Chat Commands
MapTool's chat system supports a number of "slash commands" (that is, commands preceded by a "/" character) that execute particular actions when typed directly into chat.
General Usage
To use a chat command, you type directly into the chat window, using the following format:
/command argumentwhere command is one of the commands in the table below, and argument is an appropriate argument (a dice roll, or a string of text, etc.) upon which the command acts. NOTE: remember, the commands shown below are always preceded by a forward slash (/) character.
Built-in Commands
| Command | Built-in Alias (if any) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| addtokenstate | tsa | Add a new token state that can be set on tokens |
| alias | alias | Create a command alias |
| clear | clr | Clear the chat window |
| clearaliases | Clear all aliases | |
| color | cc | Change your chat text color. Color must be in hexadecimal format, e.g. /cc #ff0099 |
| emit | e | Broadcast text to all connected players without revealing who sent it (GM-only command) |
| emote | me | Broadcast an emote to all connected players |
| gm | togm | Send text to GM exclusively |
| goto | g | Go to location or go to token, e.g. /goto X,Y or /goto tokenname |
| help | h | Display a list of available commands |
| impersonate | im | Speak as if you were someone or something else (typically, speak as if you were a token) |
| loadaliases | Load a file that contains aliases, one per line, with a : between the name and the value (just as if you were typing it in) | |
| loadtokenstates | tsl | Load all of the token states to a file |
| ooc | Out-of-character chat (chat is enclosed in double parentheses) | |
| reply | rep | Reply to the last player to whisper to you |
| roll | r | Roll dice (using a Dice Expression) and broadcast result to all players |
| rollgm | rgm | Roll dice and broadcast result only to yourself and the GM |
| rollme | rme | Roll dice and show the result only to yourself |
| rollsecret | rsec | Roll dice and show the result only to the GM (hiding the result from even yourself) |
| savealiases | Save all current aliases to a file | |
| savetokenstates | tss | Save the current set of token states to a file |
| say | s | Broadcast a message to all connected players |
| self | Send a message only to yourself | |
| settokenproperty | stp | Set the value of a Token Property |
| settokenstate | sts | Set the value of a Token State |
| table | tbl | Run a table lookup, e.g. /tbl tablename value-to-lookup |
| tmacro | tm | Run the given macro on the selected token |
| tsay | ts | Say the given speech on the selected token |
| whisper | w | Send a message to a specific player |