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Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen (Portrait—Paizo.com Exclusive)

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There can be a lot to keep track of while running a thrilling game of Pathfinder, but the right GM screen can make all the difference. This four-panel portrait screen has a lavish illustration on one side and a wealth of useful charts and tables on the other, referencing a number of the advanced rules systems first presented in the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide. This screen will help keep your secret notes and maps hidden from players, while making your job as GM simpler than ever!

Note: Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen (Portrait—Paizo.com Exclusive) is not included in the Pathfinder Accessories Subscription. Pathfinder Accessories Subscribers who preorder Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen (Portrait—Paizo.com Exclusive) will receive a free PDF when their physical copy ships.

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Not Optimized for Printing/Same File as the Landscape Version!

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All they've done here is take the exact image of the landscape PDF and plaster it on a "portrait" page. There was no reformatting done at all so the product is hard to read and practically unusable. Pages 2, 4, 6 & 8 are duplicates of each other. It's like no one looked at this before adding it to the store. I have been a fan of Paizo for years and this is so outside of their usual QC I am baffled. Don't purchase this product unless they fix the PDF first. I reached out to Paizo to ask if I could exchange for the landscape PDF and they sent me a physical screen (which I did not ask for nor want as I have a custom screen already) and now they won't return my emails. Edit: I bought the landscape PDF too and it's literally the same file so don't waste your time. The regular GM screen PDF is fine but the Advanced needs work!!!!

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Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen Portrait (PDF)

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I have the standard gm screen and the advance gm screen now both in portrait. While the regular GM Screen is layouted really nice the advanced one is just the text cramped in the center of the page which doesn't look really good. You have small text and huge white space above and under it. Don't bother printing it.

I was really disappointed and since it is in a pdf you can't really modify it without the full version of adobe. Therefore the file is pretty much useless to me. Bummer

I can only say don't buy it. Buy the regular gm screen in portrait which is totally fine. If you really need the advanced gm screen then buy the landscape one, the physical one or not at all.

5 Stars (Product); 2 Usefulness

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PATHFINDER ADVANCED GM SCREEN (PDF)

While product is what it says it is in terms of the material, Pathfinder 2E "Advance GM Screen" is ***not*** in fact a portrait version in the same sense as the original Pathfinder 2E "GM Screen" (portrait). In brief, the text is a small section that is vertically centered though off-center on horizontal. It is, in fact, so poorly spaced that you cannot even hope to print it on a standard sized printer paper (8.5 x 11) even with 0.25 margins and that assumes you have Acrobat Full Version (not just Acrobat Reader) that allows you to modify cut out a vast portion of the top and bottom white space. If you print out as is... it is simply too tiny.

WARNING: Unlike PF-2E Standard GM Screen (Portrait), which does print into the space of portrait sized paper (printable), this product WILL NOT print out effectively on a standard printer sheet and is NOT IN FACT PORTRAIT SIZED.

NOTE: If the product had been printable through a standard printer on a standard 8.5 x 11 or legal sized paper I would have easily given the product a 4-5 Star Rating. Whether intentional or not, I find this deceptive unless it was an error in which case I would ask Paizo to update the product with appropriate portrait sized variation that does in fact print in portrait (standard size as legal will not fit into old GM Screen Physical Product). If it was not a PDF Product, I would want my money back.

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Paizo Employee Webstore Coordinator
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Announced for March! Product image and description are not final and may be subject to change.
Silver Crusade
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Katina Davis wrote:
Announced for March! Product image and description are not final and may be subject to change.

How is this different from the current GM screen for 2nd Edition?

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Arklore wrote:
How is this different from the current GM screen for 2nd Edition?

The current screen has rules and tables from the Core Ruleboook.

The Advanced screen will have rules and tables from the Gamemastery Guide

Perfect, can't wait for both to drop!!

:)

Tom
Dark Archive

A portrait version... thank you, Paizo! Now I have to get this screen, too. :)

What’s most interesting to me is the flying ship on the cover.
Silver Crusade
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We did just get Airships in the GMG.
Paizo Employee Webstore Coordinator

Update: This product has been moved to a June release.
Paizo Employee Webstore Coordinator

Update: This product has been pushed back to an August release.
Paizo Employee Webstore Coordinator

Update: This product has been pushed back to a September release due to some shipping delays.
Grand Lodge
Katina Davis wrote:
Update: This product has been pushed back to a September release due to some shipping delays.

Ouch!

Hey, any word on Pathfinder novels? Havent seen any word since they halted the line a few years back
Grand Lodge

This is kinda disappointing. IIRC this thing has been pushed back nearly 9 months (over multiple delays) since it was announced. I wouldn't think such a relatively simple product would have so much trouble.
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TwilightKnight wrote:
This is kinda disappointing. IIRC this thing has been pushed back nearly 9 months (over multiple delays) since it was announced. I wouldn't think such a relatively simple product would have so much trouble.

Yep we are frustrated too and we're the professionals. People always forget just how many moving parts there are in the manufacturing business and lots of times delays are out of your control.

Will this screen have the important tables from the "regular" GM screen, as well? Such as XP rewards, encounter budget, simple DCs, and the like? Or is it entirely GMG material?

I guess what I'm asking is: can I replace my "regular" GM screen with this one without losing any critical tables? I'd love to just use a portrait screen.
Pathfinder LO Special Edition, Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, PF Special Edition Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Superscriber

This just mentions the pdf. Will there still be a physical product? I had it in my sidecart at one point, but it's not there now.
Silver Crusade
Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Superscriber

Whew! I'm not the only one that had this "disappear" from my Sidecart. I still see a report of "6 items waiting to ship" and only 4 displayed (the other "missing" item is an upcoming Flip-Mat Classics entry), so I'm hoping that the "glitch" that has temporarily hidden the physical product will keep it safely in my Sidecart once the listing is restored ;)
Pathfinder LO Special Edition, Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, PF Special Edition Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Superscriber

Well, I just got my shipping email, and my sidecart is still missing this. :-(
Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber

I guess this item vanishing from sidecarts (mine included) has to do with the physical product being removed from this product page. What's going on?
Grand Lodge

I’m just guessing but since the problems they’ve been having seem to be focused on the physical product, maybe they are planning to release the pdf early since it is ready

I noticed that a bunch of items in my sidecart disappeared and went to my account page to check after I saw this thread.

But it seems that I have this item in my sidecart. I would have had something to report if it had not been there, since the items that went missing in my sidecart also (to the best of my knowledge, since I don't have a full memory of everything that used to be in the sidecart) disappeared from the Paizo store at the same time.
Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber

Physical product is back and it's also back in my sidecart
President

Yeah, there must have been a bug in the code that made these act strangely but seems to have been fixed!
Pathfinder LO Special Edition, Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, PF Special Edition Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Superscriber

Seems to be fixed, at least for this product. I might have to go through the entire store and see what else might be missing. :)
Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

So I've been able to find reviews and such of the Advanced GM screen that look amazing, would anyone be able to provide a picture of the portrait version? even just the unfolded outside? I want to be able to see if it looks as good before I pick.

I tried my best at making it so that not anyone finding the images can just use them for final use, whilst still allowing you to get a good sense of what's on them. You may have to zoom in a bit on the images.

https://imgur.com/a/G1pBqNN

Note, however, that (for me) there still is a bit of a problem with the PDF, which makes out-of-the-box printing a tad difficult. (But it is possible, and don't hesitate to send me a PM if I can help you with instructions.)
Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
TheYsconator wrote:

I tried my best at making it so that not anyone finding the images can just use them for final use, whilst still allowing you to get a good sense of what's on them. You may have to zoom in a bit on the images.

https://imgur.com/a/G1pBqNN

Note, however, that (for me) there still is a bit of a problem with the PDF, which makes out-of-the-box printing a tad difficult. (But it is possible, and don't hesitate to send me a PM if I can help you with instructions.)

ah gotcha, so it doesn't have the same art as the landscape version?

Marketing & Media Manager

The Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen gives you the tools you need to keep the game fast and fun: conditions, death and dying rules, tables for setting DCs, baseline numbers and adjustments for creatures and hazards, Victory Point guidelines, and more.

I will work with the Store Manager to get an image of the cover on the page.

You can find an interview with Logan Bonner about the Pathfinder Advanced GM Screen here.
Pathfinder Adventure, Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

Does anyone have the Advanced GM Screen Portrait version in-hand? If so, do you like it? The one review on here talks about formatting issues, but that's for the PDF version. Does the actual physical product suffer from print that is too small?

Also, does anybody have any image of what the visual display is? Is it the four pieces of artwork shown in the picture above? Are they the full pictures, or is each panel cut off like in the picture?

I've searched YouTube and watched about 10 different YouTube videos on the Advanced GM Screen, but I can't find anything beyond a mere mention of this Portrait version. And this product page gives me next to no information beyond what's included on the back. What are the measurements on this? I understand what a portrait is, but technically a portrait only means the width dimension is smaller than its height dimension. Is this Portrait the standard paper size of 8.5" w by 11" h?
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Hi Pigraven.

I have the physical product and I like it. The four images aren’t cutoff - they’re the full picture arranged one per panel as you’d expect. The middle two have “Pathfinder” emblazoned across the top - doesn’t cover up Seoni’s head nor any of the hydra’s faces.

The font is readable. It does go close to the bottom of the screen, so I guess it might be an issue in play maybe. I don’t think it’s significantly worse than the landscape one though.

It’s a four panel screen - each is 8.5” x 11”.
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