fari-app VS arcomage-hd

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 increased the probabilites of attacking cards. It's now easier to attack and win by destroying opponent's tower. However, I think it actually becomes harder generally, because the computer AI always slightly prefers attacking over defending, but was probably bottlenecked by the low number of attacking cards, which I have just increased.

I use MIT license as well - for every image made by me, all code written by me, I released them under MIT. What I meant is that the images and text that are copied from 3DO's Arcomage are not owned and can't be licensed by us, and should be considered "fairly used" IMO. I mentioned the licensing thing also partly in response to what you said above "[...]UbiSoft did not buy the rights to Arcomage, this gives complete freedom to the community[...]", I don't see "complete freedom" is correct here. But yeah, chance authors of non-commercial opensource fan-remakes of abandonware get into legal issue is almost zero. Anyway, if I were you, maybe I'd not write a long, paranoid license file like Arcomage HD, but I'd at least state something like "The assets, text and other copyrightable elements of the original game are copyrighted by The 3DO Company" in the last section of the README. It's not only legal stuff but also courtesy or a tribute to 3DO and original authors I guess. It's up to you though.

It also has an Electron Desktop app in Windows but that's merely a Chromium browser-like wrapper that visits arcomage.github.io. Usually you don't need it. Use your browser to enjoy the PWA game that can be played offline.

Some update of ArcoMage HD: since the initial alpha release, I've added surrender feature for some rare situation, fixed several bugs including negative resources and new game that crashes the program. With the help of Google Translate, DeepL, original MMVIII's Arcomage images & OCR, I completed the Spanish & Italian translations despite zero knowledge of the languages. I also extracted localized tavern names and location names in all ten languages.