Welcome! Read on to explore how The Ultimate Games Master can help you weave your magic
Campaign Creators, all the tools you need are here
Fully Featured Interactive Character Sheets
Expand, Modify and Homebrew Everything
Share your Adventures with your Players and the World
Here Be Dragons… and Demi-lich’s… and Dungeons… The Ultimate Games Master can help you weave it all with your magic and create Adventure!
At it’s heart, UGM is a tool to make a Games Masters life easier. It lets you create Adventures, Campaign Settings, Worlds or even complete new game systems. Simple drag and drop tools and reference compendiums let you create your adventures and share them with your players
The UGM campaign creation system breaks down your adventure into Locations and Areas, you can have as many locations as you want, and as many areas within a location as you need. (You can also group your locations into Chapters for that epic story arc!)
Let’s take the “Town of Bloomenfeld” Location, and the houses that make up it’s Areas.
Each Area is a section of the location, these could be houses in a town, caverns in a cave system, rooms in a mansion or parts of a dungeon. It’s wherever the action is happening.
The first Area our intrepid adventurers arrive at is, of course, the Tavern!
Of course a list of areas is good, but wouldn’t a map be really helpful?
Yes, it would, so go ahead tap on the Map icon, to switch to map mode! Just upload an image for your location and start dropping your area markers on the map. You don’t have to choose, you can have both! When you are running this adventure you can swap between map and list mode, whichever suits your style of GMing.
You can populate each Area with any of a number of Elements to help you manage what is going to be happening there, lets have a look inside…
Each Area Screen has several Tracks for you to drop your campaign Elements into.
The main Track 1 is great for Notes, Story Text, Maps and so on. Track 2 is handy for SFX, Encounters, XP etc. If that’s not enough then there’s a Track 3 that you can call up to add more handy Elements to. As with most things in UGM, it is customisable and you can put any Element wherever you like and resize the tracks to fit your style.
To populate your adventure, just drag the icon from the toolbar and drop it on the track of your choice.
For the imaginative GM this is where the fun begins! Once you have entered a name and created your first area it’s time to fill it up with Story Text, Encounters, Loot or maybe an Ability Check.
All these can be accessed through the edit icon.
When you have picked which Element you wish to add it’s as simple as drag and dropping it onto the area, then editing it in more detail.
let’s highlight some of the Elements you can add to your Area
Overview – a note to outline what this area is.
Story Text – Your perfect prose, descriptive text to read to your Players.
If your beautiful scene description is getting long, no problem, set your autocue speed, and your text will gently scroll when running a campaign allowing you to concentrate on that Dwarvish accent.
Encounters – The cornerstone of many adventures
These are some of the most fun / frustrating times you or your players will have. Maybe you want a Dragon, a Mimic or a few Cult Members to be lying in wait for the unsuspecting traveller? UGM makes that easy to set up and incredibly easy to manage in game.
Just choose your Monsters, NPCs etc. and edit each item. Fixed amounts, Random amounts… 3-5 Adult Dragons anyone? Homebrew content (See the epic content customisation functionality below), even designate who is an enemy and who is friendly. Reinforcements arriving after a number of rounds… Too much to do justice to here!
When running a campaign area, the Encounter element takes all the effort out of encounter management.
Your players get notified to Roll Initiative, which they can do by clicking on the initiative on their character sheets, and the in app roller will roll and send the result to the GM or they can roll their own favourite dice any the GM can enter the values manually. The GM can also auto-roll for all the Monsters, NPCs or even the Players. The app then puts everyone in order, and pulls up all the info for the current Player / Monster / NPC / Animal Companion / Demigod, so everything you need is right there at your fingertips.
.. And when its all done and the last drop of blood has been spilled, you can automatically distribute XP and generate a loot window to hand out the bounty your players deserve. They can add it straight to their inventories… Just hope the Rogue doesn’t grab that magic sword the fighter has been looking for.
So what else would you like to add to your area? A Clue? A Map? How about some NPCs to interact with?
Just drop in an NPC element and choose the NPCs present from the list for this campaign. When running the campaign. Tap any NPC to jump to their Character sheet. It’s the same one that powers the Player Characters sheets so you can make your NPCs as detailed and fleshed out as you like.
Ok, now let’s bring the atmosphere with Music and SFX!
Want a big creaky door to sound as soon as you enter the spooky mansion? No problem! Just pick the Door Opening Creak from the SFX bundle and check the AutoStart box.
Storm raging? Loop some weather SFX. Nearby battle? Add some sword clashes.
Got a Syrinscape account with epic sounds already set up. Great, call them up from within the UGM App with the Syrinscape element!
Got some great Spotify playlist you want as general music to enjoy while your party waste 30 minutes investigating a perfectly ordinary door? Without leaving the App? Go right ahead.
And what better way to set the tone for the BBEG battle but Dio – Metal Will Never Die… (No? Just me then…) or any other .mp3 .ogg or .wav sound file you have on your device? Drop a music element in, select Local file and bring the atmosphere to your game.
One App on any platform for Players and Games Masters allowing you to create, run and join campaigns locally or remotely, online or offline
