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Really enjoyed everything from painting the figures to creating maps and characters to staying up all night with friends geeking out.

Sadly I can't find anyone willing to give it a go to see if I would still be into it. Would really be a good use of something like Google Hangouts.

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You should check out roll20.net, they have a webapp / Google Hangouts app with a bunch of tools to support remote tabletop gaming.

So despite what other people have said, Roll20 does not use Google Hangouts. It uses Tokbox. However, it tends to work better than Google Hangouts ever did for us in the past. Enough so that we were able to switch to using the Roll20 video/audio chat rather than our normal Skype session.

Anyways, Roll20 is great, and I'd give it a shot. Roll20 has allowed my 10+ year gaming group to keep gaming.

I don't believe this is accurate. I think the Google Hangout "app" is fairly new: http://help.roll20.net/misc-playing-in-google-plus/

True. Some of my friends do a monthly game on IRC and we did an iPad with FaceTime for a friend living in another state.

My dream is to take an old G4 iMac and make the screen move remotely, it would be epic at the table.

You could also try a play-by-post game at the Original D&D Discussion forum http://odd74.proboards.com/

Roll20.net. It uses Google Hangouts for its video/audio sharing

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