Dungeons & Javas offers Virtual tabletops to help enhance your gaming experience. We have Maptool and Roll20 to accommodate your gaming needs.
You can reserve one of our gaming tables or our VIP room.
Virtual tabletops are designed to enhance pen-and-paper role-playing games. You can use it face-to-face or with friends all around the world.
Advantages of Virtual Tabletop:
- Provides individual vision so the player knows exactly what they can see based on light and obstacles.
- Allows a player to zoom in and out, so an archer can actually take shots of 120 ft or further, which is limited on standard tabletop map.
- Spell casters can easily draw spell affect areas.
- Automatic tracking of movement.
- Hundreds of textures and tiles to fit each individual scene or scenario.
- Allows friends all around the world to play together
What Dungeons and Javas offers:
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- Tables and TVs that have Maptool, allowing RPG gamers a place to utilize the system.
- A server with a library of thousands of textures, features and furnishings for Maptool.
- Classes on Maptool, to help with the learning curve.
- Maptool has hundreds of pre-drawn maps available for import, or you can create your own using our libraries of thousands of textures, features and furnishings!
Pros & Cons of different VTTs:
| MapTool | Roll20 | Fantasy Grounds | |
| Setup | Relatively complicated, but strong user base may already have framework (D&J has these frameworks) | Relatively easy | Relatively complicated, but many things can be imported if you buy source material |
| Features | More features | Less features, best ones cost money | More features |
| Dice Rolling | Simple and Versatile | Simple, versatile, and quick | slow, made for D&D mechanics |
| Fog of War | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic Lighting | Yes | with subscription | No |
| Advanced scripting | Yes | with subscription | |
| Asset/Character transfer between campaigns | Yes | with subscription | |
| Versatile Character sheets | Yes | with subscription | |
| Special Features | Isometric map integration | Soundcloud for background music | Encounter builder helps game run smoothly |
| Online | Can use offline | Built in hangout functionality, but can’t be used offline | Can use offline |
| Program Stability | Less | More (assuming server isn’t down) | Pretty solid |
| Cost | Free | Free version available, subscription for cool stuff | Most expensive, especially up front |
| Licensed Material available | Coming soon? | Yes | |
| Learning curve | Relatively steep, less intuitive | Relatively minimal | Moderate to steep |
| UI appearance | Ugly, many small buttons and text | polished, simple, streamlined | “Best” |
