This may be the way its intended, but I don't think so?
I opened up my campaign and logged in as GM. Then did it again. In the 2nd one I rejoined as player and then put this on up on the big TV screen for our face 2 face game.
When I did gmrolls on the first screen they showed up on the 2nd screen as well. I could do a screen capture later if needed.
Confirmed, but I really do not think this is a bug. Roll20 is not meant to have two occurrences of the same account open in the same game.
Still, I will check with the Devs to make sure this is not a bug. :)
- Gauss
Just tested this, confirmed. /gmroll shows up on "player" window if logged into the game twice. Applies to production and dev server.
/gmroll, as I understand it, shows the roll to both you (as the player) and the GM. It's probably doing it based on the user name of the player...and since you are still the same person in both windows it is showing the roll to both of you. Probably not intended but I don't think playing the game with two windows open on the same account is officially supported right now.
Most people in F2F games use two accounts, a GM account and a game account, with two computers...that way the "player" computer can have a mouse that can be passed to the players and the GM has their own controls. With the way you have it set up the GM has to control everything or give up control while the players act which sounds like a pain to me (but is entirely dependent on how your group plays...I'd get annoyed in a RL F2F game if the GM moved all the physical pieces too but to each their own).
Probably not super high priority since I don't think it's an intended use of the "Re-Join as Player" function. You may just have to use a 3rd party dice roller for your computer or phone specifically for GM rolls until (or if) this gets changed. Good luck!
Its not a problem, its not the way I would normally use it. I've got two accounts and players have an account. But it was nice and quick so I did it thinking it would work.
I assumed rejoin as player meant you were in as an actual dummy player, not as the GM. But I just tried it again and yes, I'm under the same user so that probably where the problem is.
/gmroll should go to the players at all though, only to the GM. In this instance its confusing since there are two GM users and one just doesn't have GM rights.
I don't think it needs to be fixed. But I noticed it right away when the players could see and hear the roll I was doing. :)
One bonus is that the measuring tool doesn't show up on the "Player's" window when the GM is measuring something. But if you are logged in as a separate player then it does show up. I've got a bug report about it complete with screen capture showing it.
In the Saturday game I play in, we use my mentor account to get the dev server features. I log in as a GM in one tab first. Then I log in as a GM in a second tab and re-login as a player once in game. GM Rolls do not show up on my second tab at all.
Jonathan, I think it only happens on the same account, regardless of GM status. From your description it sounds like you're using a different (non-mentor) account to GM the game, and using your primary account as a player. As long as the player and GM are not on the same account I don't think you'll have this behavior.
Out of curiosity, you don't have any issues with two different accounts being logged in on the same computer? I would think that would cause issues if you ever had to reload a window (defaulting to the second account logged in). That could be another solution to the "one computer, two screens" style of F2F play.
I log in as a GM with my mentor account. Then I open a second tab and log in again as a GM with the same account. I then re-login using the Re-login as Player button on the settings tab. This puts me into player mode so I can play without having the GM tag attached to everything I do as a player. My GM (a non-mentor account) logs in with his account and there's no problems.
Tab 1 (My Account as GM): Sees secret rolls
Tab 2 (My Account as Player): Does not see secret rolls
My GM on his account: Sees secret rolls
Hmm, on the two tabs, in roll20 does it have your same name in the bottom right corner? When I rejoin as player I'm still in the game as my username I originally logged in as GM. So the secret rolls show on both.JonathanTheBlack said:
I log in as a GM with my mentor account. Then I open a second tab and log in again as a GM with the same account. I then re-login using the Re-login as Player button on the settings tab. This puts me into player mode so I can play without having the GM tag attached to everything I do as a player. My GM (a non-mentor account) logs in with his account and there's no problems.
Tab 1 (My Account as GM): Sees secret rolls
Tab 2 (My Account as Player): Does not see secret rolls
My GM on his account: Sees secret rolls
I have of course used two tabs one logged into Roll20 website as my GM account and another as a player account, and everything works fine as well. But the measuring tool then shows up when the GM measures. Not sure why I tried it the other way, just 2nd tab rejoining as player. I guess it was easier than logging into roll 20 again with another user at the time?