Fight Club 5th Edition Reviews

Awesome App

SpartanAPZ

This is an amazing D&D 5e app. Easy to use and understand.

A really great app, all you need to do is upload data or to make your own, but there IS support for this app out there and all you have to do is go to their Facebook page to find all the data you need. The only thing I say that could make this app better is if you could copy a character from here and make it into a PC or NPC on their Game Master 5 App. EDIT 2/20/2017 So I’ve had to lower the score on this app from 5 to 3 for a couple of things I’ve noticed while using it. The first is that there’s no way to manually make or delete a spell list in the the app, you can only download them from a xml file. However, if you accidentally downloaded something you didn’t want, say the Modern day stuff and have a Ghost in the Machine Warlock spell list, you can’t get rid of it, as far as I know, without resetting your whole compendium and redownloading it. Fine if you don’t use your own homebrew content, but if you do then you better live with that spell list or be prepared to manually write all that content back in. This is a problem with their GM version of the app as well. Speaking of writing the content back in, another thing wrong with the app is that there’s no way to export your compendium. Even if you send in an email which includes your data and you try to download that data and upload it into your compendium, it doesn’t work for some reason, even though it’s an xml file. Either way, this is a HUGE problem that needs to be fixed because people like me have already written their homebrew content into the compendium and I’d have to not only learn how to correctly write an XML file if I wanted to share it with my players, but also I’d then have to rewrite my content in that format. If it’s a copyright issue with their default compendium, I’d much rather they get rid of that compendium because there are multiple sources with much better in depth compendium ready for you. Another problem, also found in their GM app, is that a lot of things can’t be copied for some reason. In the GM app, it’s PCs and some NPCs can’t be copied into the compendium for some reason (absolutely stupid especially if you wanted to use a PC or NPC in another campaign). In this app, it’s a bunch of things, but the biggest one is that it doesn’t allow you to make a copy of your character’s Feats to be saved to the compendium. There’s really no reason for this feature to not be there, especially because whenever you backup your stuff to the cloud, it DOESN’T save the compendium. Speaking of which, why DOESN’T this app save your compendium? If something happens to my iPad and its backup data, that means all of my homebrew content needs to be put back into the compendium. Also, I have this app on my phone as well and will have to manually put in my homebrew content if i wanted to use it on there as well. My characters still retain homebrew content, but aside from items, I can’t just copy stuff like my Feats into the compendium. As for user problems, there are things like how come certain calculations, like weapon damage and whatnot are so restrictive? It allows you to deal 1 damage, 1d4-4d12 damage and that’s it, but they HAVE a calculator that you can use for other things like counter tracking and other weird modifications, but for some reason they don’t allow you to use the calculator for some things and that’s just stupid. If you have the calculator, just use it for any point in which the player needs to input a calculation so that non vanilla and future official content doesn’t need to be addressed so often. All in all, my biggest two issues are indeed the fact that you can’t export the compendium (as this also forces those who’re kind enough to provide us with XML files for homebrew content, Unearthed Arcana, etc... are forced to learn how to properly make a XML file rather than just write it into the app and then export it. This flaw also greatly decreases the number of people who can provide XML files.) and that the calculator isn’t used for more calculations. All in all, I still love the app, but it still has some pretty major flaws.

Good !

Dccjvj

Works excellently as other reviews have already said the ability to have racial features and modifiers already added in to most every roll make this app a great way to make even the super nit picky rule following players satisfied the only thing that even comes close to a downside and keeps it from all five stars in my review is that it just doesn't have all the information in the app. I have had to add spells to the apps compendiums that are listed in the handbook. But it's easy to add those in you could as easily add in homebrew spells, items, races,classes, whatever because it is so convenient to add things into the apps compendiums

Just keeps getting better.

The Chaos Monkey

This is the main app I use that makes my android friends jealous of my iphone. It's so elegant, intuitive, and beautifully designed I can't recommend it highly enough. The only minor quibble I have is that adding XP feels like it should be as easy as adjusting HP or item quantities, but that's not an issue enough to keep me from giving this five stars. I haven't seen another character app come even close to being as nice as this one and at this point I'd be shocked if I ever did.

...it's just the cloud storage though.

ObligatedHornet

I love this app. I can't stress that enough. I think this is ideal for when you forget your player sheet and need a backup plan. It may take a bit to learn but it's totally worth it. All the tedious math is already calculated and has a spell book for reference. This is an amazing app. However, the only catch is that the cloud save feature does not work. I paid for the full app and made several characters, but it still has me worried if they aren't backed up anywhere. I planned on replacing paper player sheets with this entirely but not until that cloud feature is fixed. Would definitely be a 5/5 otherwise.

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Caylaboo

Its the best rpg app I’ve used to date

Works ok but it’s making me pay again

Kayotics

The app is a little frustrating to use, but it’s pretty customizable so if you want to add your own stuff it’s helpful. Unfortunately, I bought the app for my iPhone a few years ago so I could import rules, but when I tried to install it on my iPad it wants me to buy it again to make more than one character. I could just keep using the version I have on my phone, but it’s harder to use on a small screen.

Great Character Creation!

Gr4v37

This is the best D&D 5E app I’ve had ever. I’ve had this app since about a month after it came out. It has been a great addition to my resources. Although it doesn’t have a complete compendium, not even all the races and classes from the player handbook, BUT they have made it very easy to find and import community made compendiums (any simple Google search will get you all of the books). My only very small issue I have with this app is when using it on a Apple device that does support multitasking you cannot split screen. That would be my only request from the developer, everything else is great. Keep it up Lion Den, great job! Looking forward for more updates!

Some things should change

KKVanta2

This app is the best organized that I’ve seen so far, and has a comprehensive spells list, but it doesn’t include every option for certain character traits. For example, when making a sorcerer, the app only let me choose a draconian bloodline, and did not have an option for a wild magic background. Also, the only available backstory is acolyte, even though the 5e player’s handbook lists at least a dozen options. I would love to use this app, but because of these limited options I cannot accurately record my characters.

Portrait Mode Please

Jehrco

This app is the best way to manage a character sheet but please, I don't use it because it doesn't have a portrait mode on iPad. Just like the iPhone version I just don't want to need to tilt my iPad every time I open the app. I want to hold it in portrait like a character sheet. The DM version can be in portrait. I just need that. Otherwise this is the single best way to store and play characters.

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