# Profile, friends and conversations > Your public profile, the Friends & chat panel, friend requests, conversations and table invites. Page: https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/comecando/perfil-e-amigos/ ## Your profile In **Settings → Profile** you choose your picture (**Avatar**) and write what other people see: **About**, **Likes to play** and **Usually plays**. Your picture shows up in the friends list, on your profile and on your card in rooms. *Screenshot:* The Profile section of Settings, with the picture, the button to choose another one, the About, Likes to play and Usually plays fields and the preview of how others see it. In a room, you can use a different picture just there, your character’s: see [Participants](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/mesa/participantes/#your-picture-in-this-room). ## Other people’s profiles Right-click someone’s name (in a room or in the friends list) and choose **View profile**. *Screenshot:* Davi's profile: picture, Silver rank, level, date they joined RPG Desk, reputation, the approve and disapprove arrows and the profile texts. - **Rank and level:** the rank (**Silver**, **Gold**, **Platinum** or **Ruby**) goes up with reputation; the level goes up with activity (rooms created, friends and messages). - **Reputation:** approvals minus disapprovals. Use the arrows to approve or disapprove the person; clicking again undoes it. - **Chat**, **Add friend** and **Block** are at the bottom of the profile. ## Friends & chat The **Friends & chat** panel sits in the bottom-right corner on every screen: Home, Explore and inside rooms, on top of everything. Click its header to open and close it. To hide the panel, turn off **Show the Friends & chat panel** in **Settings → Chat**. *Screenshot:* The Friends & chat panel open in the corner, with friends At a table and Online, and next to it the chat window with Davi. - **The header** shows your picture and how many friends are online. With the panel closed, it also shows how many messages you haven’t read. - **Your status:** click your picture to choose: - **Online:** the usual. After about 10 minutes without using RPG Desk, you show as **Away**; - **Busy:** friends see the red dot. Messages arrive and stay unread, but with no sound, no notice and without opening the chat. Good for when you are running a game; - **Offline:** friends see you as disconnected. You still see your friends and get their messages. Inside a room, the people in it still see you. Your status is saved in your account and stays until you change it, on any computer. - **Search friends** filters the list by name. When nobody has that name, **Look for it on RPG Desk** takes the name to **Requests**. - **Friends** come in groups that open and close: - **At a table:** in a room. A public room shows its name; a private or password-protected room shows just **At a table**; - **Online:** connected. **Away** (with the orange dot) means they haven’t used RPG Desk for about 10 minutes; **Busy** (with the red dot) means they chose that status; - **Offline:** disconnected, with when they were last seen; - **Other conversations:** people who aren’t your friends and exchanged messages with you, the most recent conversation first (see [Chatting with people who aren’t your friends](#chatting-with-people-who-arent-your-friends)); - **Hidden:** the friends you hid from the list, folded away at the end. - **A friend’s menu** (the **⋯**, a right-click or a long press): **Chat**, **View profile**, **Invite to this table**, **Hide from the list** (or **Show in the list**), **Unfriend** and **Block**. ## Friend requests In the **Requests** tab (or with the add button next to the tabs): - **Add friend:** type the person’s user name and press **Send** (or Enter). Similar names show up as you type. - **Sent:** requests waiting for an answer, with **Cancel**. - **Received:** people who want to be your friend, with the message that came along. Accept with ✓ or decline with ✕. The tab shows how many requests arrived. *Screenshot:* The Requests tab: the Add friend field and, under Received, Teo's request with the message and the accept and decline buttons. The **Blocked** tab lists the people you blocked, with **Unblock**. People you block can’t send you messages, requests or table invites. ## Conversations Click a friend to open the chat in a window at the bottom, next to the panel. Up to three windows fit side by side; opening one more closes the oldest. - **Enter** sends; **Shift+Enter** starts a new line. - While your friend writes, **typing…** shows up. - **—** minimizes the window and **✕** closes it. Minimized, it shows how many messages arrived. - When someone without an open window sends a message, the chat shows up at the bottom, minimized and highlighted, with the usual sound and notice. - Messages are kept and arrive even when the person is away. A chat becomes read when you open it. ## Chatting with people who aren’t your friends You can also chat with people who aren’t your friends yet, like the GM of a table you want to join: - **Talk to the GM** opens a chat with the owner of the room. It is in the room overview, in Explore, and, inside the room, in the room menu and at the top of the **Participants** tab. - **Chat**, in someone’s menu in **Participants** (a right-click on the name) or in their profile, opens a chat with them. - The window says you’re not friends yet, with **Add friend** and **Block**. People who aren’t your friends don’t see whether you are online or which room you are in. - The chat goes to **Other conversations**, in the panel. Its menu has **Remove from list**: it goes away until a new message arrives. - **To get messages from friends only**, turn off **Get messages from people who aren’t your friends** in **Settings → Account and security**. People you wrote to can still reply. ## Inviting friends to a table Inside a room, **Invite friends** (at the top of the Participants tab, or in the room menu, from the room’s name) lists your friends: tick who you want and click **Invite**. The invite arrives in the chat as a card with **Join**. For a password-protected room, whoever you invite needs the password to get in. > **Tip** > > To talk privately with someone **inside a room**, use the room’s private chat (right-click the name in **Participants**). See [Chat](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/mesa/chat/#private-and-group-conversations). New message notices (sound, system notice, flashing title) are in **Settings → Notifications**. ## On a phone The **Friends** tab in the bottom bar opens the panel full screen; inside a room, the friends button is at the top. A chat opens in place of the list, with a back button. See [On your phone](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/comecando/celular/).