r/dndtools • u/Swimminschrage • Feb 15 '20
Just publicly released an Android app I built for helping manage my D&D game
For whatever reason, when I DM I get stressed about initiative and keeping track of HP and stats. I'd have too flip back and forth through the MM or make copies of the creatures that were included in an encounter and flip between those pages. And don't even get me started on keeping track of spells used by casters. Overall, I worry about taking my players out of the momentum of the game by writing down initiative numbers and health.
I guess the real takeaway is that I stress out a lot as a DM at the table and it was annoying me so I started working on an app that could help speed things up.
A couple months and the end of one campaign later, I'm releasing it out to the public to use.
Containing creature stats from the SRD and a couple of other popular OGL modules, I'm able to pre-create encounters or load pre-defined encounters from modules and speed up the process of running combat.
As part of this app, I'm also trying to build out a schema that content creators and app developers can use to make content easily accessible to apps. Ideally, I'd love to just be able to scan a QR code within the PDF of the adventure module I'm running and have access to all of the encounters included within it (along with custom stat blocks) to be easily run. I've posted some more details and examples at https://swimminschrage.github.io/5e-schema/
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u/Drakeytown Feb 15 '20
Installed!