Howdy all. I'm trying to get a game set up between my friends and me, and we'll need to use this newfangled "internet" thing for it. I'm just wondering what folks have had success with. It looks like Roll20 is the most common (particularly through Google Hangouts, yes?), but is there anything else that has worked well?

Is there a good way to play music through any of these options? I was hoping Hangouts might have a Google Music plugin, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Roll20 through Google hangouts is indeed a great way to go. You can play music from Soundcloud directly through Roll20.

Here's a clip from a previous session of mine:

Google Hangouts+Roll20+Soundcloud in action

If you're a paying member of roll20 you don't need Hangouts.

As a matter of fact Roll20 works better outside of Hangouts as you can make better use of all the EotE integration tools. Make initiative, attacks, skills use, ect much smoother and keeps it all in one place.

That said Roll20's VoIP system can be a little spotty, so you may be forced to use hangouts or skype or something for comms. Especially if one of your players is on an iPad or something.

I dislike the built in video/voice but I like the API character sheet and the options available with the scripts.

I use Google hangouts for the video/voice portion in my group(s).

Hm, I hadn't found roll20's EotE tools, just the ones on Hangouts. Do i need a subscription to use them?

There are 2 dice rollers for hangouts that are free.

Additionally there is a paid character sheet/dice roller for Roll20. They call it the API character sheet and it requires the mentor subscription to use.

The awesome part is the mentor subscription offers a few extra scripts that are wonderful.

I personally use;

• A script to auto roll Obligation/Duty/Morality.
  • I macro'ed it and I can click 1 button and roll all 3, or just 1 of them.
• A script for the Dice rolling.
  • This works with the API character sheet.
    • You can roll the skills from the sheet and even 1 button press attacks.
• A script to import weapons.
  • Rather than filling out all the stats of a specific weapon, I can type !eeweapon(name) player(name) and it will auto populate the stats of the weapon into the character's sheet.
• Lastly I have a script that can import full NPC stats.
  • While it doesn't have ALL NPCs it has a template you can build an NPC in so you can import multiple NPCs really quickly.

• A script to import weapons.
  • Rather than filling out all the stats of a specific weapon, I can type !eeweapon(name) player(name) and it will auto populate the stats of the weapon into the character's sheet.
• Lastly I have a script that can import full NPC stats.
  • While it doesn't have ALL NPCs it has a template you can build an NPC in so you can import multiple NPCs really quickly.

Where'd you find those?

Ghost, I sent you the links via PM

I am not sure how many weapons it has, but it is easy to edit. Same things for the enemy one, it has like 5 or 6 built in, but you can edit the template and add a ton more.