Comparison

NPCGen5e vs 5e Travel Sim

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

NPCGen5e

This tool helps Dungeon Masters quickly generate random non-player characters for their tabletop role-playing games. It provides a comprehensive set of details for each NPC, including stats, personality traits, and appearance.

Highlights
  • Generate random NPCs on the fly
  • Includes name, race, alignment, and stats
  • Details personality, appearance, and voice
  • Filter and save generated NPCs
  • Export NPCs in XML, NPC, or Text format
  • Edit generated NPCs
Features
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NPCGen5e is a tool for fifth-edition Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Masters. It randomly creates an NPC to use in your world, based on the rules laid out in the Dungeon Master's Guide and Player's Handbook, with a little extra flavor from yours truly! Key Features: Generate quick NPCs on the fly, complete with the following information: • Name • Race and Subrace • Gender • Alignment • Armor Class • Hit Points • Ability Scores • Saving Throws • Skills • Damage Resistances • Damage Immunities • Condition Immunities • Senses • Languages • Challenge Rating • Mannerism • Talent • Bond • Flaw • Appearance • Voice Description • Trait(s) • Action(s) Premium Features: • Apply Filters to get exactly the NPC you need. • Save generated NPCs to quickly view them when you need.  • Export NPCs in XML, NPC, or Text format. • Edit Generated NPCs

About

5e Travel Sim

This app helps game masters create dynamic travel and exploration adventures for tabletop role-playing games. It generates random encounters, environmental challenges, and role-playing prompts on the fly, eliminating the need for pre-game preparation. Customize your journeys with various travel modes, environments, and party details.

Highlights
  • On-the-fly encounter generation
  • Daily travel breakdown
  • Random encounters (environmental, monsters, discoveries)
  • Roleplay prompts
  • Multiple travel modes
  • Customizable travel settings
Features
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5e Travel Sim is a mobile app designed to help GMs run travel or exploration adventures. The app generates encounters on the fly– no preparation required! The app breaks down travel into individual days, which are further broken down in stages: – Daily rolls to determine how difficult the day's travel is – Random encounters, including environmental challenges, monsters, interesting discoveries, role play encounters, helpful boons, and even entire dungeons. – Campfire questions to spark roleplay and character development The app supports several different travel modes (premium feature): – Exploration: Default mode. The party is traveling to a location and wants to see what they can find along the way. – Race against the clock: The party is trying to reach a destination by a certain time. – Tracking: The party is trying to track down or catch up with someone. – Survival: The party is trying to get back to civilization. Travel is further customized by location / environment, party level, total distance, and travel pace. Additional premium features include custom campaign secrets & clues.

Screenshots

NPCGen5e4 screens
5e Travel Sim4 screens

Verdict

The call

NPCGen5e and 5e Travel Sim both sit at 3.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 41% of NPCGen5e's written reviews are positive against 0% of 5e Travel Sim's. NPCGen5e also leads on ratings volume (31 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. NPCGen5e sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and 5e Travel Sim sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.5 for NPCGen5e against 3.5 for 5e Travel Sim. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NPCGen5e has 31 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of NPCGen5e's written reviews are positive against 0% of 5e Travel Sim's.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
NPCGen5e versus 5e Travel Sim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNPCGen5e5e Travel Sim
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (31 ratings)3.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews41.2% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings31 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB108 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMieTech, LLCMichael Wu

Customer experience

NPCGen5e

All ratings31 ratings
Positive61.3%
Neutral6.5%
Negative32.3%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive41.2%
Neutral17.6%
Negative41.2%

5e Travel Sim

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

NPCGen5e

One-time3
  • Buy Me a Potion$0.99
  • Gold Piece Upgrade$2.99
  • Platinum Piece Upgrade$4.99
1 purchases

5e Travel Sim

One-time1
  • Premium Version$1.99

Questions

Is NPCGen5e free?
NPCGen5e is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 5e Travel Sim free?
5e Travel Sim is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NPCGen5e or 5e Travel Sim?
NPCGen5e and 5e Travel Sim are both rated 3.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 31 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do NPCGen5e or 5e Travel Sim have ads?
Neither NPCGen5e nor 5e Travel Sim shows ads.

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