Warning

Fantasy Grounds Classic has been discontinued.

Please use Fantasy Grounds Unity.
Beginning on June 24, 2021, Fantasy Grounds Classic will no longer receive any product updates or DLC releases. Please consider upgrading to Fantasy Grounds Unity.

When you want to keep it Classic

Fantasy Grounds is a popular system for playing a host of different roleplaying games online. It is used by more than gamers worldwide to connect and play popular games such as Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, Starfinder, Vampire the Masquerade, Savage Worlds, Call of Cthulhu, and more. This type of program is commonly referred to as a virtual tabletop, or VTT, due to their ability to emulate various part of an RPG session in a digital form.

We have always simply called our software Fantasy Grounds. With the release of Fantasy Grounds Unity (FGU), we are now renaming the previous version to Fantasy Grounds Classic.

Fantasy Ground Classic (FGC) has been around and evolving since 2004. It is a peer to peer application that is stable and enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide. It is a 32-bit application that runs natively on Windows and on Mac and Linux systems that support 32-bit applications through Wine wrappers.

FGC cannot connect with FGU, and vice-versa.

Data modules for FGC are compatible with Fantasy Grounds Unity (FGU).

Campaigns for FGC are compatible with Fantasy Grounds Unity (FGU) in most cases but may require some additional updates for FGU or even minor XML editing to fix them and make them compatible. Our goal is for these to be fully compatible to move over in the near future.

Networking Considerations:

  • To host a game on FGC, the Gamemaster hosting the game must enable port forwarding on their router for TCP port 1802. We have instructions for doing that here.
  • To join a game on FGC, you simply need the alias or external IP address of the Gamemaster's game.
  • FGC relies upon IPv4. Some countries have moved to IPv6 only, while the United States and most other countries still support both.

As of October 24, 2022, one-time licenses for FG Classic are no longer available for purchase. FGC ceased to receive product updates or new DLC releases beginning on June 24, 2021. We will continue to allow subscriptions for FG Classic to allow for people who are mid campaign and who need to continue their campaign.

FGU left Early Access in November 2020. It went through an Alpha and Closed Beta process as well and is now ready for people to play and start using. We believe that the experience is better on FGU and will only continue to get better.

FGU is the only product being actively developed for beyond June 24, 2021. All new DLC releases will be limited to FGU. This is the version you should purchase for any new campaigns.

A subscription allows the software to be used as long as your monthly subscription is active with PayPal. It helps reduce the upfront cost to you and provides regular revenue for SmiteWorks that makes it easy for us to budget expenses.

A license is a 1-time purchase that costs more up front but will be the cheapest for you if you plan on using the software for many years. Buyers of FGC licenses have been able to get upgrades to FGC for years and years without having to pay for an upgrade, until now. Moving to FGU from FGC will require an upgrade cost*. You will repurchase the software, but you will get a discount on the purchase.* FGC has been around since 2004. FGU is the first upgrade that SmiteWorks has ever charged for and there won't be another upgrade charge for many, many years in the future.

* The upgrade discount was discontinued in October 2022.

Monthly subscriptions do not accrue towards a 1-time license and they don't qualify you for upgrade discounts. As a final note, FGC subscriptions are not compatible with FGU subscriptions.

SmiteWorks offers a 30-day money back guarantee on all purchases and subscriptions -- for any reason. Just contact us at [email protected] and we would be happy to help. Please allow up to 24 hours for a response, especially on weekends and holidays.

You can get Fantasy Grounds Unity here.

Our FG Classic program has a detailed user manual you can refer to for installation and usage assistance. There is also a group of fans who run Fantasy Grounds Academy on Discord and they offer free interactive training courses to get new GMs and players up to speed quickly.

Fantasy Grounds Classic Installers (will not work with FG Unity license codes)

Download for Windows Download for Mac Linux Installation Steam

Demo

  • Build Your Campaigns
  • Play in a game hosted by Ultimate
  • Play in a game hosted by Standard
  • Host Games for Standard and Ultimate
  • Host Games for Demo Players
  • 242 Tokens (Animals, Characters, Monsters)
  • 26 battlemaps for streets, caves, dungeons and tunnels
  • Rulesets
    2E, 3.5E, 4E, 5E, FATECore, PFRPG, PFRPG2, Numenera, SFRPG
  • Data Libraries
    D&D 5e SRD , D&D 5e Basic Rules , D&D 3.5E SRD, FATECore, Pathfinder SRD Libraries
  • Demo with one player and one GM

Free

Download for Windows Download for Mac

For Demo users, simply leave the license key blank during installation.

FGC Standard

  • Build Your Campaigns
  • Play in a game hosted by Ultimate
  • Play in a game hosted by Standard
  • Host Games for Standard and Ultimate
  • Host Games for Demo Players
  • 242 Tokens (Animals, Characters, Monsters)
  • 26 battlemaps for streets, caves, dungeons and tunnels
  • Rulesets
    2E, 3.5E, 4E, 5E, FATECore, PFRPG, PFRPG2, Numenera, SFRPG
  • Data Libraries
    D&D 5e SRD , D&D 5e Basic Rules , D&D 3.5E SRD, FATECore, Pathfinder SRD libraries
  • Demo with one player and one GM
** READ FIRST ** --> FAQ on subscriptions

$3.99 Monthly

FGC Ultimate

  • Build Your Campaigns
  • Play in a game hosted by Ultimate
  • Play in a game hosted by Standard
  • Host Games for Standard and Ultimate
  • Host Games for Demo Players
  • 242 Tokens (Animals, Characters, Monsters)
  • 26 battlemaps for streets, caves, dungeons and tunnels
  • Rulesets
    2E, 3.5E, 4E, 5E, FATECore, PFRPG, PFRPG2, Numenera, SFRPG
  • Data Libraries
    D&D 5e SRD , D&D 5e Basic Rules , D&D 3.5E SRD, FATECore, Pathfinder SRD libraries
  • Demo for anyone
** READ FIRST ** --> FAQ on subscriptions

$9.99 Monthly

Warning

Fantasy Grounds Classic has been discontinued.

Please use Fantasy Grounds Unity.
Beginning on June 24, 2021, Fantasy Grounds Classic will no longer receive any product updates or DLC releases. Please consider upgrading to Fantasy Grounds Unity.