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brew install --cask fantasy-grounds
About Fantasy Grounds
Fantasy Grounds VTT is a virtual tabletop for running tabletop role-playing games online, with maps, dice and automation of each system's rules. The full app is free and includes built-in rulesets.
Official content from many publishers, including Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, is sold through its store. You need an account to log in. It suits game masters who want the software to handle rules bookkeeping so sessions run faster.
Strengths
- Strong rules automation for supported systems
- Licensed official content from major publishers
- Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux
Limitations
- Requires an account
- Much official content costs extra
- Automation features take time to learn
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumThe app is free to play; official rulesets and adventures are sold in its store.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- SmiteWorks
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Required
- Best suited for
- Game masters running rules-heavy RPGs online
- Categories
- Gaming tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Fantasy Grounds
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Foundry Virtual Tabletop is a one-time purchase that the game master self-hosts, with players joining through a browser, instead of an account-based freemium desktop app.
Roll20
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Roll20 runs in the browser with nothing to install and supports over 1,200 systems, but it shows ads, uses tracking cookies, and sells some content separately.
MapTool
Host a virtual tabletop for pen-and-paper roleplaying games.
MapTool is free and open source under AGPL-3.0 on Windows, macOS and Linux, combining maps, tokens and chat, without licensed official content from publishers.
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 with licensed worlds and a web version, rather than a focus on heavy rules automation.
Owlbear Rodeo
A browser-based virtual tabletop for running tabletop role-playing sessions with maps, tokens and fog.
Owlbear Rodeo runs in any browser including phones with simple maps, tokens and fog, but offers much lighter rules automation than Fantasy Grounds.
TaleSpire
A 3D virtual tabletop for building scenes and playing pen-and-paper role-playing games with friends online.
TaleSpire offers 3D scene building for sessions with friends, but it is Windows only, still in Early Access, and has less rules automation.
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