Role by Post

Rooms

Rooms screenshot

Rooms split a channel into separate conversations so the main story stays clean — an out-of-character room for table chatter, a room just for dice, a room for rules questions, or a private room for one player.

Every channel starts with Main, the original conversation. Rooms sit beside it in the room bar across the top of the channel — tap a room to switch to it. Messages, replies, and dice stay in the room you posted them in.

Creating and managing rooms

The GM creates rooms from the + Room chip in the room bar, or from the channel sidebar → GM Tools → Rooms. A channel can hold up to 10 active rooms.

From GM Tools → Rooms the GM can:

  • Create a room — name up to 40 characters ("Main" is reserved), with its features already chosen (see below)
  • Rename a room
  • Archive a room — it leaves the room bar but stays readable, and frees a slot for a new one
  • Restore an archived room
  • Delete a room and its messages
  • Choose who can see it — Everyone, Only the GM, or Invited players
  • Turn features on or off for that room — dice, Scenes, NPC posts, and whispers

The features are on by default. Pick them in the New room form and the room starts that way, or change them on a room you already have.

Who can see a room

  • Everyone — every member of the channel
  • Only the GM — a private workspace for the GM alone
  • Invited players — the GM plus the players the GM picks; everyone else never sees the room at all

A restricted room shows a lock in the room bar.

What's shared, what's separate

  • Unread is counted per room, so a dot on a room means new messages there
  • Status is per room too — Main and each room keep their own status bar, so an initiative order in one room never shows up in another
  • Search covers the whole channel by default; from inside a room you can switch it to This room only
  • Rolls always show the whole channel's history, with each roll tagged by the room it was made in
  • Dice, Scenes, NPC posts, and whispers can be turned off per room by the GM
  • Images stay in Main — rooms are text-first
  • A private or GM-only room never shows in the lobby preview — only its members see its messages

Written by Alvaro Cavalcanti, creator of Role by Post.