Players on different pages

I think it'd be powerful if I could move different players to different pages, it'd help keep things private for certain characters who may sneak off from the others.

I second this

Especially if you have a large group of players and they are all wanting to do their own thing.

Essential in my view. A couple of examples: You've got a culty party thief who likes to have the opportunity to trouser a few choice items in advance of the rest of the party arriving. You've got a page with a map of some other handout displayed on it and players want to be able to go and consult it themselves without the GM dragging everyone there Gravy would be to have a setting at campaign level that toggles audio/video such that everyone can hear/see everyone or people can only hear/see people that are on the same page as them. That is very much a "nice to have".

Seconded.

It had been suggested to have a bookmark for each players as there is one now for the group. ... and I can't find the thread which I think was voted quite positively. I think there is a problem, here on the forum. It is quite difficult to find older suggestions to vote positively on them. Maybe a bumping of the more popular suggestions, to remind us about what had been seen as useful, would be a good idea.

I agree, but there's a little complexity to take care of to make it truly flexible and useful. Players should be able to move themselves between pages, but only to pages you have marked as allowable for that player (a bit like handouts). They shouldn't be able to see that pages you have not marked for that player even exist.

I strongly agree with Mr G: the capability for players to move to "allowed pages for them" would be really great. I'm used to such feature (in other VTTs) and it's very useful, so I'd like to see it also in Roll20. In this way, players could navigate to Roll20 pages displaying, for instance, their inventory or character sheet arranged in a graphical mode, or to pages related to the background of the campaign. The point is that some Roll20 pages can be set as "reference" for the players checking them without the GM dragging them there. This would help, also, for games in which the GM isn't present ATM, allowing players to browse background info or other references inside the Roll20 app (locations, Roll20 page as character sheet, etc). I was going to open a suggestion exactly for this; if the devs/mods receive it well, I will not open a new thread just for making it clearer.

I don't see split parties at the physical table, so I don't know how this sort of thing works out socially. Don't take me very seriously here, but I wonder . . . handling split parties could work, maybe, by somehow supporting the capability of opening a second Roll20 session with the same GM account. Different players would enter into one session or the other, under the same GM, and each Roll20 session would handle a different party of the same game. Just wondering. Who knows!

I can understand how having a split party would work pretty well if, say the chat channel got split into a a new chatroom/page type of setup. How exactly do you think this would be implemented for this to work via video/voice chat? I good method may be to have different chat channels for the different groups. Like players 1,2 and 3 are on one page, and players 4, 5, and 6 are on another page. If the GM in on the page with one group the other group cant hear anything. Then set up an extra page with permissions to everybody so that if the GM talks in that channel everyone can hear. It would basically be like creating a new layer for the entire campaign so that it could be done in advance.

The second suggestion in a row i use the search funtion to find instead of making new thread! \o/ This, yes please!

I like the idea of having players on different pages, I don't like the idea of them being about to move themselves though. I would also be a nice idea to have a separate page text chat and maybe a single separate voip room so you can take small groups aside to discus things (ie knowledge the others shouldn't know). I have known GMs that do this IRL at a table top and in VTT (using different skype groups or TS/Vent/mumble channels). At the moment to split the group you would have to make a copy of the campaign.

As Pigalot mentioned I'm not a big fan of them moving themselves, however being give them the option of "Viewing handouts and Character pages" full-view as if it were a map page WOULD be a nice feature - particularly being able to zoom in on it or out. So if you want THAT, I would actually suggest making that an option for the Journal and Handout entries in the list. I do like the idea of having the party on multiple maps though, it would prevent a bit of confusion, particularly if you have a big map like a city map... Most of my campaign ends up taking place on a big city map and there is a lot of asking "Where is this?" because of the size of the map and they are not looking at the right place for the ping feature... Also, with real tabletop games you tend to have more often deal with one section, then deal with another section and everyone hears, but there is also the note-passing and take-aside conversations you can have in person that are harder online because you are all "in the same place" My current campaign is entering into a player dynamic with some clandestine dealings that could place characters against each other. We are currently 6 people on 4 accounts (one is sharing with me, another with another player) and the one with me, I just have to mute the mic for clandestine dealings. The one with another player... well they were talking about making one of them an account and putting him on a separate computer so that he doesn't need to worry about who's looking at the screen for what... So anyway what my rant is getting at is having a separate chatroom function for some things WOULD be nice.

I'm late to this party and this would be neat. I've seen this before when a group got too big and our GM had a friend of his come in and we split the group both sessions ran at the same time in the same house, sure we could hear the other discussion if no one talked or interacted but that didn't happen it literally split the group for 2-3 sessions. I'd think something like this could be possible if like Kristin said if the chats got split per page and perhaps instead of one flag to note what players are on what page the ability to create a flag and place characters on it, then have multiple flags at different places. So if you had 3 pages, and all the players and gm/co-gm's were on the page you'd have a party, then create the flag(groups) of players the gm's move them to the appropriate page and joing them accordingly. This would be awesome.