About P&P Ready

What's in the app

• Build heroes with abilities, powers, talents, perks, flaws, equipment, and vehicles.
• Manage campaigns with shared notes and hero rosters.
• Reference condensed rules from the GM screen.
• Search powers, gear, weapons, armor, and other game content.
• Use it on desktop or mobile.

Who built it

I'm Trevor Carlston, a software engineer with more than 20 years of experience and a longtime tabletop RPG player. I built P&P Ready because I wanted a tool designed to work smoothly at the table, and none of the existing options quite fit 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 and board games. We've played systems such as D&D 5e and Nimble RPG, but one of my friends eventually went looking for a superhero game and came back with Prowlers & Paragons.

What sold him was the character creation. The system gives you enough flexibility to build almost any kind of hero, from familiar comic-book archetypes to entirely original concepts, without forcing the character into a narrow mechanical framework. He ran a few sessions for us, and we were hooked.

As we played, I started making small reference tools for myself. Looking through the book during a session slowed things down, and I wanted a faster way to find answers. A few personal notes gradually became searchable indexes and lookup tables.

When I decided to run the game, I came prepared: printed GM screen, books on the table, and dice ready. Even then, I found myself doing more mental work than I wanted. How difficult should this check be? What does this result mean in practice? A digital GM screen seemed like the obvious answer, so I built one.

I kept running the game and kept noticing other tools that would make play easier. My friends were already using the character sheets I had created, so I continued refining those as well.

Although Prowlers & Paragons is often described as rules-light, it has considerable depth. Powers can have lengthy descriptions, some situations depend on lookup tables or edge cases, and the character options are remarkably broad. The game supports multiple identities with separate sheets, sidekicks, alternate forms, and customizable vehicles.

That depth is part of what I love about it. P&P Ready exists to make the game easier to run, faster to reference, and more accessible to the people who already enjoy playing it.

Support the official game

P&P Ready is a companion to the rulebook, not a replacement for it. If you enjoy Prowlers & Paragons, please support the creators by purchasing the book through DriveThruRPG.

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.