The Master's Tome Customizable GM Screen

Greetings my fellow adventurers, I left the tavern shortly after our cheery group of adventurers finished up the initial quest and unlocked several tantalizing side plots (Seriously guys that goblin attack wasnt a random encounter it actually leads to a dungeon craw with countless, well ok 12 , but countless caverns filled with horrible green evil goblin groupies to kill! take the Damn lead! seriously, but I digress. ) and jogged on over to the interwebal mercantile under the giant lowercase a sign and evil orange grin, looking for a DM screen. i found this one quickly and after some deliberation, admittedly placing it my wishlist and then stopping by the local game shop to see if I could give them my slightly difficultly earned 1s and 0s in exchange for a screen for which I could make my own charts and edit monsters and generally hide notes from my eager adventuring friends. ALAS, no dice, well they had plenty of dice but no customizable screens like this one. So back to the story, I told you I digress. It arrived via the typical mysterious brown box on my door step in a very short time, I immediately opened it to find this treasure! its a high quality device of (red in my case) plastic. yep just what I ordered. The quality was what i expected. its essentially a quad folded binder cover type device. the outward facing tome looking graphics were of high quality and the whole unit seemed quite durable. the DM or GM inserts were also on high quality paper and the printing was crisp and clear. Sliding the pages into the sleeves is best done slowly as clear plastic isnt loose but seriously go slow and the pages wont wrinkle. It stands up nicely on the table and in the next game session i will snap a few soul captures of it and post them. I am pleased with the purchase and cant wait to use it to add more mystery to the next adventure. If you are looking for a DM screen you want to be able to customize buy with confidence. Happy Adventuring Friends

This Dungeon Master's (DM) / Game Master's (GM) Screen is great. I only recently started playing Tabletop RPG games because my kids all expressed an interest in playing Dungeon's & Dragons. They at the time were 13, 12, and 6 and none of us had ever played before. or knew what to do. Due to ages and unfamiliarity with the rules I decided I would have to be the DM. We enjoyed game play but we quickly discovered that it involved a lot checking and rechecking rules and spells and process in the books which was taking a lot of time, especially since we usually play only once a week to once every other week... just enough time to forget most of the rules. Enter this screen. It obviously gives me a physical screen so they can't see everything going on behind the scenes which is practical but I wonder if it might have been better to make it a landscape orientation as opposed to portrait as it's tall enough to also block my view of the table. My kids like the visual aspect of using maps and miniatures but this is tall enough that it blocks my view and I must stand up to look over it to see the table. It does have a total of 8 pockets but, effectively I would really only use 4. If it is being used as a screen then 4 face the table and 4 face the DM. Still, 4 pockets are enough to hold a lot of information. The pages come with one side geared towards pathfinder rules and other towards D&D 5e. I can't attest to the usefulness of the pathfinder sides as we've no experience with pathfinder but the sheets for D&D were pretty great. What's nice is that as we continue to play and the rules become easier and what info I want in front of me changes it's easy to change out the sheets. Of course the original sheets are larger than a standard paper which makes any sheets you create to put in it look silly because it doesn't fill the space the right way.

I’ve had this screen for about 18 months and thought it was time I write a review. First, I bought this primarily due to the fact that both sides of every panel can be customized with my own inserts. I’ve never found a DM screen that has exactly the information I want and this allowed me to make inserts that perfectly meet my needs. It also allowed me to put campaign related artwork facing the players. It works great for that. I can’t comment much on the inserts included as I briefly glanced at them, saw they had things I don’t want and tossed them. Others might find to them useful, but as I said, I bought this so I could make it meet my preferences. I like the size of it, but I always have a large table and like a lot of space, so this is great for me. I also like a tall set of screens to shield my references from wandering eyes. But, I know some have less space, prefer shorter screens, or otherwise might find this too large. Each panel is taller and wider than a letter sized sheet of paper, so it’s not small. Finally, after 18 months of use, I wanted to on durability. We play every other weekend. So, at this point I’ve unpacked and repacked it less than 50 times. And, seams where it folds have started to break apart. One of the clear covers on each side have started to break away so they will no longer properly hold an insert. I suppose that for the price getting 40-50 sessions out of it isn’t bad. But, if you are looking for a DM screen that will last years, this isn’t it. But, if you want your own inserts with the information you prefer and to be able to display your choice of art, this is great! Of course, I’d prefer it lasted longer, but my priority is customization at a reasonable price and this meets my needs better than any other screen I’ve found.

I was nervous when I saw that this was made of cardboard, but it's surprisingly hefty and sturdy. The pockets are easy to slide an 8.5"x11" paper into. I also really appreciate that there are pockets on both sides. This let's me display important info to my players like maps, monster images, terrain info, etc.

The inserts it comes with are completely useless to me. Reference-sheets are cool and for someone new to D&D it might be nice, but I’m not new so they aren’t. Some people like to make to make things awful for themselves and DM more than 4 players so it’s frustrating that the player reference sheet only supports 4. I do not see myself ever using these sheets ever, I’d rather make my own. Save for the “tome” covers, those look nice and I was expecting those to be baked onto the screen itself. To see that EVERY side is customizable is very nice. Especially when you can use dry erase markers. That said, the dimensions of the sleeves are also strange and while the given inserts fit them just fine (after some effort), regular letter-size (8.5”x11”) paper will leave room on the sides while exactly hitting the top of the sleeves, which looks very strange. If you can somehow get something closer to 9.5” x 10.5” it might look significantly better. But I find it ironic that despite having sleeves like this they aren’t that well-suited to the most common printer dimensions. It’s not as friendly for the DIY crowd as you’d think. Oh and you have to fold this up in a VERY specific order. It does not like being folded the wrong way and you’ll know when you get it wrong within seconds of trying to pack it up. To be honest though, these are nitpicks at best. It’s still the best I could find and is legitimately good for the price. If you do like doing DIY stuff and want a similar “vibe” of fantasy-styled paper for your own inserts, look into Homebrewery. If you are willing to learn its specific flavor of markdown you can get inserts that look VERY close to these but with more customizability.

I had a session in person planned as a DM. As usual I procrastinated, and waited till the last minute for session preparation.. Thankfully this DM screen came in clutch! Same day delivery, 5e AND Pathfinder compatable notes and ques! It has everything you need regardless of what TTRPG you have in store. The laminate is dry erase compatible and the material is sturdy and durable. For 20 bucks this was a steal. I'm recommending this to my other friends who want to get into being a game master!

I have used this for 2 combat sessions and 4 non-combat sessions of D&D as a DM/GM. It has made checking stats super fast and easy. The screen is designed to have a paper protector on each side for easy customization and the original art screens it comes with a beautiful. This screen can accommodate 8.5" x 11" paper with space to spare. It is solid and thick enough to not let your papers on the GM/DM side been seen by the players. The screen can fold almost flat for easy storage and/or travel. I have already recommended this screen to 2 of my GM/DM friends.

My main advice is: don't pay more than $10 for this no matter what. The quality just isn't worth any more than that. Here's what you will want to know: - This is basically four PVC ring binder covers fabricated together as a single four-panel sheet of PVC-coated chipboard with clear PVC pockets. This is absolutely a great idea for this sort of GM screen purpose since you can easily swap out the contents of the pockets with anything you want, but the materials used aren't the best for this design. - The hinges are just the same PVC that the chipboard is laminated with, and PVC isn't very durable when used as a hinge like this, so expect them to start splitting at some point. I plan to just cut them and glue fabric tape hinges on when this eventually happens. - Laser toner will eventually stick to the clear PVC outer pockets, so that will end up being a problem if you're printing your inserts on a laser printer and leaving them in the pockets for a long time. Laser prints and possibly some ink jet prints will need to be covered with another layer of plastic of some sort to keep toner from sticking to the pocket covers if sheets will be left in the pockets for more than a month or so. - The included reference inserts aren't too bad, but the real value here is that you can use whatever you want. So don't worry if the graphics of the included inserts look ugly, you can just take those out. The color of the vinyl doesn't matter much either since hardly any of that shows anyway. - The screen I received had a small gash in one of the pockets and some creases in the same pocket, so the quality control isn't that great on these. In short, these screens are a very good idea, especially if you're not playing D&D or Pathfinder and need totally different reference sheets. The graphics and color can all be ignored since those can all be changed, but the construction quality just isn't that great so I would not pay more than $10 for them. For $10 these seem to be an OK deal.