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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7679097" data-attributes="member: 37579">Wow, that is one dark ap. I had to crank up my brightness to get much use out of it. That seems like a big flaw for ap you're meant to use for an entire game session. It'll chew through a battery.Okay, when downloading the app, it doesn't specify in-app purchases. Most apps that have those include that warning. It's a bit of a faux pas not to have that called out in the iTunes store. There's only the single adventure, and I don't see an easy means of making a new one yet. So the app really limits you to pre-designed content. The app wants you to download the full PRD ruleset to level beyond 4. Then wants you to pay $12 freakin' dollars for levels 5-12 and another $12 for levels 13+. You can get the entire Pathfinder Core Rulebook for the HeroLabs app for just $20. And that's not super useful unless you have the world's most restrictive Pathfinder GM, since it's a very mature game system. Unless you can get all the options from the hardcover Roleplaying Game line there's no reason to bother with the app. The dice rolling is pretty crappy. Drag a dice and then hit the roll button and it just changes the dice number. Pretty "meh". Especially if you're trying to make a check. You have to pull up the dice roller and then enter the bonus rather than just hit a dice icon by the skill/ability/save. I hope it works differently in an adventure, but lacking 2+ iPads I can't test that feature.It'd be lovely to be able to run a test party through and adventure. Doing it blind seems awkward as eff. And requires *everyone* to have the app (and an iOS device). Flipping through the PRD is a pretty slow and painful experience. The page flipping feature is a needless graphical flourish and just slows down reading compared to scrolling. It'd be fun if the app was a PDF with default pagination, but as straight text it's annoying. The app also doesn't include the OGL. Seriously. If you click the "Legal" tab and scroll down to the end, it just says it makes use of the OGL and directs you to a website. I thought that was a no-no.</blockquote>

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