How to handle split groups?

I've had a few times now that the group split up. Luckily so far only single persons but it can easily happen that a group splits onto two 3 man groups. So my question here is: What are ways to handle this with roll20? (in an irc chat I used separate channels for a splitted group) Is there some way to whisper to more than one person at a time (or one person and the gm) or are there other ways? Or what do people do in these cases?

There has been a few different methods devised as workarounds. You can create a character sheet called whispers (or whatever you want) and assign specific people to it so that you can whisper to that sheet. That will send a whisper only to those people. They can also whisper to the sheet and everyone gets it also. If you are using a 3rd party program like skype, you can just setup different text groups within that program. To do separate voice channels you would need something like teamspeak or ventrilo probably. If you are wanting to have a player or two on a separate map, you can drag their avatar to the page you want them on . <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Page_Toolbar#Split_the_Par" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Page_Toolbar#Split_the_Par</a>... I'm sure there will be others dropping by to suggest other methods. Good luck.

It actually can work better running a split party on Roll-20, I remember when it happened in the first edition days, sending people into different rooms. If you trust your players, ask them to mute everyone not in their sub-group, the method in Pat S.'s post allows you to switch them to different pages. I have a representative from each sub-group roll a dice and then alternate in shorts bites of action between the groups, trying to end on a cliffhanger between groups, to keep the level of tension high.

tnx. just used pats variant with the charsheet and it works quite well. tnx!