Pahfinder Adventure Paths for iPad

[Aspect]

I have been growing steadily more and more dependent on Lero Lab for my gaming over the last year or two. I have mainly used it as a player in a couple ongoing campaigns. I decided to buy an adventure path for Hero Lab for an upcoming campaign that I will be running (Rise of the Runelords). I tinkered with it a little on the PC to get a feel for how to implement the adventure path encounters into the game in a realistic way, and thought, ok, I can bring up the encounters from the "Gamemaster" tab, and select the encounters, this could be an amazing thing for running games. Then I updated my ipad (which lets be real is what I mainly use (I don't lug my PC around with me from game to game), and I see no "Gamemaster" tab for the adventure path, nor do I see ANY way to pull up the Adventure path encounters on the ipad? Please tell me I am being a noob, and missing something obvious. Surely adventure path encounters are available to the portable devices yes?

 

[ShadowChemosh]

No not in the same way at all. The iPad is meant for a single character with maybe a companion. Even if you get the "Encounters" to the iPad opening a .por file with dozens of characters will most likely overload it.

Plus no tactical console is on the iPad. Its purpose was for a single player to run a character not for a DM.

 

[Aspect]

Wouldn't really need a por with dozens of characters, just the tactical console, which just makes sense to me personally... Why its not on the ipad version makes no sense to me.

The whole "single character with maybe a companion" don't hold much water either. Sorry, to be able to layout the encounter (simply put - the Tactical Console) on a portable device that DMs can just have sitting behind the screen makes more sense than having it be restricted to a PC. Few DM's sit at the PC to run games, and even those who do use their laptops, the single screen aspect of a laptop (or surface or whatever a dm might be using) restricts that device in the same way your saying the ipad is restricted. I am sorry, I pondered this response for almost 2 hours before responding simply trying to see it from your point of view, and as someone who uses both devices for Hero Lab, I cant put merit to your response. That's like saying "We're not putting a front door on your house because its meant to be walked through" ...

 

[AndrewD2]

The tactical console reads from the loads por file. So the iPad would need to load the whole por. Also the iPad has horrible memory and can't really run much without crashing. At least Hero Lab-wise.

 

[Aspect]

Hero Lab crashes

I have had just the opposite experience, Hero Lab is almost never working right on my PC (an insanely OP gaming/video rendering rig), and use my iPad almost exclusively for Hero Lab now as I have never had any issues with it (well Unchained monk is reading as needing unarmed strike proficiency for 2 updates now (both pc and ipad), but I don't hold the devices responsible for that lol...
Honestly, had I known the "adventure paths" were PC only, I would never have bought the one I did... Still weighing the thought of calling Lone Wolf for a refund on it since its basically useless to me if it cant be used on the ipad... Not even sure why anyone would need campaign encounters on a pc... Just befuddled at the notion of PC only adventure path encounters lol...

Here is the encounter on the monitor, so I can print it out or write it on index cards. Oh wait, I can do that right from the hard copy... lol

 

[Farling]

Here is the encounter on the monitor, so I can print it out or write it on index cards. Oh wait, I can do that right from the hard copy... lol

A lot of people use Herolab on a laptop for GMing. It provides the tactical console as well as the Encounters all in one neat package.