I use Google Meet quite often for D&D games. It's not amazing, but it's not bad either. Pretty good option, but I would say Zoom is just as good (but Google Meet is a bit simpler, and I'm personally more used to it).
We use Google Meet and Slides for our games. Slides works as a poor man's VTT. Add a map with a grid as background of the slide. Create images as icons and size them appropriately. Present the Slide to the Meet and move icons when needed.
One of my players uses his character sheet as his Meet background.
I use Meet regularly with my party, but we only use the voice/video functionality. We have DND Beyond open in another window and use it for all rolling. Sometimes, we'll open up Roll20 and use that instead of Meet. I suppose Meet/Slides would be good for showing images like maps or characters, but I don't know that it would be an actual VTT. Like other posters have said, it can be done, but it would be less work to just do it in Roll20. As a voice/video chat program, though, Meet is the best I've used, and it's usually the cornerstone of our table. (We live in different cities, so we use Meet almost every time we play.)
Edit: Adding in that, while we sometimes use Roll20 for maps, the video/voice chat is really buggy compared to Meet. Sometimes, one player won't be able to get it to work at all and we'll have to open Meet up again and use that for chat while we use Roll20 for maps. Meet wins in the reliability category.
Has anyone had any positive experiences with doing this and, if so, care to share some tips?
It occurred to me recently that it has voice, video, graph paper backdrops, and the potential to jump to a whiteboard and pull in slides, docs, etc.
I also see that there are some Chrome plugins for rolling dice via Meet.
My Google One membership allows for multi-hour meets so...maybe this could be the VTT one-stop I've been looking for?
I use Google Meet quite often for D&D games. It's not amazing, but it's not bad either. Pretty good option, but I would say Zoom is just as good (but Google Meet is a bit simpler, and I'm personally more used to it).
If anybody would like my GMing playlists
battles: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2mRp57MBAz9ZsVpw895IzZ?si=243bee43442a4703
exploration: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0qk0aKm5yI4K6VrlcaKrDj?si=81057bef509043f3
town/tavern: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/49JSv1kK0bUyQ9LVpKmZlr?si=a88b1dd9bab54111
character deaths: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6k7WhylJEjSqWC0pBuAtFD?si=3e897fa2a2dd469e
We use Google Meet and Slides for our games. Slides works as a poor man's VTT. Add a map with a grid as background of the slide. Create images as icons and size them appropriately. Present the Slide to the Meet and move icons when needed.
One of my players uses his character sheet as his Meet background.
I use Meet regularly with my party, but we only use the voice/video functionality. We have DND Beyond open in another window and use it for all rolling. Sometimes, we'll open up Roll20 and use that instead of Meet. I suppose Meet/Slides would be good for showing images like maps or characters, but I don't know that it would be an actual VTT. Like other posters have said, it can be done, but it would be less work to just do it in Roll20. As a voice/video chat program, though, Meet is the best I've used, and it's usually the cornerstone of our table. (We live in different cities, so we use Meet almost every time we play.)
Edit: Adding in that, while we sometimes use Roll20 for maps, the video/voice chat is really buggy compared to Meet. Sometimes, one player won't be able to get it to work at all and we'll have to open Meet up again and use that for chat while we use Roll20 for maps. Meet wins in the reliability category.
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Thanks so much, folks.
Greatly appreciate you taking the time to help.