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About Foundry Virtual Tabletop
Foundry Virtual Tabletop is a platform for running tabletop role-playing games online. The game master installs it on Windows, macOS or Linux and hosts a game server. Players join for free through a web browser.
It is sold as a one-time purchase with no subscription fees or feature gating. Because the server is self-hosted, the host keeps control of the game and its data. A developer API allows the platform to be extended.
Strengths
- One-time purchase with no subscription or feature gating
- Players need only a web browser
- Self-hosted, so the host owns the game data
- API for developers to extend it
Limitations
- The game master has to host the server
- Proprietary software with an upfront cost
Details
- Pricing
- PaidOne-time purchase with no subscription, and players join for free.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Foundry Gaming
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Self-hosted
- Best suited for
- Game masters who want to host their own online tabletop sessions
- Categories
- Gaming tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Foundry Virtual Tabletop
Compare allSoftware that can replace Foundry Virtual Tabletop for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Roll20
A browser-based virtual tabletop for playing pen-and-paper role-playing games and board games online.
Roll20 needs no hosting since it runs in the browser, but it is freemium with an account requirement, ads, tracking cookies, and some content sold separately.
Fantasy Grounds
A desktop virtual tabletop for playing D&D, Pathfinder and other RPGs online with rules automation.
Fantasy Grounds is a freemium desktop app with strong rules automation and licensed publisher content, but it requires an account and much official content costs extra.
MapTool
Host a virtual tabletop for pen-and-paper roleplaying games.
MapTool is free and open source under AGPL-3.0, letting you host a tabletop with maps, tokens and chat, without Foundry's developer API or browser-only player access.
Owlbear Rodeo
A browser-based virtual tabletop for running tabletop role-playing sessions with maps, tokens and fog.
Owlbear Rodeo is a freemium browser tabletop that needs no server hosting, with simple fog and drawing tools but lighter rules automation.
Alchemy RPG
A virtual tabletop for playing, creating and sharing tabletop roleplaying games with a scene-based layout.
Alchemy RPG is free with a scene-based layout for story-focused play, licensed worlds, and desktop plus web versions, on a proprietary hosted platform.
TaleSpire
A 3D virtual tabletop for building scenes and playing pen-and-paper role-playing games with friends online.
TaleSpire moves play into 3D scenes built in the program, but it is Windows only, in Early Access, and not self-hosted.
Similar software
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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.
