Inviting and Managing Players
On the right hand side of this page is where you can invite and manage the players who will join your game. Within a single game, there are three different roles that a Roll20 user can assume:
Creator
The game’s Creator is the Roll20 user who originally created the game. Only one Creator can exist for a Roll20 game. Creators have complete control over all of the game's settings and any subscription perks (Dynamic Lighting, F/X Tool, Mod (API) Scripts, etc..) that the game can benefit from. The number of perks is based on the subscription level of the creator's account. Likewise, content such as Game Add-ons must be bought on the Creator’s account in order to be added to the game.
The Creator’s profile image and name are highlighted in purple in the upper right corner of this page. General use stats such as the account creation date and collective hours played are also listed. Clicking on either their name or their profile image will navigate to their Profile Page.
Player
Anyone else who joins the game will be listed as a Player. This section is listed right underneath the Creator in light grey. Players who join the game will be listed in this section with their profile icon followed by their name underneath. They are listed chronologically by when they first joined the game.
GM or Co-GM
The Creator of the game can promote one or more Players in a game to the role of GM. A GM is granted access to alter, add, and delete most of the game's content within Roll20 as well as access a couple of features from the Game Details Page. For this reason, the Creator should practice discretion when promoting Players to this role so these privileges are not abused. A GM, like the Creator, will load into the game on the VTT in GM Mode rather than Player Mode.
A GM has access to the following:
Within the VTT:
- Full access to all Page Layers
- Create, Modify, and Delete Pages
- Place images and tokens to the Tabletop from their personal image library (not the Creator's library)
- Assign and edit tokens
- Create handouts and characters, assign their view and edit permissions
- Move the Player Ribbon to different Pages
- Add, Remove, and Play music from the Jukebox
- See GM Whispers and Rolls in Chat
- Create Macros and Token Actions
- Modify Dynamic Lighting on a Page if the game's Creator is a paid Roll20 subscriber
- Access to all in-game options on the Settings Tab in the VTT except the Transmogrifier
Outside the VTT
- Invite Players (anyone can share the unique join link to the game)
- View and Edit Mod (API) Scripts (Creator must be a Pro Subscriber)
- Manage the game's private forum, including sinking and deleting posts
A promoted player will have a blue “GM” tag added to the upper left of their profile icon in the Player List.
Inviting, Promoting, and Removing Players From a Game
Inviting Players
At the top of the light gray Players section is an Invite Players button. When you click this button, a dialog box opens. The dialog box allows you to send invites through email addresses, view pending invitations, and provides the unique join link URL for the game, which you can copy and share with friends to directly join the game.
Promoting and Demoting Players
As the game’s creator, you have two options available to you when you hover your mouse over a player’s icon or name:
- ‘’Promote to GM/Demote to Player’’: This will elevate a player to GM Status or demote a GM back to player status. This option changes depending on the current status of the player.
Removing a Player From the Game
- ‘’Kick from Game’': This will remove the Player from the game and change the unique join link URL of the entire game. This will prevent the Player from attempting to rejoin with the previous join link.
Selecting either of these two options will cause the page to reload to process the new changes.