Roll20 offers a plethora – yes, PLETHORA – of free rules, character sheets, adventures, maps, and tokens that you can use to start playing D&D, Call of Cthulhu, Pathfinder, Cyberpunk RED, and more RIGHT NOW!
No subscription, no purchase – just create a free account and start playing.
In this blog, I’ll break down our most popular free offerings system-by-system across Roll20!
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Dungeons & Dragons
Roll20 offers everything you need to play Dungeons & Dragons right now.
Build D&D Characters, for free, in minutes! Our D&D Character Builder helps you design adventurers and level them up with ease.
D&D’s Free Rules can be referenced inside the Roll20 Tabletop and on the web, and are quickly available to both you and your players, so everyone can look up exactly what they need without disrupting game flow!
We provide over 300 monsters that you can drag into any D&D game you make on Roll20! Each one comes with unique art and their own pre-filled character sheet for quick and easy rolling.
In terms of free, ready-to-play adventures, Roll20 has multiple options for getting started with D&D.
Frozen Sick, from the minds behind Critical Role, is a mystery with a ticking clock as the villagers in an arctic realm succumb to a peculiar illness. It is perfect for those brand new to D&D as characters start play at Level 1. For more adventures in Exandria, check out Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount and Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn!
In Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, players delve into one of D&D’s deepest and most dangerous dungeons. This adventure is a little more advanced, so only characters level 5 and above should venture here. And if you enjoy your time on the first level, you can always upgrade to the full adventure!
And check out the latest news on D&D 2024 to see what’s coming next for Dungeons & Dragons on Roll20!
Call of Cthulhu
If mystery and horror of the cosmic variety are more your speed, Roll20 has ample support for the classic horror roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu!
Create Your Investigator using our custom Call of Cthulhu Character Builder. Maybe you’re a 1920s Private Detective in classic Call of Cthulhu or a 1930s hard-boiled explorer in the two-fisted action version Pulp Cthulhu. Either way, you can make characters for free!
Not only can you access the Free Rules in the Roll20 Tabletop and on the web, they also come with 30 sanity-sucking monsters, 3 otherworldly spells, and weird science gadgets you can drag into any Call of Cthulhu game!
Alone Against the Flames is a solo adventure set up like a “pick your path” story that incorporates character creation as you go. Explore a town with a dark history and an even darker ending (potentially) waiting for you.
Pathfinder
Roll20 supports both editions of the diverse adventure fantasy roleplaying game Pathfinder!
Build Pathfinder Characters for either First or Second Edition. 11 of Pathfinder’s classes are available with several subclasses to choose from along with almost 200 feats!
The Free Rules for both First and Second Edition come with over 1,000 monsters and spells you can drag into the Roll20 Tabletop or browse on the web.
First Edition
We Be Goblins! sends the characters (all goblins) on an important mission to retrieve a hidden supply of dangerous fireworks. Pick one of four ready-to-play characters (with amazing names like Poog of Zarongel) so you can dive straight into the action!
Second Edition
A Fistful of Flowers has players take on the role of four ready-to-play leshys – immortal spirits of nature given a physical form. They leave the forest to seek out their missing companions and wind up crashing a noble’s garden party!
Cyberpunk RED
Roll20 is the go-to place to get into the tabletop roleplaying game of the Dark Future – Cyberpunk RED!
Create Cyberpunk Characters from charismatic Rockerboys, lethal Solos, inventive Techs, lifesaving Medtechs, and hard-hitting Medias.
Cyberpunk RED’s Free Rules AKA Easy Mode include a dive into the history and geography of Night City and the greater Cyberpunk world alongside the rules for the game.
Getting Paid is a free introductory mission that follows a crew who’s just completed a job stealing from the South Night City Docks only to have the money stolen from them by a gang of dirty cops! 5 ready-to-play characters are all set for your first time in Night City.
Additionally, there are free cyberware options, weapons, and hardened mooks that you can add to any Cyberpunk RED game on Roll20!
And that’s not all – Roll20 has free content for the following systems, too.
- Starfinder
- Mutants and Masterminds
- Fallout: The Roleplaying Game
- Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game
- Candela Obscura
- Dune: Adventures in the Imperium
- Cypher System
- Alien RPG
- Vampire: The Masquerade
- Blades in the Dark
- 13th Age
Free Digital Tokens and Maps
Even if you don’t want to play any of these game systems, you have access to 100+ digital tokens and maps in every Roll20 game you make! These have generously been provided by our Roll20 Marketplace Partners to enhance your game experience. Different art styles have been included, so there’s something to suit every game table!
To see more from these artists, check out their storefronts by clicking the names below!
- Brass Badger Workshop
- Crosshead
- CzePeku
- David Hemenway
- David North
- Devin Night
- Dsurion
- Eugene’s Workshop
- Forgotten Adventures
- Gabriel Pickard
- Matt M Animations
- Meditating Munky
- Mythic Portal Games
- Norse Foundry
- Oliver Smith
- Paper Forge
- Shambles
- Tom Cartos and Darryl T Jones
- Venatus Maps
- Vicnedel
- Yuikami
Quick Glossary
- Roll20 Tabletop – our virtual tabletop is the main gaming space of Roll20; it’s where you roll dice, move tokens around maps, hear background music, look up rules quickly, play through adventures and more!
- Free Rules – Roll20 offers the base rules for 14 game systems totally for free; you can access them from within the Roll20 Tabletop, in Roll20 Characters, and in a separate web page form for easier browsing; creating a Roll20 game with the relevant (free) character sheet automatically links the rules (and any included monsters) to that game!
- Roll20 Characters – allows you to create and manage characters outside of games; fully functional with a roll log and rulebook access, meaning you can use it for in-person or online play; seamlessly transfer characters between Roll20 Characters and the Roll20 Tabletop
Roll20 is an incredible resource for anyone looking for an easy entry point into the world of Tabletop RPGs. With free access to rules, character sheets, adventures, and digital tokens and maps for a variety of popular games, Roll20 makes it easy to start playing right away. Create your free account today and explore the endless possibilities!