# Macros

> Your own commands, with one word: a macro keeps chat lines and rolls and runs them all with /name.

Page: https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/mesa/macros/

A macro keeps one or more lines, just as you would type them in the chat, and runs them all with a single command. The `/attack` macro, for example, can narrate the blow and roll the hit:

```text
/me swings the axe
/r 1d20+5: Attack
```

## Create a macro

1. Type `/macros` in the chat, or click **Manage macros** (the lightning bolt, in the message box).
2. Pick the tab: **Room (for everyone)**, **Mine in this room** or **Mine (global)**.
3. Click **New macro**, give it a name and write the lines, one per command.

*Screenshot:* The macro manager on the Room tab, with the attack and damage macros and the lines of each one.

The three tabs:

| Tab                     | Who uses it                                                    | Where it is kept |
| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
| **Room (for everyone)** | everyone in the room; only game masters create and change them | in the room      |
| **Mine in this room**   | only you, only in this room                                    | in this browser  |
| **Mine (global)**       | only you, in every room                                        | in this browser  |

- The **name** has no spaces and no `/`, and has up to 30 characters.
- Each macro has up to 20 lines: text, `/r`, `/me` or any other command.

## Use

Type `/` and the macro’s name in the chat: `/attack`. Uppercase and accents do not matter. If two macros have the same name, the room’s wins, then yours for this room, then your global one.

A macro can call another one, up to three levels deep, and one run goes through at most 100 lines.

## The Macros table

The **Macros** table comes with every room: open it from the room menu (right-click the room’s icon, in the bar on the left) → **Tabs** → **Macros**. It opens as a tab, next to the other tables, with one button per macro: one click runs the macro in the chat. **Manage…** opens the manager.

*Screenshot:* The Macros table below the library, with the attack and damage buttons and the Manage button.

> **Note**
>
> **Mine** macros are kept in the browser: on another computer, you do not have them.