Frosthaven: Official Companion

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.

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.

Coming from the Gloomhaven helper, this app adds a ton of small quality of life improvements. It automatically spawns monsters in new rooms, runs the loot deck, saves characters between sessions. There are a few things that would make this app perfect though. -keep a log of loot cards: Only the last 5 loot cards are visible. It would be nice to keep a log so players could collect their loot after the scenario is complete rather than pause the game to keep track of it. -add an undo feature loot and attack modifier cards: It’s easy to draw a modifier by mistake and that is permanent. While there’s a log of the last 5 cards drawn it can be annoying to try to back track. And undo function would make that easier. -apply the math from the monster ability and card draw. This might be more of an interface problem. When a card is drawn it covers the screen, obscuring the monster ability card. This requires to toggle between attack modifier draws and ability cards. Not everyone has perfect memory as to which numbers to apply. -add a restart scenario button. Currently the only way to restart a scenario is to leave it and navigate to the same scenario from the scenario list. Which is a bit tedious. -battery life improvements. For what seems to be a pretty simple database app, the battery drain seems rather extreme. My only guess is that since there is a multiplier component that there’s power draw from requesting access to wifi. This seems unnecessary if that specific feature isn’t being used by the players. -monster spawns: it would be nice for the app to auto spawn monsters in scenarios where monsters spawn every round, rather than having to do this manually.