I know I've seen at least a few mentions of running games via MapTools. Has anybody done so and made custom macros for it? I'm starting to set up MapTools to work for Eclipse Phase, and the more things I can automate, the better. Within reason, at least. So far, I've mainly got initiative tracking set up. Since it was a bit of a pain in the butt, I figured I'd share the macros so that others can use them. [b]These assume that you assign a new token property called "Initiative" to all tokens in the game (easily done through the Campaign Properties menu.)[/b] MapTools tokens have initiative by default, but it's stored separately from the other properties, and after some fiddling around, I couldn't find an easy way to access it. So, I took five seconds to add my own. Both of these macros should probably be added to the Global panel so that players can't hit them. On the Campaign panel, I put a simple Dice macro that rolls 1d100. [collapse collapsed title=Next Initiative] This macro does the following: [list][*] If there is no fight ongoing, a fight begins. The round number becomes 1, and all tokens on the map roll initiative and are added to the Initiative list. If a token has no Initiative assigned to it, it appears to default to 0. Whoever had the highest modified initiative roll receives the initiative.[*] If a fight is ongoing and the creature that currently has initiative isn't the last in the list for this round, the next creature now has the initiative.[*] If a fight is ongoing and the creature that currently has initiative is the last in the list for this round, the round ends, the next round begins, all creatures reroll initiative, and the highest initiative roll among them receives the initiative.[/list] Note that this macro outputs the round number and whose turn it is. In my code, they're bolded to stand out. The boards seem to filter out my HTML tags, so you'll have to add the bold tags in yourself. [code] [r, IF(getCurrentInitiative() +1 == initiativeSize()), CODE: { [h: roundNumber = getInitiativeRound()] [r, IF(roundNumber != 0): "Round over!"] [h:setCurrentInitiative(-1)] [h, IF(roundNumber==-1): roundNumber = 0; roundNumber = roundNumber + 1] [h: setInitiativeRound(roundNumber)] [h: roundNumberConcat = "Round " + roundNumber + " start!"] [r: roundNumberConcat] [h: tokenList = getTokens()] [h,foreach(token, tokenList), CODE: { [h: switchToken(token)] [h: init = getProperty("Initiative", token)] [h: addToInitiative(token)] [h: setInitiative(1d100 + init)] }] [h: sortInitiative()] [h: nextInitiative()] [h: initToken = getInitiativeToken()] [h: initName = getName(initToken)] [h: outputLine = "" + initName + " has the initiative!"] [r: outputLine] }; { [h: nextInitiative()] [h: initToken = getInitiativeToken()] [h: initName = getName(initToken)] [h: outputLine = "" + initName + " has the initiative!"] [r: outputLine] }] [/code] [/collapse] [collapse collapsed title=End Fight] This macro ends the ongoing fight. The initiative list is cleared and the round number is reset to 0. [code] [h: removeAllFromInitiative()] [h: setInitiativeRound(0)] [r: "Fight over!"] [/code] [/collapse]