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Turn Watcher is an Initiative Tracker for RPG Game Masters! Use it to:

• Show your players their status with the new Player HUD (Heads Up Display)!
• Track spells and abilities.
• Turn Watcher will alert you when those effects expire! As a bonus feature, you can even automate temporary hit points and hit point boosts.
• Track PCs, NPCs and monsters
• Turn Watcher easily track them all during combat rounds.
• Handle delays and readied actions
• Perform Secret Rolls
• Spot, Listen checks, will saves and others can be performed on your players without them being the wiser.
• Manage Hit Points
• Manage the current hit points of your PCs and monsters, keeping you on top of character health
• Import Monsters
• Start a combat quick by importing monsters into new encounters
• Ultra Initiative
• Add that edge to your encounters by automatically rolling initiative every round without picking up a single die!

Originally a proprietary application, it has been converted to an open source license, and hosted here on SourceForge.

Presently, it relies on Gtkmm 2.8 for the UI, and a backend (molib) which reads and writes property bag files (XML-based).

The plan is to refactor the code to make it more stable, port Turn Watcher to the Qt4 platform, and make it available to the Mac OS/X platform, in addition to offering superior support for the Windows platform.

Also, the plan is to put this into a PPA for Ubuntu.