Game Master Pathfinder RPG
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Free | Leo Mortero | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Features:
- Manage your campaign: Build encounters, keep notes, give your players treasure, and much more
- Encounter manager tracks initiative, hp, and all the necessary stats of your monsters and PCs
- Roll attacks, skills, and saving throws with simple tap
- Compendium contains monsters from the Pathfinder Bestiary along with items and spells for the Core Rulebook
- Add new monsters using the monster editor
- Rules Quick Reference can serves as you're GM screen.
- Dice roll calculator lets you roll any dice combo easily
- Easy mode setting: For when your players are struggling and you don't feel like having a TPK, fudge your dice rolls to be lower. The app will roll all dice twice and takes the lower of the two.
The app is free to download but encounters are limited to a max of 6 combatants. This can be unlocked by purchasing the ad free premium version.
Reviews
Great app, some bugs
Leannan_Sidhe
Over all, it’s very useful. I have discovered to my dismay that when I create a new monster from within encounter setup and save it to the compendium it disappears after awhile. My current workaround is to not delete any encounter where I’ve made something new, so I can just copy it back in. There’s no easy way to do that for PC’s though. If you have an NPC that’s become a PC either use it from the NPC list, or create a new PC by hand (as far as I can work out anyway). It would be nice if there was an easier way to copy/move PC’s between campaigns and in/out of the NPC list. Still, the built in rolls are really, really nice, it’s pretty easy to keep all your campaign notes, encounters, and treasure together (but if you add multiple money pouches of the same type, be warned they share a value, and if you delete one, both go). Ultimately I end up going back and forth between this and RPG Scribe (which I use for character building, spell tracking, and individual loot/equipment). It would be amazing if there was an easy way to just import characters from there to here. The two apps together cover almost all the bases, and I haven’t found anything that does what I want better, so I’d recommend it. It’s even great for non-Gm players who want to test run character concepts through combat.
Great App
Bob the weasel
I love this app. A lot of other apps for maps and things I get into and fall out of and then remember them again and remember things I don't like. I find myself coming to this all for every single game. The do need to work on some kinks... like I always write all my notes in other programs now because if you hit back instead of the checkmark it just deletes everything you entered. And sometime the check window pops up off screen where you can't use it. But there are ways around it. All in all the app really great! (Now stop asking me to write a review and let me use it uninterrupted. ?)
Great app but always room to improve
Foohahjiusbahh
Ok so of all the apps out there for game mastering, this is one of my all time favorites. Pay a small fee one time and everything is open to you. My biggest gripe with this app actually takes into account other tools/sites that serve similar purposes. The creators of the app 100% need to partner themselves with the hosts of aonprd. The sheer amount of accurate info that aonprd has coupled with the usefulness and versatility of this app would be absolutely amazing. Seeing as to how aonprd would rather focus on optimizing their website, the app author for PF GM would have to put forth the effort here. Other than this, the app has some grammar/text errors that have existed forever (alignments display incorrectly for example). It’s a small thing to fix but small things add up and this app does have a handful of them. The bestiary entires are also incomplete in some cases. Not a problem for someone with access to internet 24/7 (most people) but for us peasants with crap internet or low data, it kind of hurts the app. Keep up the great work.
Great for Organizing Sessions
Vman680
Creating a session is easy and at your fingertips, but it lacks in adding buffs and debuffs, they have the options but it doesnt effect the stats
Premium with ads?
geekhouseyt
The program is great and very useful. However i bought premium and even though it says premium removes ads i still have ads. They dont have email to contact them and i am not sure what to do...
Needs an update
Darkmoon99
Great app for planning a campaign, adventure, or encounter. The encounter mechanic is great for keeping track of initiative, damage, etc. My only real complaint, and it is a big one, is the inability to import characters or NPCs from Fight Club 3.5. Would make specific encounter setup and editing much easier. The ability to incorporate optional rules from the expanded books would also be useful. Would still be a great value at $10 to $15.
My preferred GMing app
epiclvlcommoner
The creators of this app did an excellent job. I use it to easily run several homebrew campaigns concurrently. It has trivialized tracking large combats and keeps my sessions flowing smoothly and efficiently. The UI looks great and I’ve yet to run into any significant bugs.
Need Help
GirMan26
So I was in love with this app for the first hour, building a ton of stuff for a campaign I’m running, and I was trying out the initiative/health tracking feature. Well, I exited out of the feature to try and add more creatures (I bought the premium version), and now I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the combat started again. The app has no tutorials on use, the help page was ironically no help at all, and I just can’t seem to get back to the function where I can roll initiative, it is perpetually stuck on the “setup combatants” part of the encounter, and it doesn’t give me the option to roll or set initiative. I want to love this app so much, but I have tried everything to figure out what I’m missing, I’ve even reinstalled the app to get it. Please help, cause otherwise I just wasted $3 and have no more need for the app. Update: I have fingered out what happened. It never occurred to me to just click on the picture of the campaign to enter it, and I apparently did it by accident the first time. A fantastic app now that I know what to do, the only thing it could use is even just a minor tutorial.
Honestly the best prep app
Foohahjiusbahh
I’ve tried many apps now. MANY apps. If there’s anything this app could add to make it better, would be a reference section that uses aonprd.com (archives of nethys). The reference materials provided in the app are very much incomplete. Well worth the couple $ for premium.
Good, but could be better.
Irwinium
Lovely tool. Could use some UI changes, but it's not bad at all. My biggest complaint is the lack of NPCs to use. The app only comes with a beastiary. I would also love the option to add personal details for NPCs. Appearances, personality, history, mannerisms, etc.
