PF Battle App Reviews

I like this app, but would just echo the other posts. More customization of the encounters and creatures would be nice. However its great for setting up your encounters so u dont have to search through the book.

A good app. Everything works just like it should, but (at the risk of beating a dead horse) it needs the ability to customize (or import) monsters, and the ability to customize (or choose) monster colors (for years I have painted the bases of my minis to help distinguish between identical figures; it would be nice if I could match those colors with the little color bars in this app). As it stands, your players cannot fight humans, elves, dwarves, or any other really common core race enemies, because theyre not included in the list of monsters you get. That makes it really hard to run a game using this app.

Like what others have said, it would be nice if you could import characters from other sources. The NPC Codex in the PFRPG rd app has lots of builds that would allow for an easy transfer into this app.

Havent used in a game yet but I like this app so far. Easily have monster info at your finger tips. Would like to be able to apply temples to monsters. As in, make a wolf zombie.

Makes a GMs life easier, what more to say?

This app is phenomenal as a campaign building resource, allowing sorts by HD. Plenty of other features too.

It would be nice if the app could flip sideways (landscape) on my iPad, instead of being locked in portrait. Aside from that bizarrely absent feature, and the inability to add custom NPCs and Monsters, this app is wonderful!

First, the good news: This is hands-down the best Pathfinder battle tracker available on iOS. The interface is mostly intuitive and friendly, and the app is straightforward to use after a bit of experimentation and playing around with it. If youve been searching for the best combat tracker tool, youve found it. I can recommend this with confidence. Room for improvement: As almost every other reviewer has mentioned, this app desperately needs the capability to add custom monsters. Most, if not all, of the published adventures for PF have monsters that are modified in some way. This app has no effective way to account for it. One semi-useful workaround is to add custom monsters as "Players" in the app. This will allow you to specify the basic combat stats of the monster, and at least will offer a placeholder for your paper notes about the custom beast. But the app really needs to support custom monsters natively, with the capability to permanently add monsters to the monster database, including lists them in the CR lists. If this functionality is added, this app jumps to an easy 5/5 stars. But rest assured that even if this capability is never added, this tracker is the best one on the market and easily worth the purchase price.

Making it so that you can custom make monsters would be a LOT of work although nice, and would love to see it in the future. What I would like to see sooner though is minor things like being able to change the hit points (like maximize for battles). Adding monsters on the fly during a battle without having to back out and edit the battle. And when you add a condition, have countdown timer of how long the condition is suppose to last instead of it just keeping track of how long the condition has been up. Have purchased all of your apps and will continue to. Keep up the good work!

Very nice application. Two things would make this app rock: - Provide the capability to add custom monsters. - Allow the DM to set buffs on players (haste, bulls strength, magic circle against evil, etc.) for a duration. I realize thats a lot of spells to add, but it would take this app to the $10 range easily. My suggestion on the spells is to allow the GM to track buff times outside of battle by manually setting the time that has passed. Once in battle, obviously, spells durations can be decremented by the rounds that pass in battle.

This is a very nice app. An update to include new bestiary books as well as npcs from the codex would be much appreciated.

Wish there were instructions, negative numbers are a pain, learned by trial and error, still a good app that will save you time

This is a very handy app. I recommend it and I think it is worth the price. I used it on a camping trip this weekend and it made it possible to run the campaign with my ipad and a few dice as pc and monster tokens. There are however a couple of features that this should have that are preventing me from giving it 5 stars. You cant rename monsters which can make keeping track of them difficult. You can apply status affects but cant apply durations to the status affects, so you must still keep track of them manually anyway. There is no place to put any campaign notes, monster notes, or PCM notes. The roll to attack feature is cool, but you cant apply it directly to anyone else. You need to add the damage as a separate transaction. Finally it is difficult or at least confusing to add or remove pcs and npcs to and from a battle in progress. Or to edit their stats. It would also be nice to search for monsters by level and or terrain. Add these features and I will give it 5 stars. I will even buy an addon to do this. Keep up the good work.

While a good app overall, the lack of customization available makes this almost unusable for many GMs for running battle--though great for a reference guide. For instance, HP values for monsters cant be changed or even randomized. NPCs would have to be entered in like PCs which is rough. Also, it seems to crash sometimes when entering the log mode from the battle screen.

I use the PFRPG RD app exclusively so when I heard about this app I was very excited. The tracker is excellent with very convenient stat blocks and dice roller mechanic. Very clean and well organized. Its very responsive and fast load times. It would be the definitive tracker app if: >Customizable monsters, levels, classes etc >edit the order the battles are listed so I could rearrange and juggle as a checklist the PCs have done >some kind of a loot generator maybe. But I love the app and its highly functional as is.

Like the interactive battles, cant wait to try it.

This is a bona fide fantastic app. It takes all of the memorization, copying, dice-rolling-and-adding complexity out of GMing combats. It already has all of the monsters in Bestiary 1-3. I have used most of the other apps for combat management for iPad and this is by far the best. Combat Manager has a nice feature of customizing monsters through templates and advancement; that would be a very solid addition for PF Battle. I would be willing to pay for in-game expansions for the value of the data and the ability to customize monsters. Keep up the great work, Lanza Guiseppe!

This app has so much potential, but hasnt been updated for quite awhile. Also, it would be great to edit and/or copy and edit monsters. Especially the names, so they would be easier to track in battle. Please update the material and add some additional features.

Loving the info! Great material. But.... How do I assemble a battle? I click battle... But how do I add characters and creatures?

Great app, going to make DMing so much easier. My requests for future releases are pretty much the same as everyone elses. 1. Customizable monster, itd be awesome if the basic races were in the monster section and I could pick "human" and build the stats from scratch. 2. Add reordering to the players section.