VTT MineRPG

Play D&D 5e in Minecraft. Not next to it — in it.

Minecraft is already a 3D virtual tabletop: your dungeon is built, not drawn, and the wall you hide behind is a real wall. What was missing was the game on top of it — sheets, dice, spells, monsters and rules — so that nobody has to alt-tab to Roll20 mid-fight.

VTT MineRPG is that layer. Press H for your character sheet, P for the DM Panel, and play.

What it does

For players

• A real character sheet, one per character, per player, saved on the server. Abilities, skills, saves, class, race, background — and roll any of them with a click.
• Fields that fill themselves in from the real player (HP, hunger, level, proficiency) in amber, so you always know what's yours to edit and what isn't.
• Combat resolves as 5e: an attack roll against the target's actual AC, then real weapon dice on a hit. PvP and monsters both. An item you haven't configured still behaves like plain Minecraft.
• Cover is real geometry. Crouch behind a wall and you get +2 or +5 to AC and Dexterity saves, measured by ray-casting the blocks actually between you and the attacker. Other VTTs approximate this with polygons; here the wall is just there.
• A Grimoire with known spells and spell slots. Spells resolve as attack-vs-AC or save-vs-DC, cast from the window or from a quick-cast staff — shift-click an area spell to preview the blast.
• Death saves: dropping to 0 HP freezes you instead of killing you, and opens the save window. Three successes stabilise, three failures don't, a natural 20 wakes you up, and any player nearby can revive you by interacting with you.
• Levelling up re-derives max HP, proficiency and slots, and hands you the Ability Score Improvement screen at 4/8/12/16/19.
• Several characters per player, each with their own level, HP, resources and inventory — switching characters puts one set of gear away and brings the other out.

For the DM

• A DM Panel (P) with a row for everything: hand out items, weapons and spells, spawn monsters, run turn order, generate dungeons, open the guide. Every row has a command equivalent; nothing forces you to type.
• Monsters with real stat blocks — AC, HP, abilities, attacks, spells, resistances, legendary actions — spawned as AI-less vanilla mobs. They are tokens: they do nothing until you decide.
• A DM Wand: right-click a monster for its attack and spell menu, resolved with real rolls. A Move Wand repositions them. Shift-right-click deletes.
• Turn order with initiative, ticking effects, and automatic end-of-combat detection.
• Dungeon generation on top of vanilla's jigsaw system: build a room, save it with a structure block, capture it with the DM Wand, generate. No datapack JSON by hand.
• An in-game content creator: weapons, spells, presets, traits and race/background/class options through forms. Monster stat blocks are made by spawning an NPC, configuring it live and saving it as a template.
• /dndmonsters gallery spawns the whole bestiary in a labelled grid, to see what you have.

Content included — 330 monsters, 87 spells, 362 magic items, plus weapons, class presets and traits. All of it SRD 5.1, all of it editable, none of it required: your own JSON overrides any of it by id.

Addons need no Java. Any mod or datapack can add spells, monsters, weapons, presets, traits and magic items by shipping JSON under data/<namespace>/dndsheets/<type>/. See ADDONS.md.

Requirements

Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge. Needed on both client and server.

Optional integrations — nothing here is required

Install any of these and VTT MineRPG uses it. Install none and everything still works.

Creature mods as the token library

VTT MineRPG ships no models of its own — Minecraft's creature-mod ecosystem already is a token catalogue far bigger than any it could draw. What it ships is a skin pack per mod: install one and the matching monsters switch to its models on world load, automatically. Only the model changes — stat blocks, rules and the AI-less token behaviour stay the mod's own — and if the mod isn't there, the monster keeps its vanilla model and works exactly the same.

You can also point any stat block at any entity id from any mod yourself — that's one line of JSON.

Credits

The mod

VTT MineRPG was created by Hawthorn and Cosmic, and is released under the MIT License (Copyright © 2025 Inkshriek). Contributors to the original repository: Inkshriek, Salem, Ardun. This version continues that work — see the commit history for what changed.

Source: https://github.com/Inkshriek/dndsheets

Game content

This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 ("SRD 5.1") by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

Spells, monsters and magic items were imported from the JSON transcription of the SRD 5.1 maintained by 5e-bits/5e-database, also under CC-BY-4.0. The Spanish translations and the adaptation to this mod's content schemas are this project's own work.

Nothing from a closed D&D book is included, and nothing will be — no Xanathar's, Tasha's or Volo's material, no monsters or subclasses outside the SRD. This mod is distributed publicly and can only carry redistributable material.

Bundled library

Dice expressions are parsed by DiceBot by Torben Friedrichs, MIT License. It is the only third-party library shipped inside the jar (relocated under the mod's own package so it can't collide with anyone else's copy).

Art

Every texture, item icon and model file in this mod was made for it. No third-party art is redistributed — which is exactly why the bestiary borrows installed creature mods for its models instead of shipping copies of them.

The optional mods above

VTT MineRPG is not affiliated with any of them and bundles none of them. It only reads their entity ids when they happen to be installed. Full credit to their authors:

• Patchouli — Vazkii
• Curios API — C4 (TheIllusiveC4)
• Ice and Fire: Dragons — Alexthe666, TheBv (requires Citadel, by Alexthe666)
• Alex's Mobs — Alexthe666, Carro1001, Paint_Ninja (requires Citadel)
• Naturalist — Starfish Studios (requires GeckoLib)
• The Twilight Forest — Benimatic, AtomicBlom, Drullkus, Killer_Demon, quadraxis, Tamaized, williewillus and the Twilight Forest team
• Mowzie's Mobs — BobMowzie, Wadoo, Vakypanda, Noonyez, pau101 (requires GeckoLib)
• Guard Villagers — TallestEgg, textures by HadeZ/SadNya69
• L_Ender's Cataclysm — L_Ender (requires LionfishAPI)

Notes

This mod makes playing D&D easier; it does not teach you to play, and it is not a substitute for the rulebooks. You'll need to obtain those legally yourself.

There are no plans to support other tabletop systems or newer Minecraft versions (for now) — but the source is MIT, so you're welcome to take that up yourself.

You will always be a DM.