I have a group of friends that we are often physically separate, but we like to play old school table top RPG's. A video conferencing solution seems ideal for this.

What we need is cross platform, video (everyone sees everyone), sound (everyone hears everyone), desktop sharing (everyone see's at least one, maybe all), and possibly whiteboard (everyone sees & can draw).

I have a server running already, so I'm up to installing something centralized. Although P2P might be easier over all.

I found BigBlueButton. Sounds like a wonderful idea, but they built that software around the idea that it was the only thing on the server. Grrrrr It's the only thing I've found that I can NOT get to install on Ubuntu 12.04. And I don't want to play around with running it as a VM. Not sure my machine will handle it well as it's just on spec for BBB w/o being VM'd.

So, if anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear them.