The design decisions I made for OpenQuest as a streamlined and easy-to-play D100 system have happily made it so it can easily be played online. This page details some of the options available.
Development of this was paid for by the backers of the 2020 OpenQuest 3rd Edition Kickstarter. Many thanks to them.
If you have any questions or notice any issues with this page, please email me at newt@d101games.com.
Options covered by this page.
- Role VTT (PlayRole.com)
- Discord
- Roll 20
- Foundry VTT
Role VTT (PlayRole.com)
This is the officially supported VTT for OpenQuest, which I use for my own games. I actively maintain character sheets and other sheets that support the game myself.
Role is good for theatre of mind style of play and good implementation of a user-friendly interface makes creating character sheets a breeze. Accessed via a web browser its hosted on their servers, and its well-designed responsive web interface means you can also play on mobile devices.
Set up an account on Role
Visit Playrole.com and sign up for a free account. Note your players will also need accounts before you can invite them to play.
GMs may want to become a Patron, which has a monthly fee paid yearly, which includes unlimited rooms (the virtual space you run a game in) and Audio/Visual support within the app.
Set up a Room
To run OpenQuest in Role, you’ll need to set up a Room for your game and then add the following sheets.
Do a search for OpenQuest or and you’ll find the following.
- Full character sheets (OpenQuest Character).
- Cut-down NPC character sheets (OpenQuest Goon).
- Combat tracker sheets (OpenQuest Combat Tracker).

Make sure you select the ones designed by myself, D101 Games. There may be others, custom made based on my originals.
Add these to your sheets/templates and then they will be available to edit, to create your own versions (see notes below).
Upload your copy of the OpenQuest main rulebook in pdf to the Room’s Books section, and make it publicly visible, so your players can refer to it.
Alternatively, use the free online SRD
The OpenQuest Sheets
Here’s a bit more info about what the sheets do.
The Character Sheet
This is the full OpenQuest Character Sheet, with collapsible sections so that its manageable on screen.
Intended for: Mainly the players for their characters (edit/share with everyone) and the Referee for NPCs who are as detailed as the PCs.
The Goon Sheet
This is a short form NPC sheet, ideal for supporting characters and monsters that don’t need a full write up.
Remember can use full character sheets for NPCs, especially main named supporting characters.
Intended for: Referees to keep track of NPCs, although players could use it if they ever had any supporting henchmen/followers that they control.
Combat Tracker
Use this to record what one side of a combat, such as the Player Character Group or their opponents such as Gang of Goblins, are doing, and what spells they currently have active.
Note: While the sheet has spaces for hit points and magic points, because these things change and need tracking over the course of the combat, use either the Goon Sheet or the Character Sheet to record the full profile of the NPC, with skills, magic and weapon stats.
Intended for: GM for their npcs in one sheet (editable by them, viewable by everyone), Players to enter their details about their characters.
Updated Character Sheets
I’ve been using the character sheets for a good four years or so with my home group (aka OpenQuest Thursday), so I’m confident the sheets work fine and are typo free.
However, if they may evolve through use and player feedback, and since Role is still being developed with new features being planned, it may require me to update the sheet.
If the sheet has been updated by me, you’ll see an “updated” button on your character sheet, on the sheets page. Press that and the sheet will be updated, with an alert dialog popping up saying what has changed.

If there are deleted or significantly altered fields in the new version, Role will back up the original character sheet which will be in the player’s collection of sheets as “name of character” – rollover.
I’ll update users via D101’s Discord server, but I anticipate updates will be very rare.
Your own version of the sheets
As soon as you make a duplicate of the sheet, it gives you ownership and you can edit to your heart’s content. In conjunction with the
One thing I would ask is that you leave the Creative Commons Attribution Notice at the bottom of the sheet in place, unaltered.
Also, if you create new sheets that are based off the OpenQuest SRD, you’ll need to include the notice, which is as follows.
This work is based on the OpenQuest System Resource Document (found at https://openquestrpg.com/srd), a D101 Games product developed, authored by Newt Newport with Paul Mitchener. OpenQuest System Resource Document © 2021 by Newt Newport with Paul Mitchener is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Also, I give you permission to use my trademark OpenQuest as a reference term, but not to market your own game/version in such away that it implies that I have any involvement or support for it.
For example:
- A sheet entitled “OpenQuest 2nd Edition” made by a fan who uses the 2nd Edition of the game, is fine by me.
- A sheet entitled “Fast Future Character Sheet, an OpenQuest Sci-fi game” for a sci-fi game using OQ as a base, is not ok. The correct title would simply be “Fast Future Character Sheet” with the compatibility with OpenQuest being noted by the Creative Commons Attribution notice on the sheet.
Both need to have the attribution notice included on the sheet.
Alternative VTTs
The following are alternatives to Role.
Discord
Create a free Discord server (link), and then an audio-visual channel for your game.
Add a dice roller bot, use either the pdfs for rules reference, and the form fillable pdf character sheet available via the D101 store as a free download.
Roll 20 (in development)
Planned support for Roll 20 as a second VTT is being worked on, but until I’ve got working prototypes, I’m not show anything. Please feel free to nudge me if you are interested (newt@d101games.com).
Unofficial Foundry VTT Module
Foundry is great if you want the virtual equivalent to of a game with miniatures, where the software does the heavy lifting with repetitive dice rolls via prewritten macros.
OpenQuest has an unofficial Foundry system, currently in BETA Based on OpenQuest SRD. It maintained by a fan who goes by the handle of @michaelZ on the D101 Discord Server, where there has been a fair bit of discussion.
To discover and use, open up Foundry, go to the Game System tab, do a search for OpenQuest and add it as a system.
OpenQuest Online + Text SRD
If you want a free version of the rules use the Online SRD (openquestrpg.com/srd) or Text SRD downloadable at (https://d101games.com/product/openquest-system-resource-document/).