Pathfinder 2e Battle Tracker

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About this app

Pathfinder 2e Battle tracker is an Android application for Gamemasters of the Pathfinder second edition role playing game. It helps you keep track of the turn order, hit points, conditions and more during your encounters and gives you tools to make your encounters smoother and focus on the important part of the game instead of book-keeping, number tracking or doing math.


Main features includes:
* Display initiative order and keep track of the current turn and total number of rounds
* Load NPCs from a bestiary including all published Paizo's books
* Track HPs
* Add/substract damages or heals to HP, with buttons to double or halve the value automatically
* Track reaction use
* Define custom additional reactions
* Track conditions, update their remaining duration and current value
* Update the AC and saves score depending on the penalties applied by conditions
* Track persistent damage, automatic but optional roll for damages and recovery check
* Open quickly full NPCs statblock on Archives of Nethys
* Apply weak/elite templates
* Roll initiative from Perception, stealth, or define it manually
* Save and manage party of PCs
* Load PCs from Pathbuilder 2e
* Define different colors for the characters, usefull with duplicated NPCs to keep track of the minis or tokens used
* Save and load any number of encounters. Export and import them to share them between devices
* Encounter builder screen to helps you define the difficulty of the encounter and adjust it by deleting/adding easily NPCs or applying Weak/Elite template
* Export current state of the encounter as text (Markdown) for play-by-post on forums or Discord
* Works fully offline

The main view displays a list of all NPCs and PCs involved in the encounter, sorted by initiative and with all defensive stats in an easy-to-read format for quick overview. Each character's hit points can be easily updated with a simple click and add damage or healing received, the app will do the math for you (even doubling or halving the value to take in account saves or critical)! A reaction icon can be toggled on/off to keep track of who used it's reaction for the turn, it automatically come back on at the beginning of the character turn. Additional reactions can also be defined for any character (like the additional shield block from quick shield block).

Conditions can be added to any characters, the maximal duration may be defined and the condition will be removed automatically after the specified number of rounds. Some conditions have a value, which may be set to automatically decrease after each turn. The penalties to AC or saves score applied by conditions are taken in account to displayed the updated value of this scores below the characters.

Persistent damages can be added, the damages and recovery checks are automatically rolled at the end of the turn. Both results can be applied automatically or can be ignored and overridden manually if you prefer to roll it at the table.

The order is initially computed based on each character's initiative score, which is either manually entered or automatically rolled based on their perception or stealth score. This can also be reorganized with a simple drag and drop to account for the changes in initiative during the game (delay, dying, etc.).

Characters can be manually added to the tracker or loaded from the bestiary page containing all published NPCs from Paizo's books. An "encounter builder" screen let you see the xp budget of the encounter and its difficulty while you build it. You can adjust it easily with Weak or Elite template.
You can also manage parties of PCs for your regular games and quickly add them to any encounter. The PCs stat block can be manually created or imported from a Pathbuilder 2e character.

Finally, you can save any number of encounters you want and load them at a later time. This allows you to prepare the session beforehand or even save the current state of an encounter if you have to pause it.

Ratings and reviews

This app works great! It has been a life saver for my games. There are just a couple things that I wish that it had. Statblocks with integrated dice rolls. I like that you can open up any creature through Archives of Nethys, but I wish it was on the same screen as the rest of the app instead of redirecting out of the app. Spells as well would be great to have readily available instead of going through a link tree of Archives of Nethys to see what spells and abilities are.

Excellent tracker for Pathfinder 2e. Including the whole bestiary and Pathbuilder character imports is fantastic and does a lot of legwork for you. I do think the conditions applied to enemies can get a little wordy, perhaps symbols with a number would be an option? But otherwise I've had no major issues. EDIT: If you want recognisable icons, the icons used in foundry VTT may be a good option as they're recognisable by many players. Or at least make it an option/toggle.

Better than most out there for sure, but the lack of stat blocks (without linking to a new website) or abilities listed doesn't make this any more useful than tracking by pencil and paper. Something like 5e campaign lab, but for pathfinder instead of DnD would get my money and 5 stars.

What’s new

* Save encounter: add optional "tag" field used to group encounters from the same campaign/scenario together
* Add export/import of saved encounters to share between devices
* Fix display issue with the status bar on Android 15+
* Update bestiary with new books
* Update for Android 15
* Fix errors with penalties of the same type that shouldn't stack
* Add Encounter builder view