Anyone here play online? I was part of a campaign utilizing Roll20 and Google Hangouts a few years back, but I know Google dropped the support that allowed the dice roller we were using a few years ago.

Anyhow, I've got a group of real life friends that want to start something, but we aren't sure how we want to go about it. I'm the only one with experience with FFG Star Wars online, but obviously my experience is outdated. We all live just far enough away from each other that playing online seems to be our best option.

We saw Roll20 has an API, but we are hoping to avoid paying for anything. Note: I'm not trying to use something for free that actually costs money, I'm looking for tools that are free to use.

I guess the main focus is a dice roller. Something for character sheets would be cool, but I'm already attached to oggdude's generator.

We've thrown around using discord or Skype to actually communicate while playing.

What have you guys had success with?

For PbP, we use Orokos or SkyJedi .

I've messed around with the Roll20 stuff and it is pretty good, but in order to use the API you have to subscribe to Roll20. Discord was how we did communication, and there is actually a dice roller on discord as well. Because I'm at work right now, I can't get you the link.

Side note, a lot of the pre-made adventures have maps online you can use if you search around for them, including ships and cantinas and the like.

I'm looking at starting up an online campaign myself, so I'll have to keep an eye on this thread.

vanlevy.com has a great dice roller!

My group uses Hangouts and the Genesys dice roller on skyjedi.com. Works great most of the time, though the roller was behaving a little oddly last session (rolls not going in expected order).

I use Roll20 for online gaming and discord for voice chat. Best combo that I've tried.

Discord is great for both voice and text chat and RPGSessions has character/vehicle sheets and an integrated Discord bot. It's practically all you need to play online. It just doesn't have maps. But the GM can create a Google Drawing and share that with the players.