ddb-avrae-help

[tardy lava]

How would I make the alias?

[pine sun]

I'm not going to explain how to cheat the system, but the short answer is that it would be incredibly difficult to make an alias that looks like a real roll and probably not worth the time

[tardy lava]

Damn

[dense hemlock]

is the crit syntax broken? it seems to be making things auto hit

[fickle salmon]

Yes, it's a known issue that will likely be addressed in the next update.

[dense hemlock]

Carry on then thank you!

[hazy flare]

Can you roll initiative on DDB and have that registered with Avrae for initiative?

[viscid kernel]

You can roll it on DDB, and then manually use that number when you join initiative.

!i join -p <number>

[steady dew]

using... -p ?

yes

using that would have you join initiative, and it would automatically just slot you into that number instead of rolling (again)

[hazy flare]

Ok, that's what we did.

I was hoping that the DDB digital roll would feed into and be displayed in Discord. And that Avrae would incorporate that into initiative. That's not too much to ask for, right? 😉

I linked the DDB campaign to Discord and the characters were loaded into Avrae.

[steady dew]

you can link campaigns

but I don't think you can roll in DDB and interact with avrae initiative

[hazy flare]

That would be sweet! Oh well ...

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

[steady dew]

hang on, is it possible to change what crits do?

in avrae

[empty linden]

You can change the crit settings via the criton setting (global) or you can set it on the attack I think?

Trying to remember where you set that criton setting - it might be an svar?

[fickle salmon]

!csettings

[empty linden]

Ah there we go!

[fickle salmon]

Which are character specific, but will affect all attacks of that character.

[dense atlas]

this. tried to attack with a dagger twice, I have my dagger active on ddb and my account linked

[fickle salmon]

Have you !updated Avrae since you made the changes?

[dense atlas]

no

[empty linden]

Also make sure the item is equipped (I think)

[young arch]

You have to update it won't do it itself

[viscid kernel]

If you !attack list, unarmed strike is probably the only thing there at the moment.

[dense atlas]

oh, there we go, Thank you!

[fickle salmon]

No problem. Glad it was an easy fix.

[near flume]

If you need multiple monsters to make a saving role or check at once what’s the best command for that

[steady dew]

what context

in initiative?

avrae initiative that is

[near flume]

Let’s say someone uses the calm emotion spell would I have to make them all roll individually?

[fickle salmon]

For multiple of the same monster, you can add -rr # replacing # with the number of checks you want to make.
If you're looking to check different monsters, you're stuck making seperate checks.

[steady dew]

if in initiative, they would use the -t argument multiple times

such as, 4 wolves

-t WO1 -t WO2 -t WO3 -t WO4

[near flume]

Thank you so much

I’ll remember that for the future

[wintry vortex]

How do i change my character

[fickle salmon]

To switch between characters already loaded into Avrae, use the !character command with a part of your character's name to switch to that character.

If your character isn't in Avrae yet, use the !beyond command to load it in and you'll be automatically switched to that character.

[steady dew]

use !character list to see your characters loaded in avrae.

[mint monolith]

How do you use stuff with counters?

[steady dew]

use being?

adjusting the amounts?
!cc "name" -/+ #
you can also just do a number I think, to set it

[mint monolith]

For like attacks or spells or class abilities that can only be used a certain number of times per short or long rest.
How does that work?

[steady dew]

you do !cc "name" -1 whenever you use it then. subtract a use.

[mint monolith]

So you do that separate/after you do the ability or cast the spell?

[steady dew]

after, yes

sometimes things like Rage automatically do it

but then I don't know as for other things, like reborns KFAPL

[mint monolith]

Are there seperate commands for stuff that makes enemies or allies roll dice when you use it on them?

[fickle salmon]

Only in !init. You cannot force someone to make a roll outside of the combat tracker.

[mint monolith]

And what would the command be while in combat

[steady dew]

like a spell? targeting them with it

otherwise they need to make the save

themselves

[viscid kernel]

You target with -t <name>

Like !attack dagger -t GO1

[mint monolith]

How do you edit your characters size category and creature type?

with/for the bot, I mean

[viscid kernel]

I don’t think you can directly in Avrae.

But Avrae also generally doesn’t use that information for anything other than display.

[mint monolith]

certain spells or abilities only effect certain creatures types though, no?

[steady dew]

yes

and?

doesn't do that in Avrae.

[viscid kernel]

Yeah, targeting won’t take their size or type into account.

[minor vessel]

If you are in init, you could keep track of it with like !i effect <creature> "Size: Small/Type: Fey" -dur <duration in rounds - not needed>, but it's merely for recordkeeping purposes for you. Avrae doesn't keep track of what abilities can affect who or what (for example, you can cast Mage Armour and give the AC boost to someone wearing armour on Avrae)

[past cape]

Having an issue with Avrae. We have it linked to the game log to send rolls into the chat, and it's worked perfectly fine previously, but currently whenever we roll a die we get a Avrae is typing, then it stops without Avrae sending the rolls or anything else. We've checked to see if anything got messed up in the permissions, but everything's fine there.
It seems only custom rolls and initiative rolls work, strangely

[fickle salmon]

Check to see if your web preview settings in Discord are on?

Jace's Sanctum: So to illustrate...

[empty linden]

Is Avrae's permissions correct on that channel?

But you're saying the custom rolls are coming through fine?

[fickle salmon]

That's what they've said. So I believe the issue is Discord User Settings > Text and Images > Link Preview being OFF.

[past cape]

No, link preview is on

[fickle salmon]

Hrmmm.

[past cape]

Though I can't see the preview you show at the top of the image regardless

Even before we had this issue

[fickle salmon]

Jace, can you run !check init in #ddb-avrae-commands please?

[past cape]

Sure

[fickle salmon]

Do you see the result?

[past cape]

Yes

It's not the right character though

[fickle salmon]

Oh... I'll test that out. See if mismatched characters cause problems.

Doesn't seem to.

[past cape]

Pretty sure that the correct character wasn't loaded in before when it was working properly either, so that can't be it

It's a different character because I always roll in the sheet, not with commands

[fickle salmon]

I think we need to get the help of the greater Avrae support team at https://support.avrae.io/

[past cape]

Okay, got it

[mint monolith]

when using eldritch blast, (when you're a higher level and it has multiple beams), does avrae take care of the seperate rolls for all the beans for you? Or do you have to input commands for both the multiple targets and the multiple beams yourself?

[gusty egret]

You can use -t more than once.

[fickle salmon]

Or if you're not using !init you can use !cast "eldritch blast" -rr 2 when you have hit level 5.

[steady dew]

!cast eldritch blast -t WO1 -rr 2
or
!cast eldritch blast -t WO1 -t WO2
for example

[mint monolith]

so you just input for target(s) and avrae handles the dice rolls on its own, whether they all hit one or each hit seperate peeps

[steady dew]

yes

you determine the targets

avrae rolls the dice adds the mod compares AC rolls damage if hit does any damage adjustment and subtracts HP

[mint monolith]

How do you do the die rolls when someone hits you while mirror image is up ?

[steady dew]

before each attack, roll a d20

if you get the re-target success, they target the mirror image with the attack, not you

[mint monolith]

avrae will still let me do the dice roll while its someone else's turn ?

[steady dew]

it's also just

the DM goes "hey this thing is gonna attack you twice"

so you roll a d20 to see if an attack gets redirected

then that attack goes

then the other d20, resolve that attack

[minor vessel]

Feel free to get this alias from the workshop. It'll automate whether it hits you or not, and give you back HP if an attack is prevented against you

[steady dew]

since if it redirects to the image and hits, the image is gone, needing a higher roll

[minor vessel]

!alias mim

[wheat garden]

Mythirios (he/him)

!mim

From Riptide's Spell Automation Collection by Riptidecord#7191.
View on Workshop

Help

!mim <value of last attack roll> [hp lost if hit]
For managing the images from mirror image.
Subcommands
undo - Restores an image popped incorrectly.

Please remember to input the total result of the attack roll, not the value of the d20 roll.

Subcommands

undo - !mim undo

[minor vessel]

So let's say your mirrors have an AC of 11, and you're attacked 3 times, with the rolls 10, 14, and 16. If you roll the d20 and it does go to your mirrors, you can just use this to automate the stuff in init tracker

I think there may be another version in the Avrae server under the same word of !mim too, which is a little more extensive and has functions to help you automate some dice rolling to check whether you are hit or not.

[mint monolith]

so if I get attacked twice and get hit both times, I could use ! mim in the middle of their initiative order to determine whether any of my mirror images took the hits, and if so get back health thise hits ?

[steady dew]

seems so

[minor vessel]

If you used the one in the Avrae erver, yes. If you use the one I posted here, no.

[steady dew]

!mim (they got 18 to hit for example) (i took 13 damage)

[minor vessel]

I've just posted the one from the Avrae server in #ddb-avrae-commands. Feel free to use that one, and I pulled up the general list of commands for that too

To get use the Avrae one, copy the code inside

This box thing

Over there, paste it, send it to avrae, then it should save it for you

[mint monolith]

What do I do with that code ?

[minor vessel]

Copy it, then just send it in #ddb-avrae-commands or PM Avrae directly

Do note that I changed the alias name though. At the start, you can see it named !alias mirror. You should change mirror to mim

I just changed it to mirror for personal use since I've got the Workshop one named !mim already

[mint monolith]

How does one use their hit dice during a short rest?

[round sparrow]

yeah

then regains them during a long rest

[young arch]

Your hit die is based off of your character class and the level that you are at is how many die you have. Eg: Barbarian is a D12. A level 5 Barb has 5 hit die. During a short rest, you can roll anywhere from 1-5 of those die and the number that you get is how much hp you recover

[round sparrow]

smarty pants

being a big nerd, making me feel less nerdy

[wise siren]

what is command for passive perception?

[steady dew]

there is none?

you just.... compare it manually

[young arch]

There is a command, but I believe it's something the discord server has to add from the alias workshop.

Either way though, it's kinda a static (you're not rolling it) number...

[mint monolith]

What's the command with avrae for using your hit dice when taking a short rest? I know the short rest command but no dice roll occurs

[young arch]

Don't think there is one you just roll and then add the hp

[pine sun]

If you are using the !rest alias from the Dev server, you have to specify the dice you're using

!rest short 2d8, for example

Or !sr 3d6 of you have the sr shortcut

But there is no built-in way to do it otherwise

[empty linden]

Without any alias you would have to do something like !r x_d<hit die> for the amount of hit dice you want to use up, then do !g hp +<what you rolled> to add the HP you rolled, and then !cc "Hit Dice" -<number of hit dice rolled>" Oh and use !g shortrest to recover any short rest features.

[wind goblet]

Hello,

it's probably been asked a ton of times, but I can't find a working tutorial online.

How do I integrate dice roller from dnd beyond with avrae?
did !beyond my.character.sheet
seemed to work, but when I roll nothing happens

[silver void]

What did you try to roll?

[wind goblet]

firebolt

[silver void]

That would be ! cast

[wind goblet]

but I thought it was automated with my character sheet no?

like I press the button to roll on my sheet, then avrae displays result

[silver void]

In this case the command to roll the to hit would be !cast firebolt and the two aren't fully linked up

[wind goblet]

you mean I have to type a command in discord for the roll to occur on my sheet?

[silver void]

Yes, that is what I mean

[wind goblet]

hmm ok thank you, I appreciate the help. Too bad, I expected a better integration.

[silver void]

You might be thinking of beyond 20

[wind goblet]

yeah exactly something like beyond20 is what im looking for.

roll dices on sheet, displays in discord

[silver void]

That is sadly not the levels avrae is at yet

[young arch]

Hey can someone please tell me which command makes that black lines appear?

[silver void]

The black outlines?

[young arch]

Like a black line that appears and splits the chat

[silver void]

like this?

[young arch]

Kinda? But it doesn't have text in it

[silver void]

#ddb-avrae-commands

[mental citrus]

Avrae can do this, check out !tutorial d&d beyond

[steady dew]

and @silver void
this can actually occur, but
the sheet needs to be in a campaign
the DM of the campaign needs to link the campaign to a particular channel for Avrae to post in

then, you can roll a dice with DDB dice rolling on your sheet, and Avrae displays the result in the discord channel.

Source: two campaigns I am in, I can roll on the sheet and Avrae posts.

[wind goblet]

ohhh ty 🙂

[steady dew]

but it does require the DM link the campaign, and presumably have beyond and discord linked up so avrae can recognize this discord user is the DM

[mint monolith]

Does the avrae bot have/allow for ways to use :
Psi bolstered knack
Psychic whispers

[fickle salmon]

You should have a counter for "Psionic Power". You can mark off a use of your power with !cc psi -1.

[past dune]

How do you get he/r to roll dice?

(ie: 'x'd'y' + z)?

[silver void]

!r XdY

[past dune]

great

[silver void]

Please do keep the commands to #ddb-avrae-commands

[past dune]

oh whoops

[silver void]

No worries, just a friendly reminder

[past dune]

👌

[mint monolith]

Are there commands for how to go about using the rogue soul knife's stuff, such as:
psi bolstered knack
psychic whispers

[fickle salmon]

Not any base commands. There may be player written commands called aliases available on the Avrae Workshop, but that comes with the warning that they are not officially supported.

[viscid kernel]

I’m not sure either of those really can be automated, honestly. 🤔

Psi-bolstered knack, for example. You could add -b 1d6 to your ability check...

But since the trigger is when you fail a check, a snippet wouldn’t really be able to detect that.

[fickle salmon]

And then, only mark the counter down if your DM tells you the initial check would have failed.

[viscid kernel]

Yeah

Anyone who did try to automate it would basically have to reimplement all of !c. Yikes.

[fickle salmon]

And Psychic Whispers is you mark a counter down, roll a d6 (or higher as levels increase) for the duration.

[viscid kernel]

That part of it is easy enough. Avrae doesn’t track languages or locations or anything, though. That’s all just something you’d have to track at the table anyway.

If you wanted the simplest alias for it:

!alias whisper multiline
!cc "Psionic Energy" -1
!r 1d6 Psychic Whispers Duration

[fickle salmon]

sees multiple ways to make simple alias more complex...

[viscid kernel]

Using the automation system instead would make it look a lot nicer, though.

[viscid kernel]

Like if you wanted it to scale automatically when your die increases in size...

[fickle salmon]

That was my first thought. Error checking to prevent setting up whispers if you're out of "Psionic Energy" was the next.

[viscid kernel]

Same 😂

But that’s one the automation system would now handle natively, no?

Haven’t played around with it much yet.

[fickle salmon]

Dunno. I haven't made an artificer with the latest updates to Avrae.

[empty linden]

Question: How would you set up scaling damage like cantrips for a custom attack in Avrae?

I guess what is the formula for calculating cantrip damage?

[viscid kernel]

Just to clarify... you mean an attack created through !attack add, not !init attack -custom, right?

[empty linden]

correct - !a add

[viscid kernel]

Typically cantrips roll an additional damage die at levels 5, 11, and 17 -- based on your overall character level.

[fickle salmon]

{{((level+1)//6)+1}}d8

[empty linden]

Ah okay. I knew about the {level} bit but was trying to figure out the cantrip formula.

Thank you!

[fickle salmon]

Oh, you'll need a +1

[viscid kernel]

You don't need parentheses around level+1?

lol

Caught it at the same time

[fickle salmon]

Yes... fixed it.

[viscid kernel]

Can you use #ddb-avrae-commands for running commands instead? Let’s keep this channel open for questions. 🙂

[mint monolith]

Sorry I'm constantly confused which of these twochannels to use for what

[viscid kernel]

No worries. Happens all the time.

#ddb-avrae-help to talk to people
#ddb-avrae-commands to talk to Avrae

[steady dew]

what's the command for the blank bar, like a code block

the one that's like a 'break' between stuff

[viscid kernel]

!br

Short for ‘break’ 😜

[steady dew]

ah

[keen mauve]

I know you can have a spell reroll on ones by creating a homebrew spell for it, but is there a way to do it for weapons?

[fickle salmon]

Yep. There's a couple of ways to take care of that. You can do it manually with !attack add and setting the -d tag to the 1d6ro1+{strengthMod}[piercing] (as an example).

[minor vessel]

Are you asking for things like Elemental Adept?

[keen mauve]

Nah for piercer

[minor vessel]

Ah

[keen mauve]

thanks

[minor vessel]

Yeah Poliphas' suggestion will work perfectly since it's just for attacks

[fickle salmon]

The other way is to go into the Avrae Dashboard and create a new attack in a similar manner, but with Dropdown Menu ACTION™️!

rereads the Piercer feat Oh, and in the !attack add part you can put in -c 1d6 to account for the extra crit dice automatically.

[minor vessel]

Ooo I didn't know that such an arg existed.

[fickle salmon]

Yep. Can be set to a flat number like 7 for vicious weapons or a dice string for feats like Piercer.

[keen mauve]

did this, doesn't roll for a hit though

[fickle salmon]

I forgot to mention the -b tag. I assumed it was common knowledge and you know what they say about 'assume'...

[empty linden]

!a add "<attack name>" -b <to hit bonus, can be roll> -d <damage, can be roll>[damage type] -c <crit damage, can be roll>

[fickle salmon]

!attack add "Piercer Spear" -b strengthMod+proficiencyBonus -d 1d6ro1+{strengthMod}[piercing] -c 1d6

[empty linden]

You can also use the Avrae Dashboard to add custom attacks (and include saving throws if needed).

[keen mauve]

thanks!

[viscid kernel]

And counter uses!

[empty linden]

One thing I'd like Avrae to make a bit easier is identifying the spell caster's spell save DC. They have spell for the spellcasting mod, but they don't have one specifically for the spell save DC of the caster. I guess it's easy enough to do 8+{spell+proficiencyBonus}.

[viscid kernel]

character().spellbook.dc should do it, I think.

[fickle salmon]

It is accessible through aliasing with character().spellbook.dc but I don't know if that works for other automation.

[empty linden]

huh - thanks!

[silver void]

What is the alias for the pouch?

[fickle salmon]

Pouch? As far as I know, the only inventory management alias in popular use is !bag which can do 'pouches' as well. But that's better discussed in the alias channels in the Avrae Discord. https://support.avrae.io

[native gale]

v2.10.1 (1557)
https://github.com/avrae/avrae/releases/tag/v2.10.1

• Updated the Aliasing Tutorial to use Draconic 2 (thanks @Mobius!)
• Fixes an issue where a character could incorrectly become active
• Fixes an issue where !init skipround would error when using dynamic initiative
• Fixes an inconsistent error message when casting attack spells with a caster that can normally not cast
• Fixes an issue where the reroll csetting was not accounted for when targeted by a save spell/attack
• Fixes an issue where the crit flag in automation caused any attacks to automatically hit
• Fixes an issue where certain rolls from D&D Beyond could get silently dropped
• Minor typo fixes

[silver void]

I have been failing for the last 15 minutes to delete the server alias inventory tools, I used the command !servalias delete Inventory Tools . What am I doing wrong here

[viscid kernel]

Was that added through Discord or through the Alias Workshop?

[silver void]

The alias workshop

[viscid kernel]

Just guessing, but maybe workshop aliases need to be unsubscribed from the workshop instead.

[silver void]

Thank you, that was indeed the case

I feel very stupid now for not trying that

[lyric pollen]

shadow22 — Today at 4:37 PM
I'm sure this has been asked but how do I connect my D&D Beyond character sheet so it is playable in discor

[fickle salmon]

You can copy the share URL from your character sheet, then in #ddb-avrae-commands type !beyond and paste the share URL afterwards.

Else, you can go to https://dndbeyond.com/account and link your Discord account there, create a campaign, move the character into the new campaign, and then, in a channel you control, add !campaign and the full URL for the campaign you created. You'll then be able to get rolls from your character sheet appear in Discord.

[viscid kernel]

!tutorial beyond will walk you through it, too.

[lyric pollen]

Thank you

[mint monolith]

How do you do a two handed weapon attack with a versatile weapon ?

[silver void]

!a 2-handed longsword

[fickle salmon]

Check out !attack list. You'll see a second attack marked either 2-handed or (2H)

[mint monolith]

Will stuff I select as pact weapons in dnd beyond stay that way (does dnd beyond like save it or something?) Or will I have to constantly reset that?

[steady dew]

stay

[fickle salmon]

You'll just need to !update Avrae after you make the changes to your character sheet.

[dull roost]

I have linked my campaign to a channel on a server but when I roll dice in the combat tracker (encounter is linked to the campaign), the rolls dont show up in the channel, instead i get them as DM from avrae

any ideas what Im doing wrong?

[mental citrus]

Encounter rolls are scoped to the user who rolled them, which means only that user can see it - Avrae DMs the user if the link is set up so as not to spill a DM's secrets

[viscid kernel]

Do you know if that's the same in the game log itself? Are those rolls only visible to that one user?

[mental citrus]

That should be correct

[viscid kernel]

Cool. Thanks!

[dull roost]

how can I set it up to spill all the secrets, lol

[viscid kernel]

I don't think you can just yet, but they have said they're planning for greater control in the game log over what gets shared with who.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/changelog/937-share-your-dice-rolls-digital-dice-open-beta

[dull roost]

well I used to roll into the same discord channel as my players and now Im not, so something must have changed?

[soft echo]

how i can start a game?

how many players needed?

4-5?

what are the commands?

is there a DM temponary Role?

[fickle salmon]

Try !tutorial initiative player and then !tutorial initiative dm

[soft echo]

thank you sir 😗

[fickle salmon]

As the channel topic states: "Purples are here to help!"

[soft echo]

so... dms needs a seperate channel

or not?

the bot accepts custom stories / games

if you are a dm and say the story by chatting

[fickle salmon]

No, you shouldn't need a seperate channel.

[soft echo]

and when you say (as dm) that the player A walks in a city and the say im burning the city

the dm will ask to roll over 40

you know how it goes

can it be done?

[viscid kernel]

They can !roll 1d100 or whatever other size die.

[fickle salmon]

!check intimidation -dc 40

[soft echo]

yes i know

im not talking about the dice command

but i seen in the tutorial

that the bot haves battles

sorry for the nsfw word 😛

[viscid kernel]

Let’s keep it family friendly, please.

[soft echo]

i said im sorry 😛

[viscid kernel]

But you can add monsters with !init madd zombie, for example.

[soft echo]

and you killed it so...as long you undestood me

madd

ok noted

[viscid kernel]

Yeah. madd for “monster add”, basically.

[soft echo]

yes i got it

as a name at least

[fickle salmon]

Well, you'd need a stat block for whatever monster you're looking to have your players fight. All the Basic Rules monsters are available, and if you have bought them on D&D Beyond and have linked your Discord account to DDB (see !tutorial beyond) you can use those as well.

[soft echo]

i can create monsters in the site?

[viscid kernel]

Any homebrew monsters you’d have to add yourself in a site called CritterDB and import them into Avrae before they’ll work.

[soft echo]

with stats

and etc

[viscid kernel]

Yup

[soft echo]

link?

[viscid kernel]

https://critterdb.com/

And then you’ll have to import it. !help bestiary import should give you the instructions.

[soft echo]

i will check it out thank you

i will copy all this 😛

[soft echo]

@fickle salmon u are here?

[fickle salmon]

Yeah?

[soft echo]

whats with <avrae hidden>NAME|TOHITBONUS|DAMAGE</avrae> ?

what i do wrong?

[fickle salmon]

It's a means of overriding the dice information without it appearing in the stat block Avrae displays.

[soft echo]

so is not for !help bestiary import

im trying to import a monster

[soft echo]

so i must add it in descp in all monsters anyway

[fickle salmon]

You can't import just a single monster, you import a whole bestiary.

[soft echo]

so i need to make share on in the bestiary

and copy that link

[fickle salmon]

Yes.

[soft echo]

tnx ❤️

[astral agate]

I have a campaign linked and the players rolls show up in discord. I would like my (dm) rolls to show up as well when running combat from encounter builder. can that be done?

[fickle salmon]

Currently, the encounter rolls are only sent to the user who posted them. (See Zhu's post here: #ddb-avrae-help message) More flexibility may be added as the feature is improved.

[astral agate]

thanks

[keen mauve]

this is happening to a friend in a game

any ideas?

His username is Truewit, which might be a part of it?

[fickle salmon]

Maybe. Can I see the result of them using !spellbook?

[keen mauve]

one sec, telling him to try with quotes first

Seen that that sometimes plays a factor before

[fickle salmon]

True.

[keen mauve]

Alright yea that worked

[narrow torrent]

Help! I have a character with the "Crusher" feat.

Part of that feat states When you score a critical hit that deals bludgeoning damage to a creature, attack rolls against that creature are made with advantage until the start of your next turn.

How can I add that as an effect so that:

A: It at the bare minimum places a description against the character in the Init order

B: Automatically turns other players attacks into attacks with advantage

E.g.

If I have an init oder of A B C D and E

It's C's turn and they target E and crit.

I want them to be able to apply at least a description, if not actually be able to build it in to other players attacks, that attacks are at advantage against E until the begining of C's next turn.

So I use !i effect E Advantage -dur 1

But that means it the effect disappears as soon as E's turn begins. If I set it to 2, it will continue past C's turn unless C removes it with !i re E Advantage

[fickle salmon]

You won't be able to do the auto-advantage for other attackers on player E. It would require a complete rewrite of the combat system. The other might be doable.

[viscid kernel]

Since this feature is keyed off the start of your turn, you’d want to add a parent effect to yourself first.

!i effect <your_name> "Crushing it!" -dur 1

Then you can add an effect to the creature you hit as a reminder for your fellow players.

[fickle salmon]

Yeah, I was just trying to figure out the proper syntax for the second effect.

[steady dew]

you can make an alias like Spam wrote out
like, marked

[viscid kernel]

!i effect <enemy> "Crushed" -parent "<your_name>|Crushing It!" -desc "Attacks against this creature can be made with advantage."

When the start of your next turn arrives, your own effect will expire, and so will the child effect on the enemy.

[narrow torrent]

Thanks, I thought it had something to do with the parent tag, but I couldn't work it out

[fickle salmon]

ponders fiddling with attack automation to have the effects added automatically on crits....

[narrow torrent]

That's a fair comment...

Could I assign the advantage to the other players do you think?

[viscid kernel]

That’s not currently possible, no.

[narrow torrent]

Fairy snuff

[viscid kernel]

Most of what can be done with effects are things that always apply.

[fickle salmon]

It's one of the automation dreams we all want, but will likely never get.

[viscid kernel]

The advantage would depend on whether or not that player is attacking this specific enemy.

[narrow torrent]

Yeah, that's getting into complicated if then arguments

[viscid kernel]

So the other players just have to add adv when they target that creature.

!a dagger adv

[narrow torrent]

Yeah, I get that bit 😉

[fickle salmon]

Or, if targetting multiple creatures, -t A -t D -t E|adv

[narrow torrent]

Right, so back to me.

I can set a parent effect on myself and a child effect on the target...

How would I set this up as aliases or snippets to minimise typing everytime?

I mean, it works be nice if it could be applied automatically, but I don't know if that's even possible, do for now I'm happy with applying manually, but I would rather not have to write it out every time.

[viscid kernel]

At its simplest:

!alias crush multiline
!i effect <your_name> "Crushing it!" -dur 1
!i effect %1% "Crushed" -parent "<your_name>|Crushing it!" -desc "Attacks against this creature can be made with advantage."

Then you’d just !crush E

[narrow torrent]

Brilliant, thank you so much

[viscid kernel]

There’s definitely ways to improve that if you dig deeper into the alias system.

[narrow torrent]

I presume I'm replacing <yourname> with the actual character name

[viscid kernel]

Or you could potentially set it up as an attack with the automation system.

[viscid kernel]

Yeah, in both spots.

[narrow torrent]

I was looking for more guides, but all Google brings back is the general avrae commands lists or Reddit pages.

[viscid kernel]

Make sure “Crushing it!” is capitalized the same way in both spots, too. I had them mismatched in the code above (since fixed).

[narrow torrent]

The parent but has to be in " " I guess

[viscid kernel]

I think it will work even if they’re not, but better safe than sorry.

If there’s a space in there, yes. And there is in the code I put above.

[narrow torrent]

Yeah, I've noticed avrae is picky about that

[viscid kernel]

This is the official documentation, including alias and automation details:
https://avrae.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[narrow torrent]

Thanks again.

Most helpful

[narrow torrent]

Looking through the automation code, if I wanted to try and script this, where would I enter the code and the curly braces? Would I write it outside and import it, or type directly in a channel?

[fickle salmon]

I tend to work with the drop down menus in the https://avrae.io/dashboard/characters attack editor. (You'll find it under the wrench icon.)

[narrow torrent]

It's 02:55 here, I'm just going to bed. It's a bit much for my tired brain to take in, so I might be missing something obvious.

I'm even replying in the wrong channels, lol.

[viscid kernel]

You can do it directly in Discord with !attack import.

But the dashboard is way easier.

[narrow torrent]

Thanks guys. I'll take a better look when I wake up.

[viscid kernel]

And if you do want to take a deep dive into automation, the Avrae dev server is the best place to get help.

[wheat garden]

spamandtuna

Check out the Avrae Development server!

On the Avrae Development server, you can follow along with the gitHub changes, find all sorts of aliases for various things, and hang out with some cool people!
Click here to Join!

[fickle salmon]

But yeah, I'll recommend a fully recharged brain to tackle messing with attack automation.

And the help on the Dev Server. 🙂

[narrow torrent]

Thanks guys, night

[viscid kernel]

G’night!

[mint monolith]

I dont think avrae has anything for psi bolstered knack, so could I have some help in i guess creating a new simple command for it.
It would involve adding a dice roll to a skill check and also subtracting from a counter

[steady dew]

not really doable

skill check, DM says if it fails, roll, if it now succeeds subtract the counter.

[pine sun]

I mean, it's very doable with an alias

[fickle salmon]

Alias assistance such as what you're asking for is generally beyond the scope of the help we offer here. There is a link to the Development Discord just above my previous comment. You'll get more assistance in the #alias-help channel there.

[mint monolith]

How so ?

[pine sun]

By following what Poliphas said. Better asked and explained in the dev server

[narrow torrent]

Right, me again - I'm struggling with the attack editor. And if i can't figure that out, I don't stand a chance coding an importing.

Are there any tutorials as to how to use the editor? Everything I have found in the documents seems biased towards hand coding, and some of the features don't seem to tie up (to me at least).

I can't even work out how to do the most basic of attacks, and whether I even need to specify the criton value if it's the default value of 20.

[empty linden]

You might get better support at the Avrae Developer Discord server.

[fickle salmon]

You don't need to specify it. But I don't know of a tutorial on the attack editor.

But I worked on the problem last night and have a priority problem.

[narrow torrent]

Yeah - Wrong channel, lol...

[narrow torrent]

How do you mean

[fickle salmon]

I can't apply the parent effect to the caster until the attack is resolved, but applying the effect to the target is part of the attack...

[narrow torrent]

Hmmm... I just noticed in one of the games I'm playing in someone cast Witch Bolt.

Is it possible to somehow import that and check its code?

[fickle salmon]

Maybe. If it's a Basic Rules spell, you can bring up a copy into your homebrew spellbook and look at the settings there.

Except it's not a Basic Rules spell...

[narrow torrent]

From the dev channel

[fickle salmon]

I work in the Avrae Dev server, however, it's good to know for others.

[narrow torrent]

The closest SRD spell appears to be Guiding Bolt

which exporting the json gives the following (apologies for incorrect formatting)

        "hit":[
          {
            "type":"damage",
            "damage":"4d6 [radiant]",
            "higher":
              {
                 "2":"1d6 [radiant]",
                 "3":"2d6 [radiant]",
                 "4":"3d6 [radiant]",
                 "5":"4d6 [radiant]",
                 "6":"5d6 [radiant]",
                 "7":"6d6 [radiant]",
                 "8":"7d6 [radiant]",
                 "9":"8d6 [radiant]"
              }
            },
            {
              "type":"ieffect",
              "name":"Guiding Bolt",
              "duration":1,
              "effects":"",
              "desc":"The next attack roll made against this target before the end of {{caster.name}}'s' next turn has advantage"
            }```

[narrow torrent]

So I'm going to stick with the alias rather than try to create the attack (for now anyway).

So thank you all for your help.

1 thing I noticed was the description wasn't showing in the !i list

I tried both -desc and -text

In the end, I just named the effect with the description. I also added the target to my character's effect description 😉

!alias crush multiline
!i effect SkullCrusher "Crushing %1%" -dur 1
!i effect %1% "Attacks against this creature can be made with advantage." -parent "SkullCrusher|Crushing"

[viscid kernel]

Yeah, the description doesn’t show in the init list.

You’d have to !i status IM6 to see it.

Which also happens automatically at the start of IM6’s turn.

[narrow torrent]

Good to know

[hidden robin]

when linking campaign doi use the invite players link or somethig else?

[empty linden]

Yes - Use Avrae's !campaign command to link your DnDBeyond campaign to Avrae and to the specified Discord channel. This allows players character sheets associated with that campaign roll on the character sheet and have those rolls displayed inside the Discord channel. See !help campaign for more information.

See #ddb-avrae-commands message

[hidden robin]

i figured it out you have to copy the url in your browser not the actual invite link

[sharp thorn]

My avrae won’t login or connect to the right account

[fickle salmon]

You've gone to https://dndbeyond.com/account and logged in with the correct Discord account there?

[sharp thorn]

Yes it’s linked on my account but when I try from discord it just re-loops me to login

[fickle salmon]

Can you run !ddb in #ddb-avrae-commands so I can see the results please?

[sharp thorn]

And went I try to add subclasses with avrae it doesn’t see I have any books

[manic estuary]

If that's with !level, the alias, then you need to read the message that comes up when you try to add a nonSRD subclass.

[sharp thorn]

Thanks

[wintry vortex]

How do i use the short rest command

[fickle salmon]

!game shortrest

Or !g sr for abbreviation...

[wintry vortex]

Also how do i cast a spell

[fickle salmon]

!cast "<spell name>" replacing <spell name> with the name of the spell.

[wintry vortex]

It says True is not a valid stat to cast with.

[fickle salmon]

Can you run !sb in #ddb-avrae-commands ?

[wintry vortex]

Yea

[empty linden]

If the spell name is composed of more than one word, you need to put it in quotes like so: !cast "Dancing Lights"

[wintry vortex]

Oh ok

Lemme try again

[fickle salmon]

Especially "speak with animals" where with is the tag to change the stat used to cast with.

[wintry vortex]

Ok it works

Ty you two

[empty linden]

You're welcome!

[neon ice]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I’ll take the shot. Was really happy to notice they’ve added monster dice roles to the Beyond encounter tracker. My game group currently uses the Beyond character sheets to role our dice and the results are set up to display in our Discord chat through Avrae. The problem is, the monster dice roles are sent as a private message to the game master. In our group we don’t like hiding our dice rolls. Is there a way to have the monster rolls sent to our Discord channel so everyone can see and not directly to the GM?

[manic estuary]

Not at this point. That's what's been made to work so far.

[neon ice]

That’s a shame. I hope we’ll be given that option down the line. I’ve been really looking forward to this feature. Unfortunately, it’ll be useless for us until than. While disappointing, I’m glad to see they’re working hard on this. Must have taken a lot of time to get it to this far. Thanks for the heads up.

[odd pewter]

Hey, how can I change my walking speed on my avrae sheet? It still says 30ft but I hit level 5 barbarian, so it should go up to 40ft now.

[fickle salmon]

Have you !updated Avrae after level up?

[odd pewter]

Yeah, I did it a few times.

[fickle salmon]

Now, speed doesn't appear on !sheet, so are you using the !vsheet alias? If so, see !manage speed help.

[odd pewter]

Yeah, vsheet. The people in the server helped me out and said to use
!manage speed set "40 ft."

Just thought it was weird it didn't update since it's right on my beyond sheet.

[fickle salmon]

Speed isn't something natively tracked by Avrae. A lot of the character data in !vsheet is stored outside of the native character created by !beyond.

[odd pewter]

Hmm, alright. I don't understand coding or this stuff very well. Just didn't want to cause confusion to the DMs.

[woven sail]

Hey! Does anybody know if there is a way to connect Avrae to a specific channel for encounter rolls?

[steady dew]

encounter?

There is a way for Campaigns, so the Game log shows up in it

[fickle salmon]

Yes. And there's a helpful tutorial on getting started in !tutorial ddb

[woven sail]

I'm running a campaign and all of the player rolls show up in the discord channel I set up, but when I run an encounter for that same campaign through dndb, all of the rolls in the encounter tool just get sent to me via a private message from Avrae...

I see the rolls in the game log, but they aren't showing in the discord channel...

[fickle salmon]

Encounter rolls are currently only set to roll privately.

[woven sail]

Ahh ok thanks. I wanted to see if I was doing something wrong, haha

Is that something that is coming in the future?

[fickle salmon]

It is a frequently requested feature, so should be developed in the future; however, details on when are not available.

[woven sail]

Ok great thanks!

On a separate note, is there a way to display the game log on an OBS for livestreams directly, or should I just have the game log open in a browser and crop the screenshare to just show the game log?

That way the audience could see the encounter rolls...

[fickle salmon]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not a streamer, so I can't help with that.

[woven sail]

Haha ok no problem, thanks for your help!

[viscid kernel]

Note on the visibility of DM dice rolls: Whilst all of the rolls you make are recorded in the Game Log, as the DM, only you will see them - they are not broadcast to your players. We plan to implement options in future iterations for DMs who prefer for their players to be able to see the dice rolls.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/changelog/966-monster-dice-rolling-for-the-encounter-builder

[woven sail]

@viscid kernel oh awesome, thanks!

[viscid kernel]

Avrae sends them to you privately because they’re marked as private. Once you have the ability to make them public in DDB, I presume Avrae will make them public, too.

[woven sail]

That makes sense.

[young arch]

I need help what was the command when you wanted to add a monster in init?

And is there a way to change the ac of the monster

[viscid kernel]

!i madd zombie -ac 15

If it’s a monster whose name has multiple words, just make sure to wrap it in quotes. !i madd "zombie ogre"

If you need to change their AC after they’ve been added, you can use !i opt ZO1 -ac 15 instead.

[young arch]

Thank you!

[molten crystal]

i want to play as some homebrewe race, to add to collection we need to subcribription, how to subscribe?

[fickle salmon]

Are you inquiring about subscribing to a homebrew race with the !level alias?

[molten crystal]

no i want to play that race

do we need to pay money or something?

[fickle salmon]

Build the homebrew race on D&D Beyond's homebrew system, create a character using that homebrew race and then import it into Avrae with !beyond.

[molten crystal]

ok

[fickle salmon]

Avrae doesn't really care what race your character is, just the stats and attacks that the character has.

[molten crystal]

yea

[sly pebble]

Question, with Avrae, how do I tell it I'm the DM?

[steady dew]

you begin initiative

but yeah there's not much 'I'm the DM' in avrae, if at all.

[sly pebble]

Ah okay

[viscid kernel]

You can give yourself a Discord role named “Dungeon Master” or “DM”.

Buuut about the only thing it does is show you the full statblock when you use !monster.

[minor vessel]

Yeah you need a Dungeon Master or DM role for like searching up monsters directly on Avrae for example, and I believe things like skipping through others' turns too.

[sly pebble]

yep, that works too.

Can you fudge rolls?

[minor vessel]

Not by any default means, no.

There may be aliases for it, but in my experience, I haven't found any way to fudge rolls yet

[steady dew]

you can roll in Avrae direct message and translate that to initiative

manually

also use -h to hide stuff

[sly pebble]

welp, then if my party gets TPK'd, they can't blame me for it 😄

[native gale]

v2.10.2 (1558)
https://github.com/avrae/avrae/releases/tag/v2.10.2

• UseCounter documentation improvements (thanks @Mahkasad.so [Pings|bplan|denc]!)
• AliasSkills can now be compared with <, >, etc. (thanks @Dice.d20{they/them}(paladin) and @Turtle.py!)
• Aliases, snippets, cvars, uvars, and gvars will now upload as a file if they are too long to view in a message
• Adds lastAttackNaturalRoll, lastSaveNaturalRoll, lastSaveDC, and lastCounterRequestedAmount variables to Automation
• Adds a warning if a user includes <> around a sheet URL when importing (thanks @ChrisHamilton91!)
• Fixes an issue where delete_uvar() would fail to delete a user's last uvar
• Fixes an unhandled error if certain Automation effects were outside a Target scope
• Fixes an issue where monster ability recharge rolls from DDB would not appear in linked channels

[keen mauve]

Is there a way to add a global save bonus in initiative like there is with AC?

Not to like all players, but a bonus to all saving throws for a specific combatant

[fickle salmon]

!init effect <target name> "Save Bonus" -sb <bonus amount>

[keen mauve]

ah thanks

Had to know for war magic things

[glossy cypress]

How do I do two-weapon-fighting with avrae?

[fickle salmon]

Let me check something...

OK, if you've created a character with two light weapons, go to your Beyond sheet, click on the off-hand weapon and then click on Customize. Under there, there should be a box marked "Dual Wield". Click on that and update Avrae. You should get an attack that doesn't have the stat bonus to damage.

[steady dew]

what's the command to view a monster portrait

[minor vessel]

!token <name of monster>

[steady dew]

ah

[fickle salmon]

!monimage brings up the full picture instead of the proper sized token. (Assuming said monster has an image associated with it.)

[keen mauve]

How do you add sectioned off description items to a weapon

[viscid kernel]

Can you give us an example?

[keen mauve]

ah never mind it just looked different on mobile

[unkempt bramble]

!spell fire bolt

[wheat garden]

garygamer

Fire Bolt

evocation cantrip. (Artificer, Sorcerer, Wizard)

Meta

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous

Description

You hurl a mote of fire at a creature or object within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 fire damage. A flammable object hit by this spell ignites if it isn't being worn or carried.

This spell's damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).

Spell | BR 242

[unkempt bramble]

@stray coral threw this link sort of link

[stray coral]

That link works correctly for me

[unkempt bramble]

The page loads fine but the character sheet crash when trying to load in after clicking on there the my char page

[empty linden]

So clicking an Avrae link to a DnDBeyond page passes the following info along: ?utm_source=avrae&utm_medium=reference which is probably for analytics purposes. I wonder if when you then click back to your character sheet if this is also being passed and causing a browser issue?

[sly pebble]

Hey guys, is there a reason Avrae links over all of discord, instead of just to the server you're linking it in? One of my players plays more than 1 campaign so it's basically impossible for them to use Avrae.

[fickle salmon]

Each campaign should only get the rolls from the character sheets in that campaign.

[sly pebble]

Do I need to do something in avrae to set that up for my server? Cause they just did a survival check, and it used a character from another campaign they're in.

[fickle salmon]

That's on the player to remember to switch the character they're using. I know I've forgotten to switch a couple of times playing in multiple campaigns.

[empty linden]

They need to make sure they have the proper character active - people can have multiple characters across multiple campaigns on different servers. But it's on the player to remember to switch to the correct character.

[fickle salmon]

I thought you were having issues with them using their DDB character sheet to roll and the roll from one campaign showed up in another channel.

[pine sun]

There is a Quick Switcher alias over on the dev server (!ch)

Definitely eases the burden if you just make it a habit to use it every time you do something on a different server

[fickle salmon]

Just a polite reminder to run commands in #ddb-avrae-commands please.

[naive minnow]

Is there a way to have my (DM) monster rolls show up in my discord channel from the combat tracker? I'm loving how simple it is to have my players roll a skill and let us all see how they did automatically. I can have my rolls show up if I'm looking at one of their character sheets.. but I'd love to be able to click on skeleton melee weapon attack and have it show up.

[empty linden]

Currently no. Monster rolls from DnDBeyond only get private messaged to the DM and are not shown to the channel at large. The dev team are aware of the desire to be able to modify how rolls are displayed and where and potentially this may be a changeable option in the future.

If you want to have monster attack rolls show up in channel (but not in the shared dice log... yet), you can use Avrae's initiative functionality.

[naive minnow]

Well thanks for the succinct answer. I can move on from trying to figure it out.

[empty linden]

But players would need to learn how to join initiative and roll with Avrae.

[naive minnow]

Yeah.. it seemed like a lot more difficulty to the players.

[empty linden]

It is a bit of a learning curve but hoo boy does it make combat streamlined!

[naive minnow]

I'll have to give it a shot sometime. THanks for the information

[empty linden]

You might be able to convince them to try out !tutorial in Avrae sometime - it gives a decent introductory primer on Avrae's commands and how to use it.

[glass ingot]

Real quick question.

How do i disable Avrae from PMing me rolls that I do? I have it set up so when my party rolls it autofeeds into a channel on my discord, but I dont like when I roll encounters how it PMs me. Is there a way to turn it off?

[fickle salmon]

Not at this time. The feedback for a way to toggle encounter rolls from private to public channels has been frequent and is likely to be high on the priority list for when additional features are added to the alpha or beta testing.

[glass ingot]

Gotcha, I dont want it pinging me on discord at all. lol So hopefully that will be an option, while still allowing campaign rolls from party members.

[sharp linden]

Got a quick question for anyone available

[viscid kernel]

Fire away

(Don’t ask to ask — just ask! 😉)

[sharp linden]

Does Avrae have specific commands for using an Aberrant Mind Sorcerer's transformations?

[viscid kernel]

There usually isn’t built-in automation for specific class features, but you can check on the Alias Workshop to see if there’s a user-made command for that.
https://avrae.io/dashboard/workshop

To do it manually, you’d first subtract the number of sorcery points: !cc "sorcery points" -2

Then if you’re in initiative, you can add an effect to track it: !i effect <your_name> "Revelation in Flesh" -dur 100 -desc "list your chosen effects here"

[sharp linden]

Not quite what I was hoping for but I suppose that will have to do.

[minor vessel]

Most automation outside of general use stuff is not covered by Avrae by default. You'll have more luck finding stuff on the Avrae workshop for that

[viscid kernel]

And honestly, none of those specific transformations even really effect what happens in Avrae.

Those are more story- and map-based things that happen outside of Avrae.

[sharp linden]

That is fair.

Just trying to make things a little easier on my DMs

[glossy cypress]

what command do I need to run to stand up and get rid of the prone condition?

[minor vessel]

!init re <name> [effect]
So let's say your character's name is Albert. It'd be:
!i re Albert prone

[glossy cypress]

ty

[willow flare]

I’m considering starting a game where I’m dming entirely using only dndbeyond and discord. Is that possible to show maps in the books on dndbeyond with the players in discord only

[hushed lotus]

you... didn't need to post it in multiple channels. the general chat was fine to ask about it...

in fact, you have an answer for that question in general right now

[willow flare]

When I posted in the general group you told me there’s a guide for this... so I posted here....

[hushed lotus]

well yes, but that wasn't a telling you to come in here... I just said there's literally a guide

[willow flare]

And the guide didn’t answer the question I had about maps did it?

[hushed lotus]

I suppose in this case it didn't, but in my defense you didn't specifically ask about maps until after I sent the message (or at the same time I sent it), at which point other people answered that

[hidden robin]

how do i use a command for dark one own luck?

[steady dew]

!s/c -b 1d10

that makes the save or check and you add a d10 via -b

[hidden robin]

hmm it didnt make the roll do i need to replace something in that?

[hushed lotus]

!s <insert skill> -b 1d10

or !c <insert check> -b 1d10

[hidden robin]

gotcha it works now

[thorn beacon]

Hi, do you know if there is a way for a single character to reroll initiative in initiative tracker?

[fickle salmon]

You could !check initiative and then init opt <name> -p <check result>.

[thorn beacon]

Thanks

[thorn beacon]

ok, one last question, is there a way to remove note in initiative?

i know that !init note <name> [note] adds

[fickle salmon]

Should be just an empty !init note <name>

[thorn beacon]

oh yes, i thought it adds additional notes, not overwrites them, thank you

[ornate flare]

is there a way to add a hombrew monster in avrae so i could use him in intiative

[fickle salmon]

Yes! Currently, you have to use a third party site (CritterDB) to create your homebrew monsters to import into Avrae. See !help bestiary for details on getting to CritterDB and importing your monsters afterwards.

The hope is when the homebrew revamp is completed at D&D Beyond, that an in-house homebrew monster command is made available.

[flat drum]

(With save attacks?) 🙏

[fickle salmon]

Let me check the details I have about that... looks at blank sheet of paper Well.... I can't rule it out?

[hidden robin]

how do i use monster_atk if i want to lets say attack as a cave bear?

[hushed lotus]

If you're in initiative and it is the cave bear's turn, then !i a "<name of attack>" -t <target ID>

if it isn't the cave bear's turn and/or you are not in initiative, then I believe it's !ma "<monster name>" "<name of attack>"

[hidden robin]

oh alright

[young arch]

It's !ma <monster name> <name of attack>

[hushed lotus]

oop, you're right

[young arch]

I tested it quick

[hushed lotus]

but with quotes, especially if the monster name is multiple words

[young arch]

Ye

[hidden robin]

so ! ma then the name in quote then the nam,e of the attack, is it simmilar for saves?

[hushed lotus]

the name of the attack should be in quotes too if it's multiple words.

and yes, same for saves. !ms "<monster name>" <save type>

[flat drum]

In init and not the monster's turn you can also use
!init aoo GO1 "<attack name>" -t neut

for an attack of opportunity

[steady dew]

!i aoo GO1 Sc -t [targets name] for example

i for init, sc for scimitar

[flat drum]

!init rc MA1 "<spell name>" -t neut

For reaction cast (or casting from a combatant in a group)

[steady dew]

is there automation on dragons breath?

[viscid kernel]

There is, with a few caveats.

RAW, the target is the one who receives the breath weapon, and can use it against other creatures.

When you !cast it, though, the -t is those other creatures.

[steady dew]

so how do I slap it onto the recipient of the magicks

[viscid kernel]

You can manually assign an effect if you want to track it.

And then the recipient can !cast "dragon's breath" -i to use it.

The reason for all that, I believe, is because effects don’t currently support attacks with saving throws.

If it did (and hopefully it will in the future), then this could finally be optimized.

(You’d target the recipient, it would add an effect with an attack, and they’d !a "dragon’s breath".)

Looks like there’s already a feature request for it, thankfully. 👍

[young arch]

What was the command to show a monsters portrait?

[fickle salmon]

!monimage

[young arch]

Thank you

[keen mauve]

^is there a way to do that without it displaying the name

[steady dew]

-h didn't work

[fickle salmon]

It doesn't appear to be a way to hide the name...

[young arch]

I'm pretty sure you can download the image by pressing on it (mobile) or right click and copy ,after that post the img

[keen mauve]

ye but it'd be easier if there was just a way to hide the name

[young arch]

Yeah,but it appears there isn't any

[empty linden]

I pull monster images and stat blocks into a channel just for me, the DM, to see. Then I can grab the bits and parts I need and paste those into the play channel without revealing everything to the players.

[flat drum]

Token doesn't work either

Sorry, commands in #ddb-avrae-commands ?

[fickle salmon]

Yes, please.

[fickle salmon]

Just a polite reminder to please keep commands in #ddb-avrae-commands

[flat drum]

(you can also restrict avrae from reading this channel)

[steady dew]

I mean, they could
only let avrae do stuff in the game channels or the commands channel

[fickle salmon]

It's been considered... but right now a few polite reminders usually keeps the channel clear. And it allows running a few aliases, like !avrae-dev to point people with advanced problems over to the Avrae Development Discord. When keeping this channel clear becomes a great chore, it may be reconsidered...

[steady dew]

is there a way to break concentration with avrae

[minor vessel]

If you're using the !conc alias for concentration, then it's just !conc drop

If not, then !i re <target> <effect> should work too

You can get the !conc alias on the Workshop, if you are interested

[empty tendon]

Question is there a way to connect a campaign with avrae in a specific server so die rolls made in the character sheet also appear in the discord

[viscid kernel]

Yes there is! !campaign <url>

Your players also need to import their characters and make sure their accounts are linked. !tutorial beyond will walk them through the steps.

[empty tendon]

thanks!

[dense atlas]

how do I attack with a blood curse?

[viscid kernel]

Avrae doesn’t typically have built-in automation for specific class features.

But you can check on the Alias Workshop to see if there’s any user-made commands available.
https://avrae.io/dashboard/workshop

Otherwise, you’d just follow the rules of the feature and resolve it step by step.

Blood Curse of Binding, for example. You’d have the target make a saving throw (!ms bandit str -dc 12).

And if they fail, you can add an effect to track it. !i effect BA1 bound -desc “Your speed is reduced to 0, and you can’t take reactions"

Looks like this alias might work for you, though.
https://avrae.io/dashboard/workshop/5f6f9b1e192fdca3888bc29d

[scenic plaza]

How can you get avrae to post rolls in a specific channel instead of PM the DM? The DM would like to have the rolls from combat tracker to be seen in the group channel, as open rolls.

[fickle salmon]

Not at this time. The feedback for a way to toggle encounter rolls from private to public channels has been frequent and is likely to be high on the priority list for when additional features are added to the alpha or beta testing.

[scenic plaza]

Thanks for the fast reply👍

[fickle salmon]

(Copy paste from similar question last week.)

[restive sun]

So I linked my campaign to my discord using the bot and I'm getting one of my players to help me test it. His rolls from ddb aren't showing up on discord and vice versa.

[viscid kernel]

Have him run through !tutorial beyond to make sure everything’s set up correctly.

[restive sun]

Will do

It is

How would it work for me as the dm or is it strictly a player tool?

[gusty egret]

DM rolls are currently set to private only. This applies to the game log too.

However, Avrae has many tutorials for different things including a few DM tutorials, you can use !tutorial list to get them.

[viscid kernel]

Did that solve the issue, then?

[steady dew]

what's the way to do auto-fail saves in avrae?
casting a spell, petrified creatures autofail str and dex saves

is it just -t (thing)|fail

[fickle salmon]

add fail if that is the only target like !cast "fireball" -t statue fail or if there's a mix you can mark the petrified targets with -t go1|fail -t go2

[steady dew]

yeah
one thing failed, and the other thing was petrified, autofail

[fickle salmon]

Hope you're not the DM, then... sounds like whatever you're fighting is in a tough spot.

[steady dew]

player

TCB is a good spell

two things taking 4d4 damage at the start of their turns, each, unless they waste an action

[steady dew]

okay, the chances of Avrae rolling approximately 200 total out of around 30d100 over the past few days is... really really low.

30, 26, 22, 2, 12, 2, 26, 15, 14, 27, 20

like, that's been the last few rolls for me

and it's not been any better

out of d100

nothing above 30.

[fickle salmon]

does some math 15 rolls on a d100 with nothing above a 30 is a 1:70,000,000 chance, approximately. It's possible, just the regular irregularities of random chance.

[steady dew]

yeah it's been really screwing with the random table chancing going on in my (non DND) game. Been getting terrible results for so long

[flat drum]

#ddb-avrae-commands message

Here is a list of roll results for a d20 with the dice roller Avrae uses.

Taking 1,000,000,000 rolls into account.

[native gale]

v2.10.3 (1559)
https://github.com/avrae/avrae/releases/tag/v2.10.3

• Modifying CC values now allows using dice for the value (thanks @Mahkasad.so [Pings|bplan|denc]!)
• Added randchoice and improved randint in Draconic (thanks @Dice.d20{they/them}!)
• Fixes an issue where the critdice csetting overrode the arg (thanks @Dice.d20{they/them}!)
• Fixes an issue where !alias list could fail to display if subscribed to exactly 24 workshop collections
• Fixes an issue where using SimpleCombatant.set_init() could cause the initiative list to become unsorted
• Minor doc fixes

[keen mauve]

How do you use your homebrew spells? I used to be able to cast them but not anymore

[empty linden]

Do you mean DnDBeyond-created homebrew spells?

Or Avrae's !tome tool to manage custom spells?

[keen mauve]

Avrae's

[empty linden]

If you type !tome does it list your hombrew tome?

[keen mauve]

Yep

[empty linden]

Hmmm. And it used to work previously?

[keen mauve]

Correct

wait...

it shows up when doing -i

but not otherwise

[empty linden]

I think this is by design? I think Avrae, when it pulls in the DnDBeyond character sheet, it doesn't have a way of connecting the custom spells in a tome to a character. So to cast these spells you have to use the -i tag and manually manage spell slots. The Avare developers may know more about how this is supposed to work.

[viscid kernel]

No, if you've got the spell named exactly the same in both DDB and your tome, it should work as normal.

But why they stopped here, I don't know. Do you need to have that tome active? 🤔

[keen mauve]

I mean I don't have it in DDB

It requires ro1, which I don't think is available on beyond

[viscid kernel]

Then that's probably your answer.

If you run !spellbook, I assume that spell is not in the list?

[keen mauve]

yea

[viscid kernel]

Then yeah, that's definitely why.

[keen mauve]

manual 'tis

[viscid kernel]

FWIW, it always uses the Avrae automation, regardless of how it's set up in DDB.

You really only need a spell with the same name. The rest of the details in DDB are irrelevant for this.

[urban ore]

Do ddb app/site and Avrae use the same random code for dice rolling? If not, does anyone know which is more random? I'm still new to these tools, but it looks like Avrae has more functionality.

[empty linden]

DnDBeyond uses a physics engine to seed a PRNG generator (I think?) to generate the dice rolls. Avrae uses a PRNG generator. They should both be functionally equivalent as far as randomness. Avrae does have a bit more options currently because of the flags (-rr, -ro, -mi, etc.) that can modify the roll or trigger rerolls or use exploding dice (eg. if you roll a specified number on a dice, reroll that dice again and add it to the tally), etc.

[urban ore]

Oh, I was wondering what exploding dice meant.

I don't know what the p stands for, but that all sounds really good.

Thank you @empty linden

[hushed lotus]

Pseudo-Random number generation

the DDB physics engine takes a unique seed from variables within the computer's hardware and uses that to generate numbers + physics

[midnight finch]

Can avrae sync with the encounter or combat tracker?

[empty linden]

Not yet.

[flat drum]

@keen mauve to add to your answers earlier, you can manually add spells to your spellbook from discord
!sb add "name of your spell"

If you have a character that needs a custom spell name in their spellbook.

[empty linden]

Thanks TheReverendB for showing how to add !tome spells to a character sheet! I didn't know about the !spellbook add feature!

[zealous sail]

Hey on some servers i've noticed they had the commands !xp and !coins to add xp and coins? Is this an avrae feature if so how do you get it to work?

[empty linden]

Those are aliases (custom code) used to add additional functionality to Avrae. Check out https://avrae.io/dashboard/workshop for various user-created Aliases that you can subscribe to and use with Avrae.

The Avrae developer Discord also has folks who can help you learn how to write your own aliases and snippets.

[zealous sail]

Ohhh cool. wheres that?

[empty linden]

Avrae.io is the website - they have a Discord link there in the navigation. It might also be pinned here in the channel.

Here's the link specifically for the Discord server: http://support.avrae.io/

[manic estuary]

!xp and !coins are both not on the workshop, unless someone else "made their own versions" to put up there. You can find them (and !bag, !coins's big sister) on the Dev Server.

[zealous sail]

How do you remove a serveralias iif you put it in wrong?

because someone gave me one for coins and it said this

Error on line 1, col 5:
f'''{'{'2}args=[]{'}'2}'''
^
draconic.exceptions.DraconicSyntaxError: invalid syntax
This is an issue in a user-created command; do not report this on the official bug tracker.

[viscid kernel]

!servalias delete <name>

[zealous sail]

Thanks :)

[manic estuary]

That error is because it lost asterisks from being copied outside of a codeblock.

I believe the current version of it on the Dev Server has changes that can prevent that.

[keen mauve]

I believe you can also overwrite it with the same name

[zealous sail]

Ohh okayyy i really dont understand any of this xD

[keen mauve]

Code is confusing

[viscid kernel]

You can use !tutorial initiative to go over the basics of it.

[minor vessel]

Or more precisely, !tutorial Initiative (Player) if you want to learn it from a Player's perspective, and !tutorial Initiative (DM) if you want to learn it from a DM's perspective/use

[viscid kernel]

Yeah, I was lazy and figured I’d let Avrae point that out. 😛

[zealous sail]

Hey quick question. My friend is on the aliasing part for avrae and he is clicking add to server whilst logged on and it is doing nothing for him

[empty linden]

The alias gets added to the server as a serveralias - you can see which server aliases are active on that server by using the !serveralias command.

[zealous sail]

Ye but it doesn't show a list of servers for him to click on the website

[fickle salmon]

You have to be server owner or have a specific role on the server to do so.

[empty linden]

To add a serveralias to a server you need to have the admin, "DM" or "dragonspeaker" role on the server

[zealous sail]

He is, But like no servers are showing up when he cliicks add to server so he cant add aliases

[fickle salmon]

Is he logged into Discord on the Avrae website?

[zealous sail]

Mhm its weird why its not working

Like the dropdown doesn't show when he clicks add to server

[fickle salmon]

Wierd. The only thing I can can suggest is logging out and logging back in again.

[zealous sail]

Yeah triied that xD

[fickle salmon]

And they don't have multiple Discord accounts? If you're logging into the wrong one it won't show.

[zealous sail]

Adblocker was breaking it

sorry forgot to write back mb

[inland pike]

So I have a small issue. I play with two groups one which uses avrae but we use google sheets and roll manually and the other uses dnd beyond and linked their beyond sheets. The problem is that now when I roll for my google sheet group it’ll show my character from my second group. I unlinked my discord from my dnd sheet and beyond as well as reuploading my googlsheet to avrae for my first group but when I roll it still shows up as my dnd beyond character 🙃

[viscid kernel]

You always have one active character at a time in Avrae.

You can switch between them using !char <name>

[inland pike]

Ahhh thank you so much it worked!! :))

[crystal galleon]

so, i notice that with one of my characters, whenever they attack with a greataxe, the dice roll used for it is "1d12ro<3". i know what kh and kl means, but what does ro mean?

[gusty egret]

Checkout the !help in #ddb-avrae-commands

[viscid kernel]

reroll once if it’s less than 3.

So if you roll a 1 or 2, it will reroll. If that’s also a 1 or 2, you keep it.

[steady dew]

hang on, GWF style auto-processes?

doesn't have to be manual???

[viscid kernel]

You have to create the attack manually.

[steady dew]

dammit.

[viscid kernel]

But then yes, it will work without having to adjust every individual attack.

[steady dew]

But then why would they question it if they made it like that?

[manic estuary]

You don't have to create the attack manually.

Unless you're using a custom weapon.

[viscid kernel]

Oh? Did that change at some point?

[manic estuary]

But if you have the feat and you're wielding a weapon that qualifies, the attack will import with the ro<3 as part of it.

A very long time ago. Before the plague.

[viscid kernel]

Must have missed that one. Good to know!

[steady dew]

with avrae?

you just... begin initiative, the players use their characters, you add monsters and control them

!i madd [monster name
such as
!i madd zombie

#ddb-avrae-commands message

you'd use !i begin

you know, to begin it

what were you trying to do?

nahp, it's always !i or !init when it comes to initiative

[empty linden]

Also Avrae help command can show you all the available commands, subcommands, and options.

[wheat garden]

TheReverendB

Avrae Cheatsheets:

Getting Started

DM Combat

Player Combat

[flat drum]

Check those out and there is the !tutorial command now as well that walks you through combat.

[steady dew]

!i end

[empty linden]

i end

[flat drum]

https://avrae.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cheatsheets/dm_combat.html

[steady dew]

!i end not 'i end'

[flat drum]

Not everyone has the same prefix

[empty linden]

Sorry on mobile atm and it’s hard typing

[steady dew]

the default prefix is ! and people new to avrae probably won't mess around with pretty core functions of them

[fathom needle]

so im making a server for my personal campaign. how would I go about making a server alias that rolls with advantage and disadvantage. ex: !adv would output two iterations of 2d20 and drops the lowest value. just trying to make things as easy as possible for my players. thanks for the help in advance!

[viscid kernel]

!servalias adv r 2d20kh1
!servalias dis r 2d20kl1

But that won’t add any modifiers from their character sheet.

I’d recommend just using the built-in commands instead.

!check stealth adv
!save con dis
!attack dagger adv

[fathom needle]

alrighty thanks a ton

[young arch]

Okay so what's the command to have a enemy spellcaster cast a spell?

[viscid kernel]

Outside of initiative, it's !mcast <monster_name> <spell_name>

[young arch]

I'm inițiative pls

In*

[viscid kernel]

If it's their turn in initiative, you can use !i cast <spell_name>

If it's someone else's turn in initiative, you can use !i reactcast <combatant_name> <spell_name>

[young arch]

Thanks

[clever geode]

Hey question about the bot, think someone could help me try to link the bot to googlesheets?

cause I'm at a huge lost attempting to do this

[viscid kernel]

I think you use !help gsheet to get the template.

[clever geode]

!help gsheet

[wheat garden]

I have sent help to your PMs.

[viscid kernel]

Make a copy of it, fill it out, and then use !gsheet <url> to upload it.

But the folks on the Avrae dev server are better equipped to help with that process.

[wheat garden]

spamandtuna

Check out the Avrae Development server!

On the Avrae Development server, you can follow along with the gitHub changes, find all sorts of aliases for various things, and hang out with some cool people!
Click here to Join!

[clever geode]

Thanks!

[viscid kernel]

(We mostly deal with DDB character sheets on this server, for obvious reasons. 😜)

[clever geode]

yeah xD

[manic estuary]

(Your thinking was all correct though, Spam 😉)

[viscid kernel]

Dicecloud is the one where I have no idea.

[manic estuary]

Ditto. It's supposedly easy once you get past the initial learning curve, but it's a right mess to figure out without help at first.

(This coming from the person who wrote about all the formulas on the automated gsheet)

(Yes, dicecloud is more complicated than that if you don't have a guide)

[clever geode]

Hey back at ya agian with this lol, I got it working (Thanks spam) but how do I add resistances?

like how you can add barbarian rages?

[viscid kernel]

For temporary effects like rage, you’d typically add it as an effect while in initiative.

[clever geode]

ah

[viscid kernel]

!i effect <char_name> Rage -resist bludgeoning -resist piercing -resist slashing

[clever geode]

what about perm ones?

like Tieflings fire resistance?

[viscid kernel]

You’d probably add that on your character sheet.

[clever geode]

I attempted to but it didn't work-

I'm used to dndbeyond not this Gsheet xD

[viscid kernel]

How to do that on gsheet, I don’t know. 😅

[manic estuary]

If you use the automated (2.1) gsheet, then selecting your race will automatically fill in your racial resistances on the Additional page. If you're using the manual (1.4) gsheet, then you fill in your resistances on the Additional page.

[clever geode]

Where's the additional pages?

[manic estuary]

Page. See the tabs at the bottom.

[clever geode]

oh!

[manic estuary]

There's a page named "Additional"

[clever geode]

I did not see that!

thanks

[viscid kernel]

I assume you’ll need to !update after you add that, too.

[clever geode]

Alright

I did it imma test it real quick

though only one is glowing green?

[manic estuary]

Huh?

[clever geode]

attempting to see if I can get these to work

like Radiant is glowing green

[manic estuary]

That's conditional formatting, and it's not part of the base sheet afaik.

[clever geode]

oh?

[manic estuary]

aka it won't matter for import

[clever geode]

oh

so it wouldn't work at all?

[manic estuary]

No, it will import the radiant and necrotic. The green background though, that's irrelevant

[clever geode]

ohh

Alrighty! thank you!

[viscid kernel]

If it worked, those should show up if you use !sheet.

[harsh skiff]

Anyone have a command that lets me apply my charisma modifier to my eldritch blast?

[fickle salmon]

As part of the !cast command, you can add the tag -d {charismaMod} to your eldritch blast to increase the damage by your Charisma modifier automatically. (Spelling and capitalization has to be exact though.)

So !cast "eldritch blast" -d {charismaMod}

[harsh skiff]

Ok

Is there any way to make a permanent modifier or no

[fickle salmon]

No. Avrae uses a base library for every spell automation which doesn't take into account effects like invocations and other class features. There is a way to quicken that called a !snippet.

If you use !snippet ag -d {charismaMod} -f "Agonizing Blast|Adds Charisma modifer to *eldritch blast* damage." you can simplify the casting to !cast eldritch ag

[sacred bay]

is there a way to clear Avrae messages?

[fickle salmon]

Not without moderator powers.

[sacred bay]

its my server lol

[empty linden]

Other than manually deleting them from the channel, not that I'm aware of.

[drowsy bolt]

how can I set my role to Dungeon Master in my own server?

[minor vessel]

You just create a role as you would in a Discord server you have the necessary permissions in, and assign it to yourself.

[viscid kernel]

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/206029707-How-do-I-set-up-Permissions-

The role name is the only part that matters. You don’t need to worry about permissions or anything.

The only thing that role really does, though, is let you look up the full statblock with !monster.

[minor vessel]

And forcefully !init next a player's turn in initiative for example too

But yeah, its benefits aren't extensive

[sinful dagger]

I have a question about monsters I have added to an initiative

[steady dew]

yes?

you can alter things plentifully but it can occasionally get finagly

[sinful dagger]

So a Giant Fire Beetles has the same calling as a giant toad?

As in "GI (#)"

[steady dew]

I think it'd use a different... thing

let's test?

[sinful dagger]

Ok

[steady dew]

yes they do

okay and that is two natural 1's

but yes they do

[sinful dagger]

Does it differentiate the stats though?

[steady dew]

yes of course it does

a toad is different to a fire beetle

thing 1 is not thing 2, vice versa

same two first letters doesn't equal same thing, :P

[sinful dagger]

I noticed it did this with the bandit and the bandit captain as well

[steady dew]

yeah

you can alter the name with a command

[sinful dagger]

Really?

[steady dew]

!i madd (thing) -name (name)

[sinful dagger]

I was going to make cheat cards for my encounters anyway. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't screwing it all up for the players

[steady dew]

like !i madd Bandit -name Barry would add the name Barry to initiative, with the statblock of a bandit attached to it.

[sinful dagger]

That would be super helpful! Thank you!

[steady dew]

since BA1 would be a placeholder plus easy code, for example.

you can also use, to my recollection, -p to set initiative. like !i join "Bandit Captain" -p 17 -name "Bandy Namcap" would add Bandy Namcap, a Bandit Captain, to initiative with a set initiative of 17

real nice for any accidentally messed up init beginnings

[sinful dagger]

Thank you again!

[minor vessel]

For future reference, if you've forgotten to alter the name and wish to do it still, you can do !i opt <creature code> -name "New Name"

[flat drum]

Also make sure to use quotes as avrae won't see "bandit captain" if you type !init madd bandit captain
Needs to be !init madd "bandit captain"

[rotund vault]

If I'm a sherpard druid summoning 4 black bear is there a way with avrae to get my "encounter"/summon to roll in my discord like my character from DnDBeyond?

[viscid kernel]

You can use things like !ma "black bear" claws outside of initiative.

Or you can add them to initiative (!i madd "black bear") and attack on its turn with !i a claws.

You can run through !tutorial running the game or !tutorial initiative (dm) for more info.

[low jacinth]

for spells like moonbeam or flame arrows how do you continue the effect without casting the spell again?

[viscid kernel]

Use !cast again but add -i to avoid using up another spell slot.

!cast moonbeam -i

[keen mauve]

At times I wish there were ways to get secondary effects from spells automated

Like Storm Sphere's 4d6 lightning damage

[viscid kernel]

There are spells that give you a temporary attack to use for those subsequent rounds. Spiritual weapon, for example.

But that currently only works for attack spells, not saving throw spells.

Although I'm pretty sure that's already been submitted as a feature request.

[low jacinth]

i know witch bolt does

[viscid kernel]

Because that doesn't need a saving throw in later rounds.

[keen mauve]

I'm just planning on making another spell with a similar name to mimic the effects

[viscid kernel]

OH! I misunderstood earlier.

Storm Sphere does indeed add an attack for you, called Lightning Storm.

[keen mauve]

oh nice

[viscid kernel]

So you'd:

!cast "storm sphere" -t bo1
!attack "lightning storm" -t bo2

[keen mauve]

and I can just add adv onto that nice

[viscid kernel]

Yes, you can!

After you cast the spell, you can use !i status or !i a list on your turn to see the attack.

And when the spell ends, that attack disappears with it.

[young arch]

How do you roll for stats like 4d6 times 5

[empty linden]

!rr 5 4d6

But stat is !rr 6 4d6kh3 where we roll 6 times 4d6 and (k)eep the (h)ighest 3.

Or you can use the built in !randchar to roll stats.

Like so: #ddb-avrae-commands message

[young arch]

Thank you

[flat drum]

Instead of recasting with just -i, if you recast using -i noconc it will recast while ignoring the spell slot and will not reset the concentration effect duration.
@viscid kernel FYI

Not as important for flame arrows as most players don't fight for over one hour.

[viscid kernel]

Oh right! Good call.

[green pulsar]

The Enhanced Sphinx from Lost Laboratory of Kwalish is showing as not having an image to create token with, despite their being an image for it in the module

[viscid kernel]

Probably because there's not an image tied to the monster stat block in DDB.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/enhanced-sphinx

I see. The book itself doesn't contain an actual statblock for that creature.

It just says to use they gynosphinx with a few changes.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/llok/monastery-of-the-distressed-body#C2EnhancedSphinx

But yeah, presumably the creature in the picture there is the enhanced sphinx itself, so I can at least pass a request to the team to see if they can add it.

[blazing violet]

can i use aurora on the aravae bot

[viscid kernel]

What's aurora?

[empty linden]

I think Aurora is another character creator/manager tool. And the answer is no. Avrae only supports DnDBeyond, DiceCloud and gSheet. The developer has said they will not work on supporting other character sheet managers. That said, Avrae is open source so if you want to figure out how to build that functionality, you can certainly try.

[viscid kernel]

If you do go that route, I wouldn't submit anything without talking to the Avrae dev server first.

And if it's this Aurora, I'd think twice before putting any eggs in that basket. Doesn't seem like it's even getting any support itself.
https://aurorabuilder.com/posts/1360/aurora-project-postponed-indefinitely/

[green pulsar]

This is the stat-block I get when I click on the Enhanced Sphinx link

https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/enhanced-sphinx

[viscid kernel]

Yeah, that was the first one I linked.

But that statblock doesn’t actually exist in the book itself.

Only Gynosphinx shows up in the appendix.

And then the area that uses the enhanced sphinx says this:

The enhanced sphinx is a gynosphinx, with these changes:

So to make things easier for users, DDB took that gynosphinx statblock, applied those changes, and renamed it accordingly.

[sharp linden]

Is there a way to make Avrae automatically add the +2 damage for Deulist fighting style while using Shadow Blade?

[steady dew]

have a damage bonus of 2, as an effect.
i effect character Dueling -d +2

[flat drum]

Adding it as an effect will also apply extra damage to any other attacks you make.

I would just add it to your attack when you make it, or, you could remove and remake the shadow blade effect after you cast it, adding the +2 damage.

!i re NAME "blade of shadow"

!i effect NAME "Dueling Blade of Shadow" -attack "HIT|DAMAGE|DESCRIPTION" -dur 10 conc

So something like: !i effect NAME "Dueling Blade of Shadow" -attack "{dexterityMod+proficiencyBonus}|3d8+{dexterityMod+2}[psychic]|My cool shadow blade" -dur 10 conc

(You can also just enter the numbers)

[flat drum]

But certainly !a shadow -d 2 is much easier to remember.

[manic estuary]

Do not run the tutorials (or most commands) in this channel. I assume you stopped because it's been 30 minutes since you called that, but for future reference and for others.

[fringe mason]

What's the best way for me to handle my steel defender with avrae?

If you could ping me when you respond I would greatly appreciate it.

Also I might fall asleep soon, so sorry if I don't respond

[viscid kernel]

@fringe mason You can create custom statblocks on CritterDB and import them into Avrae from there. See !help bestiary for instructions.
https://critterdb.com/

[fringe mason]

I don't think I can do that if I'm a player, can I?

[pine sun]

yes

[minor vessel]

You can, and you can add it to your own bestiaries, from which you can get a monster from when, say, entering init.

[viscid kernel]

There's only like three things Avrae restricts to the DM.

• Viewing the full statblock with !monster
• Using !i next on someone else's turn
• Using !campaign

[sour gyro]

So I created a subclass in ddb that uses Con as its spell casting stat, and tied a homebrew spell made in the avrae dashboard to its lists. For some reason, when I use !cast with this spell, it gives me an error saying "Error: No spell save DC found. Use the -dc argument to specify one!" I know I've set the subclass to use Con, but I'm still getting this error. What other fields could I be missing on the dnd beyond website to cause this? I was using it like this before, and it worked just fine. I've yet to try any spells on ddb.

[tiny flicker]

I've just tested with a character that use the Aberrant Dragonmark feat (CON as spellcasting ability) and that appears to work just fine. Does your custom subclass display the proper save DC on your DDB character sheet? I'm about to attempt to recreate the problem, but thought in the meantime you could do some troubleshooting. My two main thoughts that I'll be testing are: 1) It's possible that an entire subclass with a different spellcasting ability might be unexpected; and 2) Have you tried casting any other spell besides your homebrew spell? It's possible that your homebrew spell is causing the problem, and also worth investigating.

[sour gyro]

So, DDB is pulling my spell save and other such stuff, but when I use !sb for avrae, it doesn't detect any spell save dc for me.

So something is being lost in translation from DDB to Avrae

[tiny flicker]

This is particularly strange, since I've now tested two different subclasses with CON as a spellcasting stat: first a bard (already a spellcaster), then a barbarian (not a standard spellcaster), and !sb has worked for me in both cases. The only think I can think of (prior to testing it) is: Is this subclass for a normally non-spellcasting class? If so, have you given the subclass either Spellcasting or Pact Magic as a subclass feature?

[sour gyro]

I switched it to a wizard (which is when the problem started by the looks of it), but it used to be a warlock character sheet

[viscid kernel]

Do you have a link to the character?

[sour gyro]

Yes. There's some stuff missing, but it should be working fine (this character is actually a homebrew class, so many things will seem out of place or straight up blank)

The link shows an older version of it, but it takes you to the right sheet apparently

https://www.dndbeyond.com/profile/BLBestBoi/characters/36087844

[viscid kernel]

And which one is the spell that’s giving you trouble?

Honestly, if you’re trying to do a homebrew class, you’d probably have an easier time importing through GSheet or Dicecloud instead.

But yeah, if you do !spellbook, it does show that there’s no spell save DC or spell attack bonus. 🤔

[minor vessel]

I advocate for that too 😂 I'd suggest the 1.4v GSheet as that's the most flexible, especially for homebrewing things which differ a good amount from official content

DDB is convenient when it comes to official material, or homebrew similar to official material, but otherwise.. GSheets and Dicecloud are definitely the more effective and efficient methods to go with

[sour gyro]

I used to use Gsheet, but I've been able to make do with DDB, since theres a lot of things I can tweak. I had no problems until I switched the class to Wizard (was trying to make something new work), but I guess I can switch it back to warlock and see if it works

I'm just unsure as to what I did differently when setting the subclass for the wizard, as compared to the warlock. It looks like I marked the same boxes and whatnot

[viscid kernel]

AFAIK, a subclass can’t actually replace a base class’s spellcasting ability.

I believe that option only really works for things like Eldritch Knight that add spellcasting to a martial class.

Which is why the numbers at the top of your Spells tab are still showing with an INT calculation.

[sour gyro]

They show as Con numbers for me?

[viscid kernel]

Oh wait! Yeah, you’re right. 😂

[sour gyro]

(besides that, it was working until I switched the class yesterday)

I'd still think that Avrae would just use my Int, but for some reason it takes neither

I wonder if its because I added them as at will spells granted inside of a subclass feature, rather than just additional spells... that'd be strange, but its the only thing I can think of that I did differently

Fixed it

That was the issue

[fickle salmon]

Just a friendly reminder to keep commands for Avrae in #ddb-avrae-commands please.

[wooden dagger]

My apologies