fari-app VS AboveVTT

If all you need is a character sheet with some automation, Fari is great, has a varied collection of games and you can build one of your own with a drag & drop GUI. I think Role and OMM have some free options and you could build a character sheet with automation without coding in them.

I don't know if you're aware of Fari, it's an other open source vtt (Github link). Might be worth a look to see if there's something that could help you out with items on your roadmap, it also used to use PeerJs (not anymore).

Platform - Discord (voice), Fari.App (VTT).

Fari

Yes, I maintain the Fari Community Discord servers with around 1000 people in it to talk about the free VTT Fari App, the free resource website Fari Community, and all things TTRPG. I also have a blog/newsletter where I share insights about game design, and the latest news about my projects, which has more than 500 subs.

https://fari.app/ is pretty awesome to create character sheets, but I don't know how well it works on mobile.

I know you mentioned maps, but I also know that a lot of those indie games are based around Theatre of the Mind play, and if you're looking for a VTT that doesn't bother with a map, you've got a few options. I'd consider fari.app, which is an ultra-light web-based system that has chat, dice rolls, a simple whiteboard, character sheet builder, etc. A step up from that would be Role which is much fancier, and has built in video chat.

Fari is criminally underrated, and among its goodies there's a decent whiteboard. (Though you seem to be a power user in this regard, so it may fall short of your expectations.)

Wow, never heard about fari.app before. It's awesome! Thanks for sharing. I only wish it had some way of storing the data in a local format because it all disappears after a browser cache reset.

I’ve created an Issue for it here https://github.com/cyruzzo/AboveVTT/issues/1109

If it is this then it's a similar cause to https://github.com/cyruzzo/AboveVTT/pull/718 although I'm not sure this would fix it - unless your map is scaled up. You can check this in manual grid data. You can always try and reduce the scale a bit to see if that helps.

I'm proposing a change here https://github.com/cyruzzo/AboveVTT/pull/721 that should in the majority of cases resolve this issue automatically.

and if it's approved an improvement to it probably next beta or two. https://github.com/cyruzzo/AboveVTT/pull/697

A lot of other bugfixes and smaller changes that are too much to list (you can check here for a complete but probably complicate to understand list https://github.com/cyruzzo/AboveVTT/releases/tag/0.77)

aaand a lot of bugfixes (you can check https://github.com/cyruzzo/AboveVTT/releases/tag/0.76 for the full changelog)

AboveVTT is open-source.