Old School Fantasy
ShawnsVTTs
Classic OSR dungeon-crawl tools built for Old-School Essentials and compatible retroclones.
- OSR crawl
- Torch timer
- Reaction rolls
▸ Free forever · No card required
Start playing free on ShawnsVTTs.
One game, one VTT, yours to keep. Pick a system below, follow the ShawnsVTTs Patreon (free tier — no payment), and your game is live in under a minute. Your players just click the link. No newsletters, no countdown, no card on file.
Free forever · Patreon free-tier follow · Players never pay
Three steps. Maybe sixty seconds.
- Step 01
Follow on Patreon (free)
Free tier on the ShawnsVTTs Patreon. No card, no email upsell, no automatic billing. Patreon is just our identity layer.
- Step 02
Pick a VTT system
You get one game on one VTT system for free. Pick from the cards below — Stars Without Number and Old School Fantasy are live today, more in active development.
- Step 03
Sign in & create your game
Open the VTT's subdomain, click "Sign in", and create your first game. Caps apply (1 game, 25 maps, 50 NPCs, etc) but everything else is the full app.
What you get for free.
1Active game
1VTT system
25Saved maps
50NPCs
50Lore pages
50Quests
250Journal entries
500Notes
◆ No expiry
Free means free. Your game stays put whether you play weekly or come back after a year off, and your players never need an account at all. Support the project if you want the caps above lifted — nothing here runs out on its own.
◆ Cyberpunk Red is uncapped
The caps above apply to Old School Fantasy, Stars Without Number, 5th Edition Fantasy, GrimDelve and Derelict. The Cyberpunk Red VTT has no caps and no tiers at all — unlimited games, unlimited content, free for every GM and every player, permanently. A Cyberpunk Red game doesn’t use up your one free game either, so you can run one alongside whichever other system you pick.
Pick your VTT.
Your Free Tier game lives on exactly one VTT system. You choose which one when you create your game. All 6 are built and playable today — each one a bespoke tool for its game, never a plugin.
Stars Without Number
Sine Nomine Publishing
Sandbox sci-fi with sector maps, faction turns, and a hacking minigame that respects the rulebook.
- Sectors
- Factions
- Hacking
5th Edition Fantasy
ShawnsVTTs
Spell tray, concentration tracking, and inventory slots that respect encumbrance, in a dark heraldic frame built for long campaigns.
- Spell tray
- Concentration
- Encumbrance
Cyberpunk Red
ShawnsVTTs
Netrunning, armour that ablates, and critical injuries that stay with you, on a city map that lights up when things go wrong.
- Netrunning
- Ablative armour
- City map
GrimDelve
ShawnsVTTs
A lantern that runs on real time, a GM library of your own content, and a table that gets darker the longer you stay down there.
- Lantern timer
- GM Library
- OSR crawl
Derelict
ShawnsVTTs
Stress and panic checks, hull breaches, and characters who die easy. Someone has to go in first.
- Stress
- Panic
- Hull breaches
● LIVEFANTASY
Old School Fantasy
ShawnsVTTs
Classic OSR dungeon-crawl tools built for Old-School Essentials and compatible retroclones.
- Real-time torch timer the whole table watches burn down
- Monster stat blocks with reaction and morale rolls built in
- Encumbrance tracking per the B/X rules — slots, not pounds
- Retainer management with loyalty and pay tracked per henchman
● LIVESCI-FI
Stars Without Number
Sine Nomine Publishing
Sandbox sci-fi with sector maps, faction turns, and a hacking minigame that respects the rulebook.
- Sector hex map with system-by-system world detail
- Faction turn loop tracking influence + assets
- Hacking minigame with cyberdecks + data packets
- Immersive comms threads between PCs and NPCs
● BETAFANTASY
5th Edition Fantasy
ShawnsVTTs
Spell tray, concentration tracking, and inventory slots that respect encumbrance, in a dark heraldic frame built for long campaigns.
- Spell tray that tracks concentration for you
- Inventory slots that respect encumbrance instead of counting pounds
- A bestiary and GM Library you fill with your own content
- Battle map, initiative order, and dice built into the table
● BETACYBERPUNK
Cyberpunk Red
ShawnsVTTs
Netrunning, armour that ablates, and critical injuries that stay with you, on a city map that lights up when things go wrong.
- Netrunning with a cyberdeck runtime the whole table can follow
- Armour that ablates and critical injuries that stay with you
- A city map that lights up when things go wrong
- Free to use, always - no tiers, no caps, nothing held back
● BETADARK FANTASY
GrimDelve
ShawnsVTTs
A lantern that runs on real time, a GM library of your own content, and a table that gets darker the longer you stay down there.
- A lantern that burns down in real time, where the whole table can see it
- A GM Library you fill with your own content and share to the table
- Battle map, initiative order, and dice built into the table
- One game free forever, unlimited players, and players never pay
● BETASCI-FI HORROR
Derelict
ShawnsVTTs
Stress and panic checks, hull breaches, and characters who die easy. Someone has to go in first.
- Per-character stress that climbs, and panic checks that follow it
- A ship sheet tracking hull, systems, and active breaches
- Contracts and payouts tracked between jobs
- Fast character creation, because they will not last
Want more room? Chip in.
Supporting on Patreon pays the server bills and buys the time to build the next virtual tabletop — and it lifts your caps the moment the payment clears. Your existing game, NPCs, maps, lore and notes stay exactly as they were. No migration step.
Free Tier
Forever, with caps
$0
- 1 game · 1 VTT system
- Entity caps (25 maps, 50 NPCs, etc)
- Unlimited players, always
- Patreon free-tier follow
Adventurer
Keeps the lights on
$5/mo
- 1 game · 1 VTT system
- Unlimited NPCs / lore / quests / notes
- Your name in the credits
- Players always free
◆ Most support
Game Master
Buys build time
$10/mo
- Unlimited games
- 2 VTT systems at once
- Unlimited entities everywhere
- A vote on what gets built next
World Builder
Funds the next VTT
$15/mo
- Unlimited games
- Every VTT system
- No caps anywhere
- Early access to new builds
All amounts USD · Billed monthly via Patreon · Cancel anytime · The free tier never expires
Questions about the Free Tier.
What does free actually get me?
Everything, with caps. Follow the Patreon page on the free tier (no payment), sign in, and you can run 1 game on any 1 VTT system forever, with unlimited players. Caps on the free account: 25 saved maps, 50 NPCs, 50 lore pages, 50 quests, 250 journal entries, 500 notes — sized so a weekly table can run for years. The Cyberpunk Red VTT is uncapped entirely and doesn't use up your one free game. There's no expiry and no card. Support the project any time and the caps come off; your existing content carries over with nothing to migrate.
Do my players have to pay?
Nobody pays. Players never pay: they get an emailed invite link, tap it once to sign in, and they are at the table. No password, no card, no signup form. The GM's account is free too. Paying is optional support, not a way in.
Does my content carry over if I support later?
Yes. Caps lift the instant your support is active — there's no migration step. Your game, NPCs, maps, lore, and notes all stay exactly as they were; you just stop hitting the caps when you create new ones.
More questions on the full FAQ →
Ready when you are.
Follow on Patreon (free), pick a VTT, sign in. Your first game is live before your coffee gets cold.
No card · No newsletters · Free forever