Anonymity for Text Chat - Implementing the X-card

I am looking to implement an x-card, and I am looking for solutions to make it so the player that plays it is anonymous. One thing I was thinking of was making every player able to control one character, and somehow when the button is press it makes it look like its from that anonymous character?

Hi Eric! Why not use an actual card? AFAIK, playing a card is anonymous. Every Roll20 game comes with a Safety Deck for this express purpose.

keithcurtis said: Hi Eric! Why not use an actual card? AFAIK, playing a card is anonymous. Every Roll20 game comes with a Safety Deck for this express purpose. it doesnt really work to well for my purposes, and it being able to show up in chat anonymously would be ideal.

Eric H. said: keithcurtis said: Hi Eric! Why not use an actual card? AFAIK, playing a card is anonymous. Every Roll20 game comes with a Safety Deck for this express purpose. it doesnt really work to well for my purposes, and it being able to show up in chat anonymously would be ideal. With the Safety Addon for Roll20 you also have Macros for every Player, e.g. playing the X-Card. It will be displayed in Chat then! Only downside to this: the name of the player who started the macro is visible!

In most cases, an anonymous chat entry is undesirable, both for record keeping, and to prevent abuse or other shenanigans, so the default is set that way. Without the API, the best method of making the chat message anonymous is to use the "Speaking As" drop down in the chat area, setting up a mutually-controlled character as you describe. However, this must be done manually, not a one-push button.

I guess the only real solution here is to make a character everyone can access called "anonymous" and include instructions in the x-card on how to send the card as that character... wish there was a better way.

Not without using the API, unfortunately.