I tested 14 VTTs, this is the best one.

Honored to be mentioned in this video! One update for Bag of Mapping is the recently released srd monster compendium for both dnd and pathfinder! This video rocks :)

Thank you for taking the time to include Foundry VTT in your overview of all these great options. I'm thrilled you spotlighted some really positive features and the caveats you mentioned are all really fair points. Great video!

Thanks for enjoying using our VTT and mentioning us amongst these great options for playing our favourite TTRPGs. We'll keep trying to show what is people for a free VTT using D&D Beyond,

I forgot to say it in the video, but I'm not affiliated with any of these VTTs and I paid for them all with my own money. What's your favourite VTT?

And one note to all 3D VTTs. Beside building maps taking way more time than 2D battlemaps, there's tons of ttRPG players that use old PCs, macbook airs or other potato devices (even tablets) that can get slow with just the browser and discord running, so having them launch/view 3D maps will kill their performance completely. I think your scoring could use another category of hardware requirements, low quality setting in Foundry will work way better than talespire or tabletop simulator on low-end devices

I came for the VTT info and stayed for the mustache.😀

For fantasy grounds, the "no port forwarding" is probably related to how in the last version (which was windows only) you had to connect directly. They're probably mentioning it as an improvement over the previous iteration of the software. Honestly though, I just love the built in automation features in fantasy grounds. I like foundry well enough, and I pay for a vps so I can run it as a website, but fantasy grounds is my first vtt love, and there are some aspects that have yet to be beaten by any other vtt I've ever come across, such as how easy it is to group items into parcels, and npcs into encounters, and to create templates for each so you can create random encounters and random loot that exists within the game before going onto a player's character sheet. I love how the combat tracker does not require maps and tokens to work, making theatre of the mind so much easier to do, but you can use them in combination if you want to. The biggest downside to it is the price, but the price is greatly improved over how it used to be. That said, the level of automation built into all the official stuff is amazing, and while you could do it yourself for free, it would take a really long time.

Foundry VTT also has services like the Forge, which you can pay monthly for them to host a server for you so that you don’t have to port forward and they also allow some of the mods which in my opinion is a better experience than Roll 20. Alternatively, you could use a free service such as Hamachi to imitate being on the same network, which should allow you to connect anyway. There are also YouTube channels dedicated to making tutorials for Foundry and the mods available, some by the mod creators themselves.

Just a note for Foundry, most if not all future DND 5e/5.5e etc from now on since Wizards is finally partnered with FVTT so there will be official content. Foundry is my go-to and has been for a while, it's amazing what it can do.

Alchemy is my go-to VTT, as my GM style is very "cinematographic"; theater of the mind enhanced by background images. I used to do it on Roll 20, adding bunch of background images and inserting tokens on the appropiate one. With Alchemy i can do that way easily, the scenes and motion really enhance my style!

dude, this rocks! there's a lot of videos about different vtt's but they're from a couple years ago so this is a very updated compilation Two things to consider: 1- Talespire has a great mod community which allows you to download even more assets and character sheets with barely any effort whatsoever. 2- for a next time, you should consider hardware requirements: In low-end/old pc's or laptops, most of them could work when designing a map, but the moment you try to share the screen throught discord it will lag the hell out of it. I know it because i have a potato laptop (2015 ideapad) and while i can design maps with talespire, dungeon alchemist, dnd beyond maps or owlbear rodeo i cant use them at the same time i have discord open.

Only issue I have with these ratings are the cost of books should factor into the cost score, above vtt is cheap until you realize that you need to buy all of the books if you want to be able to run it without having to swap to a different vtt

We recently moved to foundry from browser based and it just seems like we all love it! Thanks for the video! Love to see other vtts out there 😊

Owlbear is goated

I also like on Above VTT being able to share images and spell descriptions to the game log. It makes it fun.

I was expecting to see Role on here too. The one I'm most interested in trying out is using Miro as a VTT.

I'm really happy to see your channel growing. Your content is top tier and you have great delivery. Best of luck going forward

I should note that Talespire is pretty fun to use in real-life sessions as well. We have one laptop for the DM, and one computer showing on the TV screen for all the players with a wireless mouse going around the table. Also consider it's still considered pre-release. My main advantages: unlimited assets vs. real-life mini's and tiles (want to battle 100+ monsters? You can), height/line-of-sight/cover/AoE are easier to track in 3D, community content for building maps, regular progress updates by devs, esthetics The main disadvantage: often fiddly to move creatures in cramped spaces, detailed maps can take away from theater of the mind, tracking the game from DM standpoint is not the easiest with one monitor (I don't feel that symbiotes are quite there yet)

We started with AboveVTT and will stay with it. It is so easy and grows even futher.

Concerning the wow factor for FGU for me it's a 3 : dynamic lighting and animated maps and animated tokens, FX on maps and the possibility to switch to 3D whenever you want (2.5D in fact because you use 2D tokens). 3D dices of course. And don't forget the integrated map creation tool and probably the biggest store with an incredible number of rulesets and adventure modules. The only problem: there is a big learning curve for it, but it is worth the time investment. My second VTT is Foundry which I use whenever there is no matching ruleset for FGU (i.e. Blade Runner RPG) Also a wow factor of 3 (missing the 2.5D though) and a deep learning curve.