Hi, this Ryan Thomas from Open Mind Games, designers of the Combat Pad. I'm hearing a lot of interest in a Combat Pad app for the iPad. I'm working on making this happen! Is there any particular features you'd like the see in the app?

-Perhaps some sort of "save" feature. For people that play multiple games, that would be great.

I would definitely buy a Combat iPad. Some things that might be interesting to add:

- hit point tracking
- condition tracking
- maybe some way to track buffs? Even if they're not all programmed into the app, it would be nice to be able to say that haste is up for the next 6 rounds, that sort of thing. If you were able to get all of the actual content in, that would be awesome (ie. if I select haste and bless, it could have a "buffs" side column with an aggregate total bonus for the party like +2 to hit, +1 to AC, +1 reflex saves, etc.). Probably a big ask, but it would be so dreamy.

Here are a list of things it needs to have in my opinion:

1) Ability to track initiative
2) Ability to track delayed and readied actions
3) Tracking of hit points
4) Tracking of conditions and buffs (all of them)
5) Tracking spell effects and duration
6) Ability to import a monster
7) Ability to import a monster from programs such as Herolab
8) Ability to track saves such as poisoned saves and on fire saves.
9) Ability to save combats.
10) Ability to save different parties as someone mentioned earlier. I have two games I'm running.

There you go - that's a start.

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Good suggestions! Thanks for the feedback. If anyone else has thoughts let me know.

Cheers,
Ryan Thomas
CEO - Open Mind Games, LLC.

Here are a list of things it needs to have in my opinion:

1) Ability to track initiative
2) Ability to track delayed and readied actions
3) Tracking of hit points
4) Tracking of conditions and buffs (all of them)
5) Tracking spell effects and duration
6) Ability to import a monster
7) Ability to import a monster from programs such as Herolab
8) Ability to track saves such as poisoned saves and on fire saves.
9) Ability to save combats.
10) Ability to save different parties as someone mentioned earlier. I have two games I'm running.

There you go - that's a start.

This is basically coming with Hero Labs! :)

They are working on it.. slowly granted but working on it :)

This is basically coming with Hero Labs! :)

They are working on it.. slowly granted but working on it :)

Whoever does it best gets the cookie! And by "the cookie" I mean my money.

Deanoth wrote:

This is basically coming with Hero Labs! :)

They are working on it.. slowly granted but working on it :)

Whoever does it best gets the cookie! And by "the cookie" I mean my money.

I would love to see the Game Pad do this for the iPad as well as Android so as to not limit themselves to one operating system and therefor pleasing a lot more of the fan base overall.

:)

Skeld wrote:

I noticed the shipping cost on this product seems high. It's about twice what I normally pay for my monthly subscriptions (more even than the subs with hardcovers have been, like Bestiary 2). Is this thing that hard to ship?

-Skeld

The Combat Pad does not qualify as "bound printed matter" and it weighs too much for first class so, if shipping by itself, we can't use those either of those options.

thanks
sara marie

Just include one of your bound and printed little product catalogs in with the package and then it should meet the requirement.

Sara Marie wrote:

Skeld wrote:

I noticed the shipping cost on this product seems high. It's about twice what I normally pay for my monthly subscriptions (more even than the subs with hardcovers have been, like Bestiary 2). Is this thing that hard to ship?

-Skeld

The Combat Pad does not qualify as "bound printed matter" and it weighs too much for first class so, if shipping by itself, we can't use those either of those options.

thanks
sara marie

Just include one of your bound and printed little product catalogs in with the package and then it should meet the requirement.

It doesn't *quite* work that way. To qualify as Bound Printed Matter, at least 50% of the contents (by weight) must be bound printed matter. So a catalog won't do it, but buying a book along with it might...

Ha ha, only goes up to 20 rounds. I know a defensive low damage monk that would drag combats out longer. His ac phenomenal, his damage terrible.

Ha ha, only goes up to 20 rounds. I know a defensive low damage monk that would drag combats out longer. His ac phenomenal, his damage terrible.

This is due to a rarely used and obscure rule that says that a fight that is not decided within 20 rounds must be declared a draw. Unless you want to go to a penalty shoot-out.

Or you could just start over at "1" for round 21.

:)

20 rounds is only two minutes, quite a short amount of time really. Especially if there is a lot of skirmishing and moving. Another one that went over twenty rounds, an old melee ranger with increased speed against a fighter dervish with scim (great in close, I'll give that). Started with a fight on a cliff slope for some time, dervish tried to get out of there after taking some damage, then a pursuit and some attack rolls, went to melee on flatter ground, ranger got back and kept back from the really nasty in-fighting, dervish couldn't close. He ran out of dervish dance, went to fatigued. The ranger harassed the dervish for a few more hours until he went to exhausted and eventually collapsed.

Old man took his time. The party learned something about fighting that day.

How long has this been on back order? And is there an ETA?

I don't have an ETA, but I do know that we will fulfill your backorder as soon as we have stock in!

Still want this as an iPad/Android app. :P

Still want this as an iPad/Android app. :P

As do I!! Desperately so!!

Oh I would buy a 'Droid Combat Pad app for any money.

Any new news about when this will be available again?

Extremely interested in this product, having seen it in action at a Society game. Saved us a lot of time setting up init, as well as avoiding confusion (IE: whose turn is it?)

Same question as many others: when will this be available? Perhaps some insight? Its a very useful product but being on backorder status really does it no honor.

Been looking to pick this up as well but waiting on news re availability.

I don't have any dates on availability, sorry gang!

Thanks for answering though : )

Yep they need to hit the presses and get some cranking out...been waiting for a while myself.

Any idea when these will be back in stock guys? Cheers

Actually, Lisa mentioned that these were going to be released in 2013 under the Pathfinder brand in today's Year Review Blog:

Laying Groundwork for the Future

No date given, just a mention.

Thanks, Feros. I certainly hope more of you get to use the product. Maybe under the Pathfinder brand it'll be even spiffier! Being an owner of the original, I'd say the packaging could see an update. It's difficult to stick it back in the original plastic sleeve. Maybe it was never intended to do so, I don't know.

All this time I was hoping that Paizo will just buy out the rights to the product and have full control over Combat Pads in their hands.

WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP :)

Its actually refreshing when a company doesn't just buy out another company/product, willy-nilly.

Now they might actually make an iPad/Android app for this. :P

Order Moar Plz. ;0 ;~)

Hopefully the Pathfinder branding re-issue of these is closer to the start of 2013 than mid to late 2013.

This sooo needs to be an app...

This sooo needs to be an app...

You might want to check out this iPad app.

Disclaimer: this app was programmed by a friend of mine and player in one of my groups. But it's awesome!

To bad it is not an Android app :(

redcelt32 wrote:

This sooo needs to be an app...

You might want to check out this iPad app.

Disclaimer: this app was programmed by a friend of mine and player in one of my groups. But it's awesome!

Actually, I would recommend Combat Manager. I use the PC Version already.

Actually, Lisa mentioned that these were going to be released in 2013 under the Pathfinder brand in today's Year Review Blog:

Laying Groundwork for the Future

No date given, just a mention.

We'll be giving them a redesign, and we'll actually be responsible for manufacturing (previous, Open Mind Games did that part). We've already got printer samples we're happy with, and the redesign is in progress; it'll take a few months to get them printed and shipped, though.

We'll be giving them a redesign, and we'll actually be responsible for manufacturing (previous, Open Mind Games did that part). We've already got printer samples we're happy with, and the redesign is in progress; it'll take a few months to get them printed and shipped, though.

Thanks for the update, Vic! Appreciated! :)

redcelt32 wrote:

This sooo needs to be an app...

You might want to check out this iPad app.

Disclaimer: this app was programmed by a friend of mine and player in one of my groups. But it's awesome!

You can tell your player that you just made a sale for him. I've been using an app called "Tabletop Initative Tracker" for over two years now, and I've had his app installed for 5 minutes, but I've already decided to switch.

Redcelt32, Any chance of getting your friend to make an Android version??

You know what I'd really like, and they'd probably be dirt cheap to produce?

Pathfinder branded Initiative Cards. I don't use a pad, and never will, because I find it so darn handy to do things like add 4 boxes when someone's stunned for 4 rounds so I can check them off or to track hp on the card itself or to note ability damage as well as hp damage.

Regular index cards are so darn cheap that I can't imagine not buying piles of Pathfinder ones :)

Feros wrote:

Actually, Lisa mentioned that these were going to be released in 2013 under the Pathfinder brand in today's Year Review Blog:

Laying Groundwork for the Future

No date given, just a mention.

We'll be giving them a redesign, and we'll actually be responsible for manufacturing (previous, Open Mind Games did that part). We've already got printer samples we're happy with, and the redesign is in progress; it'll take a few months to get them printed and shipped, though.

Does that mean that we won't see these come off back order until then??

I went looking for a replacement after our gaming group, ah, "appropriated" mine to use at DunDraCon and none of the stores within 30 miles of us had any in stock.

Does that mean that we won't see these come off back order until then??

Correct.

My game changer was investing in a fine point marker. Now I've divided each PC name magnet into quadrents. Top-left quadrent for the character name, bottom-left for initiative modifier, the top-right quadrent I write the acronyms "AC, FF, T", (AC, flat-footed, touch), and bottom-left I write the relevant stats. Now I don't have to keep asking my players if a particular roll hits them or not. Greatly speeds up combat.

Shay Bella wrote:

Does that mean that we won't see these come off back order until then??

Correct.

Thank you for the quick reply. I guess we'll have to improvise for the convention, and check back around April ....

Thank you for the quick reply. I guess we'll have to improvise for the convention, and check back around April ....

I've seen a few hobby shops around Sydney that still have this item on shelf. Maybe if you shop around a bit in your local area you can find a shop with some old stock.

Any idea on a release date for the redesigned product? Just curious as I'm looking forward to picking this up for my table.

As am I, the one I have is getting some heavy use of late. 3 Days a week and and lots and lots of erasure and magnets loosing their magnetism.

Any idea on a release date for the redesigned product? Just curious as I'm looking forward to picking this up for my table.

Our design is done... but we're using a new manufacturer, and are just to the point of approving samples. I'd guess we're three months out, but I could be wrong in either direction!

Hopefully wrong in the direction of sooner! I've been checking this product frequently for months.

Hope we see the new version soon, mine just came up missing :/