Creating custom modifier calculation

[Solanaar]

Hello everyone. I am trying to create a numenera vault and am currently attempting to create a custom statblock template.

Numenera is extremely simple. Few calculations. Actually only 1: Target number. it's literally level * 3. I know I could just do this in my head but I like to style the stat blocks like they are in the source books. There it is written as "level (target number)", e.g. 5 (15). In the default layout stats are styled in a similar way so I thought I can achieve the same...

I am incredibly overwhelmed by almost everything. I am not a programmer and almost anything obsidian is gibberish to me (and I understand basic c++ somewhat). But I feel like programmers write documentation very differently and I struggle a lot in deciphering seemingly simple sentences. So please excuse if some of these questions seem incredibly obvious to you.

So first of all: what language am I supposed to use for dice callbacks, ability modifiers, etc? I found mention of YAML and JavaScript in the documentation. Does that mean I need to learn these to be able to create custom statblocks? I studied the provided default layout and tried to reverse engineer a few things, but it takes a lot of time and I understand very little of what I'm doing so I am unable to troubleshoot stuff when it ultimately doesn't work the way I expected.

So to summarize what I've got so far:
I need to Add a new Table element, I need to write "level" into the Link Monster Property field, cause when I write stuff into the statblock in the edit view I need to write down "level: number" (and obv. write a specific number for actual stat blocks). Then I need to check Calculate Modifiers and write something into the last field.
What I don't know is: do I need to provide a table header if I'll only use one "stat" value?
And finally: what exactly do I write into the last field so it displays the target number next to the level?

I hope this makes a semblance of sense to anyone and I'm glad for any help. Also please excuse the frustrated undertones, I am, well, frustrated, by my experiences with Obsidian and all those plugins so far. It feels like every single function needs a 2-3 hour course just to be able to use it, if not more because you'll need to know html, css, yaml, javascript, etc.

[mbound]

I am also trying to figure out similar things, so maybe we can brainstorm together. To clarify, when you say modifier are you referring to the Initiative Modifier? Or are you simply trying to derive the Target number from the level with a formula?

[Solanaar]

The latter, iirc. Though, to be honest, I dropped statblock for multiple reasons and resorted to formatting statblocks in markdown and manually, with some css styling, though I try to keep that to a minimum.