About P&P Ready

What's in the app

• Character builder: abilities, powers, talents, perks, flaws, equipment, and vehicles
• Campaign management with shared notes and hero rosters
• GM screen with a condensed rules reference
• Searchable indexes for powers, gear, weapons, armor, and more
• Works on desktop and mobile

Who built it

I'm Trevor Carlston, a software engineer with over 20 years of experience who has been playing tabletop RPGs for most of that time. I built P&P Ready because I wanted a tool that actually worked at the table, and nothing quite fit the bill for Prowlers & Paragons.

P&P Ready is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by LakeSide Games, Inc. or Mobius Worlds Publishing. Prowlers & Paragons and related marks are trademarks of LakeSide Games, Inc.

How it started

My friends and I meet regularly to play tabletop RPGs using systems like D&D 5e and Nimble RPG, along with board games. One of them went on a deep dive looking for a superhero system and surfaced with Prowlers & Paragons. What sold him was the character creation: the flexibility to build almost any hero you could imagine, from Marvel and DC icons to wholly original concepts, without the system fighting you. He ran a few sessions for us, and we were hooked.

While I was playing, I started building small references for myself. Flipping through the book mid-game interrupts the flow, and I wanted to find answers faster. One thing led to another: search, indexes, lookup tables. When I decided to run the game myself, I came prepared: GM screen printed out, books on the table, dice ready. I still found myself doing a lot of mental math at the table. How hard is this check? What does that result actually mean? A digital GM screen felt like the obvious solution, so I built one.

I've run the game a number of times since and kept finding things that would help at the table that didn't exist yet. So I built those too. My friends were already using the character sheets I'd put together, and I kept refining them to be easier to use in play.

Despite being described as rules-light, Prowlers & Paragons has a lot to it: powers with long text blocks, look-up tables, edge cases, and remarkably rich character options — multiple personalities with separate sheets, sidekicks, transformation forms, vehicles with their own customizations. It's a deep game that rewards the prep work. I love it. I just want to make it easier to run and reference, and I want to build something the community would genuinely use.

Support the official game

This app is a companion to the rulebook, not a substitute for it. If you're enjoying Prowlers & Paragons, buy the book from Mobius Worlds Publishing or DriveThruRPG. The creators deserve the support.

Get in touch

Found a bug or have a feature request? Come find me on Discord. If you want to support the project financially, I'm on Patreon.