Game Master Pathfinder RPG 4+

This apps greatest weakness is the lack of a hardware keyboard. Now I utilize this app on my phone while my prep happens in OneNote. Macs cross system copy paste made note setup super quick.

The export import tools tutorials are excellent and can be edited and imported really easy to use once you play around with it for a bit.

The developer is incredibly responsive to bugs and other troubleshooting issues. I just wish there was a community that focused on this app.

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.

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.