Advice for GM Screen

[mcgharst]

I have been looking around and I want to make a GM screen myself. I was wondering if people had any advice about tables that should be "must have's" in any GM screen?

I have a wide variety of Pathfinder books at my disposal but I'm more looking for a screen that'll have rules to save us flipping through books during combat or skill checks or some combat move. That and loot/random encounters (I have those obviously.) I am starting with a new group and I would rather look at the screen and save us time flipping through books if I end up with a rules lawyer in my group. ;)

Thanks again!
MC^G

[LazarX]

I believe the D20PFSRD site and maybe the PathfinderDB site as well, has downloadable pages you can use to make your screen.

[PSusac]

One thing that works well is there are plastic sheet-holder display stands:

http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Slant-Clear-Acrylic-Holder/dp/B002YVGQHE/ref=s r_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1381854195&sr=8-3&keywords=plastic+sheet+disp lay

The one indicateed above is slanted but you can get them upright, with both portrait and landscape orientations. This lets you literally build your own GM screen, with whatever tables you want. Have two portrait stands one each side, and two landscape stands down the middle, and you have a crenelated battlement kind of effect that is fun.

You can then mix and match whatever tables you need, and even put in random encounter tables and whatnot that are appropriate to the adventure you are running.

They cost about $7 each.

[LazarX]

That's not what I'd call a GM screen. However I have seen GM Screens which are basicallly folding panels with inserts for putting in your own custom sheets. Compleat Strategist in Manhattan carries them, or did last time I checked.

Or you could take what I suggested earlier, print it on Cardstock and use heavy clear tape to bind your panels.

[Netopalis]

I have one of the pocket displays, and I made the following tables:

Day Job Checks
Prices for commonly-purchased items (including materials for weapons)
Fame purchases by level
Prestige Purchases
Spellcasting Service Costs
Common Conditions
A list of my character's numbers (Because I always forget)

[PSusac]

"Or you could take what I suggested earlier, print it on Cardstock and use heavy clear tape to bind your panels."

Yeah good idea. You could even put them in plastic sheet protectors first, so it's effectively "laminated" then tape the pages together at the joints. it would be super cheep that way. Probably less than $1.

If you wanted you could tape the sheet protectors shut, or you could leave them open so you could swap out the cardstock as needed.

Cool.

[mcgharst]

Thanks for all the great suggestions!

[Deadalready]

One of the biggest things you need is an initiative tracker. I use post it notes that I write on and rearrange them to keep track of where my players fall in turns but I'm not sure of a better solution.