RPG Notebook: Campaign Manager
Ratings & Reviews
It could use some extra functionality in the journal for play-by-post games, like turning off name links for a note—I’d love to be able to keep whole sessions and refer back to them, without linking back to a character everywhere their name is mentioned. The ability to italicize text (+ other text editor functions?) would also be nice. (My more minor request is that we be able to create trackers that reset to zero rather than full, for things like accumulation of wounds. But it’s pretty easy to just decrease them manually.)Still, it’s a very useful app, and an excellent place to save characters in a system-neutral way. Most of these apps just do D&D, and the ones that don’t usually only do a specific other system. This one is very customizable, and I bought the full version immediately after seeing what it could do.
I got this to originally keep track of my campaign for solo RPG and it very quickly became my Wiki Page for everything creative. I even wrote a quarter of a novel in it just because of the ease of tags, hyperlinks and character sheets. I have since moved the draft out of it (just for formatting reasons, nothing wrong with the app.) but it is still working amazing to keep all my character and world info in. Great work on the app and I would recommend to anyone trying to keep track of multiple characters, backstories and locations.
I was looking for an app to help with being a game master for the old West End Games Star Wars D6 RPG, which came out years before there was an internet, when everything we did was on paper notebooks. Everything I could find out there was heavily leaning towards D&D or Pathfinder.This app is awesome! All the ways things can link, and the myriad ways you can organize assets like NPCs and maps and towns and continents and worlds and star systems, it’s just very open to working with you and not limiting how you do things. It lets me organize all my assets in a way that makes sense to me, and then I can write up an episode overview that has the links to all the assets I might use so that with a touch of a button, I have the right description for the book shop my characters are entering or the NPC they need to get information from.The developer is also very responsive.Highly recommended!
So far I really like this app, simple to use, and I’m able to do a brief layout of the campaign, creating my own “folders” for different things. Something I would like to see is some world building tools, something to kind of combine the campaigns together. I have a few different campaigns that I’ve added, but having something to build on my lore of my world it self would be nice. I have homebrew rules that are not campaign specific, right now I just have all my rules set as its own campaign section. Also the ability for my campaigns to almost be linked to each other, so if I want to reference a NPC I could search in one campaign and have it take me to that NPC from the other campaign.
I have thoroughly been enjoying this app and would absolutely recommend it due to it’s ability to organize content cleanly. I do, however have a suggestion.I would personally like to see a sort of clean “preview” of ALL of the entry’s content. What I mean by this:Currently, when opening an entry, the content that you have written for it is displayed in an editable text box with an option to preview the text you have entered for that section of content only (for example, the “Description” section). I personally think it would be better to have a formatted preview of ALL of the content sections at once upon opening the entry, similar to what WorldAnvil has. Then, have the current layout with the editable text boxes and such behind an edit section.I apologize if there is already a way to do this, but if there is, I could not find out how.Again, this app is great. It has given me the ability to actually have a well organized D&D world/campaign.
I used this for an old campaign and it was so useful I spent a long time trying to find it again as it was connected to an old device and Apple ID I no longer have access to. There’s ads now but there are also more features so the trade off is worth it in my opinion and the ads aren’t too frequent. I would love to purchase the ad free version and support the developers but the fact there is no account or way to connect the app between different devices is a bit of a deal breaker + that there’s no website or pc version as I’m stuck doing all the planning on my phone lol.