Tabletop Arc

AI Tools for Roll20: Generate Battlemaps, NPCs, and Continuity for Your Roll20 Campaign

Use AI tools alongside Roll20 to generate VTT-ready battlemaps, NPCs, items, and quests, and to keep persistent campaign memory across your Roll20 sessions. Tabletop Arc is the AI memory layer for tabletop campaigns running on Roll20.

What AI tools work with Roll20?

Tabletop Arc complements Roll20 with AI battlemaps (VTT-ready exports), AI NPC and quest generators, automatic session recaps, and a living campaign wiki that holds Roll20 sessions together with persistent campaign memory and evidence-grounded continuity. Roll20 handles dice and tokens; Tabletop Arc handles canon, recaps, and the memory layer.

How AI tools complement Roll20

Roll20 is a great virtual tabletop: dice, tokens, line-of-sight, character sheets. What it does not do is remember. Sessions live in the chat log; tokens live on the map; canon lives... wherever you happen to write it down. AI tools fill the gaps Roll20 leaves: generating VTT-ready battlemaps, fleshing out NPCs, producing recaps, and maintaining the canon ledger across sessions.

Battlemaps: Tabletop Arc to Roll20

The battlemap generator outputs VTT-ready images at the right pixel-per-square ratio. Export the image, drop it into Roll20 as a map background, set the grid, and you are ready to play. Pro users get HD output, lighting and state variants, and seed control for repeatable results.

NPCs and items

Use the NPC generator and magic item generator to create campaign content offline; save what you like into your Tabletop Arc Lore Wall. The wiki is a separate workflow from Roll20, but the canonical entities you save become referenceable across both — especially handy when an NPC reappears six sessions later.

Recaps and continuity

Record your Roll20 audio (the platform supports voice; many groups use Discord). Upload to Tabletop Arc; the analysis pipeline produces evidence-grounded recaps and updates the canon ledger automatically. Your Roll20 chat log stays as a record of mechanical play; the canon ledger preserves the story.

Workflow

  1. Prep with AI: generate battlemaps, NPCs, items, and quests in Tabletop Arc. Export battlemaps to Roll20.
  2. Run on Roll20: the VTT handles tokens, dice, sheets.
  3. Capture audio: record on Discord or OBS while you play.
  4. Recap on Tabletop Arc: upload audio, run analysis, approve canon proposals, publish recap.
  5. Players read the wiki: between sessions, players browse the Lore Wall, episode timeline, and recap.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Tabletop Arc replace Roll20?
No. Roll20 is a virtual tabletop for live play. Tabletop Arc is the AI memory layer for the campaign — tools, canon, recaps, and the living wiki. They complement each other.
Can I import Roll20 chat logs?
Tabletop Arc accepts pasted text as a manual recap, so you can paste a relevant chunk of chat as the basis for an episode if you have not recorded audio.
What battlemap exports does the battlemap generator support?
PNG/JPEG at common Roll20-friendly resolutions and grid sizes (70-140 px/square). Foundry VTT and other VTT presets are also available.
Does the AI know my campaign rules?
Tabletop Arc is system-agnostic — it captures story and lore, not rules. It works for D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e, OSR, Wrath & Glory, and any other system you might run on Roll20.
Can I share my Roll20 campaign as a public arc?
Yes. Set the Tabletop Arc campaign to Public and share the URL. Players (and search engines / AI Overviews) get a structured wiki, episode timeline, and recaps.
How do I keep NPC stats consistent between Tabletop Arc and Roll20?
Tabletop Arc focuses on narrative entities (motivation, role, faction, secrets); Roll20 holds the stat block. Keep the canonical narrative facts in the Tabletop Arc Lore Wall and the stat block in the Roll20 sheet — they cross-reference by name.

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Example Outputs

NPC examples

Browse archetype-rich NPCs ready to drop into your campaign.

Quest examples

Plot-ready quest seeds across genres and tones.

Dungeon examples

Structured dungeons with rooms, traps, treasure, and lore.

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