What's your VTT of choice?

[Belen]

As we enter 2025, there's a LOT of virtual tabletops out there. We're in the 50+ range, each with it's devout fans.

What’s your VTT of choice?

I use Shard Tabletop and DDB.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Switched to Foundry over 4 years ago. What I like is pay once, you can add modules if you want to to customise the experience or just have a bare bones system. They have a great support network.

I should note that while I have no intention of shifting from Maptool in the foreseeable future, if I did Foundry would be my most likely choice.

 

[TheSword]

Foundry for WFRP it automates pretty much all the maths and rules which is awesome. The support is awesome with practically everything released on Foundry within a few months.

For D&D Roll 20. Again it has the best support for D&D modules. We’ll see how long that lasts.

 

[johndesmarais]

Okay, spill.

By most measures it’s an inferior tool. It lacks many of the advanced features of Foundry, and isn’t as simple or clean as Owlbear.rodeo - all of which actually appeals to me as my feature needs are low, but slightly higher than Owlbear.rodeo. Plus, I have a very large library of resources that I’ve specifically made easy to use in it and I’m far too lazy to put effort into converting.

 

[Velderan]

By most measures it’s an inferior tool. It lacks many of the advanced features of Foundry, and isn’t as simple or clean as Owlbear.rodeo - all of which actually appeals to me as my feature needs are low, but slightly higher than Owlbear.rodeo. Plus, I have a very large library of resources that I’ve specifically made easy to use in it and I’m far too lazy to put effort into converting.

I hear you. We were pretty invested in Roll20 for 5e despite hearing people talk about how well Foundry worked for it, especially with the DDB importer. The move from 5e to PF2e created a nice clean break for us to both learn PF2e and Foundry at the same time. I am not sure if we would have switched VTTs if we hadn’t also switched game systems.

I did import all my DDB material into a bunch of Foundry worlds on a local install before the 2024 rules updates, so it’s nice to know it’s waiting for me if we ever get the itch to play 5e again. It’s the closest you can get to owning your digital content IMO.

 

[Himbo_Jones]

I will echo what many others have said already: I'm an Owlbear Rodeo apologist because as much as the fancy tools are nice, I tend to prefer a game where the system I run it on is as simple as possible. I just want easy tokens, a map with grids, and the ability to black out rooms and reveal them at will. For that, Owlbear is perfect.

 

[Grendel_Khan]

While Roll20 is what I use for most games, and that's what I voted for, I also found that PlayingCards.io Virtual Tabletop is a good one to use for those rare games that use playing cards instead of dice. I use that for Princess Wing.

I keep hearing great things about that. I don't think I'll be running anything that would need it for a while, but at some point I need to dig in and figure out how to put together a custom game.

 

[Grendel_Khan]

I suspect some answers to this question may be biased to some degree about the lean of this site; specifically how well suited various VTTs are to D&D as contrast with other things (though some of the more popular outside of the D&D-sphere still tend to get some degree of support, but I'm not sure how much help to someone who runs Eclipse Phase, BASH UE, Mythras or Fragged Empire they'd be. This doesn't automatically mean they'd be unattractive, but it might take thumb off the scale for some of them for people not D&D GMs.

A good point, but that's a bias that applies almost everywhere on ENW. For example, I know lots of people who only use something like Google Sheets for character keepers and Roll With Me or similar for dice. But most of those folks aren't here.

 

[Thomas Shey]

A good point, but that's a bias that applies almost everywhere on ENW. For example, I know lots of people who only use something like Google Sheets for character keepers and Roll With Me or similar for dice. But most of those folks aren't here.

Sure. I was just noting it was probably putting a thumb on the scale for some people that might not apply to at least some respondants.

 

[aramis erak]

A good point, but that's a bias that applies almost everywhere on ENW. For example, I know lots of people who only use something like Google Sheets for character keepers and Roll With Me or similar for dice. But most of those folks aren't here.

Part of that is the phrasing...
many people playing online but not using a VTT don't answer "what VTT are you using?"
And I think there are a lot of people doing that level who are active on here, but just not in this section of the board.