foundry-vtt-macros VS Nathans-DnD5e-Foundry-Modules

If you're willing to learn some javascript you can code macros yourself for many useful functionalities. As mentioned before Crymic does have useful macros for sale but some of them require modules like Midiqol so it will really depend on your modules and the amount of time you can commit to learning macros/scripting. Magic missile is one of the free macros you can find here: https://gitlab.com/crymic/foundry-vtt-macros/-/tree/c83b91534d5c9290bbe551a0a51c109bd7543304/

I do it using Item Macro, and Midi-QoL, I think I stole this code from u/_Crymic, he has some useful spell macros at https://gitlab.com/crymic/foundry-vtt-macros/-/tree/8.x/

If you have midiQol you can have a choice macro pop up when the user goes to attack if you're tech savvy enough (or put it as like "[Grapple the enemy]" in the versatile chat.

I use the on use macro created by Crymic: https://gitlab.com/crymic/foundry-vtt-macros/-/tree/8.x/5e/Spells/Cantrip

https://gitlab.com/crymic/foundry-vtt-macros/-/tree/8.x/5e/Classes/Paladin A couple of my paladin macros are available I have 2 flavors of Lay on Hands.

Trust me, I felt extremely frustrated not long ago by the whole macro thing. Three months ago, "Hello World" was the extent of my Javascript ability. Now I've managed to make some pretty cool macros for myself, and have even coded my own module. And I got there by: picking apart other peoples' simple macros (whether from Community Macros, stuff on the discord, or other users' github pages), experimenting in the console, looking at exported JSON of actors/items, perusing the Foundry API (and github pages of various modules/game-systems I'm using), and asking a bunch of questions on #macro-polo.

You are welcome. I also recommend checking out NateHawk85's list here. I'm not sure how updated it is, but it has a lot more detail for each module.

For what it's worth, I have a recently-updated version of my group's modules that we use here: https://github.com/NateHawk85/Nathans-DnD5e-Foundry-Modules

Hey that's me, Bryan! I haven't been able to keep my list up to date as I've been a player and I'm no longer actively DM'ing. I have fallen in love with this repo and window shop modules for some future build I'll do. Give it a look https://github.com/NateHawk85/Nathans-DnD5e-Foundry-Modules

Yes, it can do all those things. Midi-qol is the main module. https://github.com/NateHawk85/Nathans-DnD5e-Foundry-Modules

I wanted to let you know that NateHawk has a great guide for modules.

For some additional macro references, I have a GitHub here (https://github.com/NateHawk85/Nathans-DnD5e-Foundry-Modules) with a "Macros" folder that contains various examples of some things that may be useful for you. https://github.com/foundry-vtt-community/macros is another great reference, as well as just looking at any modules that have macros included. Additionally, the Mozilla JavaScript docs (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript) will be a great place to look for JavaScript-specific code snippets and questions.