Getting better but still needs some features

Having been see the app for a few months now I appreciate the work that has been done and additional features that have been added. It gets the job done and streamlines the game management a ton. One feature my group would really like to see is being able to reposition initiative order after drawing cards. I have two quick examples of this need. First if a player opens a door, monsters not currently on the board are added at the initiative order of their cards but they should be added as going after the current player. The app should either add them at the right place or allow us to move them manually. The second use case is when using boots of speed to change your initiative order after the draw. The whole point of this item is to change initiative order but the app does allow us to reflect that.

Great App

This app is great. It has all the bells and whistles that are needed and wanted to make the Frosthaven experience amazing. They just came out with an update and it looks like the connectivity issues we had are gone. That being said, a few things I think things that would help are: initiative input should have the option to be masked to other players until the draw button is pushed. (This has been fixed) The ability to randomize the number of the monsters being put on the board (the ability is here to do this but hasn’t been implemented into each scenario. It still puts out all the monsters in numeric order. ) The boss deck that was updated doesn’t have any detail on it when you click on it (like when you click on the card that was drawn by monsters). They just had an update and it messed up the enemy deck. You can no longer add or curses or bless to the enemy deck. It’s weird because it used to work just fine. I hope they fix this. The loot deck is still broken and unusable. They made it so you can see who drew the card but you can look back more than 5 cards so it really doesn’t help at all. Otherwise, Really impressed and will continue to use this app.

Battles and nothing else

This app is the probably the most optimized way to track battles. It’ll take care of monsters and the loot deck, as well as, track initiative order. So it gets points for decreasing setup time. It’ll mark which scenarios are completed which is also useful. That said, tracking which scenarios are completed is all it does in regards to campaign tracking. It does not track stickers, completed battle goals, or anything else. So if you bought this hoping it would save you time when switching out stuff for different play groups it will not.

One step forward, two steps back

This app does a phenomenal job at eliminating the tedium associated with gameplay, particularly the enemy management. It determines their turns, deals with their damage and conditions and it even helps digitally track your own characters’ status. The real problem though comes with what it doesn’t do. Frosthaven added a ton of tedium over Gloomhaven with the post-game cleanup managing the settlement and crafting. The app doesn’t help at all with that and if anything that’s where it’s most needed. What tedium this app saves is far outweighed by the tedium the game added. I’d rather it replace the town management than the combat management. What’s worse about the town management stuff is that you do it AFTER having already played a couple hours and finishing an encounter. Your game night feels like it’s ended but then you have all the cleanup you don’t want to do because you’ve already played a couple hours. It feels like cleaning up the table is just massively more tedious but the app doesn’t address that. This is probably more of an indictment of Frosthaven as a game than this app itself but the app is intended to smooth out the experience with the game but it ends up not going nearly far enough.

Works well on iPad, TV

We played all weekend using the app on an iPad then cast to a TV. So we did not use sync or multiple devices. It worked great, and really only have a few issues. Overall it was a good experience - really like having the section numbers appear at the top. Summons: it’s great that the app knows which summons belong to which character. I wish they came with their stats pre-populated. We spent a lot of time adding attack, move, health values to Skeletons. Perhaps I missed something, but that was my biggest complaint. Initiative: there are boots that let a character change their initiative. Also when initiative is tied you change up who goes first. It would be nice to be able to make those changes after initiate is set. Again perhaps I missed something. Scrolling was awkward sometimes, but that was mostly to do with the touch interface. But we got the hang of it.

Oh, man! This needs work.

It doesn't really track a campaign, just your scenarios. You still have to track your resources, xp, gold and other stuff on your character and campaign sheets. Not a huge deal. The point of this app for us was to have less things on the table. All monsters, attack modifier deck, and ability cards can be managed through the app — when they work. It’s buggy. Updates have been released, but we’re still running into issues where we can’t advance after character initiative because the monster abilities won’t draw. We’ve had to completely remove and add monsters to save the scenario and get things working again.

Still need to fix bugs

I can’t find where to submit bug tickets so here goes: - auto expire condition is wrong. Sometimes when the monster is given a condition after its initiative during the round it will auto expire when the round is over. That’s incorrect. It should auto expire after the end of its next turn in the next round. - the hp over threshold is good for certain class but now auto regen regenerate past max health for characters who don’t have such perks - loot deck augmentation doesn’t show for non-host players - please add option to check off boxes on the two special loot cards - also for immersion please add the name of the card of each enemies at the top of their cards. I know currently we can tell what card it is by tapping on the card themselves but imagine how much better it would be not having to do that. Also a way to view the full set of abilities for a monster set would be good

Latest Update Causes Major Problems

Update 1.4 breaks character summons. Also NPCs/Objects cannot be given hit points. Also characters cannot increase their hit points above maximum to account for items like the Traveling Cloak. Prior to 1.4 characters could not increase their maximum hit points to account for items like the Traveling Cloak, and positive and negative effects would end at the end of the round rather than at the end of the character's next turn which will almost never be at the end of the round. Updates are supposed to improve the app's usefulness not decrease it!

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