Construct for 5e User Reviews

Name: Construct for 5e
Rating: 4.6087 (46 reviews)

Construct for 5e

Thomas Visser

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Love this app, but recent update broke it.

I updated the app recently on my iPad and suddenly nothing works, I cannot import, create characters, monsters, anything. The app works great on my phone, but on my ipad nothing works. I cannot even access the compendium at all. Everything works great on my iPhone but iPad does not function at all.

Bobbiyoski

a month ago

Response from developer

Update: The latest release (3.1.1) should fix your issues. Please don’t hesitate to reach out in case of problems. Thanks for reporting the issue. I recently pushed a significant release and might have inevitably broken the iPad experience. I will fix this soon!

Pretty good and flexible encounter app.

This app lets you build encounters pretty quickly. They can be detailed or bare minimum.

There’s a handful of small bugs but none that really affect the app, stats, or encounters hugely negatively.

Some things I’d like to see, the ability to add notes with links, magic items, and the ability to customize the abilities and skills so that this app can work easily for other systems.

Leoparks

4 months ago

Amazing app

I spent a long time searching for a good DM app that was both free and useful. This app solves both. The interface is clean and intuitive, and the compendium is comprehensive from the start. There were some spells and monsters I had to add manually, but it was a quick procedure. I also love how easy it is to whip up monsters so fast. Whats more, The dev is a real person and not a soulless corporation, which makes the app feel like it got real love. I was able to run a full one-shot out of this app easily. I do wish that mechanical muse took other API keys than just OpenAI, though. Another feature i would like to see sometime in the future is some sort of support for maps. This would be a huge task, though, so I don’t blame the dev for not implementing it yet. All in all, it’s a wonderful app, thats made my DMing a lot better.

Pop ‘n aw

8 months ago

Wonderful

It’s not perfect, and a couple of things I want to do are difficult to find, or not intuitive. But they’re all small things. This is a wonderful app to help run encounters, and by far the best thing I’ve come across.

kosciejew

a year ago

I wish I could pay for this!!!

Absolutely revolutionized how I DM! I'm blown away by the depth of this app and also by the simple but incredibly effective user experience. I cannot recommend this enough.

tresdissapoint

2 years ago

Party leveling

I cant seem to change the parties number or level, it just adds a new non permanent party with them, maybe editing your party is easy and there but i havnt been able to do it, id love to know how but the help page has nothing on it

JustRed4472

2 years ago

Response from developer

Sorry to hear you’re having difficulties with getting Construct to do what you want. If you reach out through email (in Construct settings) with some more details I’ll do my best to help. Thanks!

Okay so far

Wanted and encounter builder to help manage my campaign. Within the second encounter I had to build a goblin boss which is a standard monster from the monster manual. The program has crashed multiple times while editing monsters on characters. Items, skills and other features are not built in to help build.

Allontak

2 years ago

Response from developer

Sorry to hear Construct is not reliable for you. I'll double check the crash reports for any parts that need fixing. If you know of specific steps that always make the app crash, it would be really helpful if you could send those to hello@construct5e.app. Thanks!

Epic Stats

Great app, very simple and easy to use, however I’m not able to raise any stats above 20 in the creature creator for some reason, plenty of the creatures in the compendiums already have stats at 20+ so I’m not sure why it won’t allow me to do the same. In addition, there seems to be no way to delete the tutorial encounter? I do really like the simplicity of this app, but honestly these things are starting to ware on me.

Init4theCookies

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for taking the time to give your feedback! The stats issue will be solved in the next release (2.9.1). I can see how the way the tutorial encounter is handled can be confusing. It can be cleared, but the scratch pad encounter remains as a default place to create a quick encounter. I will consider an option to hide it from the screen.

Epic Stats

Init4theCookies

2 years ago

Such a good app for first time DMs!

So flexible and informative for a newbie

Hydrogon

3 years ago

Great program for DM

This is the greats program for the cost. Wish could have a monster and npc in the list. Like from beast tomes 1,2,3.

Shadowcoron

4 years ago

Handy

Great for what it is! Wish you could add custom monsters, the current setup to duplicate things is ok but you can’t edit the actions and I’d love to be able to include attacks and other information under monster stats.

n8lightfoot

4 years ago

Problems with edits - update fixed

Update:after communicating with the developer, the bug I’d encountered was fixed. I’ve updated my original star rating. Responsive dev and a nice clean app - 4stars

original feedback: Tried to edit an entry detached from the compendium and any attempts to customize bounced with no changes saved Otherwise I like the clean look and the dice roll beta feature worked nicely

It's just stacking cans

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your review. I think I've fixed the issue with the upcoming 2.0.2 release, which should be out in a day or two. Hope you give Construct another try!

Ish

It really shows promise. However the ability to edit the details on each character or add attack options when you’re modifying your own characters is left to be undesirable. Would improve if you could add attack options or spell options to each characters that you create. And it also seems that you can’t really save the changes you make.

Raynorsnow

5 years ago