Customer Reviews:
  Nice piece of kit October 11, 2008
This is a well made item. A heavy-duty, well laminated, single screen with four panels containing lots of useful information. I've not played D&D since 1st edition, and I still have my old 1E DM's screen. This one is better made, and has more tables on the DM's side. It's wider and less high than the old two-piece 1E screen, but I don't think that's a problem. One table is wrong, and WoTC have published a correction that needs to be glued over it. This is a minor niggle for something with otherwise high production values that can be bought for little more than a fiver.
Superb! A must buy for any DM. October 1, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I can only agree with the previous 2 reviewers. This is really fantastic. It doesn't have all the weapon stats, etc., of previous DM screens, but that's OK in my book - that's what character sheets are for.
Instead, this screen has loads of those annoying bits of information that players and DMs spend ages looking up during adventure time, such as light and status conditions. There are standard DCs for each level, separated into easy, moderate and difficult, so it makes it easier to deal with situations or come up challenges on the fly.
This really is a must for any DM, particularly when it's so cheap.
Very Happy August 22, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Don't be put off by the (Paperback) next to this products name, the screen is actually hardback, unlike the 3rd edition screen, which I am impressed with since the new one doesn't fall over or bend.
It is longer than the last one, meaning DM's can hide more sneaky stuff behind it *snigger* and the art is very good, depicting a gargoyle, beholder, vampires, lamia, mind flayer, umber hulk, black dragon, bugbears, troglodytes, drow, drider, hell hounds, fire giant and a roper, *phew*.
On the DM's side are over a dozen tables listing lots of useful things you don't want to have to look up in the middle of a game. Including Types of actions, light sources, attack modifiers and so on. But the best thing is it lists all the conditions (Blinded, Pertrified, Stunned etc.) and what they do to a character or monster, which is brilliant because without question the sessions before I got this, I inflicted a condition on the PC's or vice versa and had to look up what it meant, which detracted from the game.
When I recieved the character sheets last month, I was very disappointed, but when I opened the Dungeon Masters screen I was very happy and would recommend it to every DM out there, buy it!
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