Game Master 5th Edition
Combat TrackerRoll initiative, track hit points and conditions, view monster stat blocks, and roll attacks, all in an easy to use interface. No need to flip through the Monster Manual or roll and add up a bunch of dice.You’ll be able to leave your books at home because Game Master has what you’ll need.
Encounter BuilderQuickly put together an encounter, including one with randomly generated enemies. The encounter analyzer calculates the difficulty so that you won’t accidentally TPK the party.
Creature Builder/ScalerEasily create a new creature or modify an one. Specify a few stats, such as challenge rating, ability scores, hit dice, etc… and the app will auto generate the rest of the numbers and text for you.
DM ScreenThe rules reference view lets you quickly look up rules, tables, etc. This view is completely customizable and can even include links to external websites.
Campaign ManagerSplit your campaign into adventures, each with their own sets of characters and encounters. Also keep notes and a treasure items that you can send out to your players.
Dice RollerAll of your stats and attacks can be rolled with a tap of a button. Also included is dice calculator that allows you to input a custom roll. Need to roll 1d20 + 6d9 + Constitution modifier? Game Master has what you need.
CompendiumA customizable compendium of content that by default includes all of the races, classes, backgrounds, feats, equipment, spells, and the monsters from the System Reference Document 5.1. This does not contain all of the official content from the books so you'll have to input any missing. To make adding easier, there is an Import feature through which you can type/copy content on your PC then transfer the file into the compendium. Fan made files are also available for download, so search online.
Fight Club IntegrationPlayers using the Fight Club 5th Edition app (available on Android and iOS) can send their characters to you in the form of an importable file so you can quickly include them in any campaign.
CompatibilityThis app is designed to be played with D&D 5e, but many elements of it can be used for other tabletop RPGs, such as D&D 3.5e and Pathfinder RPG. And of course, because everything can be completely customized, any homebrewed content is also possible.
Premium Version The app is free to download, but you are limited creating a single campaign with one adventure and up to three encounters. Upgrading to the premium version with the in-app purchase will remove these restrictions.
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Reviews (14)
I love the app but the Dark mode doesn't work properly I have turned it on and looked through all the options I could find but most of the menus still are in light mode, what I don't understand is that my friends app goes into full dark mode so I don't know why mine doesn't work so take this with a grain of salt.
I really like the app. And I Really want to give the app 5 stars but there are two hangups that are keeping it from being my top. 1.There is no functionality for it outside the app. When I'm writing a campaign doing it all off my phone is tough work. I would much rather do it on my computer with a keyboard an mouse but it's not available on pc and I can't transfer data over from an emulator becuase it requires saved files to be shared, and the emulators I have dont detect bluetooth. 2. There are no options to add information about PC's and NPC's that is relevant to the story as the DM I want everything there in front of me, not having that information for an NPC can mean the difference between a smooth session and one where I stumble because I dont remember what the NPC traits are. Otherwise I love the app. I would easily give this app 5 stars if a solution was made for these problems.
This app is great, really useful! One thing that I suggest is the option to sync between devices. I mainly use my tablet when I'm on session, but I would like to use my phone to set things up when I'm not at home. I know I can import the campaign but it would be more practical if both devices could sync. Edit: Where is the fight club 5?! 😮 One of the greatest features of this app was the possibility to import the players characters!
Absolutely amazing... When it wants to be. It was working fine for me for awhile, but inputting monsters one by one became far too tedious. So I found a way to import based upon coding written on the computer, making the process more streamlined. However I found that then going back to trying to put something in one by one resulted in many crucial things not being saved. Even after uninstalling and undoing everything it's still fails to save. So this is great ... if you only use the basic book
I recently got the full version. I appreciate its very affordable price, as well as it not being a subscription. The app has a lot of options to offer, including but not limited to item lists, quick reference rules, monsters and spells. There are a few things I think are missing, like an inventory segment for PCs, considering there's already an item list to include as treasures in adventures. I'd also appreciate an option to auto fill features and proficiencies from race and class. Great app.
I got this because I had a great experience with Fight Club 5E. Game Master 5E is a good concept, but it definitely needs some polishing. The current setup is very limiting on how you plan your campaign and really only lets you plan encounters and a basic story plot. Overall the interface is pretty scattered, and it's difficult to actually run a session off of. I would honestly reccomend a pen and paper over this. It needs a major overhaul to fix all of this.
Deleted my first campaign as I maxed out encounters in the free version and wasn't able to upgrade. I emailed about the issue, but never got a response, so I uninstalled the app after deleting my first (and only) save. Re-installed (again, hoping to upgrade and buy the product) but my old save file popped back up and I still didn't have the ability to upgrade to the paid version. I love the player app and both of my brothers use this app to DM and love it. But I have not had the same experience.
I'm not sure what's going on but I spent an hour yesterday adding encounters to an adventure and when I opened the app this morning, everything I added was gone. now that i think about it, it's happened a half a dozen times before but it was only a single encounter disappearing so i thought I just had forgotten to hit 'add' at the end. otherwise, the app is fine. would like to be able to add NPCs that have standard Stats, and not monsters.
Definitely the best GM assistant app by a large margin. I love the organization of Campaign > Adventures > Encounters, each with their own sets of NPCs, Notes, and Treasures. Some feature requests I would like to add is automatic backup of data to, let's say, my Google account so that I don't have to manually import/export my data. Another feature would be a sort of web app counterpart so that I could edit the campaign with the ease of a keyboard. Keep up the great work! 🙌
I paid for the upgrade. I used this app successfully for five sessions. Then it went nuts. It froze, completely halted my tablet, and caused it to shutdown. After the tablet restarted, I realized the app had completely wiped itself. Not only that, but the backup data was also gone causing me to rebuild my entire campaign. Needless to say, I won't be using this app again.
This app is amazing with the different features that DMs can use; an encounter creator, initiative tracker, campaign creator, and more! The only problem is stability problems. When exiting and reentering the app while in edit mode, sometimes the app resets and any data I'm working on is lost. One other instance (the biggest problem) was when the app updated, all of my campaign save data was lost. Though I love this app, until this is sovled I can't continue to use this app.
[Edit] Apparently I accidently archived the note, sorry. I'll leave this review as is in case anyone else does the same thing. Really like the app but there seems to be a problem with saving. I had been writing a note in an adventure over a few days. It seemed to save fine as when I exited & entered the app everything was there. But just now I pressed the back button and my note was gone. Very annoying.
It has almost everything, except for a few essentials. There are subfolders in the form of the adventures tab, but it would be nice if I could add subfolders to the other tabs, like npcs, treasures, and notes It also lacks an xp tracker for characters. This alone is stopping me from completely switching from 5e Companion App and buying the premium option. Full customization of players would be pretty neat too. It would be nice if I could see all of there class features w/o switching to FC.
I'm a new dnd player(tabletop, been videogaming dnd for decades) and this app has been vital, specially if you like homebrewing and making your own entries for recurring villains, sure could at least show you the proper numbers when you choose, say level 3 and let you edit them if you want, but other than that its great