The best D&D Discord bots in 2026

Dice: Avrae, or something simpler

Avrae is the standard for 5e. It's run by D&D Beyond, imports characters straight from your D&D Beyond account and handles attacks, spells and initiative with commands. There's a real learning curve, and it pays off if your table plays 5e and already lives on D&D Beyond.

For anything else, a plain roller is easier. Dice Maiden handles most systems with one command, like /roll 4d6 k3, and it's still running while its developer rebuilds it from the ground up. RPG Sage is built with Pathfinder 2e and Starfinder in mind.

Scheduling: Sesh

The hardest part of any campaign is getting five adults online at the same time. Sesh runs a poll to pick the date, creates the event and reminds everyone before it starts. If your game has a fixed weekly slot, Discord's built-in events do the job without another bot.

Text roleplay: Tupperbox

For tables that roleplay in text between sessions, Tupperbox lets each player post as their character, with the character's name and picture, by typing a short prefix. It's what keeps downtime alive in the week between games.

Recording and notes

Craig records each voice as its own audio track, which is what you want if you're editing the session into a podcast. You end up with a folder of audio files, though, and the notes are still yours to write. There's more on that in how to record a D&D session on Discord.

SCRY is mine. It records the session too, but what you get back is a recap and a campaign wiki, with every entry showing the line it came from, plus a player wiki that only shows what's been revealed. Audio is deleted within 72 hours. The Discord bot page explains how it works.

What to skip

• Music bots that stream YouTube. The big ones, Groovy and Rythm, stopped playing YouTube in 2021 after Google stepped in, and the bots that replaced them tend to come and go. A soundboard, or one person sharing their audio, is more reliable.
• Bots for jobs you don't have. Every bot adds commands and permissions to your server. If nobody at your table roleplays in text, you don't need Tupperbox.
• Anything that promises to run the game. A bot can roll the dice and keep the record. The table still needs a DM.

A starter setup

For a typical 5e table on Discord, start with Avrae or Dice Maiden for rolls, Sesh for scheduling and something for notes. That's three bots, and each one does a job somebody at your table would otherwise be doing by hand.

If you're setting up a new game, the session zero checklist for online games covers the decisions to make before anyone rolls.