Last updated on February 11th, 2026 at 11:01 pm
Game Master 5th Edition – Adventure Game Review
Game Master 5th Edition is a Adventure/Roleplaying/Utilities game from Leo Mortero, first launched in 15th September 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,591+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Game Master 5th Edition Stand Out
Take command of your Dungeons & Dragons game with Game Master 5th Edition. This DM tool makes building a campaign easy and takes a lot of the hassle of out of running a game so that you can focus on more important things.
Combat Tracker. Roll initiative, track hit points and conditions, view monster stat blocks, and roll attacks, all in an easy to use interface. No need to flip through the Monster Manual or roll and add up a bunch of dice.You’ll be able to leave your books at home because Game Master has what you’ll need.
Encounter Builder. Quickly put together an encounter, including one with randomly generated enemies. The encounter analyzer calculates the difficulty so that you won’t accidentally TPK the party.
Creature Builder/Scaler. Easily create a new creature or modify an one. Specify a few stats, such as challenge rating, ability scores, hit dice, etc… and the app will auto generate the rest of the numbers and text for you.
DM Screen. The rules reference view lets you quickly look up rules, tables, etc. This view is completely customizable and can even include links to external websites.
Campaign Manager. Split your campaign into adventures, each with their own sets of characters and encounters. Also keep notes and a treasure items that you can send out to your players.
Dice Roller. All of your stats and attacks can be rolled with a tap of a button. Also included is dice calculator that allows you to input a custom roll. Need to roll 1d20 + 6d9 + Constitution modifier? Game Master has what you need.
Compendium. A customizable compendium of content that by default includes all of the races, classes, backgrounds, feats, equipment, spells, and the monsters from the System Reference Document 5.1. This does not contain all of the official content from the books so you'll have to input any missing. To make adding easier, there is an Import feature through which you can type/copy content on your PC then transfer the file into the compendium. Fan made files are also available for download, so search online.
Fight Club Integration. Players using the Fight Club 5th Edition app can send their characters to you in the form of an importable file so you can quickly include them in any campaign.
Compatibility. This app is designed to be played with D&D 5e, but many elements of it can be used for other tabletop RPGs, such as D&D 3.5e and Pathfinder RPG. And of course, because everything can be completely customized, any homebrewed content is also possible.
Premium Version. The app is free to download, but you are limited creating a single campaign with one adventure and up to three encounters. Upgrading to the premium version with the in-app purchase will remove these restrictions.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Game Master 5th Edition is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 24th September 2020
Recent improvements include:
• Fix set HP being recalculated when adding creatures
• Fix issue loading shared campaigns
Download & Availability
Game Master 5th Edition is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Game Master 5th Edition on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We really love this app! We only have concern with it is the fact that there are some spells not in the app so when our players cast a spell not listed within the app under wizard or such. We have to search it on the web. Everything else about this app is very well done. Using all the features needed to run a campaign. Well done.
This app has become invaluable at our table, no longer do we have to stop play for the initiative roll. It really keeps the flow of the game moving. One thing we would love to see is the ability to tweak initiative or add advantage.
We've been using it as the free version, and it is great. Getting content in the app is a little tricky but once you have it's good to go. Update: Went to the paid version. Still a wonderful app. Learned the hard way when you update the Compendium it removes custom created content. Only a few other things we could think of adding/changing would be a fuller, more complete import of spells when importing character files from Fight Club app. Or even somehow merging Fight Club and this into one…but not sure that's possible. The other thing would be transferring over PCs from one campaign to another within the app and not recreating/importing. Worth the money, in our opinion.
We downloaded this app along with a few others to try to plan some D&D adventures. Two weeks later we've deleted all of them, save this one. This app is so useful, and contains as much info as anyone would need to GM a game. We would recommend this app to anyone who wants to start an RPG. Also, the added cost to make extra campaigns is never necessary but absolutely worth it.
Ive been using this app for a few months now and we have to say it is the best tool Ive ever used. Creating encounters on the fly takes less than 30 seconds, so we can make up entire adventures for our players on the fly thanks to this app! The only downside is that entering monsters manually can be a little tedious, but Ive made it a hobby of ours to slowly expand the compendium. The user interface is great, the important information on a monsters stat block is easily visible due to smart font colors and a good use of bold and italics, and its made our job as a DM a solid 10 times easier. We cannot recommend this app enough.
We use this quite a bit, and would suggest and RPG player to get it! We have the free version, but the full version would be very useful. We have already made our own items and full campaigns using this, and the encounter tracker is so useful. There are many other features that deserve a spotlight, but Im going to move on to some things Id change. 1: You cant add a player character to encounters 2: If you dont name an encounter or campaign or anything else it shows up as an invisible spot, so you have to name it. 3: Having a guidebook would be very nice, especially for some of the more complex features, maybe a small tutorial to guide you through the beautiful interface and useful in-app tools. Otherwise, this app has a beautiful simplistic interface and works very smoothly on our phone, has SSOO many useful features to help out DMs, and we would highly recommend getting it. Keep in mind it does not have a grid, you cant add the players(at least in the free version) and you will find yourself planning ahead in your campaign for months :).
Perfect for running games and encounters.
This is our first app game aid, Im old school and prefer pencil and paper, but this won us over! Very nice.
It helps us make so many campaigns and its really easy and fun too. It makes the DMs job so much easier. It was well worth 3 dollars for the unlimited campaign although we think it should have been more than that because of the quality. This is a must have for any D&D dungeon master.
Perfect for keeping track of everything.
The Bestiary: organized by alphabetical, challenge rating, and by region. The spell list: organized by alphabetical and class. Very well put together, has almost everything and any monsters or spells that are missing can be added! Saves you from carrying several books!!! Great for quick look ups while building worlds! Can not say enough good things about this app.
This is a great app that we use to track D&D monsters and treasure for our game. However, typing in all that information to create or edit a monster with a device keyboard is PAINFULLY SLOW. There are two things this app desperately needs: a web app version that can be utilized by the device app, and the ability to save an adventure in the cloud to be accessed and shared with another device we own.
This app is great. Except for when the campaign disappears for no reason. Sometimes it happens when we plug the iPad in to charge. Other times it happens when we force quit the app or simply minimize it. Backups won't restore. This would be a priceless app but we lose hours of input whenever it randomly deletes our data.
Could use a little more edit ability, such as adding different skills to the list. But works well for our game.
This is a really great app, very easy to use and accessible. Ive recommended it to friends and they all loved it! However, now in 2020 our DM whos ogling over Pathfinder 2e is trying to reboot our campaign of 2 years into 2e which we cant find a great character app for. As happy as we are with this app and will forever use it whenever we play other sessions this is more of a plea for help and ask the developers of this app if you guys could please make one like this for Pathfinder 2e? Id really appreciate it and so would our table! Please and thank you.
Prepping encounters has always been the most time consuming part of DMing for us, and this makes it SO much easier.
This is great for solo setups. Maybe a journal would be a cool idea as Im adventuring.
We have been dming for over three years and have paid for a lot of programs none of which we have enjoyed quite as much as this app. Im a dm that likes to add monsters from other monster books by kobold and this app lets us add and balance them to create memorable and difficult encounters for the party. We believe this app can be utilized by all styles of dming because we know our style has changed significantly over the year we have had this app. One last recommendation is we would check out the book skyflurish return of the lazy dm. LESS IS MORE.
We never write reviews but this app was so good we decided to write one. It does everything that we need as a DM. We can write out all of our encounters before the session starts and then use them if we need them as our players adventure. We can also generate quick encounters for when we want to surprise the party with a random encounter. There is also quick access to a compendium, dice roller and rule reference. The free version comes with enough to try out all the features but limits the amount of content you can add. The unrestricted version is $3 USD and is a one time purchase which we think is more than fair. Its so much better than paying a monthly subscription like every other app on the App Store. Overall we definitely recommend this app.
Really a great app once you learn how to use it to its full potential. Takes some patience. Wish there was just a bigger area for storing rules, for example we enjoy using a lot of homebrew supplements and would be great if we could store them in app for quick reference. Also, we would like to see the potions having its own sub category as well as adding one for Food and Drink once youve gotten as many items in the game as we have, or even just the all the official D&D items in the compendium, things begin to get very crowded.
We have used this app for years and years. We have used tons of other tools like Roll20 and Foundry, but always end up creating most of the adventure right here and using it to supplement the virtual tabletop Im using.
This thing is SO GOOD. We needed a place to put together custom creatures and encounters, and not only is this app amazing for that, it runs on our laptop too so we can run everything off that. We can add our maps as notes, we can make a magic item list for different adventures, everything is very well organized and intuitive. Adding creatures to the compendium is easy, which is great because we like to throw weird stuff at our players. If we had one wish, it would be that we could attach magic items to character sheets, which doesnt seem possible at the moment. Wishing aside, this app is perfect. So worth the premium buy, too, btw.
Im honestly really impressed so far with the wealth of information this app makes readily available. Its made creating and managing the general outline of our campaign much easier, and makes us a much more prepared DM than we otherwise would have been. Definitely great, even if only used to give you a general framework.
There are only two things we really have an issue with. Firstly, it would be nice if there was a battle map add-on. Maybe it would need to be purchased, we dont know. But it would be fantastic to have. And secondly, we would love a way to add conditions to the roll down menu, most of the important conditions are there, but not [slowed] or [Hasted], even being able to log reduced speed (like with Ray of Frost) would be helpful in complicated battles. -Gripes aside, we really like the app and recommend it for $4. You might need to manually add in some spells or monsters, but its a fantastic way to test out the difficulty of an encounter before throwing it at your party. Ive been using it as a sort of game in of itself, building a party and then building encounters to throw them against.
Ive been using this for years but never took time to review until now. Its proven an easy way for us on an iOS phone to quickly easy map out campaign arcs with maps and notes and lore, and build encounters fast. We can use existing creatures, customize them or create our own npcs or creatures with photos, descriptions, stats with all their dice roles (init, saving throws, attacks, damage (half, roll, max shown on all), built in for us to just click during the encounter.) This app and discord are our primary game tools. Our players do not see this app at all. And we dont even put them it. This is not a map generator for your players. Encounter Plus Is good for that on iOS. It can do way more than we use it for. But Im at the end of a multi-year, 20-level campaign, comprised of 17 adventures each with numerous encounters. And Ive used this on every encounter. It is not perfect. But none of the tools Ive found yet are. But this is definitely worth trying.
First we want to say GREAT app but one problem there arent beholders and specters In the bestiary.
We love D&D and Ive sunk way too much money into this hobby. Books, cards, PDFs, dice towers, minis. That being said, this app is honestly the only thing we truly need to run a game we recommend it to every aspiring Game Master we meet.
Absolutely amazing and fairly easy to use. The only thing we wish it had was the ability to put encounters in folders so we could sort them regionally and just roll a die to pick one.
We cannot recommend this app enough, including the premium version. While there is a steep learning curve to learning all the different aspects of this app, once you have played around enough and experimented you'll find that it is capable of so much. We use this to run several campaigns. It makes running encounters super simple, keeping track of initiative, cooldown abilities, and HP/AC for monsters. And if you have a question about a spell or treasure, you can look it up within seconds from the compendium. We have added a bunch of monsters manually from 5e expansions. There are a couple of flaws with it but overall we find it easy. First we would ask for the option to customize the lists of damage/terrains/languages. We would also like the ability to track Legendary Actions per round (like there are for recharge abilities such as breath weapons). Second, we occasionally get a glitch where when we are adding vulnerabilities/resistances/immunities, acid is added to vulnerabilities for no reason. In other cases, when we select condition immunities stunned/unconscious, they do not save and we have to type them in manually. Aside from these issues, we think this is a fantastic tool for DMs to run games with efficiency.
We are in quarantine,(sarcastic yay). We like D&D and was looking for a way to break the boredom. We went online to find some character creators, but all of them were too complicated to use, or had Addons to get most classes. So we turned to the apple App Store, and found this. This app has many great features(Now we sound like a mobile game add sorry) -Simple to use -Non-restrictive customization(Not restricted to what the app has. If it doesnt have some classes you can just say that your an artificer) -FREE HOMEBREW -Add dice rolls(allows you to see what you need to role -Play along(lets you manage hit points, even add to them with temporary ones, level up, and roll dice. Along with letting you exchange and use spell slots) -(Almost)No in-app purchases(This app has one which costs,like, 0.99 cents, which just lets you make multiple campaigns, but you arent limited to how many things you can put in a single campaign so…) -Full customization(Can customize new enemies, MAGICALweapons, adventurers, dungeons,encounters, and treasure. If you made it this far, which is farther than we ever have, just get this game. Its good and not-boring. If you need more proof here is a potato.
This has basically everything a Dungeon Master needs! The only problems we have are that there are quite a few monsters missing from the bestiary and the spell slots for humanoid spell-casters are completely wrong (we had to go in and fix all the spell-casting NPC's). These are minor complaints, though. This is a great app.
Best app Ive ever downloaded, super useful.
We can't imaging DMing without Game Master. Combat just flows, and can't love this app more. Thank you a gazillion, Dev(s).
Can we get on the next update the ability to adds damage types because we run a Star Wars 5e and we cant figure a transfer from the books to this app and would like to make it more streamlined.
The only thing we wish it had was a way to add creatures that werent in the app already. If there is a way to manually put one in we cant find. Other than that we absolutely love it. Already bought the paid version.
We haven't gotten to play around with this app very much just yet, like what we have used so far though. Is it possible to add our own monsters into the app.
The app is great. However Lions Den no longer supports this app. The last update was two years ago. We tried reaching out on the app store, as well as facebook. Still havent heard anything back from them. So if you purchase the full version like we did, and theres a problem, tough luck.
We have been a DM for many years and have tried a number of ways to keep track of our NPCs and encounters. This app is very intuitive and has a good way to organize encounters and NPCs. It does take a bit of time to enter the NPCs (as should be expected) but it comes with a compendium of monsters to easily move and modify 5E monsters to make it as easy as possible. We have only used this a few times and our only recommendation so far to get to 5 stars is to make it possible to change an adventure NPC to a campaign NPC and visa versa. The icing on the cake would be adding functionality to be able to organize a campaign but we think that is asking too much from one app.
This app is okay for creating and writing campaigns on, but we mainly utilize it for encounter tracking. Its just so simple to create an encounter, and thats why we highly recommend this app for any DM who is looking for an easy way to create said encounters.
This app is amazing and super easy to use and set up real quick and easy adventures and fast encounters. However; theres a lot of spells, items, classes, and races missing and its be really nice if they were added cause Im tired of copying stuff over from Google.
Im not sure if it was an update or something, but all of our monsters have been changed to 1 hp. Now we can go into each one and change the health to what it is supposed to be, but it would take a lot of time. Just wondering if this could be fixed. Otherwise, thanks for a wonderful app!! We are using it for a couple of our campaigns and it is really useful.
We love this app, we love the ability to import/export resources. This is definitely the best way Ive found to be able to run our encounters and keep track of all our monsters and player characters in our campaign. But the stat blocks could use some small changes that would translate to enormous convenience for DMs. Monsters should absolutely have a bonus action section available, as well as a better way to track non-spell slot spellcasting usage without having to make an additional entry for every individual spell. Ive had to really struggle through this before the 2024/25 core rulebooks were released, but now that there are no spell slots for monsters, and more bonus actions, this has become an even bigger hassle to try and use stat blocks that we think are miles ahead of their older counterparts. We know this app hasnt seen much if any update in quite a while, but seeing as it still reigns supreme when it comes to running encounters, it would mean a lot to see these vital changes be incorporated. Thank you guys for your wonderful work.
Surprisingly we can't find any other app that does what this does: let us make a campaign, make encounters and add characters/enemies, estimate challenge level, etc. But more than 3 encounters and it's behind a paywall. If editing an enemy's CR also edited their stats (for example a 3 cr mammoth has the same hp as 6 cr mammoth), and if the players had level advancement, we might have considered paying the $3, but it doesn't. We were only on for about 10 mins and we're sure there are many other functions we would be disappointed not to see after paying. It's nice to write out all your stuff on paper and transfer it here for quick reference, but if you're homebrewing or dm'ing for the first time we don't recommend.
We love to use this app as we are a tech dm who uses living Battle maps on a tv and love everything at our fingertips. Our only issue with this app is the lack of a complete compendium for spells and creatures. One would assume that it would at least have all of the creatures and monsters in the monster manual and spell list from the base version of lists. However, this is not true. When your are using all the latest official content that has been released, you find yourself having to add EVERYTHING. We feel that if this app released an update adding these things to it, that it desperately needs, it would make building complex enemies and NPCs to the game more of an enjoyable process then it currently is. Every week we find ourselves taking more time to add things into the app manually than it takes to plan out the next session. Do not let this sway you away from using this app, as the functionality and intuitive interface is spectacular. We just wish it had more content within it.
We made some monsters and put them under a specific encounter and theyre missing all of a sudden.
At first, this app seems perfect for what its doing. Information at your fingertips, quick to use mid-session. Then you start trying to prep things with it and you realize how many tricks you need to actually use it. How you have to bookmark spells when youre creating an NPC because you can only search by name from the main menu. How you cant look things up by text, so you better memorize every stat block. Eventually you realize youre putting the same amount of work in that you would without the app. The tools to make this a useful tool are there. Theyre just buried under a lot of UI decisions that doubtlessly made sense at the time but utterly cripple the apps functionality.
We finally figured out how to use the app and it actually does everything we want it to. So we purchased the full version. After figuring out how to use the system we loaded our Spelljammer campaign into the system. We had to create creatures for it, but thats how the game is played. We went to run the campaign for our kids and . . . . The entire campaign was missing! Our backups cant be parsed! We cant reliably use it. We see from the FB page that there were some issues with copyright. Therefore,one cannot fault the developer for only including open rules content. Im happy to put our own stuff in, but need to know that Ill be able to keep our work. If the app gets updated, Its a five star app worth more that the initial purchase price. But until then Id save your money and save your time. If the project has been abandoned it would be good to know before spending on it, but, we hope that it does get picked up again because its a really great tool.
If you are working on a encounter and accidentally close the page all the progress/things youve written gets deleted, which is extremely annoying and has ruined a few of the encounters Ive written. Other than that its a great app, and if they fix this its an easy five star.
We hate how it doesnt autosave, and you can easily delete all of your progress, Im getting sick of it, Ive redone our campaign 5 times and it just got deleted again… Hours of our time down the drain.
This app is more than we could have dreamed of!!!!!!!! We cannot believe it. This is without a doubt the best game for creating Dungeons and Dragons Campaigns.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.9
- Size: 38.93 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Leo Mortero]()
Last updated: 24th September 2020 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: Leo Mortero