For the battles you didn't prepare for

Run the fight
you never planned.

Type a few creature names. Seconds later you've got full, playable stat blocks — HP, conditions, spells, gear, and loot — ready to run before your players finish arguing about marching order. One living tool for D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e, and Daggerheart.

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D&D 5e · Challenge Rating
Choose your creatures
Goblin ×3 Ogre ×1 Bandit Captain ×1 + Add creature
5 creatures in this fight
7 HP
Goblin · Skulk
Skarrak
FLANK AC 15
59 HP
Ogre · Brute
Gnasht
FRONT AC 11
65 HP
Bandit Captain
Vurz
LEADER AC 15
20
The moment every GM knows

Your players just did the thing. Again.

You spent the week building the perfect dungeon. Then your party talked their way past the boss, befriended the goblins you statted out to fight, and went looking for trouble three rooms the other way. Four faces look up, waiting — and you're buying time with "just give me one sec" while you thumb through a rulebook and the energy quietly leaks out of the room.

"I don't want to take away a GM's creativity. This takes away the mundane — and makes it epic."

How it works

From a few names to a living fight.

01
Pick a system
D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e, or Daggerheart — one click in the top bar.
02
Choose your creatures
Pick your creatures and counts — Battlesmith names each one for you.
03
Generate
Mirror your tabletop — instant foes, heroes, and full battle details, each ready to run.
04
Run the fight
Adjust HP, flip conditions, cast spells, roll dice, hand out loot — all live.
05
Improvise freely
Surprise encounter? Tougher version? A Daggerheart beast? One button each.
At a glance · always at your fingertips

One battle. Three ways to see it.

Your whole table stays in view. Zoom out to the board, run straight down the initiative rail, or open any combatant to the full stat block — no scrolling, no page-flipping, no lost momentum.

The Board · birds-eye

See the whole battlefield from above.

Mirror your tabletop with a drag-and-drop board. Slide a hero next to a creature and they engage automatically — the board reads the distance between tokens and shows whether it's melee, ranged, or a grapple. No rulers, no math.

Drag & drop heroes and creatures to mirror the real table.
Auto-engage — distance decides melee, ranged, or grapple on its own.
Micro cards stay legible from across the room.
Birds-eye battle board with named creature cards linked by melee, ranged and grapple lines to the party's hero tokens
Live board · Drag a hero onto a creature and they engage.
Board
Birds-eye view
Every token on one canvas. Drag to engage; distance sets the attack.
Rail
Initiative & order
Turn order as slim micro-cards; the active turn glows so you never lose your place.
Full
Every detail
Open any combatant for the complete stat block — actions, saves, spells and loot.

And every card comes in three densities — micro, summary, and full — so you get exactly the detail you need, and nothing you don't.

The signature

Make every monster feel alive.

Each creature becomes more than a static stat block. The DM knows everything now — and even their own monsters keep a little mystery.

Vary Stats
Flip one switch and six identical bandits stop looking like the same guy photocopied six times — this one's tougher, that one's faster, and the big one in back is the only reason the fight gets scary.
Ascendancy & Roles
Promote a plain skeleton into an Archer, Knight, or Brute. Tier a Beast into Dire, a Dragon into Ancient, a captain into a Warlord.
Unique Names
Your three goblins become Skarrak, Vurz, and Gnasht — and by round three your players have a personal vendetta against Vurz specifically.
Convert on the fly
Running Daggerheart but only have a D&D monster in mind? Convert it live — tiers, thresholds, and features mapped automatically.
Random encounter → a cast of villains

They won't fight four goblins.
They'll fight Skarrak's crew.

Pair the generator with Roles, Ascendancy, Vary Stats and unique names, and a "random" encounter walks out as a named, mismatched band — a Warlord barking orders, a Brute up front, a Skulk on the flanks, a caster hanging back. Each one named. Each one distinct.

Generated in a heartbeat
Skarrak's goblin crew on a mountain trail at dusk — a robed hexer with potions, a laughing warlord shouldering a greataxe, a goggled skulk with a coin pouch, and a tattooed blade juggling daggers
Left to right Mire · Hexer Skarrak · Warlord Vurz · Skulk Gnasht · Blade
Loot & the unexpected

Even your monsters
keep a secret.

Every creature can carry a random haul — so the surprise belongs to the DM too. Flip the card and find out what the kobold was really hiding. The mystery is yours again.

Equip & unequip
Toggle gear on and off; strap on a shield and defense recomputes live.
Give & Steal
Hand an item to an ally — or loot a downed enemy with a Steal action and a line of flavor.
Potions that work
A healing potion rolls 2d4+2 and applies it; the item is consumed and HP updates.
Item info at a click
Tap any item for full stats — base gear and magic properties combine into a complete item.
Unidentified
Tap to reveal the haul
Rare Weapon
Flame Tongue Longsword
A blade that erupts in flame — +2d6 fire on every hit.
Live at the table

Track the chaos without losing the thread.

System-aware HP
D&D 5e · thick HP bar
52 / 8065%
24 conditions, one tap
Flip any condition on or off per creature — each its own earth-tone token.
Poisoned
Burning
Frightened
Stunned
Prone
Bleeding
Blinded
Paralyzed
Charmed
Restrained
Grappled
Invisible
Dice & spells, right on the card
Click any to-hit or damage to roll, with an animated result. Cast spells through a guided flow that ticks down your slots.
Greataxe MELEE
Click a die to roll —
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Take away the mundane.
Keep the epic.

Run the battle you didn't prepare for like you planned it all along. No accounts, no installs — it runs right in your browser, private to you, in a blink.

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Grimshackle's Battlesmith — for the battles you didn't prepare for.
Grimshackle Battlesmith FAQ Licenses & Attribution
Fully attributed across all three systems — D&D under the OGL / CC-BY 4.0 (SRD 5.1), Daggerheart under the Darrington Press Community Gaming License, and Pathfinder 2e under the OGL v1.0a / ORC License.