5e Travel Sim vs Simple NPC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- On-the-fly encounter generation
- Daily travel breakdown
- Random encounters (environmental, monsters, discoveries)
- Roleplay prompts
- Multiple travel modes
- Customizable travel settings
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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.
Simple NPC
Instantly create detailed fantasy characters with unique names, appearances, motivations, and secrets. Offers millions of name combinations and billions of appearance possibilities for game masters and storytellers.
- Millions of name combinations
- Billions of unique appearances
- Complete NPC generation in one tap
- Lock fields and randomize others
- Save and return to NPCs
- Exclude unwanted races/professions
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Simple NPC generates fully realized fantasy characters in a single tap. With over 1 million possible names drawn from 7,000+ handcrafted entries across 17 races, and billions of unique appearance combinations across professions, ages, and social classes — no two sessions at the table need the same face twice. Built for game masters, worldbuilders, novelists, and anyone who needs a believable person to appear at the inn, guard the gate, or sell something suspicious at the market. Every NPC comes with a complete physical description — height, build, skin, eyes, hair, clothing, and a telling detail that makes them feel like someone who existed before you walked in. Add a profession, social class, age, and race, and the generator produces a character grounded in those specifics. A destitute elder orc scribe reads differently than a wealthy young halfling merchant. The details reflect who they actually are. What Simple NPC generates: — Physical appearance: build, face, skin, eyes, hair, and clothing — A notable detail: a scar, tattoo, piece of jewelry, profession item, or behavioral tell — A motivation: what they want right now, in this moment — An rare secret: a reveal that changes everything Races included free: Human, Elf, Half-Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, Halfling, Half-Orc, Tiefling, Dragonborn Pack 1 — Expanded Races & Professions ($1.99): Orc, Goblin, Kobold, Lizardfolk, Cinderborn, Stoneborn, Tideborn, Galeborn — plus 10 additional professions, including Noble, Spy, Bard, Hedge Witch, and Cartographer Full Access ($4.99): Every current pack plus every future pack released — one price, forever Features: — Over 1 million possible name combinations — 7,000+ handcrafted name entries across 17 races — Billions of unique NPC appearances — Generate a complete NPC in one tap — Lock any field and randomize the rest — Exclude races or professions you don't use — Save NPCs and return to them later — Quick archetypes for common NPC types — Designed for dark and light mode — No ads. No subscriptions. No account required. Built by Two One Nine, LLC · crookedtavern.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: 5e Travel Sim at 16.0 against Simple NPC's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. 5e Travel Sim sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Simple NPC sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | 5e Travel Sim | Simple NPC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Michael Wu | Benjamin Van Allen |
Customer experience
5e Travel Sim
Simple NPC
In-app purchases
5e Travel Sim
- Premium Version$1.99
Simple NPC
- Pack 1$1.99
- Full Access$4.99
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