I’ve played in a DnD group using Discord before. Google Sheets works surprisingly well as a gameboard. It also allowed us to move characters and point stuff out remotely, since it supports simultaneous live editing.

ROLL20

USE ROLL20

You don’t need to take the game itself off Discord, but Roll20 is free and does exactly what you want it to do: Easily track the position of everything. It’s what I do and it improved my experience to the point it felt like a whole different game.

Is dnd hard to get into? I once attended a local meetup with strangers but i was drunk so i didnt enjoy it, and im sure they didnt enjoy having me. I feel like i could love it but right now i don’t like it

I open a map on paint.net, overlay a grid on it if it hasn’t one already, and place player/enemy tokens on it. Then I stream it to all the group.

It’s 100% free and it’s relatively quick to set up and run.

There are tons of virtual tabletops that make this easy to do over discord. Check out Owlbear Rodeo, Alchemy or Foundry VTT, in reverse order complexity.