Game Master 5th Edition

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About this app

Take command of your Dungeons & Dragons game with Game Master 5th Edition. This DM tool makes building a campaign easy and takes a lot of the hassle of out of running a game so that you can focus on more important things.

Combat Tracker

Roll 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 Builder

Quickly 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/Scaler

Easily 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 Screen

The 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 Manager

Split 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 Roller

All 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.

Compendium

A 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 Integration

Players 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.

Compatibility

This 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.

Ratings and reviews

Great app, not enough compatibility with Fighting Club 5. E.g: Want to create a new item within an ongoing campaign? Ideally, I could create it in my compendium, then share that item with relevant party members. Instead, I have to have each affected PC add it on their own. It would be easier if each compendium item had a share option, like adventure treasure items do. Also the sharing should all be within the apps instead of by email. Maybe by using accounts to sign into the app or something.

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.

The app is useful when it works, but when it doesn't it goes really bad. I was adding in some monsters for an encounter using the in-app mechanic and with no error message or indication of accident on my part my entire compendium of monsters and spells were gone. Between both of those I had 50+ homebrews/ conversions from other TTRPGs. Didn't delete anything else though, my recommendation to users is ALWAYS back up your compendium and campaigns as an external file for quick reupload.

What’s new

Android 15 compatibility update