Option for GM to see whispers between characters & properly archive

The way I run campaigns, people tend to have a lot of private conversations, sometimes involving exchanging sensitive information that they don't want other party members knowing. I enjoy letting people do this, as it helps the party members have much more immersive, meaningful interactions, but right now, it is quite inconvenient with the tools we have. For my purposes, I need to be able to see the messages exchanged between characters. Not to ruin a player's plans (I am more than comfortable with them coming up with strategies without my knowledge, so I don't have a chance to unfairly prepare a counter to their plans), but so that I can tailor the campaign to what they do and talk about in private with each other. Right now, as a workaround, I have been adding myself as a player who can control a character sheet, so that both me and the player of that character receive whispers to that character. However, this has an unfortunate side effect: If a character sheet has multiple players having control of it, none of the messages that character receives are shown in any of the controller's chat archives. Messages received by a character only seem to show up in the archive if they're controlled by one character. The archive problem seems like a bug, but the fact that GMs have no option to properly view messages between characters seems like a lack of a feature that I'd really like to see added. TL;DR: 1) Add an option for the GM to see whispers made between characters, with the player's knowledge. (If they want to truly privately chat, just have the players whisper each other OOC, not IC through the character sheets, maybe!) 2) Make it so that character sheets assigned to multiple players have private messages show up in the archive for all players that control that character (right now they just seem to disappear forever as soon as they leave the realtime chat window). Thanks for reading!

Yup seems like an idea that sounds nice but I'd like to add on! Maybe the /w command is used for Roleplay based whispers and a new command such as /hw ( Hidden whisper )  Can be used for private conversations  :)

That would also be awesome I think, Acronical. Also something so you could tell whether or not a whisper was hidden from the GM or not.

Here is the API script for that -  The Aaron created this script for me when I was trying to turn off Whisper Chat for my Resistance Game. Code (Whispers to GM): on('ready',function(){ "use strict"; on('chat:message',function(msg){ if('whisper' === msg.type && msg.playerid !=='API'){ sendChat("Who's Talking", `/w gm <b>${msg.who}</b> is whispering to <b>${msg.target_name}</b>.`); } }); }); Code (Tells everyone): on('ready',function(){ "use strict"; on('chat:message',function(msg){ if('whisper' === msg.type){ sendChat("Who's Talking", `<b>${msg.who}</b> is whispering to <b>${msg.target_name}</b>.`); } }); }); Result: Who's Talking: The Aaron is whispering to Captain Taco . 

+1.   Some of my players use whispering as actual whispering ingame, and as the DM it drives me nuts when I can't react or use it for anything.  It might be a good idea to be able to toggle it, and have some sort of message telling the player that the DM can read the whisper message though, incase there are drama llamas in the group.  Privacy and what not.

+1 Recently I posted a suggestion so that players can see ALL whispers they're involved in, as in whispers they sent out AND received. It's amazing how 3 years later, chat archive is still not a proper archive to use so long as whispers are involved. I still only see the whispers I sent out but none of the whispers I received from either GM or other players. I don't know why this is a non-issue to the devs of Roll20. There are times when some parts of the campaign story are too important to let just any players know, some story elements that need to be kept secret between select players to make the reveal all the more impactful.

Exactly. It's a shame that important chatlog features like this are being ignored for so long. At this point I'm not even using Roll20 to run games anymore, but I hope they can still manage to implement simple, but critical features like this to make the experience better for those who do.

This is why I don't want my players to whisper. It's a big problem.