RPWatch

RPWatch is a lightweight roleplay chat companion for World of Warcraft Retail.

Keep nearby RP readable in busy scenes with a movable feed, a separate Focus window, speaker highlighting, keyword alerts, and optional roleplay profile display names/icons.

Features

• Movable and resizable RPWatch Feed window
• Separate Focus Window for your current target or mouseover speaker
• Capture support for:
  • /say
  • /emote
  • Text emotes
  • /yell
  • Party chat
  • Raid chat
  • Instance chat
  • Optional whispers
• Recent message history with:
  • Reload persistence
  • Configurable message cap
  • Stored history expiring after 30 minutes
• Clickable speaker names
• Right-click speaker menu with:
  • Interact
  • Invite
  • Whisper
  • Ignore
  • Copy character name
  • Open roleplay profile when available
• Target and mouseover focus tracking
• Full-line mouseover highlight in the feed
• Shift-click speaker dimming
• Keyword and character-name mention detection
• Saved keyword list with add/remove controls
• Notifications for:
  • Target activity
  • Pokes
  • Keyword mentions
• Optional taskbar flash
• Configurable notification sounds through LibSharedMedia
• Timestamp options including none, HH:MM, HH:MM:SS, date/time, and local time
• Configurable font face and font size
• Configurable frame, border, and RPWatch title colors
• Raid marker icon rendering from tags like {star}, {circle}, {skull}, {rt1}, etc.
• RP profile display names, colors, and icons when supported profile addons are available
• Inline /say emphasis coloring for text wrapped in single asterisks
• Quoted speech in emotes uses normal say coloring
• Minimap button for quick window access
• Profile tools for create, activate, rename, copy, reset, delete, import, and export

Great For

• Busy tavern or event RP
• Following one speaker in crowded scenes
• Tracking your target or mouseover character's recent lines
• Catching character-name or keyword mentions
• Keeping RP chat readable without changing how Blizzard chat works

Commands

• /rpwatch toggles the feed window
• /rpwatch show
• /rpwatch hide
• /rpwatch reset
• /rpwatch focus
• /rpwatch focus window
• /rpwatch focus clear
• /rpwatch settings
• /rpwatch clear
• /rpwatch count
• /rpwatch alert add <name>
• /rpwatch alert remove <name>
• /rpwatch alert list
• /rpwatch sound target
• /rpwatch sound poke
• /rpwatch sound keywords
• /rpwatch debug

Optional Addon Integrations

RPWatch has no required roleplay-profile dependency.

When available, RPWatch can read public profile display data from:

• Total RP 3
• MyRolePlay
• XRP

If no supported profile data is available, RPWatch falls back to Blizzard character names and class colors.

Dependencies & Embedded Libraries

RPWatch does not require users to install separate library addons. The release package embeds the libraries it uses:

• LibStub
• CallbackHandler-1.0
• LibDataBroker-1.1
• LibDBIcon-1.0
• LibSharedMedia-3.0

Library use:

• LibDataBroker-1.1 and LibDBIcon-1.0 power the minimap/data broker launcher.
• LibSharedMedia-3.0 provides shared font and sound selection.
• LibStub and CallbackHandler-1.0 support the embedded library stack.

Notes

• RPWatch does not send chat or modify outgoing messages.
• RPWatch does not permanently log transcripts or export chat history.
• Profile import/export is for RPWatch settings, not captured message history.
• Licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal.
• Included third-party libraries remain under their respective open-source/public-domain library licenses.

Support & Community

Need help, want to report a bug, or have a feature request?

Join the official Discord:
https://discord.gg/t9TprNDJtU