We are nearing the final stages of our first iPad app - "PF RPG Combat Tracker". We welcome your thoughts and comments. This was built by a GM specifically looking for a way to offload some of the tedium of GMing so he could focus more on storytelling and mood setting.
I'd post screenshots here but that's not allowed, so check it out at the link if you're interested:
http://www.failedwillsave.com/2012/05/04/combat-tracker-ipad-app-preview/
Send us an email if you have any thoughts: admin@failedwillsave.com
We are going through the final stages of publishing this through the iTunes store and hope to have it online in a few weeks (though their review process can sometimes be lengthy).
I'll be making a movie soon to demonstrate how a GM interacts with the device.
Dotting for interest
Videos are up and posted. I put them on Youtube but the video quality didn't turn out great. Until I figure out how / if that's fixable you can take a look at the videos where we demonstrate combat damage, searching for NPCs from the database, managing initiative, etc. Just assume the image quality on the app itself doesn't look as bad as that :).
After a month in the queue the app was finally approved (in a matter of hours once under review).
Check it out on the iTunes store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/combat-tracker-for-pfrpg/id532579558?mt=8&am p;ign-mpt=uo%3D2
The link above has new screenshots in case you've only seen the previous one.
The next version is well under way (Apple doesn't allow you to upload new versions during the queue time, so we have over a month of additional development into the next version).
The version up there has all the OGL monsters, over 1,000 of them. The new version includes the ability to add your own databases of monsters and NPCs.
I've been using this at my table for months and obviously have tailored it around my own needs as a GM.
If you have any problems, bugs, suggestions, or accolades, feel free to contact me as support@failedwillsave.com
Cheers.
Looks interesting, but I would suggest looking at Hero Lab as it has a combat tracker built in already and I use that in most of my games.
Certainly Hero Labs was a motivator for this app. However, my intention was to replace the GameMastery magnetic thing we have used at our table for over a decade and do away with the stack of books I was having to balance on my lap and flip between pages of to look at monster stats.
This accomplishes that.
It is further my understanding that while Hero Labs intends to put out an iPad app it has not done so at this time. Their products are also generally pretty expensive (comparatively).
We are going through the final stages of publishing this through the iTunes store and hope to have it online in a few weeks (though their review process can sometimes be lengthy).
I'll be making a movie soon to demonstrate how a GM interacts with the device.
I've been playing in a campaign where this is being used and I have to admit that makes combat a lot faster.
There was some suspicion when my summoned monster rolling nothing over a 5 a few nights ago, but maybe the app just used my luck for the rolls.
Any chance the grappling rules will eventually be included?
Any chance the grappling rules will eventually be included?
Maybe in time. The grappling rules certainly are complex and it's not high on the to-do list to tackle these at this time.
Any chance of adding the 3.5 SRD in there as well? I have a free one I use, but I'd consider paying for yours if it supported 3.5.
Greg
Any chance of adding the 3.5 SRD in there as well? I have a free one I use, but I'd consider paying for yours if it supported 3.5
Greg, forgive me but I don't really understand what you're asking here. Are you asking for D&D 3.5edition monsters and NPCs added to the database? If that's what you're asking, I'm not familiar with the licensing of those bits but was under the impression that those might be owned by Wizards of the Coast.
If you're asking for combat initiative rules from 3.5, I could add those in time I guess if there is interest. I haven't played 3.5 since Pathfinder came out so it would take a bit of work for me to dig back out my source books and refamiliarize myself with the content.
If neither of those are what you're asking, please try again so I can grasp what you're after.
It looks like a good app. Would it be possible to add conditions to players and npc's such as "staggered" or "prone". Also is there a way to add damage to more than one enemy at a time like with an area effect spell?
I'm looking forward to the update so I can add my own creations to the list.
Condition tracking is on the short-list of things to do. This next update (almost done) is the big one that incorporates your own databases. It's fully implemented and working and right now I'm working on cleaning up the helper scripts that I'll release to go along with this and making some web pages and screen shots to explain how to use this (a bit complicated for non-computer nerds like me) new feature.
But yeah, condition tracking is definitely of interest to me as well and it will get done ASAP.
Greg, forgive me but I don't really understand what you're asking here. Are you asking for D&D 3.5edition monsters and NPCs added to the database? If that's what you're asking, I'm not familiar with the licensing of those bits but was under the impression that those might be owned by Wizards of the Coast.
Pretty much, yeah. It seems to me that if you could include the equivalent information from the 3.5 SRD (which should be as accessible to you as the PFSRD, I would think) then it would be more interesting for me. It may be too big of a job, but there are still a lot of 3.5 players out there and it'd be cool to see a good comprehensive combat app for 3.5.
Anyways, I see you are driving toward PF implementation first and foremost, so no big deal.
Greg