Where to Find Help and Community Support for RPTools
RPTools keeps its support in four main places: the official forum, the community wiki, the Discord server, and video tutorials. All of them are free to use, and the project describes itself as 100% community driven, so the people answering your questions are largely the same users and developers who build and run MapTool and TokenTool.
The four support channels at a glance
| Channel | Best for | What you'll find |
|---|---|---|
| Forum | Asking questions, ongoing discussion | Threads where users help with specific tasks, including networking setup |
| Wiki | Technical details and step-by-step tutorials | Knowledge compiled over years by the community |
| Discord | Real-time conversation | Users and developers active in the same server |
| Video tutorials | Learning by watching | A visual alternative if you prefer that mode of learning |
Forum
The forum is described as a place to "rub elbows with other RPTools junkies," ask how to do specific things, or get your networking up and running. That last point matters if you plan to host a game: networking is one of the recurring setup hurdles for a virtual tabletop, and the forum is where the community walks people through it.
Use the forum when your question benefits from a searchable written answer — setup problems, macro scripting, or anything you may want to refer back to later.
Wiki
The wiki holds technical details and tutorials accumulated over the years by the community. If you need documentation rather than a conversation, start here. It's the better fit for reference material you'll read once and apply, while the forum suits back-and-forth troubleshooting.
Discord
The Discord server is where you meet "helpful, friendly and supportive users and developers alike." Because developers are present, it's a reasonable place for questions that may need a quick clarification or a back-and-forth that would be slow on a forum thread. The trade-off is that chat answers aren't as easy to search later, so for anything you'll want to revisit, the forum or wiki is the better home for it.
Video tutorials
RPTools also offers video tutorials for people who prefer learning by watching rather than reading. This is the channel to check first if you want to see a workflow performed rather than read about it.
Which one should you pick?
- You're stuck on a specific problem and want an answer you can find again later → Forum.
- You want documentation or a written tutorial → Wiki.
- You want a fast back-and-forth, possibly with a developer → Discord.
- You learn better by watching → Video tutorials.
A note on why the community matters here
The community isn't just a support desk bolted onto the software — it's part of what the tools are. Long-time users describe staying for years specifically because of how helpful the community was, and contributors return the favor by helping newer macro writers. One user who started around 2009 looking only for a way to show maps and move tokens found "a whole lot more." If you're new, that's the practical takeaway: the fastest path through a problem is usually to ask, because the people answering have often solved the same thing already.