Thanks for the feedback. Agreed! Per the new status message on this ticket, the initial Gamma launch (coming tomorrow) introduces player-to-narrator private communication, and full user-to-user messaging will be coming soon.

Storium needs a lot more communication support--ability to contact players between games in some way other than publicly posting, ability for narrator and players to brainstorm ideas about the game they're in, ability for players to discuss the pros and cons of someone playing a particular card. The current sidebar chat is very weak for all of these.

In any normal tabletop game, there's a *lot* of extra-game communication--hey, I want to play a mage, or maybe a thief; does anyone else want to play a mage? And while that can be done in the "looking for players" forum, there's no reason that communication should be public--especially if the game itself is going to be set to private. "Hey I wanna play a mage" is fine for public discussion; "hey I wanna play a slave-girl of Gor; does anyone else in the game want to play my master?" may not be.

There's currently no space for players and narrators to discuss/negotiate aspects of the game before it's started, unless they wish to do so in public--or, as many are doing, taking the talk to googledocs or forums elsewhere.

Agree with having this implemented. Would also love having groups as well, because I know there's a bunch of players from an online forum I also participate in and having to track them individually is a little messier then say, getting all of us to opt together.

I agree, I've came across some of the same players in different games, and some of them I enjoy playing with, a friend list would be nice.

Yes, it would be nice to be able to find and "friend" other Storium members as well as to import contacts from places like Twitter, Facebook and G+ to see if any of them are also here and connect with them.

I don't think there should be a "chat" feature or people will start using that more than just an in-house email style sytem.

Being able to send private messages, especially with the narrator, is going to make this game much much better! Some things shouldn't be shared with every player.

Please please please a messaging system! I missed the start of a game I was interested in; the very first comment is "I'd like one more player"; and there's no way to ask if that player could be me!

I'd really like to see a way to chat with the players and write private messages with them. So, we can agree for example on a tone of the story or how realistic it should be. And PMs for being able to give certain players information that not all should get and all this without moving out of Storium for the communication and have it all saved in the story itself.

I'd love a 'sidebar' feature, a button that opens & closes an in-character chat window or page: as it is, scrolling through the page for the scene is getting to be a chore, what with all the scene setting, responses, challenges and resolutions. I'd love to establish colour and discuss plans through IC chat with the other players, but it would add more clutter to what is already a very busy page.

Might want to remove the votes from this and add it to the other one of the same name, in order to pool the votes better.

I also would love a PM ability. I am having to email people with private info for their characters. It would be great to do that within the site.

I definitely want some way to keep track of other users and be able to connect with people I know. I know people from other sites such as Mythweavers and Google Plus who are using Storium, and it would be nice to have them on a friend's list of some sort. This would be especially good if you want to game with people you have had positive experiences with.

I second this. I want to know who I know who plays, and then keep them on a friendslist that I can use to put together invite lists for games. Other than in a Word doc in my dropbox, that is.

I would love to send PM. Currently started a "whodunit" story (murder on bradley street), would love to give the murderer some extra intel to keep the conversation going.

i'm not sure about needing to pass cards this way, but being able to message someone directly would be a huge boon. I've ran into this desire when applying to an Open Invitation, I had no way to communicate with the Narrator about a couple ideas I had.

Additionally, we need a private message feature just to use between users. There are people who I am not playing with that I want to get in touch with, but I can't.

absolutely would like to be able to block seeing the games of people you don't want to game with again, as well as them not able to see your games.

I have a very full game, but there is a player I'd like to be able to contact in order to invite them back in case people drop out. In addition, I think it would be helpful to block certain players, and I'd like to be able to just relax and say hi to friends I've made in story while waiting for people to post.

I would like to see this so that we can talk before a game begins, before the characters are approved, so players can ask questions and discuss the game.