sheet, so whatever macros are involved in base spells scraped from DNDB

[vast bane]

how you guys are doing it is totally fine, its just tingly that its not working for you the normal way when it does for me, so I was just concerned that you had some sort of other issue going on that might creep up on you later is all

[rigid trail]

Yeah it's definitely a little odd

It's a new install and game setup, and I'm new to Foundry, so I'm sure we'll have to make adaptations as things come along

[vast bane]

I wonder if you had a flavor text in the scaling, that could do it

[flavor]

[scarlet echo]

Thanks for this. I don't know enough to understand how this works, but after executing the macro several times, I don't see a way to turn off the effects so now each time I attack the token with Sanctuary enabled, the effects are cumulative in that every attack results in multiple d20 wisdom save rolls for a single attack (equivalent to the number of times I executed the macro). How do I reverse the effects?

[vast bane]

I don't fast forward rolls so I setup my sanctuary to utilize the module Advantage Reminder instead and it prompts a message everytime an aggressor targets and rolls attacks or damage on the target

[scarlet echo]

I do like that solution, thanks. I have not used that module, I will check it out!

[scarlet gale]

It's a world script

You shouldn't be running it from your hotbar

Or as an item macro

[scarlet echo]

Thanks, I am still new to Foundry and not a programmer, so I didn't know there are such things. I will do some Googling...

[scarlet gale]

I recommend world scripter module

Less of a hassle with small scripts like this

[vast bane]

Yeah, as long as the hooks aren't the really early hooks on server startup, the worldscripter module is honestly a better setup for them cause they shut off when using find the culprit which is helpful

specially for us with our automation shennanigans

[scarlet echo]

So that worked pretty sweet! Thanks again for the effort. 8-)

[scarlet echo]

Thanks for your help as well!

[scarlet gale]

I run a pretty heavily automated game and there really isn't many people using midi hooks.

Also the setup you quoted me from is dated. Iirc you don't need the spell dc in the effect anymore

Just an empty effect is all

[whole bolt]

Hey guys,
Not sure if this is specifically a MidiQOL issue, or a times up issue, or an about time issue... but theyre all tposney modules, so I thought it may be a good place to ask.
My issue is.. Since updating from v9 to v10.291 (DnD5e 2.0.3), and updating the modules to their latest versions for 10.291, none of my active effects count down in real time.
They DO countdown in combat as turns/rounds progress.. but no longer expire in real time.
Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling the modules, ive tried to go through the settings with a fine toothed comb, but I can't find anything,
Any ideas?

[vast bane]

what version of simple calendar are you on and don't answer with "The Latest"

[whole bolt]

😆 2.1.60

[vast bane]

ok well I believe simple calendar controls the time flow if its installed

if its not playing then time won't go down and you can adjust its settings as well

[whole bolt]

Ok cool, ill have a look at that too. Didnt think to look at that

[whole bolt]

It was simple calendar, thanks a lot

[coarse mesa]

There is a known issue though that effects initiated during combat won’t expire as they should when normal time is resumed

[plain bane]

I don't understand how the word script module works, I installed it but it doesn't seem to do anything, my question is, should the scripts be placed in the hotbar or as a macro item?

the module has no description of what it does, I can't interpret exactly how it works

[violet meadow]

The world scripter module?
The macros should go into its compendium folder

[rancid tide]

Is there a way to avoid MidiQOL.completeItemUse to untarget the target once the item is rolled/used?

Like in options or something?

[violet meadow]

What are your options for untargeting in MidiQOL?

[plain bane]

yes I put them there, but then I start not understanding how the macros will be executed

[rancid tide]

Once the turn ends

[violet meadow]

Better to ask in #513918036919713802 as that's not midi qol specific.
But you will need to re load your world after you add something in the compendium

[rancid tide]

isn't there a way to prevent this regardless of midiQoL's options? like with the command itself or something?

[plain bane]

👍

[violet meadow]

I don't recall something relevant.
You could update the targeted tokens for the user though

[sharp knoll]

got a rudimentary implementation in

[rancid tide]

What do you mean?

[violet meadow]

game.user.updateTokenTargets([Array of IDs])

[rancid tide]

And this will auto target?

[violet meadow]

Might need more context on what you are trying to achieve

But yes this should auto target the tokens you provide IDs for

[rancid tide]

I'm mixing two attack items together and rolling the second one with MidiQOL.completeItemUse

The problem I'm having is that there's another macro which act as a damage bonus that use MidiQOL.completeItemUse with the same target

That gets untargeted because of the first item so when the second one is rolled it can't find a target

I tried late targeting but it doesn't trigger for some reason

[violet meadow]

You can provide the target uuids to the complete Item use function

[rancid tide]

I do

But if it gets untargeted then that array is empty

since those are different macros that run at different times

[violet meadow]

Not sure why that would untarget the user's targets

[rancid tide]

I know right?

[violet meadow]

Do you want to share the macros?

Or you could grab the targets from the 1st one and set them in a flag

Then in the second macro target getting the ones from that flag

[rancid tide]

I don't think I can since those are two different features that don't always trigger together

it's a damage bonus that happens only when you roll max damage

with the dice

I think what you gave me with game.user.updateTokenTargets([Array of IDs]) could work tho

can the IDs be uuids?

[violet meadow]

Not sure as I cannot check rn. Type the function in the console and check what it needs

[rancid tide]

Okay thanks will do as soon as I am on my pc

It wants target Ids which aren't uuids I suppose

[violet meadow]

I think it needs actual token IDs

[rancid tide]

Yeah makes sense

It's really weird because normally it doesn't untarget the target but when used with the other feature it does

[violet meadow]

So the issue lies there. Something un targets in your procedure

Do you draw templates or something like that?

[rancid tide]

This is the only part of the macro which works with targets:

let lastArg = args[args.length-1];
let mixedItems = args[0].itemData.flags.dae.originalMixedItems;
const secondItem = mixedItems.obj_secondItem;

if(lastArg.hitTargetUuids.length === 0) return;

const options = {
    showFullCard: false,
    createWorkflow: true,
    targetUuids: lastArg.hitTargetUuids[0],
    configureDialog: false,
    versatile: false,
    workflowOptions: {}
};

itemData = {
    img: secondItem.img,
    name: secondItem.name,
    type: "weapon",
    system: {
        actionType: secondItem.system.actionType,
        activation: secondItem.system.activation,
        damage: secondItem.system.damage,
        target: secondItem.system.target,
        source: secondItem.system.source,
        weaponType: secondItem.system.weaponType,
        range: secondItem.system.range
    },
    effects: secondItem.effects,
    folder: null,
    flags: secondItem.flags,
};

console.log("\n\nItemData =>", itemData, "\nSecond Item =>", secondItem);

//let item = new Item.implementation(mixedItems.obj_secondItem, { parent: actor });
let item = new CONFIG.Item.documentClass(itemData, { parent: actor });
await MidiQOL.completeItemUse(item, {}, options);

It's a world macro that the second item receive as a OnUse macro postActiveEffects

I think the problem could be lastArg.hitTargetUuids[0] but I'm not super sure

[violet meadow]

Pass it a specific actor.Uuid as the target. Does it work then?

[rancid tide]

Okay for some reason it was lastArg.hitTargetUuids[0]

[rancid tide]

I tried passing the whole lastArg.hitTargetUuids array and it works

Probably because targetUuids wants an array now that I think about it

[violet meadow]

OK you were passing only one with the [0]

[rancid tide]

Yes my mistake

Thank you so much for the help

[violet meadow]

Didn't do anything but you are welcome 😅

[rancid tide]

Well you helped me think that's not nothing!

[vast bane]

👀 That looks nice!

[sharp knoll]

Ok I'm happy with this. Basically made the TMFX setting apply to all templates, made it a Boolean setting. Requires the Hover setting in TMFX (if active) to be disabled so I don't step on toes.

[vast sierra]

Is this part of AA now? 👀

[sharp knoll]

it will be on the next release

should resolve the conflict with Midi and A-A when A-A is deleting templates. Now you can just not delete it

[short birch]

My player Artificer has these infusions - Enchanted def., magic item gleaming plate, mind sharpener

[spice kraken]

What do they do? Also I don't know how much I can help. Not home

[kind cape]

Enhanced defense = +1 on a shield or armor, +2 from level 10
Magic item = Creates a temporary common magic item of your choice
Mind sharpener = 4 charges, spend a charge and reaction when you fail a concentration check to succeed instead. Regains 1d4 per day

[opaque current]

Those are all things that I would just create as an item. Nothing particularly fancy needed.

[spice kraken]

Except the last one. Macro territory

[coarse mesa]

Absolutely brilliant, thanks so much!

[violet meadow]

The last one could be an optional bonus effect, targeting Constitution saves with the asterisk for the player to use only in case of the save being a concentration one

A macro triggered by the same optional effect could take care of the reaction used etc

[opaque current]

Not worth the effort. You don't know whether you need to use it until you've already failed. I just made a 4 charge item. If they lose concentration they can just recast or something

[violet meadow]

Losing concentration might be a real PITA in some cases.

I mean when one shouldn't

[old yew]

What value should I be setting for flags.midiqol.advantage stuff? I know it needs to be set via CUSTOM or OVERRIDE, but not what the value should be.

[opaque current]

Usually just 1

It's binary so it's essentially saying YES as opposed to NO

Or On/Off

[vast bane]

It also takes evaluations of true so you could do any of the activation conditions in that field too for use cases

I think midi sample item chill touch is an example of it

[old yew]

OK, thanks!

[vast bane]

You could have shocking grasp buff self with advantage if the target has any equipment named plate/scale/chain

[violet meadow]

What about Shields made of metal ? 😄

[vast bane]

do those count?

I think the spell says Worn

you equip shields not wear them

[vast bane]

Care to write that conditional for me 8)?

actually it would have to be an item macro pre item roll

[violet meadow]

token.actor.itemTypes?.equipment?.some(i => i.system.armor?.type === "shield" && i.system.equipped && i.system.description.value.includes("metal"))

😛

[vast bane]

can I have line 2 have multiple keywords incase metal isn't there?

[violet meadow]

Now if the description includes metal or not, or both metal or wood its up to you

It's just 1 line. If it includes metal it will return true, otherwise false. Overdid it with the optional chaining, but should be safe enough

[violet meadow]

What else should be there?

[violet meadow]

["iron","steel","metal"].some(mat => token.actor.itemTypes?.equipment?.some(i => i.system.armor?.type === "shield" && i.system.equipped && i.system.description.value.includes(mat)))

[vast bane]

thats enough for me to work with thank you very much!

[rancid tide]

I have a damage bonus macro and I want it to work with crits, I know how to do so, but what if someone use a different set up for crits like max dice damage or *2 etc etc, is there a way to detect that?

[violet meadow]

You want it to work when the attack results in a critical?

[rancid tide]

Yes

[violet meadow]

args[0].isCritical should be true when its a critical

[rancid tide]

Yeah that's not the problem I have, I know how to check if it is critical but what if I'm using a different rule set?

(I'm making a module so I can't know what setting the user will have)

What if they are using *2 damage instead of the additional die

[violet meadow]

Why would that matter? MidiQOL will flag an attack roll as critical no matter what the rule set used is

Probably I do not understand the actual issue 😅

[rancid tide]

Ohhhh no no you got it

So I can make it critical without modifying the actual roll

But how to I set it to do so?

Wait maybe I'm misunderstanding I feel like I'm missing something ahah

[violet meadow]

OK so lets back up a step or two.
If an attack roll is a Critical, MidiQOL will flag that by setting the args[0].isCritical to true

[rancid tide]

Okay yeah I remember that yes

[violet meadow]

Do you want to force an attack roll to be a critical?

[rancid tide]

Yes

Since I'm working with a damage bonus macro

And said bonus if the original attack is critical it's also critical, which damage bonus macro doesn't do by itself

[violet meadow]

The damage bonus macro will be triggered by an actual attack. In that macro you can access the args[0].isCritical. Then you will need to construct the new Dice for that damage.
Let me grab an example if I can find

[rancid tide]

Okay yeah and that's what I wanted to do, but that I thought "What if the setting for critical hits aren't number_of_dice * 2 ?"

[molten solar]

and you want to create a generic one-size-fits-all macro that works with all crit settings

[rancid tide]

Yes

[molten solar]

const maxDice = game.settings.get("dnd5e", "criticalDamageMaxDice");
const multMods = game.settings.get("dnd5e", "criticalDamageModifiers");

[violet meadow]

#macro-polo message

[molten solar]

Hah, oh yeah, just let the system handle it by creating an actual DamageRoll, not a regular Roll

[rancid tide]

Okay thanks a lot!

[weary rune]

thanks, macro.ce worked.

on the slim chance anyway used this, it had some more problems.
another version of my Cloudkill.

• with sight blocking via template vision limit (3feet to allow players to see edge and simulates thinner fog for nearby etc.. um yeh)
• green template grid + token magic FX, for fun
• Blindness and Invisible condition while inside template, because of spell's "Heavily Obscured" status
• damage effect uses a weird EffectMacro at start of turn calling an end of turn Overtime effect with removeCondition to work around all sorts of NPC/PC differences and only run it once per current turn. + expire on move + expire end of turn just to ensure it goes away.
• lots of testing, it wont roll damage out of turn and wont damage twice as far as I can tell.

[old yew]

How would I go about setting up a non-reaction, 'attacker takes damage if they hit me' feature?

[violet meadow]

There are various ways.
Do you use reaction automation in MidiQOL?

[old yew]

yep

[violet meadow]

Easiest way is to create a feature or weapon with an activation cost Reaction damaged (with 0 as the actual cost if you want to do that no matter if you have a reaction or not), put in the damage and have the player target the attacker and roll it

MidiQOL should prompt for reactions automatically

[scarlet gale]

I don't suppose this is for AoA?

[old yew]

AoA?

[scarlet gale]

Armor Of Agathys

[old yew]

Ah - no, it's for a Prickly feature on a homebrewed needle blight

[scarlet gale]

As an alternative a wordscript and midi hooks can handle it too if it's something that will happen a bunch and doesn't take your reaction. Less easy to setup than bugbear's suggestion however.

[rancid tide]

Doesn't seem to work

[violet meadow]

((Yeah based on the level of automation wanted you can make it just happen automatically)) that's for Justin

[violet meadow]

Share what you have?

[rancid tide]

Yes just a sec

[rancid tide]

Here it is

[violet meadow]

let isCritical = !args[0].isCritical ? args[0].damageRoll?.options.critical : args[0].isCritical;
What is this supposed to to?

You can just use let isCritical = args[0].isCritical

[rancid tide]

Check if it is either a critical hit or if it was set as critical, because args[0].isCritical is true only if you roll a nat20

[violet meadow]

Don't you use critical threshold?
What would be another case of a crit which the args[0].isCritical wouldn't catch? 🤔

[rancid tide]

idk I think I don't

[scarlet gale]

I've never had isCritical not be accurate for me

[rancid tide]

I don't know what to tell you

[violet meadow]

OK just to be safe console.log(isCritical) to see if that returns what you need when you need it

[rancid tide]

isCritical for me is true only when you roll a critical with the dice, undefined if you press the critical button in the damage window

[violet meadow]

ohhhhh

[rancid tide]

Done that and I observed what I told you just above

[scarlet gale]

Ah

[violet meadow]

Different degrees of automation... 😩 😄

[rancid tide]

Besides I tried rolling a 20 and even in that case it doesn't work

[scarlet gale]

Actually surprising that midi doesn't catch that

[violet meadow]

I haven't checked so not sure 🤷

[scarlet gale]

That seems weird in that case

[violet meadow]

Agreed

[rancid tide]

It does, it's just stored in a different section

[rancid tide]

That's why I did let isCritical = ...

[scarlet gale]

A 20 should show as a crit unless you're targeting someone with adamantine armor that has the right midi flags set on it

[rancid tide]

I don't know what to say, it doesn't work

The macro I liked doesn't return a critical damage bonus even when rolling a nat 20

[violet meadow]

So will need to dissect the macro. Did you console.log all the variables?

[rancid tide]

Pretty much yes

I think the problem is

const damageBonusResult = new CONFIG.Dice.DamageRoll(`${diceBonus}[${damageType}]`, args[0].rollData, rollOptions);

Because everything else has the value I expect it to have

[violet meadow]

What's your diceBonus?

Do you have an actual dice there? on my phone 😄

[rancid tide]

it usually has something like "1d6"

It gets the dice with the higher face value from the formula and adds it as a damage bonus

The only value that isn't what I expect is damageBonusResult which will always be essentially equal to ${diceBonus}[${damageType}]

Which when isCritical is true, should not happen

at least in theory, that's why I think CONFIG.Dice.DamageRoll(`${diceBonus}[${damageType}]`, args[0].rollData, rollOptions); doesn't work

[violet meadow]

If you use only this ```js
const rollOptions = args[0].damageRoll?.options || {critical: args[0].isCritical};

[rancid tide]

I tried but again it didn't work at the time

[violet meadow]

I will give it a whirl later that I will be on my PC

[rancid tide]

Okay ty

[scarlet gale]

I feel like your or if in the wrong spot there

[rancid tide]

mine?

[scarlet gale]

Bugbear's

[rancid tide]

oh okay

[violet meadow]

Maybe I haven't tried it. I just used an example from Elwin

[scarlet gale]

I would just go with is critical or roll options critical

[rancid tide]

Tag me when you do so, I have notifications off here

[rancid tide]

That's what I did basically

[scarlet gale]

Verify that your variable is true?

[rancid tide]

What? if you asked if isCritical is true then yes it is

At least the one I made, it checks both critical and roll options critical if they are true, it works

everything about the macro checks out the only thing that doesn't have the right value is

const damageBonusResult = new CONFIG.Dice.DamageRoll(`${diceBonus}[${damageType}]`, args[0].rollData, rollOptions);

which doesn't become critical

[rancid tide]

the macro I'm referring

[scarlet gale]

I've never used the config.dice.damage roll to make a roll so I'm not sure what's wrong there

[rancid tide]

mhmm I must say that I just copied the example I was given, so I don't actually know if it does what I was told

[scarlet gale]

I'm guessing not

What does it output?

[rancid tide]

straight up ${diceBonus}[${damageType}]

[rancid tide]

No sorry it's not true

[violet meadow]

damageBonusResult = new CONFIG.Dice.DamageRoll(`1d6[slashing]`, _token.actor.rollData, {critical:true})

in console this works fine

[rancid tide]

damageBonusResult.formula does output that

[rancid tide]

Let me see

[violet meadow]

As I said check your formula to be an actual roll

[rancid tide]

Sorry I don't understand what you mean by that

[violet meadow]

Is diceBonus something tangible?
damageBonusResult.formula should return the actual dice formula

2d6[slashing]

for example

[rancid tide]

I do return damageBonusResult.formula, but it's always "1d6"

Also I use the max die for crit so 2d6 as output isn't what I'm looking for (which I checked it returns it in my console too)

[violet meadow]

OK so the error should be here ```js
const rollOptions = !args[0].damageRoll?.options ? {critical: isCritical} : args[0].damageRoll.options;

[feral flame]

Is there a setting that allows for the damage card to automatically be displayed for all players instead of right clicking and choosing "Reveal to Everyone"?

[rancid tide]

What's the problem with it?

Also yes the problem is that, I tested to just put {critical: true} and it works, problem is that as I said it rolls "2d6" where it should be "1d6 + 6"

[scarlet gale]

Shouldn't it just change the roll total

Not the formula

[violet meadow]

The formula will be the same no matter which option for crit is being used. Tested on mine too.

OK let me try to replicate

[rancid tide]

So there's no way to make it work with different settings of critical hit?

[violet meadow]

Give me 5.

[rancid tide]

I suppose you mean 5 min, don't worry take your time

[violet meadow]

OK now I started to remember... #1010273821401555087 message

Take a looksie here

and here #dnd5e message

You will need to make sure you've got the right rules

[rancid tide]

So there's just no way to do this?

Or at least not with that command

So I need to check in which rules I am in right?

[violet meadow]

There is. Use what Zhell shared before and add them in as parameters 🤔

[rancid tide]

Yes I'm looking at it right now, thanks!

[violet meadow]

For reference ```js
const maxDice = game.settings.get("dnd5e", "criticalDamageMaxDice");
const multMods = game.settings.get("dnd5e", "criticalDamageModifiers");

const baseDice = Math.ceil(rogueLevels/2);
let rollFormula = `${baseDice}d6`;
if (isCritical) rollFormula = new CONFIG.Dice.DamageRoll(rollFormula,"",{critical:true,multiplyNumeric:multMods ,powerfulCritical:maxDice}).formula

so combining both something like this should do it

[rancid tide]

Aren't there more option than multiplyNumeric and powerfulCritical tho?

[violet meadow]

Core 5e nope.

MidiQOL has more options

But no idea about them right now

[rancid tide]

Okay what I care is about core 5e

Thanks!

[violet meadow]

Probably this needs to become the new norm for shared macros (bonus damage macros especially) if it works alright

[rancid tide]

It works

Even tho I did it a little bit differently

[violet meadow]

I think tposney had this on his radar, to just update some of the items in Midi sample items

[rancid tide]

I got the options directly from args[0].damageRoll.options

[rancid tide]

No need for this

[violet meadow]

Yeah makes sense if they are in there! That's why Elwin shared that initially

It has all the info in there

[rancid tide]

yep! I think they just messed up little things up the way

[violet meadow]

Alright if you want share your final solution so it can be searched and shared in the future 💪

[rancid tide]

Yeah! Just a moment to tidy it up

[rancid tide]

Here it is, it works, just don't plug it in stuff without modifying it a bit, since it has some special cases that work only with other features inside the actor

[violet meadow]

Nice! I can see the extra MidiQOL specific critical rulesets, so that is a really good example to share.
We can yoink just the new CONFIG.Dice from in there and disregard the rest

[rancid tide]

Yeah! glad I was helpful! Hope someone can find it useful

[violet meadow]

Also a word of caution. It seems that you are using Advanced Macros, correct?

If you are not using that module, declaring token, actor, character, speaker iirc will result in an error, as they are already declared.

[rancid tide]

I do use advanced macros

I don't usually do that thanks, I don't recall why I did that here

Maybe I found the framework somewhere and didn't edit out those declarations

[violet meadow]

From @rancid tide's work, a small example of how to take care of different critical rule sets when creating a Roll for a DamageBonusMacro.

const isCritical = !args[0].isCritical ? args[0].damageRoll?.options.critical : args[0].isCritical;
const rollOptions = args[0].damageRoll.options;

const damageBonusResult = new CONFIG.Dice.DamageRoll("1d6+@mod[slashing]", args[0].rollData, {
    critical: isCritical,
    criticalBonusDamage: rollOptions.criticalBonusDamage,
    criticalBonusDice: rollOptions.criticalBonusDice,
    criticalMultiplier: rollOptions.criticalMultiplier,
    multiplyNumeric: rollOptions.multiplyNumeric,
    powerfulCritical: rollOptions.powerfulCritical
});

return {damageRoll: damageBonusResult.formula, flavor: "Extra boom boom"};

Should be working with and without fast forwarding damage rolls.

[molten prism]

Heya, did you find a way to have gnome cunning only apply when targeted with a spell that causes the save roll, rather than at all times? (Or are these cases so rare it's not worth thinking about?)

[unborn cosmos]

Hi, can anyone help me set up a chaos bolt with some automation? I've searched around and found two different .js files for chaos bolt, but I don't know what I do with the script in order to make a spell in a token's spell list 😅

[scarlet gale]

Pretty sure V10 of midi has a magical resistance flag now

Per save type

Actually that screenshot should be accurate

[violet meadow]

That is my v9 Chaos Bolt.
As an ItemMacro MidiQOL onUse ItemMacro | All

Will update it to v10 in the near future (should be working fine though in v10)

[scarlet gale]

https://github.com/chrisk123999/foundry-macros/blob/main/Spells/Chaos Bolt/Wasp-ChaosBolt.js

I updated Wasps original chaos bolt for v10

Works exactly like the one from ASE

[unborn cosmos]

ok, but how do I use the macro?

I have all the modules listed

[scarlet gale]

In the on use macro field add ItemMacro

Then make sure the macro is pasted into the item macro on the item

(SD card icon in the title bar)

[unborn cosmos]

for brevity, "item" in this context is anything in a character sheet such as items, features, spells etc?

[scarlet gale]

Yep

You'll also want to change it to run after active effect

Not all

Based on your screenshot

[hot flower]

If i wanted to have an effect only trigger on a medium or smaller creature, how would I do that with midi's activation Condition field?

for instance, an attack also grapples a medium or smaller target.

[unborn cosmos]

Thanks Chris, it sort of works now. but it seems to be doing a lot more damage than I think it should

[scarlet gale]

Screenshot it?

[unborn cosmos]

it's kinda hard to read

[scarlet gale]

Check the active effects

Remove them

[violet meadow]

Try something like ```js
["lg","sm"].some(s=>target.traits.size.includes(s))

[unborn cosmos]

The spell itself has no active effects

[violet meadow]

*whyyyyyy???? What did that lonely bugbear do to you 😭 *

[scarlet gale]

I've only had my chat card look like that when the ddb importer left a bad v9 item macro still in it

[unborn cosmos]

The bugbear killed a PC in the previous session, new character has chaos bolt

bugbear appeared with a surprise, crit the wizard and did 40 damage, killing him instantly

[violet meadow]

That's more like it 😄

[unborn cosmos]

yeah my chat cards usually don't look like this scrunched up

[scarlet gale]

Not at my PC to be able to troubleshoot I'm afraid

Try removing the level scaling?

[unborn cosmos]

Another thing, I use dndbeyond importer because my players like to use dndbeyond to make and maintain their characters. if I get this spell working now, how do I prevent it from being removed the next time the player updates their character via dndbeyond?

[scarlet gale]

I can remove my description and export mine later tonight

Click the DND beyond icon on the title bar

Then check ignore

[unborn cosmos]

wow that easy huh

[scarlet gale]

Just getting to work now, but if you're still around in ~8 hours I'll have an export

[unborn cosmos]

There's a good chance I'm asleep by then

if not I'll make some noise in here

[hot flower]

hm. that doesn't work. Applying the grapple regardless of target's size.

I thought it might be target.system.traits.size.includes("med"|"sm"|"tiny") but that doesn't work eithewr

[unborn cosmos]

hm I changed the action type from ranged attack to nothing, now the chat card looks as it should, though the macro section of the spell disappeared 😟

[scarlet gale]

Try to change it to utility

[unborn cosmos]

yeah that seems to have worked fine

excellent

Do the rest of these macros in that github repo also work for v10?

[scarlet gale]

They do, but I've kinda been bad at including install instructions

On my to-do list

[violet meadow]

test again without the .actor.system

Edited the initital one

["lg","sm"].some(s=>target.traits.size.includes(s))

[hot flower]

hm. nothing seems to be working. I'll just do this manually.

[violet meadow]

Do you check the box, apply effect only if activation condition is true?

I will test in a bit if that is not doing it

[hot flower]

FFS

i totally forgot that.

jeebus. It works fine WHEN I CHECK THE RIGHT BOX. Thanks for your help!

final condition was ["med","sm","tiny"].some(s=>target.traits.size.includes(s))

[unborn cosmos]

Is there a compendium of item macros for various spells or do I just have to practice my google-fu?

[violet meadow]

Discord-fu

[scarlet gale]

Searching here best bet

[violet meadow]

Various repos all around, but nothing centralised as of now.

MidiQOL sample items.
MASIF module.
Midi SRD (to some extent)

[hot flower]

@violet meadow if i wanted to check for a condition to apply an effect (or other damage?) would this work? ["Grappled"].some(s=>target.data.effect.label.includes(s))

[violet meadow]

Array.from(workflow.hitTargets)[0].actor.effects.find(eff=>eff.label==="Grappled")

[gilded token]

For automated flanking with midiqol, are there any preferred systems outside of DFreds? Haven't been able to get that to work together at all.

[violet meadow]

Strange. They do work really well together. Have you checked the options in MidiQOL settings => Workflow settings => Rules?

[gilded token]

Yeah, I've been trying to get them working for a couple hours now. It doesn't seem to apply the flanked effect when two tokens are in range.

[violet meadow]

The tokens must be directly opposite each other, not just in range

[gilded token]

Even opposite of each other doesn't apply the flanked effect to the enemy token

[nimble yacht]

I'm experiencing a bug where if you have "Require targets to be selected" set to "never" , but have "Auto check if attack hits target" set to anything other than "none" , nothing will roll without having a target selected first. I'd like to be able to auto check GM hits, but not force players to use targetting as several of them dont like this functionality

[violet meadow]

If you want the Flanked effect on the enemy, change the option to CE Flanked

I use this one

[hot flower]

Perfect thank you.

[gilded token]

Thanks, that seems to work. Weird that the other options do not for me. Guess I'll be using that variant as well.

[violet meadow]

Just keep in mind that this will get the 1st hit token to check. If more than 1 targets it will not be representative

[hot flower]

That’s ok. It’s a single target attack

[violet meadow]

The other ones should give advantage on the attacker's roll. If you dont fast forward attacks, at most it would highlight the Advantage button.

[gilded token]

Thanks for the assistance, really appreciated

[violet meadow]

Can you send me your MidiQOL settings?

I can try to reproduce. Versions of MidiQOL, system and Foundry?

[nimble yacht]

where is the export settings button? i've only just come back to foundry after like a year and a half lol lots of new stuff

[violet meadow]

MidiQOL settings => Workflow settings => Misc tab

[nimble yacht]

ah it was at the top, i was looking at the bottom lol i knew i saw it in there

[violet meadow]

Hmm actually uncheck the Roll a separate attack for each target and try again

[nimble yacht]

hm, that works, but it still seems like an unintended effect

[violet meadow]

Might be. Worth an issue in the MidiQOL git for tposney to take a look and chime in.

I can understand it to hang with that new-ish feature. Cause to work it takes for granted that there is a number of targets and it fails otherwise

Probably something that tposney didn't consider as an usecase at the time

[nimble yacht]

yeah, seems like an easy enough fix though, just a simple if statement to check if targets are required. I'll post an issue in the git

[coarse mesa]

I'm trying to get Guidance working with tools, does anyone have any guidance for me on that?

who wouldn't want guidance when disarming traps or opening locks...?

[violet meadow]

Hooks.on("dnd5e.preRollToolCheck", (item,options) => {
    const tokenRolling = canvas.tokens.get(options.messageData.speaker.token)
    const hasEffect = tokenRolling.actor.effects.find(eff=>eff.label==="Guidance")
    if (!hasEffect) return;
    else {
        options.parts.push("1d4")
        hasEffect.delete()
    }
})

World script territory

Until tposney adds that in maybe

[nimble yacht]

@violet meadow do you just have the entirety of the data structure memorized? or is there an easy place to reference this? I was looking at make an activation condition of targeted tokens with a friendly disposition

[violet meadow]

A bit of both using them for a long time and console checking

For the activation conditions a bit of a read through the MidiQOL readme helps to remember what is included where

So target will give you all the _token.actor.getRollData() of the targeted token, plus its flags as an extra when using MidiQOL

[nimble yacht]

yeah, my experience is messing around with the console, is that really the only way? cuz i couldnt even figure out how you found the traits field under targets here ["lg","sm"].some(s=>target.traits.size.includes(s))
game.users.current.targets doesnt have a .traits

[violet meadow]

Indeed. target in activation conditions points to the target.actor.getRollData()

Here comes in handy the readme

[nimble yacht]

ah, yeah that make way more sense. this a much more useful data structure

[violet meadow]

https://gitlab.com/tposney/midi-qol/-/tree/v10#roll-other-formula-for-rwakmwak-roll-other-formula-for-spells

[coarse mesa]

Magnificent, thanks!

[nimble yacht]

so token disposition is not available then? i only see actor related things

[violet meadow]

You would need to go through the workflow in this case.
Something like Array.from(workflow.hitTargets)[0].document.disposition === 1

But now you have an issue that this will get only the first hitTarget or a blanket true/false if you use something like ```js
Array.from(workflow.hitTargets).some(tok=>tok.document.disposition === 1)

If you want to do that, probably an onUse macro would make more sense

[coarse mesa]

The caster is still concentrating FYI – not a biggie, this works great until tposney can add to midi

[nimble yacht]

🤔 ok, so similar to how you determined target is giving you _token.actor.getRollData()
what is workflow returning?
the readme is not super intuitive for trying to learn

Also, what is the some function?

[violet meadow]

So create a script macro with ```js
console.log("args[0]",args[0])
console.log("workflow",this)
//const workflow = MidiQOL.Workflow.getWorkflow(args[0].uuid) would give you the same like "this" if you would log(workflow) after you declare it.

Open up a character sheet. Hit the Actor on Use Macros button in the Attributes tab and create an entry for the name of the macro you created and choose After Active Effects for instance.

Roll any item from that actor.

You will get all the args[0] and the workflow MidiQOL provides

workflow is specific to the item that is rolled. args[0].uuid will be the Items UUID in this case.

some function returns true if the function that follows return true or false otherwise

[nimble yacht]

Where's the Actor on Use Macros button? I can't find it. I know how to add an on use macro to one item, not all

[violet meadow]

Ah true it's a concentration. Can be included.

[nimble yacht]

and you're using anonymous functions to get a true or false back, right?

[violet meadow]

You might need to turn it on if its not in the MidiQOL settings (Misc TAB)

[nimble yacht]

Ah, yeah found it

[violet meadow]

Then in Tidy

[nimble yacht]

So the activation condition is an "apply to all or none" type situation then?

[violet meadow]

Try this ```js
Hooks.on("dnd5e.preRollToolCheck", (item,options) => {
const tokenRolling = canvas.tokens.get(options.messageData.speaker.token)
const hasEffect = tokenRolling.actor.effects.find(eff=>eff.label==="Guidance")
if (!hasEffect) return;
else {
options.parts.push("1d4")
const hasAnotherEffect = fromUuidSync(hasEffect.origin).parent.effects.find(eff=>eff.label==="Concentrating");
//const anotherToken =
await MidiQOL.socket().executeAsGM("removeEffects", {'actorUuid': hasAnotherEffect.parent.uuid, effects: [hasAnotherEffect.toObject()]});
}
})

[violet meadow]

Not in general. If you use target it will apply to each target as intended.

But for the disposition, as this is not available through the granular target option, going through the workflow has some shortcomings.
At least from my tests. There could be another way I haven't found thought of yet 🤷

[coarse mesa]

Works like a charm, thanks!

[nimble yacht]

so using target iterates across each target, but using workflow ends up just being one action 🤔 unfortunate that target doesnt give access to the Token5e object

[violet meadow]

Item onUse macro is the answer. You can go through all the targets of the item roll, either via args[0].hitTargets (array) or workflow.hitTargets (set) and then filter based on disposition and apply effects on the ones you want.

Depending on the type of the item you can use also the ones that args[0].failedSaves or succeeded in these saves etc

[nimble yacht]

yeah thats what i started working on. I can't help but wonder if someone else hasnt already written a macro for this. Only effecting tokens of a specific disposition with templates

[violet meadow]

oh for sure. I think I have one shared somewhere too

[nimble yacht]

I'm thinking it'll run "After targeting complete" and just remove the targets that arent the desired disposition

[violet meadow]

Sometimes its a bit difficult to change targets in the MidiQOL workflow when it's started.
After Template is placed would be better I think 🤔

[nimble yacht]

is there a clean way to change which tokens get targeted?

🤔 there's a "Friend's Fail" option in the midi properties. Maybe for aoe buffs I could check that and just set the DC to 1 so any enemies will always succeed? What would be the equivalent for the opposite, using the sculp spell property right?

[violet meadow]

Yeah sculpt spell. Check the readme for the flag

[nimble yacht]

hmm, sculpt and careful only effect evocation, thats annoying

yeah, that doesnt seem to work quite the right way 🤔

[violet meadow]

What you can do Once a Template is placed (with one of MidiQOL options for template auto targeting) . ```js
const newTargets = args[0].targets.filter(i=>i.disposition === token.document.disposition).map(i=>i.id)
game.user.updateTokenTargets(newTargets)

This will update the targets to the ones with the same disposition as the caster

or !== for different than the caster's

💤 👋

[nimble yacht]

👍 thanks

Final macro looked like this const newTargets = args[0].targets.filter(i=>i.disposition === token.document.disposition).map(i=>i.id) game.user.updateTokenTargets(newTargets)

The type of the targets returned TokenDocument5e

[vast bane]

Share the macro @clear kernel

[clear kernel]

so I've set it up to toggle on and off based on if the item is equipped or not, like so:

The "On" toggle:

Off:

They work just fine when I'm running them as a DM, they turn on and off appropriately

but when my player is connected, they don't work

nor do they work for me when I'm logged on as him

they do still work when the player is connected when I run the sequencer on macro from the hotbar

[vast bane]

Is this checked in user permissions?

[clear kernel]

yah, I've got that set to yes for the permissions for players

I checked to see what options the player had in their settings, but didn't see anything immediately obvious that they'd need to enable

[vast bane]

check sequencers options for both world settings nad that users settings

[clear kernel]

k, I'll look now

[vast bane]

and does that user have the photosensitivity setting on in core?

[clear kernel]

Appreciate you helping me again! 🙂

unsure! I'll check that too

[vast bane]

that option checkbox in core disables sequencer

[clear kernel]

they can see the effect if I run the macro via the hotbar

[vast bane]

this is in sequencer as well

[clear kernel]

checking the settings now

[vast bane]

and finally do they have full ownership of the token or just observer?

OH, and also is a Gm logged in at the same time as them, and finally are there any errors when the player tries it

[clear kernel]

those two look good, they do have full ownership

I'm logged in as a GM as well on my own username, but not as them

I'll check for errors now as well

[vast bane]

also check that global setting on the Dm view in sequencer

[clear kernel]

I don't recall seeing any but I was running the game at the time so I didn't look closely

[vast bane]

Player and above

[clear kernel]

ok

AH

that's what it was

shoot, shoulda been the first thing I checked

Thank you again for the help 🙂

[vast bane]

we all do it no worries

Its why a second set of 👀 are good at solving these things.

[clear kernel]

used to be easy, but nowadays I've got like 20 different modules and I just shut down haha

but thanks to you guys the players loved the campaign this week

so I do appreciate everything

[molten solar]

Did you test that as a player or GM? 🙂

[coarse mesa]

GM, should I be afraid?

I trust too much

[molten solar]

Given that it does not involve midi at all and runs only on the player client and tries to delete an effect off another player...

[coarse mesa]

I thought world scripts were special 🤷‍♂️

[molten solar]

It's just a script.

Just a macro being executed automatically, really.

[violet meadow]

yeah giv me a sec

[coarse mesa]

I’m in bed now, or I’d be jumping on. Thanks for looking out for me Zhell ☺️

[molten solar]

and no, you can't just make sure it only runs on the GM client, cus the hook is not emitted at all

None of the dnd5e hooks are

[molten solar]

Oh hey you're at my count.

[vast bane]

Pretty sure if you install 21 modules you get a coffee mug that reads Welcome to Midi

[violet meadow]

Yeah the first iteration of this was just delete the Guidance effect from your owned actor. Then it was too ... late at night 😄

[coarse mesa]

Things got wild

Don’t sweat it, I’ll just tell them to delete manually… with the power of VAE 💪

[molten solar]

could probably use EM or something to toss out a Warpgate mutty to delete the conc effect

[vast bane]

Why not just leverage midi?

its not like its not installed

https://giphy.com/gifs/high-quality-highqualitygifs-g01ZnwAUvutuK8GIQn

[violet meadow]

edited <#1010273821401555087 message>

[coarse mesa]

Midi to the rescue

Thanks I’ll try it in the morning 💕

[violet meadow]

ohh yes by that time it will be OK. Cause it needs more editing... ☕ for 🐛 🐻 now!

//will update when I am sure its functional
``` ~~should do it ~~🤔

[molten solar]

I'd probably use the non-pre hook for the deletion

the preHook would add the d4 but the roll could still get cancelled

[violet meadow]

ok will test in a bit on my server

[vast bane]

Forgive me here but is it just guidance?

[molten solar]

on tools

[vast bane]

why not just use the existing premades in midi?

oohhhhhh ok

Well I don't have this issue cause I use MTB for tools 8)

[molten solar]

Though I'm not sure why it doesn't just have a +1d4 global ability check bonus

[vast bane]

AR works atleast with tools

Now if only we could get it to work with initiative

Only way I'm able to get init to work with modifiers is if it specifically buffs initiative

What flag was failing to work with the tool rolls, I even get AR to work with standard tool rolls:

atleast I assume this is the normal way to use a tool

[coarse mesa]

there’s no optional bonus key for tool checks

[vast bane]

but its still an ability check so any flag attached to all ability checks should check the tool

[coarse mesa]

but it doesn’t for some reason

[vast bane]

What flag are you using?

Key

[coarse mesa]

I’m using the Guidance v10 pre-made

[vast bane]

dfreds?

[coarse mesa]

Midi or Midi-SRD… am in bed now can’t check

[vast bane]

I only see a guidance in dfreds CE

[coarse mesa]

Could be that one

[violet meadow]

Yeah that's the one

[vast bane]

yeah optional does seem to fail to check

that is strange and sounds like a midi bug to me since AR works

it also fails to pick it up in MTB too

[coarse mesa]

Yeah I asked Tim but he’s not responded yet

Probably just an oversight

[vast bane]

Wonder if you can somehow steal the AR hook for it

[coarse mesa]

Kinda surprised it hasn’t come up sooner… but a lot of folk just use Sleight of Hand lol. BG3 ain’t helping in that regard

[vast bane]

I will say this, AR does the abilty check thing the right way, whereas Midi seperates them all to their own thing, like ability.all should be ability, tool, and skill. Thats why AR has just 1 key. Some reason Midi seperates them and that could be why its failing to recognize tools

[violet meadow]

Hmm I am not sure about that. I would have to test with other MidiQOL settings.
When you click on the optional bonus for MidiQOL it just rolls it.
@vast bane if you don't FF skills, how do the optional work?

[vast bane]

there is only one optional that fails to work with FF and I believe its the ac bonus one

[molten solar]

Midi or no, if anyone else hooks onto it and returns false, it gets cancelled.

[vast bane]

but I might be misremembering

its the last one in the readme, that much I remember

its also why I can't make arcane deflection in midi, cause I don't fast forward so its ac or saves

its save bonuses I can't use optional for

but its ok, I use AR instead for it

[violet meadow]

I am trying to think of such a case in the context we are using it.
I would need to Hook on the pre hook for the bonus and the normal hook for the deletion ? 🤔

[molten solar]

Yes

[vast bane]

The player with arcane deflection aslo uses DF manual rolls so I just honestly didn't bother to automate it and he calls out when he uses it

[violet meadow]

OK so sanity check ```js
Hooks.on("dnd5e.preRollToolCheck", (item,options) => {
const tokenRolling = canvas.tokens.get(options.messageData.speaker.token);
const hasEffect = tokenRolling.actor.effects.find(eff=>eff.label==="Guidance");
const itemRolling = item.uuid;
if (!hasEffect) return;
else {
options.parts.push("1d4");
Hooks.once("dnd5e.rollToolCheck", (item) => {
if (item.uuid !== itemRolling) return;
const hasAnotherEffect = fromUuidSync(hasEffect.origin).parent.effects.find(eff=>eff.label==="Concentrating");
if (!hasAnotherEffect) return;
MidiQOL.socket().executeAsGM("removeEffects", {'actorUuid': hasAnotherEffect.parent.uuid, effects: [hasAnotherEffect.id]});
})
}
})

*Wouldn't this register the `once` hook though, even if the pre-Hook got cancelled?*
Should be working

If that's the case I would need to filter for the correct tokenRolling and the correct toolCheck 🤔

Or just the item.uuid hmm

@coarse mesa 👆 should do it...

[acoustic jasper]

is it possible to add "negative resistance" to an effect? So for example an actor takes 3 extra damage from fire attacks?

[violet meadow]

yes

[violet meadow]

Use the DR flags

case sensitive

[acoustic jasper]

DR flags can be "negative"?

[violet meadow]

Yup

[acoustic jasper]

oh that's new - thanks

[violet meadow]

It will add the extra damage in the damage card. This is for a flags.midi-qol.DR.slashing flag Custom | -5

[acoustic jasper]

oh ok - adds dmg to the dmg card but not to the roll

got it

[vast bane]

Healing and healing temp can't be negative fyi

but the damage ones can and just so we're clear bugbear means the Damage reduction flags in midi, not Damage resistance

theres two ways to differentiate them, the Damage reduction flags are midi flags and have a capital DR. The damage resistance flags are core dnd5e flags and have a lowercase dr

[acoustic jasper]

yeah I see them

[vast bane]

New Midi!

https://media.giphy.com/media/4PT6v3PQKG6Yg/giphy.gif

[kind cape]

And finally a place where we can throw money at Posney! 🎉

[acoustic jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-up-and-take-my-money-futurama-fry-take-my-money-money-gif-15195954

[violet meadow]

@rancid tide ```js
await MidiQOL.socket().executeAsGM("createEffects", {actorUuid: actor.uuid, effects: [effectData]});

await MidiQOL.socket().executeAsGM("removeEffects", { actorUuid: actor.uuid, effects: [effect.id]});

[rancid tide]

Doesn't this work for creating an effect on your actor? Idk if this can work on a target instead of "on myself"

[violet meadow]

That is the concept. You can create an effect to tokens you do not own as well.

Just provide the correct actorUuid

target.actor.uuid in your case, for the target you define somehow

[rancid tide]

And how the effect see this? Does the source become the target instead of the actor?

Also can I pass an array of uuids or it works with only one at a time, so to create the effect on multiple tokens I have to use a forEach?

[violet meadow]

What do you mean? The first function will create on the actor, which the actorUuid points to, an effect constructed from the effectData you provide.
For instance if you select a valid hitTarget from the MidiQOL provided args[0], you could do someting like: ```js
actorUuid: args[0].hitTargets[0].actor.uuid

And yes you will need to loop over the targets if there are multiple

Type in console MidiQOL.socket()

It will give you all the available ones

[rancid tide]

Okay makes sense what I meant was, sometimes an effect can have a special duration like "ends an the start of the source actor's next turn" in this case scenario, I'm creating an effect on some actor that isn't me, in this case will the effect consider myself as the source or the targeted actor?

[rancid tide]

Ty, I did do that sometime ago but it never hurt no body to check again

[violet meadow]

You will need to construct the effect with a proper origin, and a flag for the correct special duration

[rancid tide]

Ah yes true I can do that can I? The effect should have an origin field

It does reference that right?

[violet meadow]

I imagine that it triggers the special duration expiration flags, based on effect.origin and effect.parent for the special durations which are based on casterToken and effectAppliedToken respectively, if that makes sense 🤔

a small example ```js
if (!args[0].hitTargets[0]?.actor.system.traits.dr.value.includes("cold")) return;
if (args[0].macroPass === "preDamageRoll") {
const effectUpdate = {
changes:[{
key: 'system.traits.dr.value',
mode: CONST.ACTIVE_EFFECT_MODES.CUSTOM,
value: "-cold"
}],
label: "Ultramarine Cold resistance bypass",
icon: ${item.img},
flags: {dae: { specialDuration: ['isHit'] } }
}
await MidiQOL.socket().executeAsGM("createEffects", { actorUuid: args[0].targetUuids[0], effects: [effectUpdate] });
}

[rancid tide]

ah there's a effect.parent field, never noticed

yeah makes a lot of sense I even found an example I myself made xD

idk if I'm the only one but sometimes I catch myself not remembering stuff that I already made time ago ahah

thanks btw now I know what to do

[violet meadow]

Happens all the time for me too... I am even surprised by some things I have written in the past when looking through the discord 😄

[rancid tide]

Yeahhh same ahaha

Okay done, it works, thanks again!

[rancid tide]

I'm trying to make an item that has the following effect:
"On a hit, the target takes 1d6 lightning damage and can’t take reactions until the start of your next turn".
I tried making this with await CEInt.addEffect({effectName: "Reaction", uuid: theActor.uuid}) (with the help of CE) and it does trigger the Reaction Effect from CE, problem is that when it's the target's turn the reaction gets replenish, so it's not really "until the start of your next turn".
Any tips?

[vast bane]

are you sure thats what the feature says?

cause thats not what shockign grasp says

[rancid tide]

Yes, it's not shocking grasp, it's a homebrew item

[vast bane]

I don't think you can stop the reaction coming back like that

the best you can do is put a dummy status marker on it like reaction blocked or something to remind everyone

[rancid tide]

Maybe with onUpdateTarget?

I check for updates on the effects field and if it's the Reaction effect that gets updated then I re insert it?

[kind cape]

Wait, you say the reaction comes back, at the start of their turn, isn't that intended?

[rancid tide]

Yes it is normally, but the problem is that the effect that I want needs to block their reaction until the start of my next turn

[kind cape]

Have you tried giving them an effect that has a macro.CE that gives the Reaction effect?

[rancid tide]

Yes

It's how I've implemented the item in the first place, but it has the issue I stated above.

[kind cape]

So how does it look on them when you apply it? (Before the turn is advanced)

[rancid tide]

As it should, it works as I intended it to be (it triggers the Reaction effect as if they used their reaction so the can't use another) but when it's their turn they get their reaction back

[sharp knoll]

@coarse mesa @vast bane the template setting is released in A-A v 4.2.04. Made it a Client level setting with options for "Off" (default), "Show on Hover in Template Layer" and "Show on any Hover". Requires the Hover setting in TMFX (if active) to be disabled to avoid conflicts

[rancid tide]

Found a way, it works now

[kind cape]

How did you do it? 🤔

[rancid tide]

created an effect via executeAsGM replicating the reaction effect from CE with the only change that instead of ending on the start of the target's turn it ends at the start of the source's turn

thankfully CE sees the Reaction effect and thinks it's its own

[coarse mesa]

Amazing!! Thanks so much, this is brilliant

[coarse mesa]

Thanks bud! I saw the new midi and thought for a second this might already be redundant 😅

[coarse mesa]

@gilded yacht Just wanted to say how grateful I am for how you've sorted the DSN/optional bonus situation... it's perfect. Thanks heaps

What a great morning!!

[spice oracle]

Are there ways of toggling Astral Monk's Astral Arms feature with MidiQOL, or any of it's other duration abilities?

The class lets you expend one Ki to activate 'astral arms' for a minute, and while active your reach increases by 5, and you can use Wisdom instead of Strength for any strength saves or checks. I'm curious if that feature is doable, I.E. "If Astral Arms class feature is active, use WIS modifier instead of STR"

[coarse mesa]

~~@gilded yacht it looks like the new Anonymous integration is treating the other player tokens as unidentified – I'm not sure if there's something I need to do to address that. Working great for NPCs 🙂 ~~ Idle has fixed this at their end, one less thing to worry about!

[coarse mesa]

Definitely doable – you might want to look at the premade Shillelagh in the midi-qol sample compendium as an example of a temporary item that changes the key modifier for an attack

[opaque current]

Have the PCs been revealed

[coarse mesa]

How do you reveal players?

[opaque current]

I presumed as any other token but I'm not at PC

[coarse mesa]

PCs don’t have that option on their HUD or combat tracker. I guess Anonymous just assumes they’re always revealed

[opaque current]

Interesting

[coarse mesa]

We have Limited ownership of each others actors anyway so it’d be a bit weird not to see their name lol

(Limited means you can see just each others bio/description on the character sheet and lets you have your whole party in MTB)

[thorny solar]

Can I ask for your help in setting something like this up? My game recently got a Ranger and I'm struggling setting up Favored Foe.

[vast bane]

Hmmm, I used advantage reminder for my ranger who had that, but I vaguely recall it being possible to just edit the premade hunters mark

[thorny solar]

I did see someone setting up some sort of "Prompt on hit" macro but I could not for the life of me figure it out

[vast bane]

Hunter's mark in midi sample items is automatic, it just adds the damage if its a special flagged actor

if you do not fast forward, you can just use an advantage reminder module flag instead

oh wow, just realized that AR's new grant flags would work great for favored foe/hunters mark

[violet meadow]

Flavored foe hmmm. I probably have shared a macro for that. Could be v9 though

Lol flavoured...

Phones...

[thorny solar]

You're good Bugbear.

[coarse mesa]

DDB importer set FF up for me automatically, I've not tested it yet tho

[vast bane]

pretty sure you can get the macros from primates git then

[coarse mesa]

https://github.com/MrPrimate/ddb-importer/blob/main/macros/feats/favoredFoe.js

looks legit

[violet meadow]

I tend to forget to take a look at MrPrimate's assortment of macros

[coarse mesa]

probably bugbear's originally 😂

[violet meadow]

Full disclosure: Most of the time I just want to make my own to see what I can do 😄

[vast bane]

I wonder if its got the newest thing where hunter's mark creates a move to new target feature

[violet meadow]

Nope 😄

[coarse mesa]

looks like a modified Hunter's Mark?

similar anyway

[violet meadow]

It has a clever way to test for once per round

I wonder where is Babonus with the new stuff now though... 😄

[thorny solar]

I saw your post about it but I'm just like "Duuuh."

I have two people with Hunters Mark, might have a third. So that would be neat to set up

[vast bane]

The advantage reminder way:

[coarse mesa]

Hunter's Mark is included with midi

[thorny solar]

The moving of Hunters Mark, I mean

[vast bane]

the midiqol sample item of hunter's mark in the newest midi is pretty dope I'd go that route

[coarse mesa]

pretty sure it lets you move, if you 'recast' it retains duration and ignores slot use?

[vast bane]

Slot just adjusts the time it lasts I think

[violet meadow]

<#macro-polo message> found a Favored Foe

I should rewrite it just for the heck of it

[coarse mesa]

oh I like that warning

optional bonus damage?

[coarse mesa]

I would use it... just started playing a Swarmkeeper

[violet meadow]

First I need to finish this one 😄

I keep postponing it 😅

[violet meadow]

You could go that route too if you have the ability active

with optional bonus flags

Is it the first attack per round though?

[vast bane]

for first attacks per round, just have the item recharge on 1

[coarse mesa]

oh yep

[vast bane]

The real problem though is when its a choice when they can use it

this is why I don't use sneak attack from midi sample items

the automation assumes the rogue has only one attack wants to sneak on the first

[violet meadow]

You can have the plain Sneak Attack from MidiQOL, without the Auto Sneak Attack secondary feature

It will then ask you

You should also be able to activate an optional bonus effect for the Sneak Attack now that I think about it more 🤔

Oh this might be interesting

[coarse mesa]

I'm all for optional bonuses now the roll is working 💪

[violet meadow]

Test the logic for Sneak Attack in a preDamageRoll hook and add the optional damage bonus effect if it's valid

Then if the player wants, they can just use it

[violet meadow]

Are all Rolls working? Thought it would be a fix only for Attack Rolls for now

[coarse mesa]

I've only tried attacks

Twas Emboldening Bond I was having issues with

Guidance will benefit too tho 🤞

oh no, Guidance is rolling the extra d4.... and then another one 😱

(hang on I'll get rid of your world script)

yeah the CE Guidance is wonky now 😔

the d20 isn't rolling, but the d4 rolls twice (it's only added once tho)

[violet meadow]

Oh does it do that after a reload ?

[coarse mesa]

yeah, I'll clear my cache just to be sure

[violet meadow]

hmmm. That's with latest MidiQOL and DFreds CE?

I havent updated yet

Let me do it quickly

[coarse mesa]

And weirdly if you opt to not use the Guidance d4, it kills the AE but you're still concentrating

I'm sorry @gilded yacht

[violet meadow]

That is not happening for me, but the double d4s with no d20 is reproducible

[coarse mesa]

I was using Guidance on myself, maybe that's it... hang on

[violet meadow]

Hmmm it was on another target

[coarse mesa]

yeah the Guidance is being removed whether you use the d4 or not for me

[violet meadow]

It behaves correctly for me. Strange!

[vast bane]

are you using dfreds in your method bugbear?

if I recall dfreds has issues with linking castdata

I can't help you guys test cause I have a session in 45 minutes and I have a self rule of not updating modules on the day of let alone within an hour of session start

[violet meadow]

Just MidiQOL DFreds CE automatic rec for Guidance

[coarse mesa]

This will be why... it's how DDB sets it up

[violet meadow]

Oh yes!

[coarse mesa]

That's probably a holdover from the earlier Guidance?

[violet meadow]

Probably. I think you were supposed to activate Guidance and then roll or something 🤷

[coarse mesa]

I'll bin that and just use the straight CE autorec

that's better – just the weird DSN issue, that's all

[violet meadow]

Note to self: I need to remember asking about DDB imports in these situations 🙂

[nova lark]

Hey ive got a weird interaction, its probably my fault on how i created the item. Some items and specific characters when they target an enemy and attack, the attack roll with midiQOL works just fine, but it wont apply damage to the token and i keep having to do it manually. It happens with a lot of random items and spells too

Example of it working fine

Transformed character using wild shape not doing any damage

His gutbuster armaments arent working

[velvet tangle]

I'm having issues automatically rolling the Other Formula for this feature. These settings don't say Feature. Is there another somewhere else in the Midi config?

Or do I need to reconfigure the feature into a weapon?

[spice kraken]

Try using a damage field with no damage type instead. I think Other only rolls when there is a damage roll but I could be wrong

[velvet tangle]

So that worked, but if the player is targeting a token, it will inflict the damage. I selected No Damage from the drop down and it seems to work fine
Thanks for the help!

[coarse mesa]

If some are working and some not it would seem that the broken items may not be set up well. Can you share the details tab for those?

[nova lark]

Absolutely