# PrismScrollDM — DnD 5E DM Resource

> Digital DM screen and resource hub for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. (iPhone/iPad app by Samuel Harmon.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prismscrolldm/id1408372017 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Samuel Harmon](https://appshunter.io/developer/1200962193)
- Category: Games, Entertainment, Adventure, Role Playing
- Price: $2.99
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 217 App Store ratings · 45 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: +4
- Requires: iOS 15.6 · 116 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2018-10-17
- Data updated: 2026-08-20
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prismscrolldm/id1408372017/reviews.md

## What is PrismScrollDM?

PrismScrollDM will be the one-stop shop for your storytelling needs in all your Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition games. 

As the first tool, PrismScrollDM acts as your mobile, paperless, and essentially limitless DM Screen on the go! Customize the different tiles to fit your specific needs for each game you manage. With the ability to hide or show all the information, declutter your working area so that you only see the important information, but still have access to everything within a few taps if the need arises. Some of the starting options that we offer include Encounter tables, Conditions, Item Prices, and so many more of the minor rules that everyone tends to forget while playing. The PrismScrollDM Screen will smooth out your games and eliminate the struggle of trying to find that random page with that small rule that decides the crazy outcome of if your adventurers will ascend to godhood.

Features 
1. Customizable DM resource screen with over 75 different resources, including things like roll tables/reference tables/npc generators/and much more!
2. Scientific style roll calculator for all of your quick calculation needs
3. Campaign creator that allows you to manage your different games and tailor your tools to your specific game needs
4. A character web feature that allows you create the bigger picture of your campaign relationships, NPC's and players!
5. Spell cards for each spell from the Players Handbook, Xanathars, and Sword Coast Adventures Guide with quick roll options
6. Equipment cards for all of the standard martial/simple ranged/melee weapons, armor, and items with quick roll options for the weapons
8. Monster cards that include all the respective actions/abilities/stats/traits

Let us know what you think! We would love to hear from you and we thank you in advance:
1. Our website, prismscroll.com
2. reviews, we always respond!
3. Instagram (@prismscroll)
4. twitter (@prismscroll)
5. facebook (@prismscroll)

## Key features

- Customizable DM resource screen with 75+ resources
- Scientific style roll calculator
- Campaign creator for managing games
- Character web for campaign relationships
- Spell cards with quick roll options
- Equipment cards for weapons and armor
- Monster cards with stats and abilities

## Chart rankings

- #194 in Top Paid · Role Playing (US App Store)

## What do users think of PrismScrollDM?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Great DM tool
- 💡 Highly customizable
- 👍 Organizes campaigns well
- 👍 Useful for home-brew DMs
- 👍 Simplifies DMing
- 👍 Clean UI
- 👍 Good value for price
- 👍 Character web/map is great
- 👍 Responsive developers
- 👍 Extensive and useful

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashes when adding conditions
- 🐛 Navigation can be confusing
- 🐛 Importing files not working
- 🐛 Issues with ability cards scrolling
- 🐛 Search bar blocks out
- 🐛 Stuck on campaign creator
- 🐛 Occasional errors in rules
- 🐛 Party characters don't stick
- 🐛 Custom equipment missing
- 🐛 Homebrewed NPCs difficult

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes when adding/removing conditions
- Characters' info not always updating
- Icon changes to unselected one
- Crashes when editing a character without an icon
- Cannot scroll down on ability cards on iPad
- Ability cards not searchable on iPhone
- Stuck on Custom > Select Color in campaign creator on iPad Pro
- Occasional errors in rules
- Party characters don't stick between sessions
- Cannot add custom equipment
- Cannot add homebrewed NPCs to encounters
- Cannot scroll down on notes
- Cannot scroll down on character sheets
- Import XML not working
- Import PDF not working
- Cannot resize icons on DM screen
- Text on panels broken and incomplete
- Custom campaign type button missing

**Most requested features**

- Custom icons for conditions
- Compendium types
- Add multiple characters to encounters at once
- Change size of character bubbles
- Cloud sync or copy campaign to another device
- Edit screens and campaign cards
- Better way to add maps
- Create maps within the app
- Roll initiative for monsters
- Add Dragon of Icespire Peak module
- Change relationships in character web (more than three levels)
- More than three levels for character web relationships
- Take ideas from Encounter+ app
- Drag and drop for initiative in fights
- Refine notes feature for sessions (like journal)
- Create custom items/spells
- Include monster stat blocks
- Resize icons on DM screen
- Organize compendium by challenge rating and monster type
- Import features for monsters
- Scroll down on ability cards
- Search for specific items
- PC and enemy NPC sheets
- Encounter DC calculators
- Ethnic name generators
- Battle map mode
- Keep track of campaign quests, locations, DM-made items
- Spell lists
- Monster manual section
- Change size of tiles for text to fit
- Custom campaign type option
- Session creation options
- Add new content

## Recent user reviews (10 of 45)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prismscrolldm/id1408372017/reviews.md

### 4/5 — Crashes when giving party member a condition.

*2025-09-23*

I really like this app and it is very helpful as a healer to keep track of health of my party. But when I add a condition to the party member, the app crashes. I add condition- crash. Remove- crash. 
Pretty annoying. I just now don’t add those to the app and will just write it down.
Would be higher rating if it wasn’t for the crashing.

### 4/5 — As a DM, I love this so so much!

*2024-07-25*

I am so glad to have this much customisation. Though I’d love to see two features added if possible: Custom icons + compendium types. Especially since I’ve added many new things to the game, such as conditions. Beyond that, I love everything about this app.

### 5/5 — The last DM tool you will need.

*2023-06-26*

After 20  years of DMing in Dungeons and Dragons I have finally found the absolutely best tool for managing campaigns, sessions, and encounters. With tools for character/PC management, encounter/initiative tracking, note taking and organization, and not to mention a digital DM screen that seems to be unendingly customizable...the price of $2.99 is beyond a steal. I easily would have paid $20 or more for such a piece of software. Or even a subscription price. With the additon of some downloadable content update provided by the developer on their Discord, it rounds out everything so well. I will admit that I struggled a bit trying to get my head wrapped around everything available, but after maybe a couple hours I was so excited with everyth8ing I could do. There are VERY few problems that I have but nothing app breaking or even annoying enough to dock the app a star (not being able to add multiple characters at once into encounters, navigation from some pages to others doesn't seem to always put me where I feel I should be). All in all, buy this app. If you are a DM, you owe it to yourself.

### 5/5 — Oh my…!

*2023-04-07*

This is such an amazing utility. It certainly doesn’t replace my books but it’s pretty darn close. The navigation takes a little getting used to but it is fairly intuitive once you go through a few screens. There’s a balance between automatically populating data and keeping it free form enough to allow for tweaking things to fit my needs. I’ve run various games over 35 years and have used a lot of different tools (screens, apps, etc.).  Prism may be the one to rule them all. For my next campaign I plan to make this the only thing I use outside of the books.

### 5/5 — Brilliant v helpful

*2023-03-31*

Excellent app, very helpful, just wish I was able to transport my stuff direct from dnd beyond 😂

### 4/5 — Character web/map is the best part

*2022-06-19*

To be honest, google searching things feels just as efficient as most of this apps functions, but I love the character map. Please allow me to change the size of each character bubble and I will give you 5 stars!!! :)

### 5/5 — Awesome app!

*2022-04-16*

I was looking for a really good app because I had just started learning how to DM. This app made it really easy and plain as day to making an epic campaign! I HIGHLY recommend for any DMs that want to keep track of information easier.

### 5/5 — Incredible

*2022-01-05, version 3.0.0*

Completely makes being a home-brew DM easy!

### 4/5 — Love this, wish there was cloud sync

*2021-10-01*

I love this app and am currently using it on my iPad to run my campaign. I wish there was the ability for cloud sync or to copy a campaign to another device though. I’d love to use it on my phone for quick reference without have to completely rebuild the campaign a second time

**Developer response:** howdy, you can export a campaign via the campaign list > three dot button > export. This will produce a file that you can transfer to your other device. Hopefully that helps until we get cloud syncing in place :)

### 5/5 — Just bought today and I’m really enjoying it!

*2021-06-30*

I almost gave this 4 instead of 5 stars because I wish it were a bit easy to figure out some things. I’m having through figuring out if I can edit the screens cards and  campaign cards, but I decided to go with 5 stars anyway because I have yet to check out the discord and I read in other reviews that that can be super helpful! I’m hoping that if I’m unable to edit the pre-organized DM screen that in a future patch I might be able to because, while things like different race names, actions in combat, and conditions are grouped together, the different class tables are not and there are some other things that I would prefer to rearrange. Just some things that are my personal preferences but this app is by far the most extensive and useful DM tool I’ve been able to find. I highly suggest getting it on Mac if you can just because it’s easier to navigate all the information than on a phone/iPad. Hope to see more content from the developers because it’s an awesome app!

**Developer response:** thanks for the awesome review! The dm screen is definitely one of the strengths of the dm app. While some of the content is hard coded and uneditable, you can change the groups of content by editing the "master" dm screen by accessing the dm screen from the campaign list (the screen you reach when you first open the app) > top left button > screen. This screen is the screen that gets copied when you create a new campaign. So if you group items here, they will be grouped for any new screen that you create. Hope that helps :)

## Frequently asked questions about PrismScrollDM

### What does PrismScrollDM do?

PrismScrollDM acts as a mobile, paperless DM screen and resource hub for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition games. It provides customizable tiles for quick access to various game information, helping Dungeon Masters manage their campaigns more efficiently.

### What are the key features of PrismScrollDM?

Key features include a customizable DM resource screen with over 75 different resources like roll tables and NPC generators, a scientific roll calculator, a campaign creator, a character web for relationship mapping, spell cards, equipment cards, and monster cards.

### Is PrismScrollDM free to use?

Yes, based on the provided information, PrismScrollDM is a free application. It does not have in-app purchases or advertisements.

### What D&D editions does PrismScrollDM support?

PrismScrollDM is specifically designed for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition games. It includes resources and features tailored to this edition, such as spell cards from specific sourcebooks.

### How does PrismScrollDM help with running a D&D game?

It helps by providing a centralized, digital location for all your DM needs. You can customize your DM screen to show only what you need, access rules and stats quickly, generate encounters, manage campaign details, and track character relationships, all of which can smooth out gameplay.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 5.6.0 — 2025-02-11

1. Update divine word spell school
2. Update issues with importing subclasses, starting equipment, ability score increase, and features on classes
3. Added a breakdown for armor class in the character sheet
4. Issues with exporting/importing tags

### 5.2.0 — 2025-01-15

1. compendium consistency

### 4.46.0 — 2024-11-12

1. Fixing issues with session numbers

### 4.40.0 — 2024-10-05

1. Compendium menu changes

### 4.39.0 — 2024-09-27

1. improvements for 2024 5e

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