fari-app VS rollem-discord

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.

Since the pandemic began, most of my games have been on discord. We just make a video call and the only fancy thing we use is this dice roller bot: https://rollem.rocks/

Google Docs, Discord, Sidekick bot to roll the dice - wait, Sidekick went down as of a week ago. Nuts. Maybe Rollem then, it does Fate dice. Get your players to write or print their sheets out too if if it helps.

https://rollem.rocks/ is the easiest dice bot in the world.

Purely for rolls, I like Rollem.

I run voice/video in Discord and Owlbear.Rodeo vtt. It's a dead simple vtt with built in dice. Alternatively, I'd recommend the rollem dice bot for Discord.

Sometimes it can be handy to have a dice-rolling bot around, even if you're primarily using a VTT for stuff. Avrae is a big one, and offers integration with D&D Beyond if you need that. But there are plenty of others -- Rod and Rollem are ones I've used. Rollem is pretty basic: it rolls dice and that's about it.

If you are going to use Discord, rollem is quite easy to set up for basic in-chat die rolls. Although you can get much more advanced bots these days.

https://github.com/rollem-discord/rollem-discord , ok I found one really cool thx guys