Gothic Virtual Tabletop

Gothic Virtual Tabletop is an application for running tabletop role-playing games and wargames. You can customize it for most systems, with campaign-specific character sheets, macros, compendiums and other settings.

Character sheets and hotbar

Character sheets are system-agnostic and customizable. You can open a token’s sheet by double-clicking it. Selecting a token brings up a hotbar at the bottom of the screen, where players and GMs can see relevant information without switching among tabs.

Macros and compendium

Macros can roll dice, edit character sheets, send preset chat messages and play sounds. You can customize each button’s text, color and hotbar placement, and use user-defined variables containing equations or values from a token’s sheet. Default sheet values, macros and compendium content are stored in .json files separately for each campaign, so you can tailor each campaign to its system.

The built-in compendium lets you define weapons, armour, abilities, spells and rollable tables, then add them to a token with a button press.

Chat and campaign tools

Chat displays the individual dice results, including rolls made as part of complex equations or macros. You can whisper to other players or the GM, roll publicly or secretly for the GM, and roll on tables to show the results in chat. The application also includes a built-in jukebox for browsing a campaign’s music library and queuing tracks, plus a whiteboard layer on each map for planning or drawing.

Maps and hosting

The map editor includes fog-of-war tools, adjustable grids to fit images with or without a built-in grid, and the option to hide grid lines. It supports square grids, horizontal or vertical hex grids, and maps without a grid.

Gothic Virtual Tabletop is self-hosted, with maps, tokens, sounds and music stored locally on your computer. Lobbies can be password-protected, and a status indicator shows who is connected or connecting. A loading screen appears when a player first connects and downloads assets; after that, there are no loading screens.