The Aurora Builder is a free tool that lets you create characters for your dungeons and dragons game using the bundled content, your own content, and content created by others.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Calamus Alternatives
Games similar to Calamus include FreeVTT, which is free. Other options are Roll20, D&D Beyond, Foundry Virtual Tabletop and DiceRight. You're spoiled for choice with Virtual Tabletops like Calamus: we list more than 25 alternatives for the web, Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
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Digital d20 is a platform for distributing and playing adventures in a new digital format that aims to change the way the adventures are prepared and ran, with the help of new technologies, but maintaining the romanticism of paper and pencil.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
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53 Fantasy Grounds alternativesFantasy Grounds is a virtual tabletop to help facilitate play of tabletop-style role-playing games online with a GM (game master) and one or more players. It replicates what you would traditionally do around a physical table, such as rolling dice, managing character sheets...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Wine
- Steam
United States
Beyond Tabletop is a set of tools for RPG players with easy-to-use online character sheets and maps. Subscription-free and designed to be used on all devices online. Currently offering a battle map and character sheets for Pathfinder and D&D 5e.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
+1
A fun, easy to use, Open Source tool for tabletop RPG players to manage their characters, campaigns, and parties. The goal is to help you focus more on the game by bringing your paper character sheets into the 21st century.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- United States
+3
Standard Action is a tabletop gaming application designed to be simple, but flexible. In game, Standard Action features an interactive game board, live chat, dice rolls, a turn tracker, customizable token stat bars, and much more.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
A virtual tabletop for D&D and Pathfinder with chat, voice and video, and other features built in, so your group schedules, plays, and talks in one place.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- United States
+2
GM Forge is a Standalone Virtual Tabletop and is a sandbox for GMs. Friends can join through web browsers for free once the GM purchases a copy.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Steam
- United States
+3
PlanarAlly is a web tool that adds virtual battlemaps with various extras to your D&D toolbox. Self hosting, Offline support, Simple layers, Infinite canvas, Dynamic lighting, Player vision, Initiative tracker. Free to use and is open source.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Global
Adventurekeep is an online toolkit for Dungeon Masters to create epic adventures with ease. Adventurekeep provides state-of-the-art tools for building and running 5e adventures.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
DiceCloud is a single-developer project started in 2014 with the aim of being a character sheet that stayed in sync between the DM and their players, and made it clear where every value in the sheet came from, and how it was calculated.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
+2
Tableplop is an easy to learn, fun to use virtual tabletop for role playing games. It includes everything you need to play TTRPGs remote apart from audio chat and works great on mobiles and computers.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
