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« on: September 24, 2011, 11:28:56 PM »
My gaming group has been scattered to the four corners of the earth once again.  Anyways, long story short, I still want to play with my friends.  I see this as a good way to get everyone together to play some rpgs even if it is not together at the same geographically located gaming table.  Anyone have experience with this? Any suggestions?

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Re: Google Plus
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2011, 01:22:36 AM »
I dunno about google plus, I can't figure out how that would work. The only stuff on google wave I tried fizzled because of internet flakes but its pretty cool for document sharing.

Uhm Google video, oovoo, and skype are used by people.
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Re: Google Plus
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2011, 01:53:44 AM »
I think he's referring to the G+ "Huddle" feature, which I have never used.

Could be interesting.

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Re: Google Plus
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2011, 08:32:26 AM »
I haven't tried Google +, but I did play a game through Google Wave. It was pretty great, like a mix of PBP and Chat-based gaming. Too bad Google Wave will close down soon, it would have really shined as a online tabletop gaming tool.

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Re: Google Plus
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2011, 09:09:51 PM »
I like google+ better than skype. It drops less. The video is cleaner and the sound is sharper.

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Re: Google Plus
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2011, 07:02:37 PM »
     The main reason that I wish to use this is the Google Plus Hangout feature.  The video is crisp and the audio is also good.  Also, haven't had a drop yet. The only thing negative I can say so far is that there is no integrated dice roller like skype. 

     Other than that it has not thus let me down, but at this point, I have yet to actually run a game using this.  I am thinking of using the other google services to better enjoy it.  It already has a chat window (DEAR GOD WHY can I not roll dice with it?), but I feel that using Google docs on the side would be useful. This allows me to basically set up a private message board for each player (this may not work out because it will lead to a note passing war) and create a main game forum (mostly used for NPC pictures and other visual things, including but not limited to flagging a map for use with google maps to let the players zoom in and out of real world places).

     Anyways lots of potential.  My friends and I are digging it.  Any suggestions that are not "move to skype" when it comes to the die roller?   

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Re: Google Plus
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2011, 11:00:35 PM »
Me dumb sometimes. Anywhoo decided to try out

http://www.metstuebchen.de/cgi-bin/DIESERVER/roll.pl

Will see how well all work together