Looking for the perfect gift? Whether you’re shopping for a veteran adventurer, a rookie roller, or even yourself, Roll20 has something for everyone! This year, our team has curated a list of personal recommendations spanning multiple genres, systems, and formats to suit any budget. From free resources to premium content, we’ve got last-minute gifts to enhance any gaming experience and inspire creativity, no matter your budget or play style.
The best part? Everything is available digitally through Roll20’s brands, meaning no shipping delays or lost packages – perfect for last-minute surprises! Explore our curated recommendations below, and head into the new year with the gift of adventure!
For fans of exploring multiple worlds, or diving deep into one, these games have it all. From fantastical realms to far-flung galaxies, enjoy settings and rulesets from genres fit for every enthusiast!
Cosmere Open Beta
Brotherwise Games, Free
The Cosmere RPG is a game in which a group of friends collaboratively tell a story of heroes in the world of Roshar, the setting for the acclaimed novels of Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive. Take on the roles of characters working together to determine how their stories unfold as they face a cataclysmic era of global conflict. This guide is an early preview designed to give a clear understanding of this system and enough rules to run a playtest adventure.
Neon Knights
Christian Eichhorn, $6.95
For those who own the fifth edition core rulebooks (Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual) and a copy of Eberron: Rising from the Last War, Neon Knights is a Dungeon & Dragons adventure optimized for four to six characters, and is described as “a cyberpulp extravagance, featuring laser-eyed trolls and metal stallions”. As mercenaries, players must choose their clients carefully or find themselves on the wrong side of a trash compactor!
Save vs. Cave: Moon Base Massacre
Gabriel Pickard, $4.99
From one of the top-selling creators of maps on Roll20, this collection includes sections of a Moon or asteroid base that has fallen on murderously hard times, ready to set the scene in your next otherworldly campaign. Maps come in furnished, unfurnished, and furnished emergency-lit variants that are usable by themselves or that fit together to form a sprawling complex.
Honkonomicon
Paolo Davolio, Vall Syrene, Sandro degl’Innocenti, Alberto Ferrari, Echidna Design, $9.95
For the friend who will appreciate dozens of horrifying puns featuring the words “honk”, “goose” and more: this Platinium Best Seller on Dungeon Master’s Guild includes 11 new goosish subclasses for your next D&D game, 28 new monsters with plenty of original art,16 new spells of all levels, 16 new magic items of all rarities to reward or curse the characters, 3 geese of power, 7 fowlish curses, and 6 adventure hoonks to aid you into introducing goosiness in your games.
Chariot of the Gods (ALIEN)
Free League, $9.99
Chariot of the Gods is a complete Cinematic Scenario for the ALIEN Roleplaying Game designed to introduce you to the system while taking you on a thrilling, terror-filled ride into deep space where no one can hear you scream. Chariot of the Gods is designed for 3–5 players plus the GM and takes at least 4–5 hours to complete.
Blades in the Dark: Scurlock’s Bundle
Evil Hat Productions, $29.99
Blades in the Dark is a game about a crew of daring scoundrels seeking their fortunes on the haunted streets of an industrial fantasy city. There are heists, chases, occult mysteries, dangerous bargains, bloody skirmishes, and, above all, riches to be had… if you’re bold enough to seize them. You and your fledgling crew must thrive amidst the threats of rival gangs, powerful noble families, vengeful ghosts, the Bluecoats of the city watch, and the siren song of your scoundrel’s own vices. Will you rise to power in the criminal underworld? What are you willing to do to get to the top?
Haunted West
Darker Hue Studios, $39.95
From the creators of Harlem Unbound, Haunted West is a Weird West tabletop roleplaying game set after the American Civil War about hope through struggle. It is a game that amplifies the voices of the often-overlooked people of the Old West, the people who have been whitewashed by history. Venture into an alternate history that imagines a post-American Civil War world where Reconstruction flourishes for many years, instead of meeting its abrupt end, and imagine a new reality with greater opportunities for all who inhabit the United States.
D&D 2024 Core Rulebook Bundle
Wizards of the Coast, $89.97
For current D&D players, or anyone hoping to try for the first time, the new D&D Core Rulebook Bundle (2024) contains three indispensable resources that cover the rules of the game, guidelines for Dungeon Masters, and enough creatures and monsters to populate endless campaigns, providing conflict and obstacles to overcome. For a limited time, Pre-ordering the bundle will unlock two exclusive bonuses:
- Fantasy Setting Starter Pack: Includes 7 dynamic maps and pre-made characters to kick off your next campaign
- Eberron: Heart of Stone: A free quest for up to five 1st-level characters
For new gamers ready to roll the dice, these beginner-friendly resources are perfect for learning the ropes and jumping into action confidently. Help someone take their first step into tabletop role-playing!
The Beginner’s Guide to D&D
Dennis Williams, Pay What You Want
This guide serves as a run-through of how to play Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition and is suited for new players looking for a resource easier to digest than the official Players Handbook. Enjoy a brief overview of combat, general gameplay, spellcasting, the character sheet, and how to make a character.
Cyberpunk RED Easy Mode
R.Talsorian Games, Free
Cyberpunk RED Easy Mode is a quick introduction to the classic tabletop roleplaying game of the Dark Future. It includes everything players need to explore the post-War world of the Time of the Red, including:
- An introductory mission
- A dive into the history and geography of the game world
- The basic rules for the game
- Five unique Characters to play
Alone Against the Flames
Chaosium, Free
Strange things are happening. Do you dare to learn more? This free preview of the Call of Cthulhu: Starter Set contains the single-player module: Alone Against the Flames, as well as some basic rules pages to get you started with your Call of Cthulhu games!
How To DM: No Worldbuilding, No Random Tables, Just Running a Session
John Robinson, $8.95
What do you get a brand-new DM? This book! It begins with the four primary rules that all DMs should abide by, provides a run-through of combat, tools for session-prepping and running, discusses the importance of “Session 0”, and more. Bonus: enjoy a section on “Voices and Ham Acting”, which makes everything more fun!
Pathfinder 2e Beginner Box Adventure
Paizo, $9.95
Take the first step into an amazing world of fantasy adventure and learn how to play Pathfinder 2E! This title includes an introductory adventure, a collection of hazards, magic items, and monsters, a gazetteer introducing you to Otari (the location of many Pathfinder adventures), and a solo adventure that takes you through the rules of the game.
D&D Stranger Things Starter Set
Wizards of the Coast, $14.99
This Starter Set contains everything players need to embark on a Stranger Things adventure, and is a great way for new, as well as seasoned, Dungeon & Dragons players to experience the D&D adventure Stranger Things character Mike Wheeler created for his friends. Pick your character, get your fireballs ready, and investigate the mysterious castle. You can even battle the ferocious Demogorgon!
Tutorial Adventure: The Dike is Breaking
CarlisaCharacter, Pay What You Want
If you need to know if you and your friends will enjoy playing D&D before you’re willing to drop hard cash for the Starter Set or Player’s Handbook, The Dike is Breaking is made for you. It’s a 2-hour romp of an adventure that walks players through Mad Mel’s private town and tomb, teaching them just enough of D&D’s basic rules to let them decide if they want to pick up an imaginary sword and become an adventurer.
Candela Obscura Quickstart Guide
Darrington Press, Free
Candela Obscura is a horror tabletop roleplaying game about occult investigators who hunt down dangerous supernatural forces making incursions into a world very much like our own. This free quickstart guide takes players on a journey through the game, teaching them how to play.
The Dark Eye – Introductory Adventure
Ulisses Spiele, Free
This adventure contains everything players need for a quick start into the 5th edition of the most successful European fantasy role-playing game. In this short scenario, the heroes are to bring back the son of the Alriksfurt blacksmith Gisla, who was kidnapped by orcs. Includes 6 ready-to-play characters including tokens for your party, game maps and enemies with tokens and stats, and all the rules required to run and play the scenario.
So What Is Your Story?
Daylight Publications, $4.00
This book is designed to help walk players through constructing and building a character from the conceptualization stage to actually rolling stats, picking a race and class, and the like. This book will not get into the mechanics, but be more of a handbook to the Player’s Handbook the plethora of other content that exists to help build D&D characters.
For gamers who love strategy, combat, and puzzles, these titles focus on battles and challenges that push players to strategize to succeed. Whether they love dungeon crawling or cracking codes, these gifts deliver exciting gameplay.
Puzzle Master
Celeste Conowitch, James Introcaso, M.T. Black, $5.95
Challenge and delight players with this supplement containing ten puzzles suitable for every level of play, accompanied by beautifully rendered handouts. It also includes a unique dungeon that utilizes the puzzles to craft an escape room-style experience. Each puzzle comes with difficulty ratings and suggestions on how to adapt them, and a series of hints to help players solve each puzzle.
Lock Puzzles
Paul Camp, $4.99
This game addon contains nine basic puzzles that can be combined to increase difficulty. Since you can use up to nine puzzles at a time, and there are nine difficulty levels: there are over 500 ways to combine them, and they can take anywhere from a few seconds to half an hour to solve.
The Murderworld That Time Forgot
Marvel, $9.99
This dangerous adventure can be used as a standalone one-shot or integrated into an ongoing Marvel-Multiverse Role-Playing Game campaign, and features fully loaded character tools that allow you to create, rank up, manage, and play with your characters to streamline your in-person or online play experience. Enjoy beautifully illustrated maps of key locations featured in the adventure, GM guidance for new and experienced game runners, and eight ready-to-use character profiles loaded into the Demiplane toolset, including the nefarious Arcade!
Fantastic Lairs: 23 Boss Battles for Your 5e RPG
SlyFlourish, $14.95
Fantastic Lairs is a book of capstone lair encounters for D&D 5E, designed to inspire and fit into any campaign. Each fantastic lair includes evocative artwork, a beautiful full-color map, and a well-designed and playtested boss encounter for characters of various levels.
Deck of Combat Twists
LokeBattleMats, $4.99
The Deck of Combat Twists is a game-changer! Designed as a tool for Dungeon Masters, these cards help introduce randomness into combat encounters. These system-agnostic themed decks can be used with any fantasy RPG system (including 5E) to target NPC & Monster’s attacks, disrupt the adventuring party and encourage new tactics & approaches, and introduce utterly random Wild Magic.
Crowns and Castles
John Reilly, $15.00
This book lets anyone play D&D as a 4x empire strategy game. Players are in control of an entire realm that they create from scratch, making decisions for its military, economy, culture, and diplomacy. That realm gains experience, levels up, and unlocks new abilities. And they do all this in either a co-op, player-vs-player, or mixed environment with a DM who guides the world’s narrative and lets you attempt anything you can dream of.
Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure Path
Paizo, $34.99
Pathfinder Second Edition’s most ambitious campaign yet bursts from the pages of this massive compilation, containing all three adventures in the fan-favorite Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure Path, a fist-smashing tournament campaign like no other, along with support articles, and rules. Explore a complete adventure for 11th- to 20th-level characters, plus fantastic gazetteers, inspiring character options, dozens of creatures, and more!
Curse of Strahd: Castle Ravenloft
Heroic Maps, $9.99
This Map Pack includes battlemaps for Castle Ravenloft from D&D’s iconic Curse of Strahd Adventure Module. Maps are provided for each level of the castle including the walls and grounds, the spire towers, dungeons, catacombs, and more. Each map is accurate to text, allowing players to explore Ravenloft like never before!
Guide to Naval Combat
Limithron, $10.99
For anyone who ever wanted naval combat to work at the D&D table, this system is designed around hex based ship movement and assigns ships health similar to creatures in combat. This makes battles fast and fun instead of an exercise in counting huge dice rolls and consulting spreadsheets. It also teaches players to upgrade or customize ships with any monster ability from the Monster’s Manual. Includes ship cards and art, and tokens and tiles for ships to use on the VTT.
For players who thrive on narrative and collaboration and value deep character arcs, rich world-building, and memorable plots: immersive storytelling and meaningful choices take center stage in these titles.
Star Crossed: Love Letters
Bully Pulpit Games, $12.00
Love Letters is a supplement for Star Crossed, an award-winning two-player game of forbidden love. It’s full of beautiful illustrations, character pairings, settings, advice, and alternate modes of play to help your Star Crossed sessions feel fresh and exciting (including a solo mode!)
Gehenna War
World of Darkness, $29.99
Gehenna War provides material for players and Storytellers to make their Vampire: The Masquerade game sing, focusing on fast-paced action and how to weave it into stories and chronicles. Includes an overview of the Gehenna War and its impact on the major Kindred sects, archetypes to help guide kindred creation for players and storytellers, rules for creating action-focused characters, new combat options and equipment, and more.
Tales from the Loop Starter Set
Free League, $7.99
In this game, players are teenagers solving spectacular mysteries connected to the Loop – just make sure they’re home in time for dinner. This Starter Set includes everything needed to begin, including an illustrated rulebook explaining how to play the game, a complete Mystery, five pre-generated characters, and a large, full-color map of the land of the Loop.
Curse of Strahd Companion
Wyatt Trull, $19.95
This comprehensive guide to running Curse of Strahd incorporates a bestselling module called The Wedding at Ravenloft as the campaign’s climax. It also features new encounters and storylines, areas of note, DM notes, magic item descriptions, monster stats, and a Dramatis Personae detailing all 140+ characters from the module!
Season of Ghosts Bundle
Paizo, $91.96
This bundle includes all four digital adventures in the Season of Ghosts Adventure Path, a four-part series of connected adventures that form a complete Pathfinder 2E campaign for characters of 1st to 12th level. This horror-themed campaign pits the heroes against supernatural threats and the harsh realities of facing an upcoming winter when all contact with the outside world has been cut off by a mysterious wall of fog.
City of Mist Starter Set
Son of Oak Game Studio, $14.95
Learn to roleplay in a city of ordinary people and legendary powers! This cinematic detective role-playing game is inspired by gritty urban fantasy streaming TV shows, and designed to launch any game group into the story with no prior experience and as little prep as possible, learning as they play.
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus Complete DM’s Bundle
Eventyr Games, $14.95
This guide contains resources for running Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, including suggestions and troubleshooting for all five chapters, and rules for turning chapter three into a sandbox! Enjoy magic items, nearly 100 pages of monster stat blocks, DM’s Cheatsheets, encounter Maps, and a drop-in encounter.
Alice is Missing
Hunters Entertainment, $14.99
Alice is Missing is a silent role-playing game about the disappearance of Alice Briarwood, a high school junior in the small town of Silent Falls. This immersive, mystery RPG is played without verbal communication. Players inhabit their character for the entirety of the 90-minute play session, and instead of speaking, send text messages back and forth to the other characters in a group chat, as well as individually, as though they aren’t in the same place together.
Reign of Rot
Scott McClintock, Buck Wev, Marc Altfuldisch, Daniel Kahn, Billy Middleton, Isaac Minarik, Kathleen Harrington, $9.95
Part gazetteer and part adventure, Reign of Rot further develops the Doomed Forgotten Realms. The gazetteer describes what the Underdark would look like if the demon lords were never banished back to the Abyss. The adventure is designed to take players from 1st to 7th level. It includes a transformed, demon-tainted Underdark, a quest hub, abyssal hazards, fiendish fungi, new magic items, and updates stat blocks for demon lords.
For casual players who want low-prep, high-fun games, these easy-to-learn and quick-to-play titles make great gifts for those who enjoy spontaneous one-shots or casual sessions.
The Wild Sheep Chase
Winghorn Press, Richard Jansen-Parkes, Free
The Wild Sheep Chase is designed to be played from start to finish in just one 3-6 hour session with limited preparation from the DM. All major characters have roleplaying notes included and the newly refreshed document comes complete with updated art, new descriptions and a new layout.
Dungeon Crawl: The Mermaid’s Cove
Dragonshorn Studios, $7.99
The Mermaid’s Cove is a one-shot dungeon crawl for parties at level 3 (or 6) for the 5th edition! Featuring new monsters and a multitude of obstacles for players to overcome, it can be easily dropped into any adventure as a point of interest. In this undead pirate-themed dungeon crawl, adventurers need to find an abandoned pirate hideout and find a secret hidden deep inside.
Grizzled Adventurers
Flatland Games, $6.99
Grizzled Adventurers is a lightweight roleplaying game that helps players design a party of experienced heroes and run them through a dungeon in a single evening. The game is designed to tell stories about those heroes who never retired: the battle-scarred warriors who cannot put down the sword, the haunted mages who still thirst for more, and the thieves who have lost a couple of fingers but gained a few fortunes.
Candlekeep Mysteries
Wizards of the Coast, $29.99
This anthology of seventeen mystery-themed Dungeons & Dragons adventures is set in Candlekeep, which scholars like a flame attracts moths. Historians, sages, and others who crave knowledge flock to this library fortress to peruse its vast collection of books, scribbled into which are the answers to the mysteries that bedevil them. Many of these books contain their own mysteries—each one a doorway to adventure. Dare your players cross that threshold?
Deadpool Role-Plays the Marvel Universe
Marvel, $9.99
The first comic-sized, one-shot adventure for the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game, this story allows players to become Deadpool and his team, or use their own characters in a fourth-wall-breaking adventure right out of Marvel’s comics. Includes a story lead-in, an RPG adventure, and character profiles.
Animal Sidekicks
Animal Sidekicks Authors, $12.95
A team of 33 writers, 4 artists, and 3 editors have joined forces to bring players “Animal Sidekicks,” a sidekick bestiary that gives anyone and everyone in the party a pet, each with its own stat block and level-up table. Modeled on the sidekick rules found in the D&D Essentials Kit Rulebook, these animal sidekicks, from allosaurus to wolf, are perfect for kids, new players, and the animal-lover in us all!
MDT 5E: Level 1 Adventures
AAW Games, $8.99
From the depths of the darkest dungeons to primal dangers of the untamed wilderness, these adventures for level 1 players bind ancient mysteries, forgotten lore, and the allure of epic quests. Adventurers will explore realms unknown, face deadly foes, and discover tantalizing treasures and magnificent artifacts. This collection of 9 complete and ready-to-run scenarios is designed especially for discerning Game Masters who want exciting adventures and need them now.
2024 Class Character Sheets
Emmet Byrne, Pay What You Want
Featuring an updated design to match the 2024 character sheets, enjoy form-fillable character sheets for all 12 core classes from the 2024 Player’s Handbook. The redesigned layout of this best-selling tool provides space for more character details, class features, space to track important resources, and, best of all, skills and saving throws get their own section! Easy to use: each PDF includes all the options you could want, just choose the pages to print!
Quest Kit 1
Moonlight Maps, $10.99
This map pack contains a curated selection of 7 perfect maps to lead players through a quest, perfect for the beginner GM, or the GM that’s run out of prep time! Everything needed to take a quest from gearing up to exploring a troublesome cavern, this pack includes – general store, riverside bridge, forest fork, roadside camp, cliff pass, mountain gate, and dark cavern!
Gateways to Terror
Chaosium, $13.99
Gateways to Terror contains three short-play scenarios for the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition roleplaying game, ideal for beginning and experienced players and Keepers alike. Originally, all three were designed as demonstration games to give a taste of the game’s core motifs—mystery, investigation, and horror—for those with limited time. The scenarios can be played in as little as one hour but can be expanded for slightly longer play, and each comes with four ready-made investigators so you can jump right into the action! Each scenario includes hints and tips for Keepers new and old, suggestions for additional investigators for larger groups, and a summary of the key rules needed to play.
For Game Masters who love crafting custom worlds for their players, here are some tools and content to bring their creative visions to life. From immersive maps to soundscapes, these gifts are perfect for enhancing campaigns.
Dungeon Scrawl Subscription
$7/mo
Dungeon Scrawl is a free online mapmaking tool for tabletop roleplaying games that allows users to easily create dungeons, decorate them with objects and text, and them to use on the virtual tabletop. The Paid version provides access to autosave features, PDF export (for using created maps in-person), lighting tools, dark mode, and more.
Roll20 Subscription
starting at $4.17/mo
Even though Roll20 is free to use, each subscription tier provides upgrades for the GM and player experience, such as vastly increased storage space, Dynamic Lighting, enhanced customization options, and more.
DTRPG Gift Certificate
starting at $5
DriveThruRPG is currently the largest online marketplace devoted to RPGs and RPG-related materials. Thousands of publishers, from big names you’ve seen in print, such as Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf Publishing, to our industry’s many talented small press innovators, have come together to list over ten thousand roleplaying titles to make sure players can get what they want when they want it.
Monster Manual (2024)
Wizards of the Coast, $29.99
The revised and expanded D&D Monster Manual contains a horde of creatures for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons and wil be releasing on February 18, 2025. The largest D&D Monster Manual in history contains 500+ monsters, 45 NPCs, new art, and redesigned stat blocks and monster lists – available for pre-order now.
Spelljammer Combat and Exploration
Fil Kearney, Joseph Vargas, Adam Hancock, $19.99
Spelljammer Combat & Exploration expands how characters interact with ships, their crews, and the challenges they face together using new rules to supplement or replace those provided in the 5th Edition of Spelljammer: Adventures in Space for characters to take command of spelljamming ships while adventuring through Wildspace and the Astral Sea.
The Game Master’s Fantasy Toolkit
Roll & Play Press, $17.99
The tables in this addon are filled with story prompts, character names, loot ideas, random encounters and magic items that will take any campaign to the next level. Whether for a beginner game master or someone who has been running sessions for decades, this toolkit is a handy companion for planning campaigns and improvising at the tabletop.
The DM’s Guide to Fishing
Zeke Gonzalez, $1.95
The DMs Guide to Fishing is a rules supplement containing fishing mechanics and an abundance of fish to use in games. Among these fish are real fish reimagined for D&D 5th Edition and new, completely original fantasy fish.
Campaign Builder – Cities & Towns
Kobold Press, $14.99
This toolkit allows GMs to create, expand, and enhance the cities and towns in their 5th Edition games, whether running an established setting or working with an original or homebrew setting. From guilds to temples, and from useful NPCs to wild tables of plots and rumors, this tome strengthens and expands any game’s world immediately.
DM Options: Monster Talents (5E)
Dragonix, $19.95
This is a stand-alone follow-up to the best-selling Character Options: Talents and Character Options: Talents II, and contains over 150 pages of detailed talents to spice up monsters and make encounters more challenging, fresh, and unpredictable! In addition, it also has a player section for the six new character races presented in Volo’s Guide to Monsters, and a new creature template: the Elite Monster!
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Wishing You a Magical Season
From all of us at Roll20: we hope your tables are filled with laughter, surprises, and plenty of natural 20s through the rest of the year and into the next. We’re so lucky to be connected to such a creative and passionate community. Thanks for all you do!