Why use Sled Dog instead of Roll20 or Foundry?

Short answer: Sled Dog isn't a virtual tabletop — it isn't trying to be the screen your whole game happens on. It's a companion app built for one game at a time, starting with Stonetop, so everything a VTT makes you assemble by hand is just there, ready to play — around a table or over a call.

Reach for Sled Dog when…

A general-purpose VTT can run any system, which means it knows nothing about yours until you teach it. Sled Dog ships already fluent in the systems it supports — Stonetop today, with more on the way.

Built for the game, not adapted to it

For Stonetop, that means playbooks, moves, the steading, party supplies, and overland travel are the app — not a character-sheet template and a stack of macros you wire together yourself. It's the model we're bringing to more systems over time.

Ready in minutes, not an evening

Make a party, invite your players, and start. No module hunting, no compendium imports, no permissions matrix — the Stonetop maps even seed themselves with pins and travel scale.

Works in a room or on a call

Sled Dog is the phone in your hand, so it suits a kitchen table as well as a Discord call — in person, remote, or half and half. A desktop VTT really only serves one of those; nobody wants a laptop open at an in-person game.

Free for a table

Every player is free, and a gamemaster running a single party is free — no card, no trial. No per-seat pricing, no hosting bill, no subscription.

Reach for a VTT when…

We'd rather you have the right tool than oversell ours. Plenty of tables use both — Sled Dog for sheets, supplies, and the steading, a VTT for the map when a fight goes tactical.

You want a tactical battle grid

Sled Dog has a travel and supply map, not a combat grid with tokens, fog of war, and line-of-sight. Stonetop leans on conversation more than on exact positioning — but if you run gridded tactical combat, a VTT is the tool for it.

You want one window to hold the whole remote table

Roll20 and Foundry bundle voice and video, shared handouts, and a map everyone is looking at together. Sled Dog works perfectly well over a call — it just isn't the thing hosting the call. If you'd rather not run your game across two apps, that's a VTT.

You run many different systems

A general VTT is worth the setup cost when it's home for every game you run. Sled Dog supports a curated, growing set of systems deeply rather than every system shallowly — so check that yours is one it covers.

At a glance

“Generic VTT” here means a general-purpose virtual tabletop such as Roll20 or Foundry VTT used for a Stonetop game. Sled Dog is unofficial and fan-made, compatible with — but not a replacement for — the Stonetop rulebook.

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