The DM's Ark Alternatives

The DM's Ark is described as 'Seamlessly integrated with Discord, it transcribes your sessions, organizes notes, sends detailed recaps, and serves as a living archive of your world. But that’s only the beginning' and is an website in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to The DM's Ark, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, iPhone and iPad apps. The best The DM's Ark alternative is Roll20, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to The DM's Ark are MasterScreen, D&D Beyond, Fight Club 5th Edition and Dungeoneer.

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    Fantasy 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...

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    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Wine
    • Steam
     
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    This is a unique software, that i decided to make, because i couldn't find anything that would work natively on a desktop, without any payment or necessity to open a browser. So, here it is! It's aimed on dungeon masters, who would like to make their life easier and get...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
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    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

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    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

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    • Online
     
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    Roll or customize 3D digital dice for tabletop roleplaying games. Create private rooms that your whole party can connect to and see instant dice results in a 3D environment. Build your own stunning 3D dice using an easy-to-use editor or extend the functionality of dddice using a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    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

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    • Online
     
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • PlanarAlly is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to The DM's Ark.

    • PlanarAlly is Free and Open SourceThe DM's Ark is Paid and Proprietary
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    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    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 (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    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

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    DM Helpmate is an offline, downloadable DM (Dungeon Master) companion for Windows featuring an interactive database, links to spells and spell slots, attack and damage dice rolls, skill checks, filtering by parameters and tags and much more.

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    A map-making companion for tabletop RPGs, like Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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