# Roles and moderation

> Game masters, players and spectators; silencing, hiding the chat, moderating, kicking and banning.

Page: https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/mestres/papeis/

Each person in the room has a role:

| Role            | What they can do                                                                |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Game master** | everything: the whole library, the scenes, everyone’s sheets, the others’ roles |
| **Player**      | their own sheet, their own tokens, drawing and pinging on the scene             |
| **Spectator**   | watching and chatting; no sheet, no drawing, no pinging                         |

- The room’s **owner** and the **assistant game masters** (see [Room settings](https://docs.rpgdesk.com/en/mestres/configurar-mesa/#system)) always join as game masters.
- Whoever joins for the first time is a **spectator**. Next time, they come back with the role they had.

## Change someone’s role

Right-click the person’s name, in **Participants**, and choose **Make game master**, **Make player** or **Make spectator**. The chat announces the change to everyone.

*Screenshot:* The game master's menu on Davi, with Make game master, Make player, Silence, Hide the chat from them, Kick and Ban.

## Moderation

In the same menu:

- **Silence** (and **Allow to talk**): the person cannot talk in the chat.
- **Hide the chat from them** (and **Show the chat again**): the person only sees their own messages and the system notices.
- **Kick**: removes the person from the room. They can come back.
- **Ban**: removes the person and does not let them come back. The account goes to the **Banned** list, in **Room settings → System**, from which **Remove** takes it off.

The person’s card shows when they are silenced, not seeing the chat or have voice.

### Moderated chat

**Moderate chat**, the shield button on the chat toolbar (game masters only): only game masters and people with **voice** can talk. To give someone voice, their menu gains **May talk in moderated chat**. While the chat is moderated, everyone sees the “Chat is moderated” strip; for game masters it has **End**, which goes back to normal (the same as clicking the button again).

> **Note**
>
> Nobody changes the room owner’s role, or kicks or bans them. An assistant game master stays a game master while they are on the list of assistant game masters.