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Private Messaging for In-Person Game?

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Kyrnterra Kyrnterra's picture
Private Messaging for In-Person Game?
So I know something of a similar nature has been done (see [url=http://eclipsephase.com/comment/30529#comment-30529]here[/url]). The disadvantage of this is the majority of my group uses (ugh) iPhones. Is there a good cross-platform app for messaging my players around a table? A format like a chat room is ideal. A plus would also being able to set/change a nickname on the fly to allow the GM (me in this case) to assume different identities. My reason for this all is for 2 things: 1. I have a certain player who is a bad meta-gamer and likes to abuse information. 2. My campaign is focusing on horror and conspiracy and this would only allow me to further paranoia them.
ORCACommander ORCACommander's picture
I am unsure of your physical
I am unsure of your physical setting. are you all in a room together or doing this as an online platform? if you all are in a room together simply pass them index cards if you want one player to know something but not the others online solution is an IRC chatroom. to send private messages with a player open up a query with them
Kyrnterra Kyrnterra's picture
Its face to face. I host in
Its face to face. I host in my own home. I worry about things like index cards getting lost. Although if I hosted a private irc on my PC i could probably use that. I know there are a few irc cilents for android but I'm unsure for iPhone.
ORCACommander ORCACommander's picture
either you have a nice
either you have a nice journal for the campaign to allow you to reproduce note cards or its their loss and nicely mimics a person's ability to forget things. after all even though we play as it pc's should not have eidetic memories unless they take the trait. I'm asking around my networks so i may have to get back to you about clients. EDIT: the results of my trolling are 3 clients. Colloquy, GodZilla and Lock up. of these i have only heard the of the foremost before
Kyrnterra Kyrnterra's picture
Thanks, i'll have to look
Thanks, i'll have to look into those when I get a chance.