diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3732a01..65c535f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -10,3 +10,7 @@ lint: ## Lint ansible files with ansible-lint
 
 install: ## Install or update requirements
 	ansible-galaxy install -f -r requirements.yml
+
+role: ## Create a new role based on the default skeleton
+	@read -p "Enter role name: " name; \
+	ansible-galaxy role init --init-path ./roles $$name
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 90103cd..50aace6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,12 +24,11 @@ When creating new roles, you can set up an initial folder structure with Ansible
 For more information check out the Ansible documentation [here](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/galaxy/dev_guide.html#using-a-custom-role-skeleton)
 
 ```
-cd roles
-ansible-galaxy init ROLE_NAME
+make role
 ```
 
 ## License
 
 This repository is licensed under GPL-3 and many roles are derived from the awesome [infrastructure](https://git.shivering-isles.com/shivering-isles/infrastructure) repository published by [Sheogorath](https://shivering-isles.com).
 
-Thank you, and so I hope this can be as useful to someone else as Sheogorath's repository was to me.
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+Thank you, and so I hope this can be as useful to someone else as Sheogorath's repository was to me.