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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 3079705" data-attributes="member: 150">I find myself looking for an initiative tracker/combat manager and not quite finding what I'm looking for.  Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.  To begin with, I'm not really looking for a suite of other tools -- I'm not opposed to having/buying them, but I won't be using them much.  The application I need/want is the initiative tracker.  Here's what I want: A initiative and turn tracking solution that will allow me to move quickly through combat, tracking PC & NCP initiatives, spell and effect durations, handle ready and delay actions, and is easy to use.  I don't mind having dice rollers, but don't need them.  Here's the tricky bit -- I also want a separate PC view of the initiative tracker.  I'm using a dual monitor setup, and would love to be able ot display the initiative tracker for them -- or even better, a pared down version of the initiative tracker that only includes the information the PCs should have.  I can set the monitor to match my desktop, so they can see what I'm doing, but that means that I can't have any DM-only information in the tracker.  And, because this needs to be easily legible from across the gaming table, the display fonts need to be controlable.  I've looked at least briefly at a lot of the software solutions that are out there -- DMGenie, DM's Familiar, PCGen's GMGen tools, Roleplaying master, roleplaying assistant, DM's secretary, turnwatcher, and a couple of others I can't think of right now.None of them support the dual-view functionality I was hoping to find -- and that's probably not a surprise, but it would be nice.Turnwatcher is close to what I would like to have -- it's big and easy to read from far away from the monitor, and does a lot of what I would like it to do, but it doesn't track spells and effects at all.  GMGen looks good -- and I've tried using it for a couple of sessions.  I like that I can control the information that is displayed in the initiative tracker window (so I can limit it to what I want the PCs to see) and it handles things almost the way I would want them to, but it has proven to be unreliable and buggy in play.  So . . . I'm not opposed to paying for a suite of tools like DM Genie when I'm really just looking for this one bit of functionality, but none of the ones I've demoed seem to quite meet my needs.  Are there other packages out there that I'm missing, or have I missed things about the packages I've demoed?-j</blockquote>

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