Frosthaven: Official Companion

I used this for a session for the first time. Perhaps I have been spoiled by fan-made software for Gloomhaven. This app lacked a number of things and was annoying to use. 1. I couldn't enter character names. If there is a way to do this it is not intuitive. 2. It did not set the proper level for the scenario. This has to be set manually. 3. I could not zoom in or out to make things fit better on screen. 4. While it did assign loot to characters this was somewhat redundant because it did not give you the summary of the scenario. 5. Accessing the Monster Deck, the Ally Deck and the Loot Deck is awkward. When resolving combat or wanting to know information I had to scroll things out from under the tabs that access the decks. 6. It did have the names of the summons but you had to manually put in the stats for them. 7. An objective in the scenario had a 99 initiative. This had to be entered manually every time. The above complaints may have had ways of being fixed in the software but it was not intuitive. I readily use and design UX and this one has the hallmarks of being designed for only one medium. Suffice it to say this is not recommended. I expected this software to mitigate more of the bookkeeping involved in this game than it did.

This is an awful, bug-filled pile of hot garbage. Works about half the time, have never had it work without some sort of error or unexpected behavior.

Poorly made and disappointing graphics.

Unstable. Crashes after a few turns on a regular basis. It's fine when it actually works, but holy hell it's almost unusable.

これを買っている人はボードゲーム用のフロストヘイブン管理目的だと思うので、大きな不満はないかな。 自動的に敵を追加してくれるし、各種行動や状態異常管理もこれ一つで完結するのが楽です。 アプリ版ではなくこちらを買うのであれば大画面に映し出してみんなが見ながら管理できるようにするのがいいです。 ちなみにですが、個人的に一番うれしかったのが戦利品の山を自動で作ってくれる機能です。

Hello! We already had the free helper app at Gloomhaven and were very excited about it. Apart from two little things, there was nothing wrong with this app. That's why we as a group decided to create an app at Frosthaven too. After a few campaigns had been completed, clear weaknesses emerged. As already mentioned in the description, it makes the process easier and the time spent playing in the scenarios is reduced. The elements can be activated accordingly and are consumed according to the specified rules. The states can be applied to the individual characters and you can keep an overview. The initiative value is displayed correctly and the order is also arranged according to the initiative value. I would like to improve the following points. When processing damage, you could display how much you have just deducted, for example three clicks with the cursor on the + or - indicator for damage/healing and you will also see the number displayed, for example 3 damage or 3 healing. If you have a condition, for example a sign that this will be briefly highlighted in the claims process as a reminder. The same if the Poison condition is active. We often forget to take the conditions into account. If the regeneration state is active, the state in the app heals over life, which would be nice, but you have to constantly keep an eye on it and correct it manually. However, this is optional and can be turned on or off in the app, but this function does not work adequately. As soon as damage is received, the regeneration display is automatically deleted. With certain items you can increase life, which was not taken into account in this app. It is possible to increase lives in the app, but this does not increase the max hit point value, only the number behind it. So you have a max hit point value of 12 with the travel cloak item actually 13, in the app this is displayed as 12/13, so you have one life above the max life. The attack modifier cards and the loot cards are on the side, you can't move them, and the cursor button is larger than the actual image for it. The characters and opponents run right behind them, you can scroll them up and down, but the card decks attached block the view and clicking on the characters behind them. For example, you could attach these underneath, like in the Gloomhaven Helper app, instead of on the side. That would help a lot, or even better, that you can move them to suit you and ground them there. The same with the display for the elements. In our opinion, these are not arranged to save space and take up a relatively large amount of space. One last thing. It has happened two or three times now that we got lost and couldn't get back. It's good that you can change the initiative value again afterwards, but it would be good if you could reset all previous steps. Maybe it would help to take a look at the free predecessor and learn a few things from there. Nevertheless, this app also makes the gameplay a lot easier.

great tool to eliminate a lot of the setup when playing the tabletop game

Please add big buttons to +1/-1 for health and experience. UIs are too small.