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Is there a "player view" mode for GMs?

I'm trying to set things up to GM a campaign, but I'd really like to test out what I've made and see how things work from the player perspective (FoW etc.). Is there any way to put myself into a temporary "player mode" so I can see what they will see?
Not at the moment .... kind of frustrating, isn't it?
Could you create another account, open another browser and have two accounts running at the same time ? One window is the GM and the other is a player ?
I tried to do it to view if I was able to use two instances of the program for face to face games (as I do with Maptool), it logged on two IDs, but the view on the "player" ID was the same as the "gm" (I mean the fog of war was just greyed, not black). i did not explore further, so, it is maybe possible.
Yes, if you log out of your GM account and go into your game through another account you can see what the players see.
There isn't a "player view" as of yet but if you want to try the two account think and you use Chrome try out Incognito Mode: <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95464&p=cpn_incognito" rel="nofollow">https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95464&p=cpn_incognito</a> If you open a new browser window in Incognito it doesn't remember your cookies or anything else so you can have logins into Roll20 open at one time.
Or simply run another browser like Firefox for GM and Chrome for player view.
I know this doesn't solve the issue but what I like to do is turn the GM Opacity up almost max (making the Fog Of War Much Darker) which gives me more of a "sense or feel" of the darkness that the players would be experiencing.
I know this doesn't solve the issue but what I like to do is turn the GM Opacity up almost max (making the Fog Of War Much Darker) which gives me more of a "sense or feel" of the darkness that the players would be experiencing. This is what I do as well.
Player mode has been added as of today: <a href="http://community.roll20.net/discussion/1832/new-update-730#Item_2" rel="nofollow">http://community.roll20.net/discussion/1832/new-update-730#Item_2</a>