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About Roll20
Roll20 is a browser-based virtual tabletop for playing pen-and-paper role-playing games and board games online. It supports D&D, Pathfinder and more than 1,200 other game systems, with nothing to download or host.
It brings together dice rolling, character sheets, tokens, a rules compendium and automation for repetitive tasks. It also sells licensed adventures that are ready to play. A free account covers basic play, and a subscription is available.
Strengths
- No downloads or hosting required
- Supports more than 1,200 game systems
- Built-in dice, character sheets and automation
- Library of licensed adventures
Limitations
- Requires an account
- Some content and features are sold separately
- Site shows ads and uses tracking cookies
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree account to play, with a paid subscription and a shop for adventures.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Roll20
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Account
- Required
- Best suited for
- Groups who want to play tabletop RPGs online without hosting anything
- Categories
- Gaming tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Roll20
Compare allSoftware that can replace Roll20 for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
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 necessarily a direct replacement.
Dungeondraft
A desktop map editor for drawing battle maps for tabletop role-playing games.
Dungeon Alchemist
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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.
