# Chat commands

> The commands the chat understands: rolling, narrating, laughing, clearing the chat, changing your name, leaving the room and macros.

Page: https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/referencia/comandos/

A line that starts with `/` is a command. Case and accents do not matter (`/Roll` and `/roll` are the same), and the Portuguese names work too. `/help` shows the list in your chat:

*Screenshot:* The result of /help in the chat: the list of commands, from /cls to /roll, each with what it does, and the formatting markup.

| Command                    | Also           | What it does                                                                                                                                    |
| -------------------------- | -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/help`                    | `/ajuda`       | shows the commands and the chat markup, only to you                                                                                             |
| `/roll 2d6+3`              | `/r`, `/rolar` | rolls the dice. Whatever comes after `:` is the roll’s name: `/r 1d20+5: Attack`. See [Rolls](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/referencia/rolagens/) |
| `/me raises the shield`    |                | narrates an action, with your name (or nickname) in front: “Davi raises the shield”. Use `/nick` to show the character’s name                   |
| `/lol`                     | `/rir`         | laughs (“hahaha”); with text, the laugh is the text                                                                                             |
| `/cls`                     |                | hides what was already in your chat (only for you)                                                                                              |
| `/fls`                     |                | shows again what `/cls` hid                                                                                                                     |
| `/prink`                   |                | hides system messages (who joined, who left…) from your chat, except the session clock’s                                                        |
| `/reload`                  |                | undoes `/prink` and `/cls`                                                                                                                      |
| `/leave See you tomorrow!` | `/partir`      | leaves the room, leaving the farewell in the chat (up to 200 characters)                                                                        |
| `/nick Raven`              |                | changes your name in this room; `/nick` alone goes back to your account name                                                                    |
| `/macros`                  |                | opens the macro manager                                                                                                                         |

- With **Speak as → Narrator** or **NPC**, `/me` goes out with the narrator’s or the NPC’s name.
- A command that does not exist answers only to you: “I don’t know the command /x. Type /help for the list.”

## Macros

Each [macro](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/mesa/macros/) becomes a command with its name: the `attack` macro runs with `/attack`.

- The commands above come first: a macro called `r` never runs, because `/r` is the roll.
- Among macros with 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.