Anyone have any applications or tips for using your iPad to run a game session?

Would love to see FFG Release their content as an App with the ability to grab additional content (adventures / source material / etc...) as in-app purchases #pipedream

The official dice app and Evernote for campaign notes and adventure hooks.

With my own adventures I export them all to PDF and dump them into iBooks.

I also use a utility that someone recommended in another thread called Ambience, which lets you mix all kinds of looping sounds for background effects.

I tried to do this with an iPad but it ended up being too slow. However, just because my ipads are old doesn't mean it wouldn't work for someone else!

• Evernote
• Mindnote
• Dropbox
• PDF Expert
• Dice Roller (take your pick)
• Penultimate

I haven't completely given up on the ipad as a gm tool, I just use a laptop instead at this point with most of the same tools. I would say that aside from the random sticky note, I'm a paperless GM. I'll eventually find a way to incorporate the ipads I'm sure, it was just a touch too slow for me when I was trying to keep the action rolling.

OneNote

Ambience (occasionally)

John Williams soundtracks playing via iPad.

I mainly just use the Remote app to control my PC iTunes playlist and volume. (My PC is in the same room where we game) I do use it to get onto my Obsidian Portal sometimes during the game, and I also have it linked to my Star Wars photos, so i can show some quick pictures. You could also use the RD Client to actually run your desktop on your iPad. You could even then run the character builder from Oggdude. I also use the PDF apps for the PDF books I have sometimes. Dropbox, Google Drive, and some other cloud services are great.

Yeah, for the foreseeable future, there will be no electronic content for this game.

I went back to the drawing board and played with Evernote all weekend based on Deve's suggestion. I'm impressed with using this as a "Homebase" I started to create entries for NPCs that I could tag with the Campaign and Type if I ever needed to recall someone or bring someone into play with very little effort.

I also have been playing with " GM Tools " for iOS which looks promising - but I have essentially recreated in Evernote with a couple of "Template Entries".

I also played a bit with " InitiativeBoard " for iOS which is essentially the iPad version of the Magnetic Initiave Tracker. Love it.

Thanks for the suggestions.

but I have essentially recreated in Evernote with a couple of "Template Entries".

Would you be willing to share some of these templates? I've been working on some templates with a pal of mine and there's always room for improvement in my work. Of course we can't share content, but I believe sharing the empty template is perfectly fine!

I'll see if there's any issue sharing our templates.