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DM Jeff
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules, GameMastery Maps Subscriber)
A friend got this for me, when I said I needed a new DM screen. This sucker is like cement. You hold it above the table and drop it and it sounds like a book hitting. You can kill a rabbit with it, or give a munchkin a concussion. It's heavy, strong, and has the dwarven Stability racial trait.
As for what's on it, the art facing the players is great. The charts I wouldn't know about. I taped them over with my patented Pathfinder/3.5 charts so fast I never even saw what was on them.
There's eratta for it on the WotC site I hear, but I don't know what for. As for construction, I give it an A+.
-DM Jeff
A friend got this for me, when I said I needed a new DM screen. This sucker is like cement. You hold it above the table and drop it and it sounds like a book hitting. You can kill a rabbit with it, or give a munchkin a concussion. It's heavy, strong, and has the dwarven Stability racial trait.
As for what's on it, the art facing the players is great. The charts I wouldn't know about. I taped them over with my patented Pathfinder/3.5 charts so fast I never even saw what was on them.
There's eratta for it on the WotC site I hear, but I don't know what for. As for construction, I give it an A+.
-DM Jeff
More looking for how usefull a screen it is for 4e and how glaring the errors are... An Errate for a DM screen?....
More looking for how usefull a screen it is for 4e and how glaring the errors are... An Errate for a DM screen?....
The tables are quite useful. The best parts are the conditions summarized on the left hand screen and the placement of monster/general damages on the right. Common DCs are well done. The errata is a simple pdf that you print out (actual size, don't let Reader expand it) and tape it over a table--it's the revision to the average skill DCs that was made a while ago, in response to fan's comments.
A friend got this for me, when I said I needed a new DM screen. This sucker is like cement. You hold it above the table and drop it and it sounds like a book hitting. You can kill a rabbit with it, or give a munchkin a concussion. It's heavy, strong, and has the dwarven Stability racial trait.
As for what's on it, the art facing the players is great. The charts I wouldn't know about. I taped them over with my patented Pathfinder/3.5 charts so fast I never even saw what was on them.
-DM Jeff
Oh good a DMs shield thats specifically designed to help protect the DM from the wrath of the players and their dice. This is always a handy thing to have on your side when you've managed the kill some players character for the 17th time.
More looking for how usefull a screen it is for 4e and how glaring the errors are... An Errate for a DM screen?....
I've used it now for three sessions, and I must say I highly recommend this GM screen.
The tables are quite good. I particularly like the XP chart, which gives you a quick reference to a table which nobody ever memorizes.
I also love the chart that is right front and center which break down what all the normal actions are. It lists all the actions which every character can perform, such as grab, bull rush, etc, and tells you at a glance what kind of action it is (standard, move, minor) and what page number in which book it can be found on.
The right hand panel is one of the most useful I've ever seen for a new edition, because it gives you all the status effects and what they mean. Very nice when combined with the death and dying rules summary.
I much prefer the low, but wide profile that this screen has compaired to most.
I'd also like to say that sturdy contrustion actually great improves its usefulness. I'm no longer bumping or knocking my screen down, and that's very useful to me as a GM who reachs over the screen and has a bunch of stuff behind my screen.
Plus, I am no longer afraid of a angry dice throw knocking my screen down.
As for the errors, what happened is that the table for the generic Skill Checks which was printed in the DMG and the DM screen has been errated, so that what appears on the screen is the old version of the table.
Bear in mind even the new table has an error (there is a 19 where a 13 should be). I bought some post-it notes and printed out the errata sheet from WotC, cut out the new table, corrected the 19, taped it to a post-it and slapped it on the screen.
There were a couple other areas that were changed as well. I just wrote the corrections in pen on post-its, cut them out and applied them where they needed to go.
EDIT: After double checking the DMG errata, depending on which version you want to believe, the DM Screen table errata is actually wrong in a few places in the second column. The whole column should progress from 10 up to 28 in steps of 2.