Best Virtual Tabletops of 2022

Another point for Tableplop: It is 100% mobile friendly, not something you see everyday and I love it as a Player (not a very good GM experience on mobile though).

RIP Astral. I did my own comparison a couple years ago and Astral was the best one for the functionality I needed, and they kept adding cool new features to it. I'm using Foundry now because I love the customization and the fact that I own it for life after one fee, but there's a definite learning curve to it. But I was able to recreate my last Astral session in Foundry with only a couple days of learning, and I'm already seeing things Astral didn't do in it, so I'm pretty confident in my choice to use Foundry.

I hadn't even heard of Alchemy RPG but oh my lord did your footage look stunning there! Definitely going to check it out now

Fun fact about Foundry, you can put it on a cloud server for free due to the low requirements it needs to be run on everyone's computer. So the "small fee" negative point doesn't exist. Now you do have to build it and there are guides or you can have someone do it for you on your behalf.

A fantastic video that really covers the pros and cons of the more popular VTTs that are around currently. Really appreciate the work that went into this!

I can't wait to watch your in-depth review of OMM. Thank you for introducing me to so many awesome VTTs. I probably only heard of 3-4 of these before your videos. Keep it up! You do awesome work.

This is an amazing video! I dearly miss TTRPGs, so when I can play again, this will be a great reference to help me figure out what VTTs to try! I'm impressed that Questline lets you preset 1-click action/attack rolls, like the custom macros on Roll20. Features like that really improves a sessions flow and I wish every VTT did this, even if they don't want to integrate full character sheets.

I love using Shard Tabletop.

Excellent video. For some reason, YouTube wasn't showing me your videos (that old chestnut, THANKS YOUTUBE) so I had completely not realized you had been posting some videos. This one is spectacular! Going through all this trouble to show us the ins and outs of SO MANY VTTs is such a nice thing for you to do, especially when some of these can be pretty expensive! It is a huge help to the TTRPG community as a whole to have a video like this as a resource. Everyone should have a VTT they can call their own, and this video shows that there's so many options that there should hopefully be one for you, and if there isn't, then you at least know what features to ask for. My favorite VTT is certainly Foundry, I'm all in on that one. One time cost, incredible mod support, unparalleled customizability. I want a VTT I can do whatever I want with, and I also really want a VTT I can use all of the gigs upon gigs of TTRPG content I already own from various sources without having to buy it over and over again. It's complicated, but I know I can always ask the community for help and get what I need. But that's for when I need all the bells and whistles. When I'm playing just theater of the mind, all I need is Discord, but I really do love Fari and I'm working on setting that up for my current Fate game. I think Fari is going to be my prime theater of the mind VTT of choice, because it's the one that most closely recreates "sitting at a table with pages of notes laying around you can grab" right down to drawing out vague shape maps on the back of a takeout menu. So Foundry and Fari are my two go-tos, Foundry for big maps and cool mods, Fari for organized notes and simple theater of the mind day to day gameplay. I own Game Master Engine, I believe the creator was doing a sort of giveaway on Reddit where it was either very cheap or free for a bit, and I think that's all I need for 3D VTTs. I'm not a fan of 3D VTTs; they seem too clunky, too complicated, and oftentimes the models look too much like they're N64 models. Talespire does look really nice, but I struggle to design things visually, so I feel like sitting down with a bunch of random 3D models and trying to make a map would give me a headache. Just give me a static PDF map I can plop some tokens down on and I'm perfectly fine. All that said, I am very interested in One More Multiverse, I'm a sucker for that pixel art, and it looks very nice and sleek. Possibly customizable enough for me as well. You mentioned doing a full video for it, and I hope you do because I want to learn more about that! Oh, and Alchemy! That Alchemy one looked GREAT! I'd love a more deep dive on that one, if you have the time!

This channel has overnight become my 2nd favourite Tabletop related channel.

I've used most VTTs and Shard is by far my favorite. For DNDBeyond users, it includes a very simple character import feature that allows you to pull in your ddb characters, including purchased features. And while it takes a little work, they have a great way to import campaigns easily as well as 3rd party content. Lastly, it's a homebrew masterpiece, enabling users to create their own extensions and conditions...and you can even add these to your character sheet. Very cool!

Wow, this was enlightening. You gave just a right amount of information to make a decision, should I invest time to try some of these out or not. It was funny and well edited too, so it was a pleasure to watch. Thank you!

Finding this channel was today’s win, for me! Subscribed and can’t wait to peruse these vids. And take a look at some of the VTTs on this list I’ve missed. One that I rarely see anyone talking about is Encounter+, which, while pretty much Mac & iOS only, is a pretty impressive VTT: a good bit simpler than Foundry, a lot more functionality than Owlbear, a tiny but freakishly smart fan base of nerds that work on cool integrations like dndbeyond importing, Foundry adventure importing, and a beautiful markdown-based module importer. And as far as I am concerned, there is no other usable option for people who want to use iPadOS. It’s fantastic. I flip back and forth from E+ for “quick’n’ez” and Foundry for “& the kitchen sink”. Thank you for this!

Great video. Our group mostly used Owlbear Rodeo and played around with Tableplop. I'm going to have to check out Dungeon Club. Our last couple of sessions we've been trying a recently released VTT, Tabula Sono. A very simple 3d VTT.

Awesome, you got a lot of width there, i like it, most of these videos are just the 2-3 most popular VTTs

Having found this from a VTT in progress (the open source Mythic Table), this was a neat look. Also One More Multiverse looks very interesting...

One more multiverse has the UI sent from the gods, the item customization of your dreams and... looks like Habbo Hotel.

Let's see if vtt foundry will be as good as I think it is

Wow, amazing and concise video! I have been looking for a vtt to run a (potential) city of mist game, and this came at the PERFECT time. I forgot that I had bookmarked a tiktok video about one more multiverse and might be giving that one a shot, as I still enjoy using discord to keep things organized and chat with my friends that I play with, but would like a better way to make maps that isn’t subscription based (and the fact it gives me a chance to improve and show off my pixel art is even better)

There have been a Lot of upgrades done to "The RPG Engine" since this video. Also, flat maps using an image or URL is an easy to use included option. Makes interesting maps to pull in an image then place 3D objects on top. Of which there are more than 8 thousand currently, with more being added frequently.