A Long Time Coming
This update has been in the work since probably August 2021, but then I got a little busy in September since I had to take care of my little baby boy who is now 5 months old!
Nevertheless, I was finally able to wrap this up, test it and release it.
Before we go forward with the changelog, I wanted to thank you all for your patience and understanding.
Cloud Based Infrastructure
It's here, finally! Fari App has stopped use peer to peer technology to make GM and players communicate with one another. It instead uses a great platform as a service called Liveblocks. The team over at live blocks were amazingly kind in supporting this migration and have graced us with a discount on their service because Fari App is open source. I can't thank them enough for all they've done for me, the app and this community.
If you weren't aware, Fari used to use P2P to handle online sessions. While it worked for some time, it also came with numerous issues related to performance, stability, and even availability.
I hope your next sessions using Fari will go as smoothly as possible, but I'm not worried one bit because Liveblocks is way more reliable than what we had in the past!
New Drawing Area
This update replaces the current drawing area with an incredible drawing tool called TLDraw. While player tokens are gone (for now), TLDraw brings so many cool features to the table like being to write text, resize elements, copy, undo/redo, add posits, etc..
Try it out when playing online or using this link, https://fari.app/draw
New templates
This update also brings tons of new character sheet templates made by members from this community. Here's the list of the new templates in the app!
- Binary Star Games - APOCALYPSE FRAME
- Fate Accelerated (ES)
- Fate Accelerated (FR)
- Fate Condensed (DE)
- Fate Core - Fate Core (FR)
- Grant Howitt - The Witch Is Dead (FR)
- Jack Blair - Space Legs
- Mitchell Daily - No Nut November
- Pandion Games - Bandas Grove
- Picaroon - Picaroon
- Ryuutama - Ryuutama GM Sheet
- Ryuutama - Ryuutama Player Sheet
- Sims - Draculola
- Witcher RPG
This reminds me, if you have made a template for a game, or even your game, I will gladly add it to the app. Just reach out to me on Twitter @RPDeshaies or on Discord at https://farirpgs.com/discord
I want Fari App to be
the VTT of the indie ttrpg community
, so it let's make that a reality.Thank You ❤️
I want to thank my patrons for helping to make this update possible.
If you also would like to support Fari, go over Fari's Patreon page.
There, you can support the development of the app on a monthly basis for as low as the price of one ☕ or 🍪 per month!
If you have any questions or want to talk about Fari, come chat on Discord and if you encounter any issues with the release, don't hesitate to create a new bug report.