MidiQOL

[kind cape]

Is that set to I will survive? 😂

[vast bane]

Is anybody else seeing the duration transfer of the dfreds CE/Midi automation not functioning?

I'm on the newest of all 3 and a user just showcased this issue and I'm able to replicate it

ae's applied via name matching that have a duration set on the item details are not transferring a duration to the item, even when the CE has a duration set on it as well, it zeroes out the seconds and puts a 0 in the rounds field

Is this a bug we should report to midi?

[violet meadow]

Hmm interesting

I would say let @gilded yacht know ( ⏫ ) and see where it leads us 😅

Yeah replicated

[vast bane]

Yeah its very specific to the midi feature of matching a name, and it has to be midi's side cause in the case of the Light Cantrip, dfreds CE has a duration in both fields

I can write the issue if you don't have the time Bugbear, but if you think you got a better handle of it I'll pass to you if you want

I don't really see this as any sort of show stopping bug though

[stuck eagle]

Is there a quick way to add a constitution save to a critical hit?

"On a critical hit, the target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be Stunned until the end of the ogre's next turn."

[scarlet gale]

This a feature or just for a specific item?

An on use macro would be easy enough if it's for any crit

[violet meadow]

Just to wrap up the topic with what Ð̷ę̴ą̶Ð̶ƒ̶Å̸Œ̸k̸h̵4̷Ñ̸Ø̴ wanted and we got it working with DMs.
DAE transfer to actor on item equip with an effect
flags.midi-qol.onUseMacroName | CUSTOM | ItemMacro.MAGIC WEAPON NAME,preambleComplete

ItemMacro ```js
const itemName = "MAGIC WEAPON NAME" // change this name to match the Magic Weapon.
if (args[0].macroPass === "preambleComplete") {
if (args[0].item.system.school !== "nec") return;
const itemToRoll = args[0].actor.items.getName(itemName);
let targets = args[0].targets;
let validTargets = [];
for (const t of targets) {
if (MidiQOL.getDistance(args[0].workflow.token,t,true,true) <= 10) validTargets.push(t)
}

if (!validTargets.length) return;

for (const v of validTargets) {
    let roll = await itemToRoll.rollAttack({flavor:`Attack against ${v.name} - AC: ${v.actor.system.attributes.ac.value}`});
    if (roll.total < v.actor.system.attributes.ac.value) validTargets = validTargets.filter(t=>t !== v);
}

if (!validTargets.length) return;

const damage = await itemToRoll.rollDamage()
MidiQOL.applyTokenDamage([{damage:damage.total, type:'slashing'}], damage.total, new Set(validTargets), itemToRoll, null, {forceApply:true});

}

[vast bane]

May want to consider the wording on this. Critical Hits do not always mean 20 only.

[violet meadow]

please do write it 😄

[dapper vortex]

Does anyone know what is causing this error? It doesnt seem to break anything (that I can visually see), but I don't like leaving errors unsolved 😅

[vast bane]

https://giphy.com/gifs/WorldChaseTag-i-got-you-the-man-hell-yeah-brother-9QpWnH4AWv6xKvSX7T

[violet meadow]

Try without DF Flag Editor module

[vast bane]

yeah but those are some weird midi file errors, normally they are workflow or item handling

Report the issue to Flamewaves git if it goes away with just midi on.

[vast bane]

is it midi or dae since it has to do with duration transferring?

[violet meadow]

I would say MidiQOL which creates the effect but 🤷

[vast bane]

prolly doesn't matter in the end they are both his

[manic kraken]

how do i make it where if i cast spiritual guardians it doesnot effect my friends in the circle

[vast bane]

I just answered you in the other channel but the midi sample item doesn't do that, so use the sample

[manic kraken]

Sorry Moto'

[vast bane]

np, ask stuff here for now on, you'll have better eyes on from the midi gurus

[manic kraken]

what do u mean by sample

[vast bane]

I'm about to send you down the greatest rabbit hole you've ever seen

[sleek pulsar]

Time for Moto's list --

[vast bane]

Sources of premade stuff for Midiqol:

Midi Sample Items Compendium(comes with the module)

Midi SRD's compendiums(this is the manual install link)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thatlonelybugbear/midi-srd/master/module.json

More Automated Spells Items and Features compendiums
https://foundryvtt.com/packages/more-automated-spells-items-and-feats

Mr.Primates premade macros:
https://github.com/MrPrimate/ddb-importer/tree/main/macros

Chris' Premade macros:
https://github.com/chrisk123999/foundry-macros

Chris' Module form of his macros:
https://foundryvtt.com/packages/chris-premades

Activation condition examples by ThatLonelyBugbear
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[sleek pulsar]

🙂

[vast bane]

There is a compendium tab in the sidebar where you should find a midi sample items compendium that has THE BEST spirit guardians premade.

it comes with midiqol. The rest of the links above are either links to macros or links to other modules that also give you compendiums of premade items

CPR and MidiSRD are must haves imo

[manic kraken]

well CPR who having the heart attack its this guy

😉

[vast bane]

You will have one when you realize how much work you save using them 😉

[manic kraken]

ok these are mods i can get i am assuming

can i install tehs through forge or no

these

[scarlet gale]

Any module can be installed through the forge

Although it's more complicated when it's not one in their own module browser, such as with midi srd fork

[manic kraken]

what does cpr stand for

[scarlet gale]

Chris's Premades <- My module

[manic kraken]

ooh

[spice kraken]

At his point, you should add it to your disc bio, haha

[scarlet gale]

Don't have Nitro, and I wouldn't want to advertise it on other servers

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[spice kraken]

Totally fair

[manic kraken]

thanks everyone i am such a noob at this stuff you are great help

[scarlet gale]

@vast bane Thought you might be interested in knowing. My new potion of poison was designed to work with people who don't have fast rolling enabled. The macro now rewrites the damage roll to what I want.

It also uses a synthetic item to roll the save so the players will get whatever save prompt you use for midi.

[proper siren]

I feel like I'm probably missing something obvious, but midi is not auto applying convenient effects for me. I have Apply effects do not show button set under Auto apply item effects, and Apply CE, if absent apply item effects enabled under Apply Convenient Effects.. anything I'm missing?

[jagged plinth]

so, class i'm building has a feature sort of like the battle master maneuvers, the feature i'm working on add's AC based on a scaling Die roll, is there a way to reference that using DAE and Midi? I have the scaling set up in the class advancements. the feature is effectivly a shield spell that scales with a Die instead of the static 5.

i have DAE, Midi, Monks token bar, and Dfreds convenient effects in case i need any of these

[scarlet gale]

Use the @scale name as the value

[jagged plinth]

oh, so like this?

[scarlet gale]

Yep

Is this a passive effect?

or something that gets rolled?

[jagged plinth]

no, it's a reaction

[scarlet gale]

Then you should be good

[jagged plinth]

effectively a shield spell

[topaz anchor]

Who/where made the massive Automated Animations preset file? I got it a while ago but my hard drive died 😢

[jagged plinth]

so, it doesn't roll the die at all, this is the error i'm getting

[scarlet gale]

add a + before the @ maybe?

it looks like the scale is blank string

[jagged plinth]

hmmm, i thought i have the scaling set up right, tried with a + before the @, but it still doesn't work

[scarlet gale]

this is a reaction on the person with the scale right?

not people nearby or something weird

[jagged plinth]

yeah, have the feature as an active ability, do i need to add the feature to the Advancements page?

all it should do as add a D6/8/10 to the characters Armor class

[scarlet gale]

inspect the actor in console, look for the scale section

and see what it looks like in there

verify it's a valid dice string

[jagged plinth]

so, i have the UID, how do i find the actor in the console, first time really diving into the console on Forge

[scarlet gale]

the uuid?

await fromUuid('uuid here')

[jagged plinth]

well, can't figure it out, cause sometimes it does work, but i can't replicate it. so i'll work on it in the morning

[vast bane]

its the ac bonus field

you can't put non integers in it without inline rolling it via dae

+[[whatever you want]]

a scale value is not an integer

[jagged plinth]

oh, so it's not possible to have it scale, and i just have to edit it at the appropriate levels

[vast bane]

is it always on?

[scarlet gale]

you can

just put it like moto had it

+[[@scale here]]

[vast bane]

if its always on, make it a custom calc

[scarlet gale]

It's a reaction apparently

[vast bane]

if its a bonus that is rolled from an item, use my above example

[jagged plinth]

it's just a shield spell, but with a scaling die roll instead of the static +5

[vast bane]

the reason you can't use [[]] in always on things, is that the inline roll is permenantly done on the roll, so if the value changes you have to manually reapply the always on ae to change

yeah do my above example put the scale inside [[]]

[scarlet gale]

They're doing a shield like reaction and should be fine

[vast bane]

I think its cause your scale value is a dice roll right?

[scarlet gale]

Moto, you got a list of monsters with the stench like ability of a Troglodyte?

[vast bane]

Troglodyte, ghast or ghoul I forget which, and then theres a demon I just made let me look it up

I got a request for you for CPR did I already type it?

nope

make that journal DM only

the CPR journal

Its showing to all users

[scarlet gale]

I wasn't sure if having it only show for dms would break things

since the clients needs to be able to read the pages

[vast bane]

ooooh ok

[scarlet gale]

for syntheic items

[vast bane]

good point are they view only I already panick changed it and don't remember if view only was ok

[scarlet gale]

default should just be observer

[vast bane]

k thats all I really worried about, then its fine

I was worried one of my dingus players would edit them being funny and then I'd have to redo them

[scarlet gale]

lol

the stench ability was actually pretty quick to setup, I just have an effect macro handling the aura part

no AA needed for this

[jagged plinth]

so, like this.

and figured i could just share the ability to make things simpler

[vast bane]

Hezrou, Troglodyte and....Ghast

for the stench monsters

there might be more

[scarlet gale]

yea

[vast bane]

they also aren't the same I think the Hezrou's range is longer

[jagged plinth]

and that should be set as a Temporary effect right

[vast bane]

the way I got around the fast forward thing for your old potion of poison was I added the utils line that bugbear showed me to the macro so it turned on fast forward just for the potion

[scarlet gale]

No longer needed for the one in my newest update

[vast bane]

there should be a special duration for start of next turn of source actor, must have times up installed, make sure you put a value in the "force show" field on the first tab or it won't show on the token

[scarlet gale]

They will see the regular old healing formula

[jagged plinth]

still not working, but i'll just try to figure it out tomorrow, just posting these here so i don't forget, or so i can check back

[vast bane]

Is there a space between the + and the [? Also what is the scale value representing?

[jagged plinth]

Right here

[vast bane]

its +[[1@yourscalevalue]]

your scale value basically means the size of the dice, you are not putting the amount of dice in it

[scarlet gale]

that would do it

[jagged plinth]

Ooohhhh, OK, thank you

[vast bane]

you can't do +d8, it has to be +1d8

If you wanted it to do that I think one of the other drop downs in that window for setting it up does the full dice equation maybe I don't really do scales, I honestly don't even setup my classes fully, I just make them as we go cause inevitably they all need new things cause foundry, dnd5e, and midi change so often

@scarlet galeI might suggest changing your potion of Poison potion to the same as your potion of healing or atleast a red bottle.

obv we all can just change it but the whole point of the item is to look like a potion of healing hehe

[scarlet gale]

Can't do that for this module since it needs to be findable by the DM

[vast bane]

I mean the image

[scarlet gale]

Just throw it into your own compendium

and change the picture

¯_(ツ)_/¯

You're already going to have to rename it, changing the picture isn't the hardest lol

[vast bane]

tempted to give a player ring of spell storing

[scarlet gale]

I made that item for my own sanity

I play a warlock with one in a game

and there wasn't any good solution

[violet meadow]

@scarlet gale are you going through all the SRD Items and Spells and creating automation for all of them?

Wondering if MidiSRD will be obsolete in the end or not.

I can share with you the premades I have 🤷

In other news if anyone wants to emulate the Berserker Battleaxe's Curse (Disadvantage on attacks with other weapons than the cursed one), this should do it:

Item named Berserker Battleaxe needs a DAE with the option Transfer to actor on item equip checked and an Effect with:
flags.midi-qol.disadvantage.attack.all | CUSTOM | fromUuidSync(workflow.itemUuid).name !== "Berserker Battleaxe"

Make sure that the name in the DAE matches the Item's name!

[vast bane]

If he absorbs midi srd my copy paste can get pinned lol

[violet meadow]

I did a stupid thing and I lost all my changes on the Items I was working on from the MidiSRD

Going through them again

[vast bane]

Oof

[violet meadow]

Aid Spell without a macro. DAE with an Effect with:

1. Key: system.attributes.hp.tempmax, Mode: Add, Value: 5 * (@spellLevel - 1)
2. Key: macro.actorUpdate, Mode: Custom, Value: @targetUuid number "##attributes.hp.value + 5 * (@spellLevel - 1)" system.attributes.hp.value "min(##attributes.hp.value, ##attributes.hp.max)"

[violet meadow]

Hold Person activation condition to make only Humanoids affected.
humanoid.some(v=>raceOrType.includes(v))

At least for this list of ```
humanoid: (10) ['human', 'humanoid', 'elven', 'elf', 'half-elf', 'dwarf', 'dwarven', 'halfing', 'gnome', 'tiefling']

So if someone for example includes in the Race field Aarakocra (humanoid) it will be picked up correctly too

@gilded yacht if I use Hold Person with the above activation condition, it works fine, but on the caster a Concentration effect is being created, even though in the end no vaild Targets for the Hold Person effect exist.
Not a game breaking issue though, just something I noticed 🤷

[violet meadow]

Dark One's Blessing, DAE Transfer to actor on item equip checked and Effect with:
flags.midi-qol.onUseMacroName | Custom | ItemMacro.Dark One's Blessing,postActiveEffects //Matched names with the feature.
ItemMacro: ```js
if (!args[0].hitTargets?.length || !args[0].damageList || args[0].damageList[0].newHP) return;
const sourceActor = args[0].actor;
const sourceToken = args[0].workflow.token;
if (!sourceActor.classes.warlock?.system.levels) return;
const level = sourceActor.classes.warlock.system.levels
const damage = sourceActor.system.abilities.cha.mod + level;
const item = sourceActor.items.getName("Dark One's Blessing");
await item.displayCard({}) //MidiQOL v10.0.33+ will not need the {} inside the parentheses, so change to displayCard()
await MidiQOL.applyTokenDamage([{damage, type:"temphp"}],damage,new Set([sourceToken]), item, null, {forceApply:false})

[quasi needle]

what's the best way to automate auras such as the paladin's?

[molten solar]

You could shop at seven stores, or just one

[scarlet gale]

Not intentionally. Just converting things that I've made for my personal game.

Plus I have a steep module requirement list

I'm sure that puts some people off

[violet meadow]

Yeah I was thinking about the best approach

[scarlet gale]

If you haven't been helped yet, either build a bonus or active auras

[violet meadow]

I have been going through the MidiSRD items and the feats are good to go, plus half the spells

I will at last make that PR and then see how it goes and proceed accordingly

[violet meadow]

For the Aura of protection I use Build a bonus and a Token Aura to visualize it

[stoic seal]

Build-A-Bonus is excellent for auras

[quasi needle]

ok, thanks. i just recently added buildabonus as a dependency but haven't even looked at it yet.

how do i add modules that i can't find through the foundry setup screen filter modules field?

never mind, made a silly error

[vast bane]

The low level paladin aura could be done with just bab, but you ultimately need active auras when they level up further as it covers all auras.

[quasi needle]

does active auras include a visual representation? also want to set up something for the warlock's darkness spell, and worry that going into the token settings to turn on and off auras every time will be annoying

warlock typically casts darkness on self and wades into melee range

[vast bane]

if you put force show on, yes, but token auras is also a very simple module that does it, though it reminds me too much of roll20

[quasi needle]

would be nice if i could figure out a way to visualize that plus also applies disadvantage to anyone in aura... i can live without the advantage effect though

[vast bane]

With force show on: The blue icon with white in it is the pally aura on the two dwarves

the pally aura given with midi samples has a tokenmagicfx filter on it, I personally think it is problematic to have a tmfx filter on to show the aura

tmfx are obnoxious mostly to have in effect

My pally's a devotion pally, I combine them all into one aura:

[quasi needle]

i'd rather keep something like the circles that token aura shows. is there maybe a way to use the macro system to turn on/off auras with a single click instead of diving into the token settings?

[vast bane]

effect macro can do that

[violet meadow]

This is what I want to integrate on the SIFToolKit when I publish the updated version. Features that turn on a visual representation around them when active, within that config tab

[vast bane]

Sift has to replace a module I have or its not efficient to install it

[quasi needle]

i know next to nothing about macros. is effect macro a moduloe name or just a macro type?

[vast bane]

If it does token auras with effect keys it'd be an immediate grab for me

Wish token auras and ATE merged

macros are not as perfect as AE keys cause I've had plenty of times where the toggle on/off broke and then I had to edit them and manually fire the toggle to get them reset

[scarlet gale]

My module has an automation for darkness and warlocks.

[vast bane]

The real 5d chess move is to ban warlocks

[scarlet gale]

No D:<

Then what would I play?

[vast bane]

(which I don't do but my players know my hatred of the class and never pick it)

How I know warlocks are just a multiclass exploit, is that when I do this house rule, suddenly theres no hex dips:

[quasi needle]

lol. i am only playing a warlock because one of our players insisted on playing old school modules from tales of the yawning portal, which includes whiteplume, which includes blackrazor.

can anyone point me to an example of how would use a macro to toggle on/off a token aura?

[scarlet gale]

Doesn't need to be as complicated, you can flag the midi-qol option called toggle

then just have the DAE get turned on and off with it

[quasi needle]

it's the visualization of the token aura (for selftargeted darkness spell) i was hoping to turn on/off, or somehow like the visualization to the spell in a way that moves with the token

been putting down templates so far, hoping to do this in a way that doesn't involve moving the token and then moving the template

[scarlet gale]

If you have the token attacher module, you can actually attach the darkness template to the token

My darkness spell prompts the player when they cast it

[quasi needle]

i don't have the base of knowledge to understand all of this.... i'm not a pc programmer, only been tinkering with foundry for like 6 weeks

[brisk goblet]

Did I do this correct for V10?

const tokenD = canvas.tokens.get(args.at(-1).tokenId);
const weapons = tokenD.actor.itemTypes.weapon;
if (args[0] === "on") {
    const data = {buttons: weapons.map(i => ({label: i.name, value: i.name})), title: "⚔️ Choose your Sacred Weapon:"}
    const mutationVal = await warpgate.buttonDialog(data, 'column')
    const updates = {
        embedded: {
            Item: {
                [`${mutationVal}`]: {
                    "name": `Sacred Weapon: ${mutationVal}`,
                    "system": {  
                        "attackBonus": "@abilities.cha.mod",
                        "properties": {
                            "mgc": "true"
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    const options = {
        name: 'Empowered Sacred Weapon'
    }
    await warpgate.mutate(tokenD.document, updates, {}, options);
    
}
if (args[0] === "off") await warpgate.revert(tokenD.document, 'Empowered Sacred Weapon');

This is the error I am getting:

[scarlet gale]

It's a module you would add. I was just giving you options

[scarlet gale]

tokenId isn't a thing apparently

If this is for a midi-qol on use macro, you can just do:

let tokenD = this.token;```

Atlhough

I just saw the context of it

so maybe ignore that

if it's a DAE on/off macro

[dapper vortex]

I'm seeing this error when I have midi-qol + Weather Control installed (when the weather is output to chat):

Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone know if there is a midi-qol setting I can modify so that this doesnt happen? I dont think it breaks anything but still dont like seeing it

[brisk goblet]

Yeah this is the idea. What I was reading is that this is a way to make a single weapon the Sacred Weapon.

But sense I am not super verse in macros its hard to say what I am missing.

[tawdry frost]

Context: My game has a potion that causes the user's next spell attack to do Max damage. (Don't worry it is expansive and has side effects)
Is there a way to progam the potion to work?

[scarlet gale]

I would check in with @violet meadow . I'm not well versed enough in DAE on/off macros to understand what's going wrong there.

[scarlet gale]

Is it limited to up to 4th level spells?

Because if so, I just added that potion to my module

[tawdry frost]

It's a highly addictive drug XD.

You did what?

[scarlet gale]

There is an item called potion of maximum power, it does what you're asking, but is limited to 4th level and below

[tawdry frost]

Does it actually max the power?

[scarlet gale]

Yep

https://github.com/chrisk123999/foundry-macros/blob/main/Items/Potions/Potion Of Maximum Power/Chris-PotionOfMaximumPower.js

This is my non-module version of that potion

[tawdry frost]

How do I find it?

[scarlet gale]

find what?

[tawdry frost]

I can't read code

[scarlet gale]

save the above linked macro as Chris-PotionOfMaximumPower in your macros folder.

Then configure the item as seen above

set the special duration as next spell cast as well

[light sleet]

a friend of mine is trying to set up armor of agathys to do temp health and damage at the time of an attack and hes currently stuck on temp health not auto reducing with midis

[scarlet gale]

You'll need to be more specific on how you're setting up that spell

What do you have so far? Is it just an effect? Or is there a macro tied to it?

[vast bane]

My paladin player is level 11 and I've never had to change the dfreds CE for it. Players so rarely change their weapon in combat I find.

[light sleet]

its at the point where the macro for armor just adds the temp health and then when it hits them it doesnt track the temp health damage

[tawdry frost]

...

[violet meadow]

Do you happen to have the Item Macro settings for Character Sheet Hook checked by any chance?

[brisk goblet]

Where would that be?

[vast bane]

just install midi srd and Chris' premades

why waste your time when these modules have them all made

[violet meadow]

Item Macro module settings

[light sleet]

was not aware of that

[vast bane]

Sources of premade stuff for Midiqol:

Midi Sample Items Compendium(comes with the module)

Midi SRD's compendiums(this is the manual install link)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thatlonelybugbear/midi-srd/master/module.json

More Automated Spells Items and Features compendiums
https://foundryvtt.com/packages/more-automated-spells-items-and-feats

Mr.Primates premade macros:
https://github.com/MrPrimate/ddb-importer/tree/main/macros

Chris' Premade macros:
https://github.com/chrisk123999/foundry-macros

Chris' Module form of his macros:
https://foundryvtt.com/packages/chris-premades

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[violet meadow]

You are not supposed to adjust tempHP or HP with Active Effects

Exactly for the reason you witnessed 😄

There is a DAE macro.actorUpdate that can help with that

[brisk goblet]

I didn't even have this module.

[violet meadow]

@brisk goblet how do you set up the feature?

Do you use DAE macro.itemMacro without having that module 🤔 ?

[vast bane]

when you inevitably get it, make sure you shut off character sheet hooks

[brisk goblet]

I simply searched for a macro for sacred weapon and found the one you had posted in this thread. I didn't look deep enough apparently to see what was needed. I only recently started playing with macros

[violet meadow]

OK so how did you use it?

[scarlet gale]

To start with, you are using midi-qol right?

[violet meadow]

I hope right?! 😅

[brisk goblet]

I put it in the macro bar and executed it

[violet meadow]

ok yeah that will not work

[brisk goblet]

yes

[violet meadow]

Do you have DAE installed?

Dynamic Active Effects module?>

[brisk goblet]

yes

[violet meadow]

Create a DAE on the Item

[brisk goblet]

okay

do I put this macro in there?

[violet meadow]

On that one, create an entry for an Effect macro.execute | CUSTOM | name of the macro on the hotbar

[brisk goblet]

now when I use the item it should work?

[violet meadow]

Target Self in the 3rd box on the Item's details

After that it should be working.
Make sure that the macro you created in the hotbar is set to Script

[scarlet gale]

(and don't click the macro to use it, click the feature)

If a token is sneakily moved without using a .update then moved back, how noticeable do you think it would be for the client?

[violet meadow]

Just locally update the coordinates?

[scarlet gale]

yea

[brisk goblet]

I keep getting this

The name matches the macro so I am not sure what this means

[violet meadow]

What's the name of your hotbar macro?

[scarlet gale]

I'm trying to come up with a clever way to make storm sphere and I need the attack to actually come from the player for the purposes of triggering on hit effects, but actually have the origin of the attack come from the center of the template for the purpose of cover

[brisk goblet]

Sacred Weapon Empowered

[violet meadow]

Try macro.execute | CUSTOM | "Sacred Weapon Empowered" in the 3 fields respectively

[brisk goblet]

Do I need "

[violet meadow]

Yes try with them

[scarlet gale]

Even dumber question, can I place another token without doing an update?

Then delete it

hmm

[sleek pulsar]

Would warpgate do that?

[brisk goblet]

Making progress but now I got this

[scarlet gale]

Warpgate would actually do too much. I'm trying to not have a database update.

I'll test moving the token back and forth first and see if it's noticeable

[sleek pulsar]

seems like moving something one pixel and back wouldn't be too noticeable

[violet meadow]

not an error but a warning. What is the module that adds the windowMenu.js ?

[scarlet gale]

It's a lot more than a few measly pixels

[violet meadow]

So you need the caster to "move" to the center of the template more or less

[sleek pulsar]

Okay 🙂

[scarlet gale]

Ideally move the caster to the center of the template, fire a synthetic item, then go back to where they originally were

Assuming that when the spell says the bolt comes from the center of the sphere, that's where the origin of the attack should be

and not the caster

It's a weird spell

[violet meadow]

Yeah I just went online to find it

Have never used it or anyone on my table !

[scarlet gale]

I'm playing a storm sorc

And only picking storm related spells

[violet meadow]

makes sense 😄

Can you just "update" the workflow's token position?!

[scarlet gale]

oh?

maybe

[violet meadow]

MidiQOl should be using that for the checks

or not? Hmmm

[brisk goblet]

actually the warning isn't from the macro. I don't get anything but it doesn't seem to apply the cha to any weapon

[scarlet gale]

I feel like it just directly looks at the token object

[violet meadow]

does a dialog pop up at any point after you use the item?

[brisk goblet]

no

[violet meadow]

Actually can you export it and DM it to me?

[brisk goblet]

Was this for me or chris?

[violet meadow]

For you!

[brisk goblet]

you want the character sheet or the item?

[violet meadow]

Just the Item

[vast bane]

hes gonna make it an item macro lol

I can tell his intentions 8)

[undone bronze]

Hi everyone, i'm fiddling with Overtime flag. I want for character to gain temphp at the end of the turn. I'm testing in Combat and as i end turn nothing happens. Am i missing something here? I tried both damageRoll=@prof and damageRoll=d6

[scarlet gale]

Set to custom first

See if that fixes it

[vast bane]

I thought override was ok in overtimes?

d6 is always bad fyi, 1d6 is the right one, prof should work

[violet meadow]

OverTime I use Override

[vast bane]

that should work on paper

[undone bronze]

Doesn't work on Custom mode nor Override.

[vast bane]

are you sure you are using it right?

[violet meadow]

you need the rollType

[scarlet gale]

Is the effect active?

[vast bane]

show us the character sheet of the dude in combat

[scarlet gale]

I'll let y'all get it

[vast bane]

maybe this is an issue of the user not understanding how temp hp works in dnd5e

[violet meadow]

You probably already have temp hp? 🤷

[vast bane]

thats my thought, temp hp doesn't stack

it doesn't add on

[undone bronze]

i thought that too, tho character sheets shows 0.

Dropped a fresh goblin, added the effect, added it to combat track, skipped few turns and nothing happened.

[young owl]

anyon else getting bizzare AF behaviour in DAE right now?
any key on my keyboard is giving incrementing random character...

in any text box on the Details, and Auras tab (obv with Active Auras mod)

[undone bronze]

i see midiqol is on 10.0.32, mine is 10.0.30. I'll check after updating.

[young owl]

thx

[violet meadow]

check for errors in console

There was an OT bug

[young owl]

yea i just updated

[vast bane]

wasn't there an overtime bug in older midis

[young owl]

no errors

[undone bronze]

that was it, yeah. Hah

[vast bane]

I think we're talking to jules

[violet meadow]

@young owl just reload

[young owl]

ah, sorry

i did reload

[undone bronze]

Thanks people, updating solved it.

[young owl]

huh... so pasting something into a box "fixed" it

[violet meadow]

🤷

[young owl]

this is super weird... realyl curious what would cause something like that :/

[vast bane]

bad third party extensions or a cat on your keyboard

or malware in general

[young owl]

hahahah

[vast bane]

or liquid in the keyboard

[young owl]

as i said though, it was ONLY in DAE, and only on the Details and Aura tabs

[peak basin]

Is there a compendium for the warlock class that includes the pact of the talisman; more specifically the spell rebuke of the talisman?

[scarlet gale]

There's not much to automate for that beyond just having a manual reaction feature

[peak basin]

Okay. How about when you give the talisman to a teammate?

[scarlet gale]

Make it an item and just drag it between sheets honestly

[vast bane]

use item piles and drag to their token

sheet to token is give, sheet to sheet is copy, and then you can trade request if you want to exchange items

[peak basin]

So there isn't really a way to allow the warlock to use their reaction if the holder of the talisman gets attacked?

[scarlet gale]

Midi-qol doesn't have a good way to handle reactions for tokens that aren't yourself

[vast bane]

reaction prompts only happen from the victim

[peak basin]

Ah okay

[vast bane]

if you reimagine items that are third party reactions you can pull it off but you have to have the whole table understand it

for instance I have protective bond, the level 6 peace cleric feature

everyone gets a reaction and before they use it they ask if anyone wants to take damage for them, if the answers yes, they fire their reaction

[scarlet gale]

I feel like just having the talisman be an item setup as a reaction with the damage hard-coded instead of using the warlock level would be a simple enough setup

[vast bane]

before I changed protective bond to promp none of the players even remembered the feature existed including the peace cleric

once it started prompting on players they use it all the time, so something can be said for a reaction prompt even if its just a token action that does nothing but remind them

[peak basin]

I think we'll just go the route of swapping it to whoever has it equipped will deal with the reaction. Seems easiest.

[vast bane]

but only the victim can have reactions prompted so you have to put the reaction on the right guy

I also have a magic item I just made where its a 5ft aura and it gives the allies in the aura a reaction that reduces all damage, and the shield wearer takes the damage instead

its actually the shield wearers reaction but we make do just cause its easier to remember you have it if it prompts

[errant gull]

Is there some trick to getting some of the MidiQOL Sample Items to work? I'm looking at "Aura of Vitality 10.0.10" and aside from giving the token a frosty outline it doesn't do anything. There's an Item Macro placed on it, but as far as I can tell it doesn't do anything.

[vast bane]

mine makes a temp item

[violet meadow]

@scarlet gale checkRange, requiresTargets, myTargets.size, fail.spell,needsConcentration are some things that are checked even before the Workflow is created.

So not easy to change anything with a macro at least that touches these areas.

[vast bane]

pretty sure the sample does too

[scarlet gale]

Using a synthetic item to actually do the attack. So I'm free to position the token as needed before even rolling.

[molten solar]

...as a dependency?

[scarlet gale]

Assuming they meant that they added it as a requirement for another module

[quasi needle]

as in i installed somethingelse that had it as a requirement, but had no idea what it did or looked at the instructions

[vast bane]

Its part of Chris' Premades dependency list

We should rename the channel Babqol

[scarlet gale]

Pls

[vast bane]

I've started incorporating it into my builds it saves a ton of work

[scarlet gale]

One of these days Zhell will change something and Midi won't like it.

[violet meadow]

It creates an item when its rolled, on the actor

[vast bane]

That tends to be the new meta for alot of stuff in v10 too so be ready for them hehe

[errant gull]

Ah, I'm getting an error. "managing embedded documents which are not direct descendants of a primary document is un-supported at this time"

also "You are accessing PlaceableObject#data which is no longer used"

[vast bane]

are you...on foundry 11?

[errant gull]

Nope

v10, most recent version of all modules, DnD5e system, foundry, etc.

[vast bane]

yeah sample is broken, I have one but its not shareable as its a macro.createItem build

[errant gull]

ah, okay

[quasi needle]

how would i turn on a token aura (give it a nonzero radius) as part of a spell or macro

[violet meadow]

That is not what I see.

Also the second line is just a warning. The macro has a forgotten data in it

[quasi needle]

or is that even possible/>

[violet meadow]

await token.document.setFlag("token-auras", "aura1", {distance: distance, colour: color});

more or less

[quasi needle]

do you know of a macro that does something similar already that i can modify?

[violet meadow]

nope, but putting that in an ItemMacro will do what is needs to be done. ```js
await token.document.setFlag("token-auras", "aura1", {distance: 10, colour: game.user.color});

or a hotbar script macro

[quasi needle]

that's the thing i'm using, a hotbar script macro. tweaking those is the limit of my skill

[violet meadow]

and then to turn it off just ```js
await token.document.unsetFlag("token-auras", "aura1")

[quasi needle]

i tried subbing #ffff00 for game.user.color, didn't work. not possible or did i just screw up the syntax?

[violet meadow]

hmmm'

let me run it quickly

[quasi needle]

await token.document.setFlag("token-auras", "aura1", {distance: 10, colour: #ffff00});

[violet meadow]

await token.document.setFlag("token-auras", "aura1", {distance: 10, colour: "ffff00"});

[quasi needle]

thanks

[vast bane]

I think it'd be easier to do the tokenauras macro as an effect macro toggle on and off, but like I said before about macros, inevitably you will get one that breaks and its stuck on while the effect is no where to be found or it does'nt turn on when the effect is on. I wish ATE or midi added a way to link them to ae's instead more reliably

[scarlet gale]

So far testing looks good. Moving the token without an update then moving it back seems to go pretty well

The only issue is reactions I think

Either I don't run the MidiQOL.completeItemUse async

Or I just deal with the token being in a weird spot if people have reactions

[vast bane]

I don't use the aura of vitality from midi samples but that is the error I get when I try to

[quasi needle]

i don't know the difference between a hotbar macro and an effect macro, if there is one

[violet meadow]

but why am I not getting this?

[vast bane]

wheres the module meme when I need it

[violet meadow]

Share the macro you have?

[vast bane]

its the 10.0.32 midi sample item

it honestly doesn't look like its fully made

const version = "10.0.10";
try {
    actor = await fromUuid(args[0].actorUuid);
    const itemData = {
        name: args[0].itemData.name + " Cure",
        type: "feat",
        img: args[0].itemData.img,
        system: {
            actionType: "heal",
            activation: {type: "bonus"},
            damage: {parts: [["2d6", "healing"]]},
            target: {value: 1, type: "creature"},
            range: {value: 30, units: "ft"}
        }
    };
    const items = (await actor.createEmbeddedDocuments("Item", [itemData])).map(i=> i.uuid);
    let removeUuids = getProperty(actor.data.flags, "midi-qol.concentration-data.removeUuids") ?? [];
    removeUuids = removeUuids.concat(items);
    if (removeUuids.length > 0) actor.setFlag("midi-qol", "concentration-data.removeUuids", removeUuids);
} catch (err) {
        console.error(`${args[0].itemData.name} - Aura of Vitality ${version}`, err);
        return {}
}

[violet meadow]

Did you just grab it again from MidiQOL sample items, or was it an older one?

ok

[vast bane]

I don't use the sample so I couldn't use an older version

I made my own via macro.createitem

[violet meadow]

Well now I am really intrigued as to what's the cause of it

[hazy urchin]

Evening good people, just asking if anyone else has issues with the "Prepared Spells" effect value that i think Midi generated.
Attribute key: flags.tidy5e-sheet.maxPreparedSpells
Change mode:
Override
Effect Value:
max(1, floor(@classes.paladin.levels / 2 + @abilities.cha.mod))

my level 2 Pala should have 5 spells, but is stuck at 0

[vast bane]

pretty sure thats a tidy bug

well its definitely a tidy bug, but I dunno if anyone has bothered to post it to the git

[hazy urchin]

gotta love Tidy bugs....

[vast bane]

I think it broke when dnd5e added the tooltip in 2.1.x for ae's controlling fields

[hazy urchin]

guess i'll have to go old school and shock manually track it

[vast bane]

Its a highly popular module without an author 🤷

p# is doing his best to fix what they can with it, lets see if its even been reported...

it appears to not have been reported yet

[kind cape]

Have you tried using CUSTOM instead of Override?

@hazy urchin

[vast bane]

Custom does it but it throws a warning

[hazy urchin]

Sorry stepped away from the computer. Can check in a few if I get a different result

[quasi needle]

how do i read the value of token aura1 distance so i can set up a toggle between 10 and 0?

[vast bane]

I think you may benefit from just doing an animation on an active effect rather than a macro gilfan. You'd have to make a ton of things to account for changes and would be tedious specially since you don't know how to write the macro yourself.

If you have jb2a/automated animations/sequencer you can just hit the AA button on a blank ae and setup an animation to play over the token and follow it theres plenty of circular animations that can represent the aura, however animations are performance hits.

[quasi needle]

some of the guys in my game are already scraping by on low end laptops, would rather not burden them more.

i can let it go and just make two macros, was just hoping to combine it into one

[vast bane]

If you have the on and off macro plop them into effect macro

[quasi needle]

not sure what you're talking about, "the on and off macro"

[vast bane]

On creation, on deletion since you are a midi user

an aura with a range of 0 and an aura with a range of 10

[quasi needle]

ok, i havent tried using that field at all yet

[vast bane]

10 would be in on creation, and 0 would be in on deletion but I honestly think theres an off command in the tokenauras api instead of 0

he already gave you the on/off 1-liners you just gotta convert it to EM intead of dae cause I dunno how to do the dae way

actually it should work as is, cause em uses token

On creation: await token.document.setFlag("token-auras", "aura1", {distance: 10, colour: game.user.color});
On deletion: await token.document.unsetFlag("token-auras", "aura1")

remove the game.user.color and put in a real color

kinda funny that both tmfx and tokenauras don't take game.user.color and they both are made by foundry devs

wait does tokenauras really use the british colour or is bugbear just letting their british show?

[quasi needle]

worked for me with our

[vast bane]

I wonder if game.user.colour would work hehe

[hot flower]

is there a setting in midi that will max critical dice if they're rolled from a damageRoll? Like the sneak attack. I have my crits max the crit dice. I've got midi set to do that as a flat number. But if my rogue gets a crit on sneakl attack, the sneak attack dice are just doubled in number, not the value of the dice.

[violet meadow]

Maybe ```js
const distance = token?.document.getFlag("token-auras","aura1.distance") ? 0 : 10;
await token?.document.setFlag("token-auras","aura1",{distance,colour:game.user.color});

[quasi needle]

thanks

[hot flower]

like a rouge in my group. He does 4d6 sneak attack damage. On a crit, it just rolls 8d6 instead of 4d6+24, based off @gilded yacht's Sneak attack macro.

it's this section, here: ```js
if (!useSneak) return {}
const diceMult = args[0].isCritical ? 2: 1;
const baseDice = Math.ceil(rogueLevels/2);
if (game.combat) {
const combatTime = ${game.combat.id}-${game.combat.round + game.combat.turn /100};
const lastTime = actor.getFlag("midi-qol", "sneakAttackTime");
if (combatTime !== lastTime) {
await actor.setFlag("midi-qol", "sneakAttackTime", combatTime)
}
}
// How to check that we've already done one this turn?
return {damageRoll: ${baseDice * diceMult}d6, flavor: "Sneak Attack"};

how would I `min6` the extra dice?

[vast bane]

if you do an effect macro all you have to do is check the box at the bottom of the item to make it a toggle

[violet meadow]

@quasi needle try this

[quasi needle]

trying.... didn't work as written, i tweaked it and got it toggling between 5' and 10' auras, trying to get it to toggle between 0 and 10 now

[violet meadow]

the one I shared does exactly that. Toggles 0/10

[quasi needle]

it didn't work for me

[violet meadow]

You need to construct a Dice Roll for the special critical rules

[violet meadow]

Token selected and hotbar macro?

[quasi needle]

maybe that was it, works now after i paseted it again. weird

maybe i accidentally deselected the token. it just so happens that my gameusercolour is the same orange as the token selected box outline

[violet meadow]

if (!useSneak) return {}
const baseDice = Math.ceil(rogueLevels/2);
if (game.combat) {
  const combatTime = `${game.combat.id}-${game.combat.round + game.combat.turn /100}`;
  const lastTime = actor.getFlag("midi-qol", "sneakAttackTime");
  if (combatTime !== lastTime) {
    await actor.setFlag("midi-qol", "sneakAttackTime", combatTime)
  }
}  
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(`${baseDice}d6`, 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: "Sneak Attack"};

Test this.

[hot flower]

Wow. Thanks!

[vast bane]

my two macros on an active effect thats applied to self on feature roll, with the feature set to toggle should do it

[scarlet gale]

Oh, I should do a pass over my stuff and setup my crits to work like that

My paladin smite won't crit using midi's settings

[vast bane]

put a blank effect on the feature that applies normally to self/self when rolled and then put the on creation and on deletion effect macros

[quasi needle]

ok

[scarlet gale]

Well, I did it. I got a fully functioning storm sphere spell. It only has 3 recursions of item macros to work. The initial cast places the template and stores some flags on the effect. It also makes a feature to trigger the bonus action attacks. The bonus action feature has an item macro to "fake" move the token. It then rolls a synthetic item (from the new location). And now this synthetic also has a item macro to give advantage on the attack if the target is in the template.

The created effect from the initial cast also makes a sudo over-time effect to handle anyone ending their turn in the template.

[quasi needle]

i had that working nearly perfectly, but the concentration icon doesn't show up. it behaves in all ways with concentration correctly, just a missing icon. any ideas?

[vast bane]

look at the other checkboxes hehe

in my image

(the one to the left)

if the icon isn't showing up its cause you don't have a duration set

[quasi needle]

ok, weird that everything else shows conc automatically, but ok

[vast bane]

features aren't spells

you have to flag a feature for conc they are rare

Spells have their own checkbox for conc built into its ui, features have it in the midi checkboxes at the bottom

[quasi needle]

i was making it with the spell editor

as a spell, not a feature

[vast bane]

if you want the icon to show on the actor put a duration in or put ANY character in the force show box in the first tab of the ae where you setup the macros

[quasi needle]

and had the checkbox selected

[vast bane]

oh then you never set the conc box

weird, I'd need more context if it wasn't doing conc

[quasi needle]

yeah i did, up with v,s,m.

[vast bane]

you probably have conflicting concentration modules, are you running midi/cub/concentration notifier?

[quasi needle]

midi only, to the best of my knowledge

[vast bane]

theres settings to turn on conc management

Modules that step on each other for conc management:

Midiqol
Combat Utility Belt
Concentration Notifier Module.

[quasi needle]

conc indicators are working, auto-applied and auto-removed for all other appropriate spells, just not this one i'm trying to make with the toggle and aura effects

give me a minute, i'll see if the conc checkbox next to toggle makes a difference

yeah, that fixed it

running midiqol, not the other two

[vast bane]

k weird

ultimately your ability should have a set duration so you shouldn't need to toggle it

show me the actual feature

like the description blurb of it

[quasi needle]

the spell was behaving appropriately with conc, getting cancelled under the right circumstances, just wasn't showing the conc icon on the token

working now

[vast bane]

sounds to me like you are setting it up pseudo manually

[vast bane]

Usually an ability will say "until the start of" or "until the end of"

or 1 minute duration

there ya go 10 minutes should translate to a duration in the ae

[quasi needle]

i created that through the add button in the spell menu

[vast bane]

wait a minute

[quasi needle]

spellbook

[vast bane]

are you realy making spirit guardians?

[violet meadow]

Midi-qol Item Properties are not needed for Concentration.

You already have it as Concentration spell up top

[vast bane]

oh boy

spirit guardians is automated in the midi sample item

[quasi needle]

i know, i didn't flag conc at the bottom until you suggested i do so.... turns out it was i forgot to fill in duration, not the conc checkbox at the bottom

[vast bane]

if you don't use the jb2a animation for it you can adapt the effect macro to the sample item without issue

you don't need to make all this stuff from scratch 😦

Sources of premade stuff for Midiqol:

Midi Sample Items Compendium(comes with the module)

Midi SRD's compendiums(this is the manual install link)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thatlonelybugbear/midi-srd/master/module.json

More Automated Spells Items and Features compendiums
https://foundryvtt.com/packages/more-automated-spells-items-and-feats

Mr.Primates premade macros:
https://github.com/MrPrimate/ddb-importer/tree/main/macros

Chris' Premade macros:
https://github.com/chrisk123999/foundry-macros

Chris' Module form of his macros:
https://foundryvtt.com/packages/chris-premades

Activation condition examples by ThatLonelyBugbear
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SG is in the sample items compendium

[quasi needle]

i have what i want now... a spell with concentrationthat turns on/off the token aura...

[quasi needle]

found the spirit guardians sample.... does more than i hoped. added the token aura so it shows the area of effect, i'm a happy camper

[vast bane]

the sample items compendium and the v10 fork of midi srd are great starting compendiums and if you are feelin risky you could try chris premade module but it requires a ton of dependency modules

[quasi needle]

we were manually applying the damage, i mostly wanted something to show where the effect was. the current gm does a lot by hand, we'll have to prod him to cycle through combat rounds

the sample item does apply the damage, it also looks like it's trying to apply the slower movement but that part doesn't seem to work

[vast bane]

it will only work if the DM has DAE installed

it also triggers the damage on first entry on a turn too

[quasi needle]

i'm currently logged in as gm, dae installed, damage is getting applied (more than once per turn if you exit and reenter), looks like movement penalty isn't, at least not accoring to drag ruller

[vast bane]

it should be once per turn per the wording of the spell

[quasi needle]

i know, and i can live with the bug, just reporting it

i can live without movement penalty working too

[vast bane]

can you put an effect on a piece of ammunition and set it to be fired by a crossbow and apply its ae?

[lavish garnet]

Not entirely sure how to search for this, but does anyone know of ways of handling effects similar to dragon's Frightful Presence, where if the save is succeeded the target is immune'd for a while?

or alternative mostly separate question, implementation for diseases, or maybe even progressive diseases?

[scarlet gale]

Doable with macros and maybe some weird activation condition stuff

[scarlet gale]

Use a different CE for each stage?

unless it's just for in-combat

[lavish garnet]

Do you know of how/where I could find an example?

[scarlet gale]

Not really. I sorta have something like your first question for the stench ability for monsters. It's in my module and relies on too many of my own functions to really be a good example to take from

[quasi needle]

where do i change when spell templates are erased? i would like them to go away immediately instead of on the player's next turn. i presume it's somewhere in the workflow settings, but i haven't found it

[scarlet gale]

it should be happening at the end of the current turn if it's set to instantaneous

IIRC there isn't a setting to make it happen sooner than that

[quasi needle]

apparently it's not going away until i cast another spell with a template

or maybe it'sconcentration

[celest bluff]

meh looks like workflows no longer exist after the fact in v10

[quasi needle]

yeah, my templates only get deleted if they are attached to a spell with concentration. for instance, sleep and leomund's tiny hut templates last until i delete them

[molten solar]

Yes, 2.2.0

[scarlet gale]

Of the dnd system?

Presumably midi will have to deal with that too

[spice kraken]

So you're saying I won't even get to use babonus???

[vast bane]

I assume chris' stench is probably making them immune to it after they save

that sounds awful out of context lol

[scarlet gale]

I apply an effect on targets who save, then ignore targeting them on future turns if they have it

[vast bane]

its usually best to let midi handle templates, they shouldn't be an issue if your spells are right

templates that are instantaneous end after the turn changes, all others end when their duration ends as they should, and you can use AA or tokenmagicfx to auto hide the templates

if you are outside of combat, instants end when 1 second has progressed in the game clock

[quasi needle]

that's just it, they aren't disappearing

[vast bane]

show me the item details of the spell

are they more spells you made or did you go and get midi srd/chris premades

[quasi needle]

a mix of srd stuff and maybe stuff i made

not sure

[vast bane]

details of a spell thats not deleting template

[molten solar]

Well I'm gonna update babonja to work with 2.2.0, and who knows how midi will feel about it. No secret that midi is always lagging behind. 🤷

However, how breaking it is going to be isn't known yet

[quasi needle]

ok, nevermind, the instantaenous ones are disappearing, i just didn't expect sleep template for isntance to hang around for multiple rounds. i expected the affect to be applied then the template to go away

[celest bluff]

yeah they stay till end of turn

[vast bane]

yeah I think the premades don't

[quasi needle]

well no, i cast a sleep spell and the template hangs around for well past the end of the turn, but burning hands and fireball go away as soon as i advance the tracker

[celest bluff]

do you have a duration set for the ones that hang around?

remove it if you do, if i's not important to the spells function

[spice kraken]

So what you're saying is I should update to just before 2.2.0 whenever I'm done with V9 and then never leave? Got it 😂

[vast bane]

I forget how the premades setup but you can set the item details to instant and then set the duration on the ae to the duration it needs manually

[celest bluff]

the premade of lightning on call of storm is annoying as hell

it's a damn roof tile

[vast bane]

the template reads the item details duration for how long it should stay around

[quasi needle]

i was just about to try that.... yeah, the premade sleep doesn't play nice anyway, it's doing damage like it was a fireball instead of affects x hp worth of characters

[scarlet gale]

I changed it on mine to a basic sequencer effect

and changed it to be more see-through

[molten solar]

I can tell you what module to drop if you never want to worry about updates...

[vast bane]

its suppose to do that its dealing "No Damage"

theres better premades for it out there honestly

[spice kraken]

Can't drop babonus since I don't even have it yet 😂

[celest bluff]

I haven't had to the time to look for it, where is it located?

[quasi needle]

i mean srd sleep, not one that came in a midqol example pack, if there is one

[vast bane]

you shouldn't use dnd5e srd

that is the whole point of midi srd, theres a bunch of problems with the dnd5e srd items cause they aren't made with midi in mind

torches attack people, any effect thats suspended breaks midi

[scarlet gale]

#package-releases message
If you want peek at the module. Otherwise all my stuff is here:
https://github.com/chrisk123999/chris-premades

Unless you just mean the setting

AA menu

then animation type to template

then options

[quasi needle]

shrug it's what i have... didn't expect the srd versions to necessarily work with automation. slowly fixing the spells my players use a lot. i didn't know where to find examples until you pointed them out a couple days ago.

[vast bane]

I personally would not waste time on sleep its so rarely used, that and color spray are things I cast on npcs when I want to pull my punches against the players

[scarlet gale]

check persistent, and set the type to sequencer effect

[celest bluff]

oh yeah I deleted it

[quasi needle]

yeah, not trying to fix sleep, just the frist template spell i saw when trying to repro the issue. no one in my game uses it either

[vast bane]

I made my call lightning storm 50% transparent and a sequencer tile

[scarlet gale]

Literally how mine is setup lol

[vast bane]

if you continue to use dnd5e srd it will do random problems like that alot, watch out for spells and features that have suspended effects that really confuses midi

I honestly prefer all my animations to be sequencer tiles

[scarlet gale]

I'll attach them to templates unless it's call lightning

[vast bane]

its cause my campaign does not use the scene background field, so all my maps are tiles

and it sannoying when a player casts an animation that goes under the map

[scarlet gale]

You can change the height of it now in AA

[vast bane]

heh there is no sleep automation

take the SRD version and set its damage type to "None"

or "No Damage"

Ddb importer has a sleep macro

https://github.com/MrPrimate/ddb-importer/blob/main/macros/spells/sleep.js

[scarlet gale]

The ddb importer one is good

[celest bluff]

heh i recognize that macro.. I've a lot of changes to mine

I also added cross support for cub and CE

[scarlet gale]

oh nice

[celest bluff]

pretty much what I use for all my condition aes

[scarlet gale]

Not sure if it's been fixed, but I think a lot of your summoning stuff isn't pulling bonuses to spell save dcs

[celest bluff]

it's been fixed

think I fixed that back in end of dec or early jan

[scarlet gale]

ah cool

[celest bluff]

added a bunch of other grabs

[scarlet gale]

my players haven't been using summons recently so I haven't looked for updates

plus I just edited it in myself the first time >.<

I'm currently in the process of making my own token moved framework for my module. 100% to avoid using active auras. Pretty close to having a spirit guardians that doesn't place a bunch of effects on everyone

[quasi needle]

ok, here's one where the template isn't going away as i advance through the combat tracker. it's just a renamed hypnotic pattern. works fine, applies sleep status and 0 movement to anyone who fails save, but the template hangs around

[molten solar]

That header is giving me anxiety

[scarlet gale]

There really needs to be a better spot for buttons like those

[molten solar]

Always always always check the settings to show only the icon

[scarlet gale]

I 100% looked at your module to figure out how to add my button.

[molten solar]

I stole from Flix

Flix stole from Badger

[scarlet gale]

Amazing

[molten solar]

Badger stole from Kekilla

[spice kraken]

That's the coding cycle

[molten solar]

Yep

[celest bluff]

I got a druid and warlock in my group who are always summoning things

[vast bane]

all I can say is it shouldn't, so my first guess is you are mistaking an animation for a template?

or this whole time you've not had midi handling templates and have been using AA for it, in which case good luck with that lol, 200 individual item aa settings to change vs just one in midi.

[quasi needle]

no clue what AA is, doubt i have that module

[vast bane]

click the actors sheet, and look at the effect that has template in its name, what is its duration

[vast bane]

(look at the top of every sheet, item, and ae window...you have it)

[vast bane]

why is his template showing like that guys, what module is that?

is that SIFT?

[quasi needle]

if i cycle through 10 turns the effect on the orc does go away, but the template does not

[vast bane]

thats not a core template

its something else, you have a module doing something

no wait you aren't on the template tool

[quasi needle]

ok, that's news to me 🙂

[vast bane]

you do not have midi managing templates if no template ae is on the actor

[scarlet gale]

IIRC midi doesn't make that effect unless it's a 1 turn template

[vast bane]

I assumed in combat

[vast bane]

I don't even have that spell is it homebrew?

[quasi needle]

template macro maybe? i don't recall intentionally installing it, most things i've gotten as dependincies of one of the major things

[quasi needle]

it's just hypnotic pattern renamed to be more thematically consistent with a shadowy hexblade

[scarlet gale]

Template macros doesn't change how it looks

[vast bane]

its a template without the template tool on

he doesn't have anything controlling template deletion, or was relying upon the AA default auto recogs

[vast bane]

wait a minute

👀 asleep

where did you get the item

[quasi needle]

i added status effect sleep as an effect

[vast bane]

recast the spell with the console open and show us any red errors

[quasi needle]

i started with srd version of hypnotic pattern, renamed it, added effect, changed duration to instantaneous when you suggested that might fix it

[vast bane]

I'm not seeing that behavior with my hypnotic pattern

[celest bluff]

I've found 0 doesn't apply, I usually have to add "0"

[vast bane]

its a custom only key

[celest bluff]

I never applies with 0 for me.. the box is always empty

[vast bane]

nah that ones custom only, I think you can do *0 though

[vast bane]

What module is doing Asleep

something is weird

Does core use asleep?

[quasi needle]

i assumed it was core, i don't know

[celest bluff]

ah it's trying to find the spell item on the target

[vast bane]

token attacher what is going on there

mine auto deletes after 1 second outside combat, after a turn passes in combat

Also the spell incapacitates the targets not Asleep

I suspect you lack dfreds CE?

[quasi needle]

i got the midi srd version of hyp pattern, same thing, template doesn't go away

[vast bane]

I don't have time to fix this one so here ya go:

canvas.templates.placeables.at(-1).document.delete();

use this for your rogue templates

hotbar macro

[quasi needle]

i do have dfred's ce and it's enabled, but i haven't done anything else with it, if it needs to be configured. i got it recently as a dependency and haven't had a chance to look at it yet

[vast bane]

configure settings, dfreds CE, set the drop down that is set to NONE to REPLACE

[quasi needle]

did that, no obvious effect.

[vast bane]

oh there will be 😉

your conditions just went from core nothing, to automated effects on combat

[quasi needle]

like what, for example?

[vast bane]

on the left side in the scene tools theres a lil jazz hand with sparkles, click it, select a token and apply a condition like paralyzed

then attack that paralyzed guy

actually you just setup replace, so you can right click the guy, and apply the status condition "paralyzed"

[quasi needle]

👍

[jade gazelle]

Is there a way to use the 5E spell Sleep with MidiQoL or do I have to do that myself?

[sleek glacier]

Never found a way / macro/ item, tell me when you do ^^

[scarlet gale]

Crimic and the ddb importer both have a macro for this

[sleek glacier]

Oh cool thy 🙂 crimic seems nice, have to try it out... ddb importer only with patron?

[jade gazelle]

the ddb importer and the other one i'm using puts the effect "sleep template" on the one who cast it, but doesn't affected those within the sphear

maybe i'm just not understanding the spell?

[scarlet gale]

Sounds like your import is messed up

[sleek glacier]

Had the same issue with ddb importer sleep... As i understand it you roll for example a 20 and now you can put sleep on as many creatures as they have hp...so 2 10 hp creatures or 3 with 5//5/10 and so on

[scarlet gale]

It's a pool of total health

[sleek glacier]

Yeah ^^

[jade gazelle]

interesting okay i'll just do it manually

[sleek glacier]

But i assume there's something wrong with the ddb spell macro. Have you tried crimic? @jade gazelle

[jade gazelle]

No, what is Crimic?

[scarlet gale]

I would suggest checking in on the ddb importer Discord if you have issues with the sleep macro from there

[sleek glacier]

https://gitlab.com/crymic/foundry-vtt-macros/-/tree/8.x/5e/Spells/Level 1

[scarlet gale]

Fyi

Those are very old

Crimic mostly has Patreon stuff

[sleek glacier]

Oh ^^ may try it though if its free

[scarlet gale]

If it's for v8 or v9 it likely won't work well

[jade gazelle]

oh true, i forgot about versions

are the ones on his patreon up to date?

for v10?

[violet meadow]

There is a good one (still v9 though) from Element Re in #macro-polo
It needs a bit of assembling.

I also have one but probably it's still locked away in my bricked Oracle server...

<#macro-polo message>

check the replies linked to find out how to set it up

[jade gazelle]

Do I still need the module "item macro"

[scarlet gale]

For midi? Pretty much yes

[violet meadow]

Well need is a strong word. You can even use premade Items from others that use Item Macro even if you don't have it, but it is an useful addition 🤷

[manic kraken]

So ok working with spiritual guardians if i go back to use the other version of it you have to manually roll right because midi does not save for friend inside the guardian circle. is that correct

[scarlet gale]

What versions of that spell are you talking about?

Related but not really, I got so annoyed with active auras I made my own way to handle aura like abilities in my module

Including a way to only trigger the strongest overlapping aura

[manic kraken]

Spiritual Guardians 10.0.10

[inland tendon]

DAE question, is the difference between these two items that the first is used when applying SOME effects to a target and the latter used when applying ALL affects to the user?

[violet meadow]

can you try this one and see if it works? <#1010273821401555087 message>

[inland tendon]

wait nvmd, I just reread it

"when applies target effects"

[manic kraken]

What am i looking at the storm surge pic?

[violet meadow]

Should lead you to a Spirit Guardians Item (spell) to import

<#1010273821401555087 message>

Try this link maybe? Discord is playing tricks on me rn

[manic kraken]

Thanks

[violet meadow]

You will need the prerequisites modules stated at the start, so you might need to grab Effect Macro if you don't have it already

Also you should check https://foundryvtt.com/packages/chris-premades if you don't mind the pretty extended module requirements 😄

[manic kraken]

Ok tested it out says i dont have the apparent token when i cast it

[violet meadow]

Screenshot of the error?

And do you have a token of the actor on the scene when you cast it?

[manic kraken]

yes it is there i have even the player testing it out right now

dramatic moment while we screenshot it

[violet meadow]

The one using the Item can open the developer console by pressing F12 and check what red errors appear when rolling the Item

[violet meadow]

Hmm OK

[manic kraken]

i might have fixed it

nope didnt fix it

[violet meadow]

Now that is some permission error that I don't get 🤔

Is the user a Trusted User?

[hot flower]

Could this be modified for a Dawn spell?

[dark canopy]

Modify token configuration is a core permission that is needed, looks like

[violet meadow]

yeah probably that would be it

[manic kraken]

i fixed that but it not doign teh damage but the rest seem to work

i hate this spell

it seems simple must be me

[violet meadow]

hahaha I have to say. Easiest solution with the slightest automation is for the spell to create an Item on the caster.
Caster remembers to use it when needed to deal the damage.

If not, they lose 😄

[violet meadow]

Probably some sort of MidiQOL automation options difference.

I hope you don't use any other modules changing how Foundry rolls alongside MidiQOL

[manic kraken]

I use to have better rolls for 5e but does not work anymore i have it unselected

[violet meadow]

Just remove it completely from Foundry. It won't come back 😄

[manic kraken]

looking through them all i dont see anything for rolls only thing close is dice so nice

[violet meadow]

OK so what is it that it's not doing now?

Damage when turn starts? Something else?

[manic kraken]

yes

does no damage at all

[violet meadow]

OK, any red errors in console when you change turns?

[manic kraken]

no

fixed that

Are we missing a step while creating this. i just downloaded the new json into foundry creating a new spell.

or do i need to override the orginal spell

[violet meadow]

Oh you need to delete the old one from the character sheet and drag the imported one onto it afterwards

[manic kraken]

ok i feel dumb

i looked at the script does have the damage formula in it

[strong hemlock]

I'm having a heck of a time trying to make Monk's Deflect Missiles feature work using midi-qol.

I'm using the MidiQOL Sample Item "Deflect Missiles Damage Reduction - 10.0.10" from the compendium.
It will trigger properly on a hit and prompt for a reaction, but when the character rolls the d10+mods, it applies that total as damage to the character itself instead of negating that much damage.

Anyone have any pointers or tips in terms of making it work?

[violet meadow]

I thought I had checked that at some point and changed it a bit, but it doesn't seem that I shared it here.
I will take a look to see if I can find it

Yeah nope, unfortunately Deflect Missiles was one of the victims of an ill-conceived macro that I used and deleted ItemMacros from a big number of Items I had on my sidebar... 😩

[strong hemlock]

No worries, I appreciate you checking.

I think I may have maybe got it somewhat working, although it doesn't display the roll for the damage reduction in the chat, it seems to be doing it math wise.

[violet meadow]

There was one more grievance against the sample item IIRC, so that it was not doing something RAW, but 🤷

[strong hemlock]

Nope, nevermind, spoke too soon.

[manic kraken]

It is ok you helping me out tremendously right now

When rolling damage it just does not apply it to target in the circle for soem reason

[violet meadow]

A couple of screenshots of this behaviour would help.

Are you rolling damage and auto applying it?

[manic kraken]

yes

ok

it is only applying it to the caster teh damage not the npc on the screen

[violet meadow]

Well the imported Item shouldn't have a Damage Formula

Did you add it in?

[manic kraken]

yes because it was doing no damage

I removed it

[violet meadow]

OK you tell it when I roll the Target Self takes 3d8 of radiant damage if you do it like that 😄

Are you in Combat?

[manic kraken]

yes

it is target self on the spell page what do i need to do then

[violet meadow]

You should not change anything from the Imported Item. It should be working as is

Oh you have ASE module

Disable it

[manic kraken]

ok

Disabled it does not do damage

[violet meadow]

That seems to be the spell with the Damage Formula again.

get the imported one.

Cast it. An aura will be created on the caster

Move an Enemy token inside the aura. It should damage it once

Can you check the enemy token? Open its character sheet, go to Effects tab, edit the Spirit Guardians effect, go to its Effects tab and screenshot it

[violet meadow]

OK change to the Drow Mage's turn

[violet meadow]

At the start of the Drow Mage's turn, does it trigger a damage roll?

[manic kraken]

no

[violet meadow]

And when that turn comes no error in console? (F12 to open it up?)

[manic kraken]

no errors

[violet meadow]

MidiQOL, DAE, Active Auras versions and dnd5e?

and Foundry version too!

[manic kraken]

Foundry is 10.0

all mods are up to date

[violet meadow]

?

[violet meadow]

That some times doesn't actually hold any actual value when troubleshooting, as modules can be stuck at older version and such 😉

[manic kraken]

i use forge so it is patch 6 stable version 291

[violet meadow]

I would also suggest to run that with only MidiQOL,DAE,Active Auras, Effect Macro, socketlib and libwrapper modules active to make sure it's no other incompatibility.

[manic kraken]

i did not have active auras

i do now

[violet meadow]

I got to go, but check again to see if it works and if not post here again and someone will jump in to help 😉

[vast bane]

those checkboxes are for abnormal effect transfers where the item targets other things and you need a self ae. If you want a self buff item, set the items target to self and range to self and don't check any boxes.

SG on npcs doesn't work

this is already a thing

You can't use the sample item for Spirit Guardians on an npc

[tawny fern]

Hello =3

Is there a way to change the targets of an attack through an ItemMacro?

To provide context: I'm prepping an oneshot that'll be a boss battle. In this battle there's a mechanic where if a player that does not have a specific temporary effect is hit by another specific attack, the attack won't hit only him, but everyone. I wanted to script this change of targets through an item macro. Is it possible?

I already know how to check for the effect, I just don't know how to change the targets. I'm also not sure which step I should pick to run the macro.

Foundry is 10 291, all modules are up to date (Midi QoL, DAE, Item Macro, etc)

[manic kraken]

Thank you all for your help what a wonderful community that help outs ❤️

[violet meadow]

After Targeting complete macro trigger and use an array of Ids to change the ```js
game.user.updateTokenTargets(["TokenIds"])

[tawny fern]

Thanks so much! Will try right now =3

[violet meadow]

or with Hooks.on("midi-qol.preTargeting", (workflow) => {})

[tawny fern]

Worked! Thanks again!

[undone bronze]

Has anyone experimented with having an effect that Grants Disadvantage on all attacks made by specific kind of creature - for example Beasts ?

[vast bane]

that ones hard I think

you could try the activation conditions in the effect value but not sure if that works on a grant.

[quasi needle]

where would the actors even be flagged as a creature type?

[sleek glacier]

@jade gazelle found the solution for sleep spell on ddb... talked with mr primate and we figured out... quote "do you have generate spell effects checked on the active effects tab of the importer?" so i checked on recommended there... and everything works for me

[violet meadow]

On the character sheet under Race.

[quiet osprey]

Hay, I'm new to this stuff. I'm trying to get Cloud Rune and Fire Rune (Rune Knight) to work, but I don't really know where to start. Can someone help me?

[hot flower]

This worked perfectly! Just one minor typo in the line const damageBonusResult = new CONFIG.Dice.DamageRoll(${baseDice}d6}, args[0].rollData ... drop the } after the d6. Otherwise, works wonderfully! Thank you!

[violet meadow]

oh yeah 😅
edited 👍

[violet meadow]

The initial parts of both Runes can be made with pretty straightforward Active Effects

The secondary parts, especially the Cloud Rune, are more complicated.

For the Fire Rune I would just make it an attack with the relevant details and use that after a successful hit, when you want.

Cloud Rune's second part for redirecting the attack as a Reaction when another creature is attacked, is a no-go for now.
Just state your intent and manually make things happen 😄

[quiet solar]

Any way to do this on Faerie Fire to remove the template? I have a visual effect from CE and midi-qol is handling all the 'logistics', but I have to manually delete the template because it has a 1min duration

[violet meadow]

You can use the template deletion of MidiQOL

[quiet solar]

I already had that checked - or did you mean in a programmatic call?

it's not really that big of a deal - thank you though

could somebody point me in the direction if checking whether 1 token can see another? (not a sneak/perception check -- just simple vision)

[violet meadow]

What is the duration on the actual Item's details?

[quiet solar]

1 minute

I actually just tried removing that duration (set to instantaneous) and it had no effect on anything except that it doesn't set concentration

[violet meadow]

Are you in combat?

[open ice]

good night! i'm not sure if this is the right channel but i want to know if it's possible to configure a damage formula to match the item owner's hit dice? i managed to make it work but i have to reference a specific class so i'd have to manually change to the class of whoever owns the item

[quiet solar]

yes

[violet meadow]

Do you go forward in rounds, or changing the time through smallTime or something?

[violet meadow]

I would suggest using Autocomplete Inline Properties module! Helps with these things alot

[quiet solar]

I manually moved forward in rounds

[violet meadow]

And all the rest of the Effects expiry correctly?

[quiet solar]

not actually sure... I need to look up how many rounds are in a minute... 10?

[violet meadow]

yes

[quiet solar]

the advantage is removed, the template is not and the Fred's CE custom effect is not

[violet meadow]

whoops I reread it again. Hmmm

@attributes.hd

[violet meadow]

Times UP module?

[scarlet gale]

Do reactions have any way to grab the attacker's item uuid?

[quiet solar]

yes - do I need to disable passive effects on expiry? (shouldn't - default is delete them)

[violet meadow]

nope deletion is fine

[scarlet gale]

Would be interesting to roll a synthetic item of the attackers

[violet meadow]

yes workflow.workflowOptions inside there I think it's passed

[quiet solar]

I need to step away for a bit - I will try to recreate this with minimal modules enabled and report back

[violet meadow]

should be something trivial right now that I cannot think about 😅

[quiet solar]

no worries - thank you

[violet meadow]

<#1010273821401555087 message>

one example I could find

[open ice]

thank you! AIP did help me and i managed to make it work like this, i hope it doesn't break anything haha

i'll try your suggestion anyway cause it's not rolling the hit dice twice, only multiplying the max value twice

@attributes.hd only makes it roll the amount of hit dice available unfortunately

[molten solar]

That isn't a roll data property.

[quasi needle]

how would i set up a reaction activation condition of "an ally within 5' of my token takes damage"?

[vast bane]

third party reactions are not possible but if you don't fast forward its sometimes possible to pull off third party manual reactions depending on what they do and if everyone holds for the reaction to fire

if you reimagine the feature you can sometimes pull them off as active auras where the vicctim fires the reaction for the third party

[quasi needle]

ok, if it's not straightforward i'll just continue to handle it manually

i was thinking of interception fighter style... prevent 1dsomething damage

[vast bane]

we have that at our table that works great as a manual reaction cause I don't fast forward

the intercepter targets the victim and fires the damage reduction active effect

[quasi needle]

so you're recast is as dr instead of prevent 1dX+Y damage? (forget the formula offhand)

[vast bane]

This is the key you use to do damage reduction, and for interception its a dice equation so do [[1d10 + @prof]] instead of my 999

its important to understnad theres 2 different "dr"s

DR is damage REDUCTION, and dr is damage RESISTANCE

the DR flag has midi in it, the dr flag has system in it

[quasi needle]

right, i remember. one is half, one is a defined amount

5' aura granting reduction i get, how do you keep it from firing more than once oer round?

[vast bane]

you don't do that

The guy with interception just has a Reaction MANUAL that they fire before the attack deals damage. if you fast forward, ask another guru for help...I don't fast forward 😉

[quasi needle]

so you let mob attack roll player a, player b triggers reaction that applies 1 round duration damage reduction, then mob rolls damage?

[vast bane]

correct cause when you don't fast forward you can pause for the manual reaction

[quasi needle]

right...

we do fast forward, the group will want to keep that, but i guess i could do an aura that grants dr and have him turn it off til his next turn whenever it gets used?

[vast bane]

that won't work

you could make it an active aura that gives a temporary item but I have never seen an explanation for macro.createitem actually translate here for someone to understand. Yall just gloss over your eyes and never utilize the suggestions.

its difficult to share macro.createitem setups and its a wall of text and images to explain how to make it

[quasi needle]

why would it need to be an item, why not an effect hat applies reduction?

[vast bane]

although, I did just share one to Mr.Primate and he figured it out so let me go grab those two

[quasi needle]

(right now i have it set up as a healing spell, but obviously that can heal more damage than was done)

[vast bane]

This is a shield that has a macro.createitem setup on it

it breaks when you import it

all you have to do to fix the break is redrag the "Protection of Melair" item into the effect value of the aura

literal drag and drop

to import items you right click a blank item and choose import in the item sidebar

some people say you can't import different item types but I haven't seen that yet myself.

either way both are items

[quasi needle]

i see the json files and downloaded them, i don't know what to do from there

[vast bane]

make 2 generic items with dumb names in the item side bar

Then right click and import item on them and choose the jsons you just downloaded

these two items are the concept to make a third party reaction but they aren't exactly what you want

yours is a feature, mines a shield

you can copy my work though

[quasi needle]

ok

[vast bane]

Highly recommend if you are going to start using macro.createitem, that you place all of the "pseudo items" that are in the effect value, in a compendium or a folder in your item sidebar that you NEVER delete

cause if you delete them, the items stop showing up when you use the feature or someone moves into the aura

[quasi needle]

i have shared compendium set up, i can stick it in there

[vast bane]

for me Protection of Melair is stored in a special compendium aptly named:

[quasi needle]

what is different about macro.createitem, why might i want to use it instead of active effects?

am i literally creating an item that goes into actor inventory?

[vast bane]

because the aura is always active and the guy with interception would only use it once per round

yep

and since its a reaction it will prompt via the reaction system so they don't have to find it

its also an expendable so it auto destroys after they use it incase they are attacked more than once a round

[quasi needle]

createitems are always one use consumables?

[vast bane]

right now its bugged and gives the item to the shield wearer, but Mr.Primate is trying to sus out why active auras is doing that and is gonna drop a patch for it

createitems can be any item type

you make what you want and drag to the effect value

I chose a consumable so it would auto destroy

because the feature is a reaction it should only be available once per round, but since its firing on the wrong actor you have to set it to 0 Reaction for action economy

to be clear this setup is literally Janky. But its the only way to pull off a third party reaction

other than full manual

And imo, if you don't prompt the reactions, players never remember they have them so this way is better than full manual

[quasi needle]

well my guys aren't going to want to give up fast forward anyway, so if this only works with manual we won't be using it, but good as a learning process anyway

[vast bane]

I dunno how it would break fast forward honestly, its putting the reaction on the right actor for fast forward

the only thing you have to do manually is the player getting hit has to ask the player using interception if they can use it

[quasi needle]

oh, i thought you were saying THIS method was the one that only worked with manual

[vast bane]

and then the third party intercepter has to mark their reaction used if you care about that

also make sure that the guy with the interception feature doesn't use it for themselves since the aura is giving it to themselves via a bug with active auras

[quasi needle]

so this is an aura that creates a reaction oneshot consumable item in the inventory of allies than are inside the aura?

[vast bane]

yes

[quasi needle]

you're right, that is janky 🙂

[vast bane]

its the only way to do it and my middle name is janky

honestly I have ideas to make it less janky, I could use effect macro to suspend the aura on the user, and then on combat start reactivate it instead of auto destroy via consumable since the only way to reget the item after auto destroy is to walk in and out of the aura

or an on use on the consumable to change its type to not a reaction, then on turn start effect macro to change it back to reaction damaged

since my table doesn't fast forward its just simpler to half ass everything so I haven't bothered with it

[quasi needle]

yeah, for sure sometimes when i'm trying to automate something, i know the effort i'm putting into it is not worth the payoff, i just like solving the puzzle

[vast bane]

Advantage reminder, not fast forwarding, and active auras typically help me make things simpler so I don't dump as much time into things

also worth pointing out fast forward =/= auto roll

fast forward is the skipping of the popouts