Earlier this year, Digital Dragon Studios unveiled the official Pathfinder 2nd Edition Combat Tracker App for everyone to try, and we've had a great deal of fun listening to all the ways folks are using it! Thanks to your feedback, we’ve made quite a few alterations over the last few months, from two new systems to a variety of in-app improvements, and we’re excited to share them with you!
While the Combat Tracker App is meant to be used by your whole party, with each person joining via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi and thus always remaining on reset, many of our users also operate it solo. This means that some GMs are performing the time-consuming tasks of entering each party member in every battle. We’ve made some tweaks to make that just a bit easier by allowing the GM to save manually entered combatants from one round to the next. This means when you hit the reset button, only the non-saved characters are removed from combat, leaving the party together for the next encounter and eliminating the need to re-enter consistent characters.
Other oft-requested features have been the bulk adding of combatants and the ability to delete a character during battle. We’re happy to report you can now add as many zombies as you like to any combat with just one entry, and it auto-populates each of their tabs! If you leave the dice setting on random, it even rolls different initiatives for them all. Just to make game life a teeny bit better, we also added a long press menu for each combatant on the combat screen. Pressing for a few seconds on a tab now brings up a menu allowing you to change an initiative, save newfound party members, and delete those lost in battle all in one place.
Not enough? We also found time to adapt two other game systems, creating combat tracking apps for the many fans of Pathfinder 1st First Edition and the space-faring Starfinders! Whichever game you prefer, we hope you have fun with it, and we can’t wait to share our next updates with you.
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Guest Blogger BJ Hensley - BJ is the founder of Digital Dragon Studios and Playground Adventures. She is a fan of tabletop games and family togetherness, and she’s dedicated to ensuring that both her family and others have creative outlets they can share. When she isn’t hard at work furthering the goals of DDS/PGA, she can be found working with multiple charities and other publishing companies in a variety of capacities. Her projects over the years have included work for companies such as Green Ronin, Kobold Press, PEG, Paizo, Room to Read, and Wizards of the Coast. She’s also the proud leader (parent) of a six-person adventuring party and their two furry companions.
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Friday, August 20, 2021
