Needs better monster # management
Having the monster numbers populate automatically is very annoying. You need to kill off the monsters and re apply them to select the #s, since drawing from the stack IRL is random. If this app let us choose the monster #s when you open a door or start a scenario I would use it over xhaven.
Good app
Any chance the instruction book could be added in the future?
One step forward, two steps back
This app does a phenomenal job at eliminating the tedium associated with gameplay, particularly the enemy management. It determines their turns, deals with their damage and conditions and it even helps digitally track your own characters’ status.
The real problem though comes with what it doesn’t do. Frosthaven added a ton of tedium over Gloomhaven with the post-game cleanup managing the settlement and crafting. The app doesn’t help at all with that and if anything that’s where it’s most needed. What tedium this app saves is far outweighed by the tedium the game added. I’d rather it replace the town management than the combat management.
What’s worse about the town management stuff is that you do it AFTER having already played a couple hours and finishing an encounter. Your game night feels like it’s ended but then you have all the cleanup you don’t want to do because you’ve already played a couple hours. It feels like cleaning up the table is just massively more tedious but the app doesn’t address that.
This is probably more of an indictment of Frosthaven as a game than this app itself but the app is intended to smooth out the experience with the game but it ends up not going nearly far enough.
The real problem though comes with what it doesn’t do. Frosthaven added a ton of tedium over Gloomhaven with the post-game cleanup managing the settlement and crafting. The app doesn’t help at all with that and if anything that’s where it’s most needed. What tedium this app saves is far outweighed by the tedium the game added. I’d rather it replace the town management than the combat management.
What’s worse about the town management stuff is that you do it AFTER having already played a couple hours and finishing an encounter. Your game night feels like it’s ended but then you have all the cleanup you don’t want to do because you’ve already played a couple hours. It feels like cleaning up the table is just massively more tedious but the app doesn’t address that.
This is probably more of an indictment of Frosthaven as a game than this app itself but the app is intended to smooth out the experience with the game but it ends up not going nearly far enough.
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Just runs cards
This is not an app that helps you manage the scenarios or outpost. All it does is help with card management. Waste of money.
Rare updates, app has display issues
It seems they’ve released this half-baked app in tandem with the release of the game. I opened a bug report for this “weird” thing that happens to me and my friends where the app covers half the screen with a zoomed-in card.
Support non-responsive, no updates to app in almost one year. What a drag. The non-official app has better update cycles hopefully
Support non-responsive, no updates to app in almost one year. What a drag. The non-official app has better update cycles hopefully
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Missing needed cards
I bought this for scenario 81 because I needed to reference some cards I was missing physically but the app was also missing those cards.
Great app, but needs fixes
Some bugs:
Hope this gets fixed.
Imobilize, strengthen keeps getting turned off before the next turn.
Wound and regenerate keeps getting re-added after removal
Hope this gets fixed.
Imobilize, strengthen keeps getting turned off before the next turn.
Wound and regenerate keeps getting re-added after removal
Still need to fix bugs
I can’t find where to submit bug tickets so here goes:
- auto expire condition is wrong. Sometimes when the monster is given a condition after its initiative during the round it will auto expire when the round is over. That’s incorrect. It should auto expire after the end of its next turn in the next round.
- the hp over threshold is good for certain class but now auto regen regenerate past max health for characters who don’t have such perks
- loot deck augmentation doesn’t show for non-host players
- please add option to check off boxes on the two special loot cards
- also for immersion please add the name of the card of each enemies at the top of their cards. I know currently we can tell what card it is by tapping on the card themselves but imagine how much better it would be not having to do that. Also a way to view the full set of abilities for a monster set would be good
- auto expire condition is wrong. Sometimes when the monster is given a condition after its initiative during the round it will auto expire when the round is over. That’s incorrect. It should auto expire after the end of its next turn in the next round.
- the hp over threshold is good for certain class but now auto regen regenerate past max health for characters who don’t have such perks
- loot deck augmentation doesn’t show for non-host players
- please add option to check off boxes on the two special loot cards
- also for immersion please add the name of the card of each enemies at the top of their cards. I know currently we can tell what card it is by tapping on the card themselves but imagine how much better it would be not having to do that. Also a way to view the full set of abilities for a monster set would be good
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No previous game characters
Purchased this to help with automating card draw and element tracking. However, we started Frosthaven with previous characters from Jaws of the Lion, which is allowed. The problem is that previous game characters are not built into the app. So… until our party retires previous characters, this will be a digital paper weight. A bit disappointing that this isn’t listed anywhere before you purchase.
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Super handy, time saver
Lots of useful features are tucked away. Easy to track initiative, HP, conditions. Can even use it to draw modifier cards but then you lose the perk of being able to stack the deck while your buddies aren’t looking 👀
It’s a little laggy, but very much usable. Not a deal breaker.
You can host a room and have multiple people join from their own phone (using the partner app to this - it’s free and has the same functionalities, but it can only be used when connected to a room hosted by someone with this paid app). If your phone is locked for more than a few minutes, it kicks you out of the room. It’s easy to rejoin but annoying to enter that 6 digit room key each time.
One benefit I wasn’t expecting is the time savings! Scenario setup is so much faster without having to sift through all the monster sheets and ability cards. When it draws ability cards, it has the option to only display the attack/move values after being modified from the ability (as opposed to Attack-2 and then you have to do the math yourself). That’s also really handy
It’s a little laggy, but very much usable. Not a deal breaker.
You can host a room and have multiple people join from their own phone (using the partner app to this - it’s free and has the same functionalities, but it can only be used when connected to a room hosted by someone with this paid app). If your phone is locked for more than a few minutes, it kicks you out of the room. It’s easy to rejoin but annoying to enter that 6 digit room key each time.
One benefit I wasn’t expecting is the time savings! Scenario setup is so much faster without having to sift through all the monster sheets and ability cards. When it draws ability cards, it has the option to only display the attack/move values after being modified from the ability (as opposed to Attack-2 and then you have to do the math yourself). That’s also really handy
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Functional
Seems functional but is pretty janky (not buttery smooth) when scrolling. UI difficult to use even on iPhone 15 pro max. Everything is very small (some text is basically illegible) and squashed. It seems to work though.
Really could stand to be better
The board game is already $200-250 and then the app is another $8 on top of that I really thought it would have better polish. At first I was pretty happy with it: whenever you open any door automatically having the section book entry populate the correct enemy values was pretty nice. Having it auto regenerate and wound is handy. Populating the loot deck is sweet. It doesn’t keep track of any campaign info which is… whatever. Maybe the unofficial Kingdom Death app which will track how many nose hairs you have spoiled me on that front. But it really lacks some functionality in the one area it’s supposed to be helpful for. If you add any status effects to someone who has already gone earlier in the round it will automatically strip them when any turn passes. Especially annoying when that effect is Bane and then you hit undo and it automatically gives them 10 health back even if they had less than 10 to begin with so you don’t know what their health is anymore. It will regenerate people over their max health. It automatically removes bane poison and wound when you heal but for some reason does not remove brittle. Etc.
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Summons seem broken
Prism and angry face cant summon at all.
Lacking some much needed features
The design of the app is pretty good but unfortunately I’ve had to stop using it because it lacks envelope x content, summons, proper objective tracking, and the flavour text (ability names) on enemy cards
Not worth a penny
Have an iPhone and this app is constantly broken. As one thing gets fixed other things are broken. Worked ok but then I couldn’t add NPCs or modify health. Now I can do that but my monster modifier deck won’t work. How do you release a patch and not regression test at least the major capabilities of your app. Very sorry I paid for this as it has caused as many headaches as it has helped streamline the game
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Fixed the bugs
Thanks for fixing bugs
New bugs in new version
Great update recently but now can’t add monsters when pressing the add monster button
Cannot effect summon hit points… or summon them…
Cannot increase staring hitpoints above starting amount (matters for my current class).
Latest Update Causes Major Problems
Update 1.4 breaks character summons. Also NPCs/Objects cannot be given hit points. Also characters cannot increase their hit points above maximum to account for items like the Traveling Cloak.
Prior to 1.4 characters could not increase their maximum hit points to account for items like the Traveling Cloak, and positive and negative effects would end at the end of the round rather than at the end of the character's next turn which will almost never be at the end of the round.
Updates are supposed to improve the app's usefulness not decrease it!
Prior to 1.4 characters could not increase their maximum hit points to account for items like the Traveling Cloak, and positive and negative effects would end at the end of the round rather than at the end of the character's next turn which will almost never be at the end of the round.
Updates are supposed to improve the app's usefulness not decrease it!
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buggy
boneshaper cant make summons anymore and the add monster button doesn’t work. very annoying
