Player Point-of-View window for GMs

I'm DMing a 5e game for some 8-year-olds.  Because of my players' age, I want to spare them the trouble of having to navigate Roll20.  So generally what I do is I log into the game with two accounts on one computer:  this one, and a separate "smurf" account that I have invited as a player.  My players view the "smurf" account on a second monitor (which is screenshared on Google Meet) and I end up piloting both my DM account and the one player account, with the players all telling me what they want to do.   It would be great to have more explicit support for this use case.  In particular, I would like to be able to dispense with the "smurf" account and have a pop-out window which is "what my players can see right now."   Thanks again for reading. 

While roll20 is really weird it actually supports this. Simply open the "Re-join as player" button in a new window. You can just right click the button to do this on most browsers. The only downside is that because roll20 doesn't keep proper URLs if you reload the game you will join in player mode, however you can then click (or open the link in a new tab) that button again to get a GM mode window. Another way to get to this is open the campaign in two windows then click "Re-join as player" in one of them. The same reloading problem applies. You can even bookmark that link as "Player view".

It is actually better to use an alternate, secondary free account to login to avoid the reload problem.

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