Unlike board games, tabletop role-playing games do not always put everything a group might use in one box. Dice and character sheets may be enough, but digital tools can help with remote play, preparation, scheduling, record keeping and presentation.

It is usually better to add a tool in response to a real need than to assemble a complicated stack before the first session. Several especially large categories have their own pages:

• Virtual Tabletops — shared maps, tokens and other tools for playing online or using a digital display at the table.
• Token Builders — tools for creating digital representations of characters and creatures.
• Map Making — editors and generators for battle, regional and world maps.
• Assets — maps, tokens, audio, fonts, brushes, icons and printable models.

Dice Rollers

• RollAdvantage Dice Roller — straightforward browser roller supporting common dice notation and saved presets.
• dddice — shareable 3D dice rooms with customizable dice and integrations for other tabletop tools.
• Dice.run — fast keyboard-friendly roller for expressions such as 2d6+3 or 4d6kh3.

Campaign Notes & World Building

Campaign managers vary from blank notebooks to highly structured databases. Before choosing one, consider whether the game master needs private notes, whether players will contribute and how easily the campaign can be exported or backed up.

Wikis & Flexible World Building

• LegendKeeper — approachable wiki with a strong interactive-map tool and relatively little imposed structure.
• World Anvil — extensive world-building and campaign features with templates, maps, timelines and publishing options.
• Kanka — campaign-focused manager with quests, characters, locations, calendars, inventories and granular permissions.
• Campfire — modular world-building software aimed primarily at writers but also useful for settings and campaign preparation.
• Obsidian — local Markdown notes with backlinks and a large plug-in ecosystem. It is not RPG-specific, but keeps the underlying notes portable.

Campaign-Focused Notebooks

• Fantasia Archive — free, offline desktop world-building and campaign organizer.
• The Goblin’s Notebook — linked campaign notes with journals, shareable handouts and a limited free tier.
• Critical Notes — collaborative notes organized around timelines, characters, factions, locations, quests and shared inventory.
• Chronica — browser campaign manager with quests, shops, inventories, encounters, calendars and player permissions.
• Obsidian Portal — long-running campaign wiki and adventure-log service.
• Scabard — campaign manager built around connections between characters, places, events and other entities.
• Adventurer’s Codex — free browser-based characters, party tools and campaign management specifically for D&D 5e.
• ChronoGrapher — experimental wiki, interactive-map and timeline tool that stores campaign data in the user’s Google Drive. Access is currently offered through its development-support tier.

Character & System-Specific Tools

System-specific applications can remove bookkeeping, but they may only include material released under an SRD or purchased through that platform.

• D&D Beyond — official D&D rules, characters, encounters and purchased digital content.
• Pathbuilder 2e — Pathfinder 2e character builder available on the web and Android.
• COMP/CON — free character, mech and encounter toolkit for Lancer.
• Demiplane Nexus — digital books, rules references and character tools for several supported systems.
• Savaged.us — character and encounter tools for Savage Worlds Adventure Edition.

Initiative & Encounter Tracking

• Improved Initiative — fast D&D 5e combat tracker with convenient stat blocks and a public player view.
• Kobold Plus Fight Club — D&D 5e encounter builder using challenge-rating guidelines. Treat its difficulty estimate as a starting point rather than a guarantee.

Random Tables, Names & Generators

• Donjon — generators for names, encounters, treasure, dungeons, worlds and several specific game systems.
• Rolldeo — free, offline-capable and open-source random-table roller with tools for creating and sharing table collections.
• Fantasy Name Generators — a very large collection of name generators covering fantasy, history, places and popular media.
• Eigengrau’s Generator — interconnected fantasy settlement generator whose people, businesses and details refer to one another.

Scheduling & Table Coordination

• When2meet — quickly compare everyone’s availability without requiring accounts.
• Doodle — date polls and scheduling with free and paid options.
• Discord — voice, video, text channels and event scheduling; widely used for both remote sessions and between-session coordination.

Audio, Recording & Session Notes

• Kenku FM — routes audio from a computer or web source into Discord while keeping playback under the game master’s control.
• GM Assistant — converts uploaded session recordings into structured recaps, scenes and entity lists using AI. The first session is free, followed by subscription or usage-based pricing.

Always obtain the explicit agreement of everyone involved before recording a session or uploading their voices to another service. Explain where the recording is going, how it will be processed and whether it will be retained; applicable recording laws can also vary by location.