Ability to "friend" players

For players you have played a game (or games) with and you got along with, could we get a feature to "friend" them, so it's easier to find them again if you'd like to play again? I'm sorry if this has been mentioned or suggested before.

It has been mentioned, and is well worthy of being mentioned again. +1 for this, again.

+1 :)

That would be great, a Friend list. As a workaround, you can start a campaign and invite all the friends to Join it for a contact point. Even if you aren't running a game on that campaign, you can congregate there with a group of people and form-up until you make play new play-groups from the assembly.

+1

+1 . This would be a great feature.

This would be great because it would make it easy to keep playing with people you enjoy roleplaying with. For instance, when your current campaign ends, you would be able to easily get the same group together for another one.

You could use something similar to the marketplace tokens, and simply have a star to click maybe? And this puts them at the beginning of the player's list (which is unmanageable the way it is now--it's not even alphabetical--talk about a needle in a haystack!--good luck finding your buddies). I would go so far as to say make a black star for putting people at the end of the list as well. Players that don't communicate well, or constantly miss sessions need to no longer exist in my world, or at least be at the end of a very long list of (potentially good) players. I presume this would best fit on the "player directory" page.

People act differently in different situations, if you find a player who is great to play with, just make a note, there are plenty of social media sites out there and we don't need to turn this into a "like" factory. I have run into a few players I really try to involve in my games. I ran a one shot last month and one player pretty much carried the day, If she could promise me 3 more players like her, I would move to Australia to DM that group.

al e. said: People act differently in different situations, if you find a player who is great to play with, just make a note, What sort of note would you suggest? Since Roll20 lets you change your Display Name and your Avatar Picture, it can be difficult to find the person again later on this site, if you only noted their name. Unless you stay registered in a campaign with them. As I have played in your games, Al, I would say that you are able to keep track of the Players through everyone's Skype logins and you ask for their emails, Those are optional ways outside the Roll20, though not universally used by all players. I think some people were just asking to be able to track their Roll20 contacts in Roll20 without resorting to email or a mish-mash of email and various external networks.

This may not be guaranteed to work in the future, but for now a player's Roll20 userid can be used to access their profile without their username: Gold: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/users/29990" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/users/29990</a> al. e: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/users/336298" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/users/336298</a> Me: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/users/104025" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/users/104025</a> Also, it appears the the user name in the url is completely meaningless: Also Me: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/users/104025/banana" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/users/104025/banana</a> You could bookmark these links if you wanted to get back to someone. (I like using delicious.com for this, as I can then tag them with 'Roll20', 'Player', etc) I still think friending would be better, but this makes a decent stop gap...

Thanks Aaron. That is a helpful workaround. I'll probably start a Post on an internal forum of one of my campaigns for keeping my list like that. I've had a few good players / new friends, get lost in the crowd on here. Hopefully something like this will help me keep track of them and invite them all when I pitch another campaign.

I had not thought of using the ID#s, that is a good helper, I do have a problem sometimes associating characters with themselves. "Chuck the Duck" on Roll20 is "Sleazy dwarf" on Skype is <a href="mailto:ESnowden@NSA.gov" rel="nofollow">ESnowden@NSA.gov</a> is "Fairy Princess Matilda" in your game... You really need to keep a file on people to know who they are...

You could make it more thematic (agreeing with "al e" here about the Likes thing.) Rather than having it called a friends list, you could give it a more appropriate title, and even have sub sections? "Adventurers" "Dungeon Masters" "Games Masters" "Artists" Perhaps just build in a function so you can name the sections, and add people to them. A really great feature would be a note facility against each person. So you can customize them: "This guy played a badass Monk.", "Heavily RP GM." "This guy loves Elfs." Whatever it may be.

Oh hell yeah. Call it "Adventurers" or "Party" or something.

+1

Agreed.

Why is nobody doing something about this!!!

+1

hmm, I'd like to point out that, while this is a great idea it also needs feedback, maybe instead of just a +1 post how you feel otherwise they might not do something about it

Do they plan on addressing this at all? its a major issue with the system. I had encouraged a friend of mine to set up a game and we are going through a lot of hoops just to be able to find the same campaign that he published, let alone his profile account. Its rather embarrassing to support a gaming site and everyone being frustrated that they cant find each other or their game even on it.

Sebathius , he should send you a join link. You can click on his image in the campaign details page to PM him. If you need further help getting connected with your friend please let me know.

+1

I fully agree with this this being a very useful feature. After some games you tend to find players and GMs that you would like to keep tabs on for future games. (Simply the ability to list ALL the players one was ever active in the same campaign as would be useful (not only the short "lately played with" list). ) . Griatch

+1

+1 for friends.