Need ways to PM your players!

I looked of over 20min so I will assume it just does not exist. I have been posting comments on the game I am running, and apparently it does not send and email to the group that content has been updated? I only found out because one of my players logged in by chance and let me know. I tried clicking on the player to send them a private message, but there was no option for anywhere. It would appear I have no way of communicating with my players?

You could get their emails and email them normally? Microsoft and Google offer free email services if you don't want to give away your personal one.

Well, if they are members of this site, you can PM them through here. Or, there are different hosting sites that you could use.

I second this, also add in a suggestion for a chat box to talk outside of games. Useful for GM-player interaction before games start for help in character creation and such.

Would also be useful to be able to talk to prospective players before letting them join your game.

Would also be useful to be able to talk to prospective players before letting them join your game. This. I've had people offer to join my game but I have no way of getting in touch with them. There's at least three keen players I've probably lost because of this. I don't think most users realize there's no easy way for the GM to get in touch with you after they've petitioned to join a campaign. And PMing them through the forum only works if they've actually used the forum. I'm sure there's a fair chunk of users who don't bother with it. (Like all of the players in my group). If this is impossible to implement any time soon, a little note telling players using the LFG search to leave some form of contact info in their initial application message would be great.

I remember a Roll20 chat room a few weeks back, external to the Roll20 app. I wonder what happened with it -- I can't find the link for entering anymore. If it's still around, and it allows private messages, that IRC resource could address these requests.

The chat room is active, you can enter by means of this URL: <a href="https://www.hipchat.com/gfTGFwlS1" rel="nofollow">https://www.hipchat.com/gfTGFwlS1</a> The thread about this is "Looking for a group RIGHT NOW? Want to chat with fellow players quickly?" (<a href="http://community.roll20.net/discussion/1068/looking-for-a-group-right-now-want-to-chat-with-fellow-players-quickly/p1" rel="nofollow">http://community.roll20.net/discussion/1068/looking-for-a-group-right-now-want-to-chat-with-fellow-players-quickly/p1</a>)

The chat room is indeed active (thanks for finding that thread, Axel), though it is often pretty empty. Still, the mods and sometimes the devs are often in there.

Balladeer, What do you think about making the Roll20 chat room easier to find? Perhaps turning that thread into a sticky is good, or placing a clickable button in a side of the home page for launching the chat room. Also, if the chat room would allow private message (like IRC Queries or Private Message tabs), it would be much more versatile and useful, being able to handle multiple conversations between different users at the same time. In that way, people could log in there and handle their private conversations about their specific games in midst of the Roll20 crowd in the "general chat tab". I don't know if the current Roll20's chat room can enable such feature. FWIW, Mibbit (<a href="https://mibbit.com/" rel="nofollow">https://mibbit.com/</a>) is able to handle it easily, and it's also web browser based.

I think it should be wise to caution against rolling this down the slope into creating a Roll20 social network. A lot of these tools already exist, it is just a matter of using the ones most comfortable to you and your fellow players.

Email just does not work. It is something separate that you have to keep and check, which completely defeats the purpose. You can not talk to them on here, because when you click their name on the game registration page it does not take you to a profile page. This site is all about communication. We should be able to communicate on this site.

All what I know, Seth B., is that you can send private mails to Roll20 users here, by clicking in their user name. For instance, by clicking in your user name, I'm carried to a site in which below your profile pick, and over "About" (you), is a link that says: "Send Seth B. a Message" OTOH, once you send one of these messages, additional people can be invited participate in the same conversation, which is a bit similar to a kind of mailing list. And it's already implemented here. So it's possible to send a message to a player into his/her Roll20 Inbox, and then add or invite the rest of your players. I'm sending one of these messages to you, just for testing and showing it (I just created a conversation with 6 people, for making an example).

That's a forum PM you're talking about though. The user has to have a presence on the Roll20 forums for that to work. As I said before, there's users on here who haven't bothered with the forum, and thus there's no means of direct messaging them yet.

Yeah, I really find it annoying that I can get an email saying "A new player called So-and-so has applied to join..." but I can't really do any communication back with them. When I go and try to PM So-and-so it usually says that I must select a recipient (I assume that this is because they don't use the forum at all). This then leaves me with the choices of either ignoring all the applications that don't have a perfect little message with them, or taking all the applications I get and then hoping there is some easy criteria I can use to cull the group down to a manageable size later.