# Game Master Pathfinder RPG

> Pathfinder RPG game master tool for encounter management and campaign tracking. (iPhone/iPad app by Lion's Den.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/game-master-pathfinder-rpg/id869493578 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Lion's Den](https://appshunter.io/developer/447965537)
- Category: Games, Utilities, Adventure, Role Playing
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 129 App Store ratings · 92 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 9.0 · 48 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2014-05-02
- Data updated: 2026-08-30
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/game-master-pathfinder-rpg/id869493578/reviews.md

## What is Game Master Pathfinder RPG?

Game Master will help you run your Pathfinder game more efficiently.  Setup encounters, track initiative, and roll attacks all in one convenient app.

Features:
- Manage your campaign: Build encounters, keep notes, give your players treasure, and much more
- Encounter manager tracks initiative, hp, and all the necessary stats of your monsters and PCs
- Roll attacks, skills, and saving throws with simple tap
- Compendium contains monsters from the Pathfinder Bestiary along with items and spells for the Core Rulebook
- Add new monsters using the monster editor
- Rules Quick Reference can serves as you're GM screen.
- Dice roll calculator lets you roll any dice combo easily
- Easy mode setting: For when your players are struggling and you don't feel like having a TPK, fudge your dice rolls to be lower. The app will roll all dice twice and takes the lower of the two. 

The app is free to download but encounters are limited to a max of 6 combatants. This can be unlocked by purchasing the ad free premium version.

## Key features

- Campaign management with notes and treasure
- Initiative and stat tracking for encounters
- Tap-to-roll attacks, skills, and saves
- Compendium of monsters, items, and spells
- Monster editor for custom creatures
- Rules quick reference GM screen
- Dice roll calculator
- Dice fudging for easier gameplay

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Full Version | $2.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 92)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/game-master-pathfinder-rpg/id869493578/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Pretty Good!

*2024-07-05, version 3.2.0*

This is A very Good Thing To Use For Adventures And such!

### 4/5 — Great app, deserves 5 stars, but needs some updates.

*2024-02-24, version 3.2.0*

Only issue is it needs some recent updates, specifically for ease of use. The biggest and most simple update that would be the biggest help is not needing to click the okay button button to save each page before you go back. (Right button instead of the back button.) Maybe for android users having to save each page before you navigate away, but Apple has really streamlined this to save automatically. The second one would be to streamline the comdendium use. It’s a very clunky feel to it where each item needs to be selected, the number scrolled to, and repeat two dozen times to add a new item/monster. Also some items don’t display correctly with alternate screen orientation. (You’re required to scroll off the screen to be able to edit the items above, which doesn’t adjust to be on screen.)

### 4/5 — Great!

*2024-02-15, version 3.2.0*

This is great! The only reason it doesn’t have 5 stars, is the lack of a export function.

### 4/5 — Good app, needs work

*2023-10-23*

The app works really well, but it looks really boring and needs an auto save feature.

### 5/5 — Wonderful app! But you will need to work at it

*2023-02-21*

This app has all the tools you need to load your campaign to a digital platform. I hope that paizo works with them to allow a more monsters that aren’t apart of the SRD because you will have to input each monster yourself

### 5/5 — Useful, thorough

*2022-08-12*

This app has all the pathfinder npcs and creatures and gives you the ability to alter them with your own home brew specs and save em. I love it. The only thing it doesn’t do is adjust a creature’s overall modifiers when you increase their stats. So look out for that. Enjoy dungeon masters. This is a goodie

### 4/5 — Pretty good app

*2022-06-11*

App layout isn’t quite as intuitive and it is missing a few spells, classes, ancestries, etc. it would help to be able to create my own characters for campaigns.

### 4/5 — Great app but always room to improve

*2021-12-05*

Ok so of all the apps out there for game mastering, this is one of my all time favorites. Pay a small fee one time and everything is open to you. My biggest gripe with this app actually takes into account other tools/sites that serve similar purposes.

The creators of the app 100% need to partner themselves with the hosts of aonprd. The sheer amount of accurate info that aonprd has coupled with the usefulness and versatility of this app would be absolutely amazing. Seeing as to how aonprd would rather focus on optimizing their website, the app author for PF GM would have to put forth the effort here.

Other than this, the app has some grammar/text errors that have existed forever (alignments display incorrectly for example). It’s a small thing to fix but small things add up and this app does have a handful of them. The bestiary entires are also incomplete in some cases. Not a problem for someone with access to internet 24/7 (most people) but for us peasants with crap internet or low data, it kind of hurts the app.

Keep up the great work.

### 5/5 — Great App

*2021-11-23, version 3.2.0*

I love this app. A lot of other apps for maps and things I get into and fall out of and then remember them again and remember things I don't like. I find myself coming to this all for every single game. The do need to work on some kinks... like I always write all my notes in other programs now because if you hit back instead of the checkmark it just deletes everything you entered. And sometime the check window pops up off screen where you can't use it. But there are ways around it. All in all the app really great!

(Now stop asking me to write a review and let me use it uninterrupted. 🤣)

### 4/5 — Great app, some bugs

*2021-09-27*

Over all, it’s very useful. I have discovered to my dismay that when I create a new monster from within encounter setup and save it to the compendium it disappears after awhile. My current workaround is to not delete any encounter where I’ve made something new, so I can just copy it back in. There’s no easy way to do that for PC’s though. If you have an NPC that’s become a PC either use it from the NPC list, or create a new PC by hand (as far as I can work out anyway). 

It would be nice if there was an easier way to copy/move PC’s between campaigns and in/out of the NPC list. 

Still, the built in rolls are really, really nice, it’s pretty easy to keep all your campaign notes, encounters, and treasure together (but if you add multiple money pouches of the same type, be warned they share a value, and if you delete one, both go). 

Ultimately I end up going back and forth between this and RPG Scribe (which I use for character building, spell tracking, and individual loot/equipment). It would be amazing if there was an easy way to just import characters from there to here. The two apps together cover almost all the bases, and I haven’t found anything that does what I want better, so I’d recommend it. It’s even great for non-Gm players who want to test run character concepts through combat.

## Frequently asked questions about Game Master Pathfinder RPG

### What does the Game Master Pathfinder RPG app do?

This app is designed to help Game Masters run their Pathfinder RPG games more efficiently. It offers tools for setting up encounters, tracking initiative, managing player and monster stats, rolling dice, and accessing a compendium of game content.

### What are the key features of this app?

Key features include managing your campaign with notes and treasure, an encounter manager that tracks initiative and HP, easy dice rolling for attacks and saves, a compendium of monsters and items, a monster editor, a rules quick reference, and a dice roll calculator. It also includes an 'easy mode' for fudging dice rolls.

### How much does the Game Master Pathfinder RPG app cost?

The app is free to download and use. However, the free version limits encounters to a maximum of 6 combatants. This limitation can be removed by purchasing the ad-free premium version, which unlocks unlimited combatants.

### What Pathfinder content is included in the compendium?

The compendium contains monsters from the Pathfinder Bestiary. It also includes items and spells from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. Users can also add new monsters using the provided monster editor.

### Can I use this app for other RPGs?

While the app is specifically designed for Pathfinder RPG, its core features like encounter management, initiative tracking, and dice rolling can be adapted for use with other tabletop RPGs. The compendium and rules reference are Pathfinder-specific.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.2.0 — 2019-09-27

• Fixes for iOS 13

### 3.1.2 — 2017-12-11

Version 3.1.1
• Fix item and monster images in the Compendium
• Fix swipe to navigate back in Compendium on iPhones

Version 3.1.2
• Fix compendium in split screen views

### 3.1.1 — 2017-12-04

• Fix item and monster images in the Compendium
• Fix swipe to navigate back in Compendium on iPhones

### 3.1.0 — 2017-11-27

• Added ability to view combatant stats before starting the encounter on iPhones
• Bug fixes

### 3.0.9 — 2017-11-21

• Fix save bug that caused loads to fail
• Fix not able to add Special Abilities to combatants and PCs
• Fix Fight Club PC imports not working correctly
• Compendium content fixes

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