I'm thinking to use Roll20 for a political campaign. The possibility of sharing character sheets and rolling dices and other features are great.
There is however something that I can't do: splitting the party and making separate chats for the same campaign.
How do you solve this problem? Does there exist a to communicate easily with multiple players without the other noticing?
I've thought of creating multiple campaigns for each group of player. The DM would open multiple tabs, one for each chat/campaign. One of the campaigns would contain all character sheets, and be the place where players make some of their rolls.
There is also the possibility of using skype for communication with subgroups of players…
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One method I've used for sending messages to groups of players on Roll20 is making each group a character and sending a message to that character. Forgive me using a fantasy example, but that's where my experience lies:
At the start of a campaign, I'll ask everyone for languages known, looking for ones I know will come up during play. If anyone knows one, say Elven, I create another character in the Journal simply named Elven, and add every player whose character knows Elven as controlling that character.
When anyone (PC or NPC) speaks in Elven, they can just send a whisper to that group: "/w Elven message" and every player who understands Elven will receive it.
Is there a better option?
To be fair, you mention in the question maybe using Skype instead. Skype can save groups of participants under custom names and be quickly selected from a list. It's a really good idea.
Pros of using Roll20 over Skype:
Pros of Skype over Roll20:
In the end, which option depends on your group and what works best for you.