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Basic Requirements		Good Aspects (Higher is Better)		Bad Aspects (Lower is Better)
Platform:	‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣	Game Support:	‣ ‣	Complexity:	🔴🔴⚪⚪⚪
Up Front Cost:	Free	Community:	🟢🟢⚪⚪⚪	Tedium:	🔴🔴⚪⚪⚪
Ongoing Cost:	Free	Features:	🟢🟢🟢⚪⚪
Cost of Books:	Recreated by hand, Free	User Interface:	🟢🟢🟢⚪⚪	‣ for this chart

(Note: This page has been created by the cauldron developers using my styling. Feel free to comment any edits you’d like me to look into!)

Intro

Cauldron VTT started during Corona-time, as a hobby project to kill the time while staying at home. Its creator wasn’t satisfied with the existing VTT’s at that time. What he was looking for was a free, easy to use. direct digital replacement of a real table. Nothing more. While using Cauldron VTT, it is assumed that you use character sheets and game rule material as you are used to. Cauldron VTT was built with the idea that a switch between an online and offline session should be done quickly and easily. Nevertheless, Cauldron VTT has everything that is needed to play your role playing game online.

Cost

Cauldron is 100% free and even open source. All features are available to everybody. Cloud storage is 100MB, but Cauldron VTT supports the usage of remote storage. Community: Because Cauldron VTT is quite new, its community is very small.

Features:

User Interface: Cauldron VTT has a user friendly interface. Everything on a battle map can be interacted with via a right mouse click.
Battlemaps
- ✅ Shared battlemaps with player and GM-controller tokens
- 😕 Basic drawing capability: freehand with lines and textures brushes
- ❌ Map-making tools
- ✅ Ruler
- 💙 Fog of War, multiple modes
- 💙 Dynamic Lighting
- 💙 Support for movie maps.
- 💙 Quest items can be hidden in tokens on the map, ready for players to be found.
- 💙 Battle map can be shown full screen, for use on a screen on/in a gaming table.
Chat & Dice
- ✅ Basic chat with roll commands & macros
- 😕 Die rolls from character sheets
- ✅ Visual (non-chat) dice rolling interface
- ✅ Optional 3D animated dice
- ✅ Custom weapon dice for quick rolls
Character Sheets
- ❌ Character sheets for various games
- ❌ Moving character sheets between games
- ❌ Custom character sheet creation
Compendium
- ❌ Game SRDs available
- ❌ Game rules available for purchase or upload
- ❌ Drag-n-drop to character sheets
Handouts, Etc
- ❌ Types of handouts able to be edited and displayed
- ❌ Playing cards, random tables
- ✅An in-game journal, which is shared among all players and the GM
- ✅ Storage is limited (100MB), but remote storage is supported
Automation
- 💙 Turn Tracker
- ❌ Click-to-roll sheets
- ✅ Targeting, damaging, healing, and other effects
- ❌ Macro buttons
- ❌ Community modules
- 💙 Zone scripts for token manipulation, messaging and sound effects.
Music & Video Streaming
- ❌ Integrated voice & video calls
- ❌ Stream uploaded music to players
- ✅ Place audio triggers on maps
Extras
- ✅ Online manual
- ✅Adventure and Map market, with the Lost Mine of Phandelver and Curse of Strahd adventures.
- 😕 Limited mobile device support.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
• Cauldron VTT is easy to use. It has an intuitive interface and an in-app manual.
• Cauldron VTT is free and open source. You can host it on your own server and change it according
to your needs.
• Cauldron VTT is in active development, so new features and improvements are coming fast.	• The adventures in Cauldron VTT’s market have no tokens, because most of them are not free.
• Cauldron VTT doesn’t work well with doors on a battle map that are not placed on a grid line.

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Pros & Cons

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