Creating Audio Whisper shortcut/macro

Hi everyone, As I'm using a Stream Deck to go quicker as a GM on Roll20, I was looking for a shortcut to select the players I want to whisper to through the Audio chat. The chat bubble Icon is long to reach for each player when you have 5-6 players to play with, and a lots of "secret" talks to manage between them. A shortcut to select each Player Chat Bubble Icon would be great. Then a key on the keyboard is selected for each one and it's quicker to manage ! (or via a Stream Deck). Does it exist ? Can it be done through a macro ? Thanks.

Hi Maxime, Assuming I understand the issue, so long as they have a token on the board, you can select it and run: /w "@{selected|character_name}" ?{Enter your whisper|default_whisper} Just be sure not to press return or paste paragraphs as any return character will appear on it's own, non-whispered line. You could probably circumvent this by having the whisper contained within a roll template.

Here's how you could write one for the D&D 5th Edition by Roll20 Sheet: /w "@{selected|character_name}" /w gm &{template:npcaction} {{rname=Whisper to @{selected|character_name}}} {{description=?{Enter your whisper|default_whisper}}} which would result in this: This will remove all line breaks. To have a line break in the middle of the message with either macro, use a <BR> code: This is paragraph one.<BR>This is paragraph two.

Thank you Keith ! Very kind of you to take time to help me. Much appreciated. What you propose is for whisper in the chat log right ? What I'm looking for is to whisper in the AUDIO. Currently, we must tick the Chat Bubble Icon in the Image of each player to isolate him/her and create a private chat room. What I'd love to get is a shortcut for each player to just press a button for each one and get him/her isolated in the GM chat room. Any idea ?

keithcurtis said: Here's how you could write one for the D&D 5th Edition by Roll20 Sheet: /w "@{selected|character_name}" /w gm &{template:npcaction} {{rname=Whisper to @{selected|character_name}}} {{description=?{Enter your whisper|default_whisper}}} which would result in this: This will remove all line breaks. To have a line break in the middle of the message with either macro, use a <BR> code: This is paragraph one.<BR>This is paragraph two. Thank YOU!

Ok, I'll try this then. Will it work with Cthulhu sheet too ? Thanks !!!

Maxime D. said: Thank you Keith ! Very kind of you to take time to help me. Much appreciated. What you propose is for whisper in the chat log right ? What I'm looking for is to whisper in the AUDIO. Currently, we must tick the Chat Bubble Icon in the Image of each player to isolate him/her and create a private chat room. What I'd love to get is a shortcut for each player to just press a button for each one and get him/her isolated in the GM chat room. Any idea ? Well I'm a goofus who can't read. :D Sorry, I use Roll20 video, but Discord audio, which works a treat.

Is there a significant drop in resource use by using Discord audio? Also, thanks for that wonderfully formatted macro.

I don't know about resource use. I don't generally track such things. I do know that since we switched to Roll20 Video, Discord Audio, our sessions have run pretty darn flawlessly. We might have to push the little reconnect button once at the beginning of the evening, but that's it.

Discord audio is pretty lightweight in terms of resources.  You can either download a local client on your computer, or just run it from a browser window.  Note that some features like Push-to-Talk require the local version.  In my 4k hours or so, I've never played in a game here that was able to reliably use Roll20's built in audio, much less video comms.  Pretty much every game has been played using Discord for the audio portion.  Sometimes Skype or Twitch.

If you haven't tried it in the last year, Roll20 Video at least, has improved dramatically. It's worth a shot.

keithcurtis said: Here's how you could write one for the D&D 5th Edition by Roll20 Sheet: /w "@{selected|character_name}" /w gm &{template:npcaction} {{rname=Whisper to @{selected|character_name}}} {{description=?{Enter your whisper|default_whisper}}} which would result in this: This will remove all line breaks. To have a line break in the middle of the message with either macro, use a <BR> code: This is paragraph one.<BR>This is paragraph two. A stupid idea just occurred to me... would it be possible to include in that macro a ping sound that only the selected character and GM would hear? as example using the Roll20AM ?¿