Alternatives to Roll20
A browser-based virtual tabletop for playing pen-and-paper role-playing games and board games online. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Roll20
A browser-based virtual tabletop for playing pen-and-paper role-playing games and board games online.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Roll20.
Foundry Virtual Tabletop
A self-hosted virtual tabletop for running role-playing games that players join through a web browser.
Foundry Virtual Tabletop is a one-time purchase that the game master self-hosts, with players joining by browser, instead of a hosted freemium service with ads and tracking.
Fantasy Grounds
A desktop virtual tabletop for playing D&D, Pathfinder and other RPGs online with rules automation.
Fantasy Grounds is a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux with strong rules automation and licensed content, but it needs installing and much official content costs extra.
Owlbear Rodeo
A browser-based virtual tabletop for running tabletop role-playing sessions with maps, tokens and fog.
Owlbear Rodeo is a simpler browser tabletop with automatic grid detection and extensions, but it offers less rules automation than Roll20's character sheets and system support.
Alchemy RPG
A virtual tabletop for playing, creating and sharing tabletop roleplaying games with a scene-based layout.
Alchemy RPG uses a scene-based layout for story-driven play, offers desktop apps plus web, and includes licensed worlds from over 125 publishers.
TaleSpire
A 3D virtual tabletop for building scenes and playing pen-and-paper role-playing games with friends online.
TaleSpire moves to a paid 3D Windows tabletop with in-program scene building, still in Early Access and with less rules automation than Roll20.
MapTool
Host a virtual tabletop for pen-and-paper roleplaying games.
MapTool is a free AGPL-3.0 desktop tabletop for Windows, macOS and Linux that you host yourself, combining maps, tokens and chat without ads.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Dungeondraft
A desktop map editor for drawing battle maps for tabletop role-playing games.
Dungeon Alchemist
A 3D map-making application that builds tabletop RPG battle maps by automatically furnishing drawn rooms.
Wonderdraft
A desktop program for drawing fantasy world and regional maps for tabletop games and fiction.
Tabletop Simulator
A physics-based sandbox for playing and building board, card and tabletop games online with others.
VASSAL
An open-source engine for building and playing digital versions of board games and card games.
