Smiteworks LLC today (9th November 2025) announced that its virtual tabletop Fantasy Grounds is now free to use and without paywalls.
In a company run livestream Smiteworks announced that it had noticed continuing reviews which highlighted how good and powerful the software is but then referred people to start with a free competitor with whom they then stuck. As a company they decided it was time to rectify this and will move to a model solely reliant upon people purchasing books and manuals from their store.
The live stream noted that their customer based was extremely loyal and they hoped that by eliminating a financial barrier to entry more role-players would be attracted to their product.
For those not familiar with Fantasy Grounds VTT the software is designed to run on PC, Linux and Mac and provides VTT support to more game systems than any other VTT. This includes:
- Classic & Popular RPGs
- Dungeons & Dragons 5E, 4E, 3.5E
- Pathfinder 1E & 2E
- Call of Cthulhu (6th & 7th Editions)
- Savage Worlds (including Adventure Edition)
- Castles & Crusades
- Rolemaster Classic & Rolemaster Fantasy Grounds
- GURPS (Generic Universal RolePlaying System)
- Sci-Fi & Modern Systems
- d20 Modern
- Starfinder
- Traveller (Mongoose 2E)
- Delta Green
- Cyberpunk RED (via community or third-party modules)
- Indie & Niche Systems
- Ars Magica
- Arcana Evolved
- Iron Heroes
- Shaintar
- Barbarians of Lemuria
- Mutants & Masterminds
- FATE Core & Accelerated
- Dungeon Crawl Classics
- 13th Age
- The Dark Eye
- Numenera / Cypher System
- MoreCore (a flexible community ruleset for unsupported systems)
- Generic & Toolkit Systems
- d20 (Generic)
- d20_JPG (variant d20 ruleset)
- CoreRPG (base framework used by many other rulesets)
- MoreCore (community toolkit for custom systems)
A detailed review of Fantasy Grounds is available here
As part of the free component the Dungeons and Dragons SRD (Standard Rules Document) is provided at zero cost, its fully playable, and yes you can just obtain the software for free, then use the SRD and then create and import your own material. Obviously Smiteworks would appreciate you purchase some products from their store but if you live in a country where you cannot afford US pricing this announcement makes a powerful VTT gaming platform suddenly available to you.
Download it and enjoy.
For those interesting in learning more consider joining Fantasy Grounds Academy or watching their video tutorials on YouTube.
