RPG Stories

Love this software!!!! Whether you enjoy building manually, or you would prefer using premade builds that you can easily modify, RPG Stories is an awesome program. The community regularly shares new projects and items for everyone to use, and there are thousands of models available (monsters, characters, floors, fences, walls, etc.), plus lightening effects, fog of war, spell effects, multiple dice sets, and customizable grids (including hex grids). They are about to release multilevel building support and the ability to peek through doors as well as open/close them. You can easily increase/shrink/tilt/move/group objects, and the team has continually added features beyond what they originally promised. I don't usually write Steam reviews, but I really wish more people would take a look at what RPG Stories offers.

I initially bought this program to create maps, but it turned out to be more of a "videogamey" tabletop tool. While I found it somewhat useful for making Call of Cthulhu maps, I switched to CAD programs like QCAD and FreeCAD because floorplans fit much better with my table’s style of play.
This tool might be more suitable if your gaming group needs 3D visualizations to enhance immersion or to compensate for a lack of imagination. However, I believe these features can detract from the game’s experience. The effort required for the Game Master (GM) to learn enemy placements in a 3D environment and to host a server for player connections (each needing their own client) is simply “too much effort”. This contrasts with programs like Foundry VTT, where only the GM needs to purchase a license, but you still need to learn how to host it.
The complexity involved makes it less appealing for a few hours of gaming with friends. I would recommend using this program for some basic map designs or to create simple scenes, such as a Cthulhu model overlooking a boat in the ocean, which it handles quite well, though I’d still pass this through an AI if possible to add some effects.
For actual gameplay, I prefer “simpler” solutions like a Discord plugin for rolling dice or Foundry VTT combined with some JPEGs found online. Despite its drawbacks, I still recommend this tool for its assets, which make scene creation straightforward.

I usually don't pay attention to early reviews since I think they're just developers or family members, buut as a DM, gotta tell you this thing is amazing. As a long term Dungeon Alchemist designer, I was converted to this in about 1.5 hours. All of what you wish you could do in DA, you can do here. No creative restrictions, finally. Want a multi floor castle? Yup. Want zero vertical limits? Yep. I could go on and on.
Well done devs!
I use it only as a designer, not as a full VTT---and it's just superior. What a breath of fresh air--and this is early access? It's ready to go right now.
This is the #1 VTT designer out there.

I just finished a full DnD hombrew styled playthrough of my custom map, it was a blast! After learning how to use the tools successfully I can say with 100% confidence this is the VTT I will be using for the forseeable future. We went in blind making up a story as we went and were able to bring so much life and personality into the characters and enemies. I thank the devs behind RPG Stories for giving me the chance to play DnD with my friends, it was always a struggle to play purely with my imagination so this is more than I ever couldve asked for. THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!

Was already pretty easy to slap maps together across different era's/genre's, Recently added VTT export made it even better, playing with foundry and not having to re-map the walls/windows/doors was fantastic, App deserves more attention for what all can be done with it

Pros:
- RPG Stories returns a tremendous value for your money when compared against other products in this field. It can do just about everything Talespire, Dungeon Alchemist, Foundry, Owlbear Rodeo and Roll20 can do fresh out of the box. It does it all fairly well and in some instances much better.
- The assets library and assets and demos available in the community are fairly plentiful.
- RPG Stories is not pigeon-holed into only supporting fantasy. Sci-Fi, horror, Cyberpunk and modern assets are plentiful and everything is done with a very realistic style.
-The ability to export to UVTT format and import 2D assets can transform this into a pretty cool 2D VTT with 3D VFX and assets.
-The journal feature and scene setting, along with a built in fog of war, allow you to make full modules and run them all from one program. Players can join in with a demo version if you host as the GM.

The UI experience is fairly intuitive. You won't want to claw your eyeballs out trying to figure out how to do anything like you would in Fantasy Grounds Unity.

Cons:
- While RPG Stories can do just about everything, there are a few things it can't do or doesn't do as well as other platforms.
- As a map builder, RPG Stories is great, one of the best in class even, but it is slightly outclassed by Dungeon Alchemist for making maps. Granted, DA is NOT a full featured VTT and doesn't really do anything but maps. Since RPG stories has it's own procedural map builder, the comparison must be made. The biggest gap between DA and RPGS in this regard is the inability to raise terrain. You can get there in RPG stories through the clever use of assets, but it's not as graceful as DA.
- RPGS doesn't really have great audio support. This is common for the genre, but you'll find yourself needing Discord or something else to coordinate with others.

Overall I highly recommend the product. I will be transitioning my next campaign from the current tech stack of four different platforms to just RPGS and Discord. This was a great grab.

I'm learning this VTT slowly but the potential is limitless.