PrismScroll Pathfinder

The UI is cool, but you have to manually set up any content you want to use in the app through individual setup wizards if you want any degree of procedural functionality. You can set up a blank character sheet, but then you basically have to have the character already built out in order to put things where they need to go, and getting it all entered that way is very tedious with the way the UI needs to pull up a fresh dialogue overlay every time you want to adjust a bonus. Had a friend build out two and a half characters in the time it took me to set up one using the blank sheet option. The UI is 10/10, and is clearly where 100% of the effort went in this app, with little to no attention paid to content or UX. This app feels like a prototype or a proof of concept project, but is not really a practical choice for someone looking for streamlined character management. What’s there is phenomenal, but what’s lacking is profound.

The other prism apps are very good. But this one is a little barren. And no I’m not talking about how you have to download the class or ancestry information from the discord or import it yourself, I can look past that. What I’m talking about is the lack of a proper leveling system making leveling up a very tedious process, traits as a whole do not come with descriptions and are not included in the compendium for editing, and despite the pro version being the same price, this app does not have nearly as many features as the dnd companion app and somehow feels closer to the Call of Cthulhu app (Which is odd, since unlike dnd and pathfinder. Coc doesn’t even technically have combat). I understand that the dnd companion app makes more money, but it would be nice to see some streamlining updates for this app soon.

So the basics and bones of this app are great. UI is very smooth and intuitive, and it has appealing graphics. Only problem is it’s currently empty of content, which I get and have seen that they are currently working on it. Once at least the core role book material is uploaded I will be making this review 5*s. There is one problem that I do hope gets fixed soon other than lack of content. There doesn’t appear to be any “level up” feature that most other apps have. And when I manually changed my level, I couldn’t seem to add next level features I had added to the compendium. In stead it wanted me to just write it in again, and without all the usual fancy menus.