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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 5400390" data-attributes="member: 19998">Excellent question.Taking a look at mine, and numbering the panels from left to right 1-4 this is what I notice:1. Damage by level. This was quickly errated (and quickly became the poster child for 4e's rapid rules updates) and is fairly outdated.Everything else on this panel is, to my understanding, correct. Neither errata, nor essentials has changed Experience Point Rewards, food and lodging prices, light sources, and character advancement tables.2. Near as I can tell, the only changes on this panel are “"Ready or stow a shield" should be in the Standard Actions table" and “'Ready or stow a shield' should be in the Standard Actions table."Panel two concerns the basic structure of the game: what actions fall into which action categories. That hasn't really changed.3. There's a minor bit of errata in the DCs for Commonly Used Skills table, but I suspect Essentials might have slightly different DCs in general. DCs have typically been subject to severe DM fiat, so how much a change to a DC in Essentials is up to you.On the DM's Kit DM screen this panel has the DC's by level table. I consider this table the most useful table on the new screen.Back to the original screen. Fall severity by Character level is still useful. As is the cover and concealment table, AFACT.4. There's some minor errata on the healing tables, but the big thing is the list of conditions.IMHO, the conditions list is the heart of the screen. I refer to it the most. I don't have all the various changes to the conditions. They're small, but pervasive. Also, some things have "graduated" to conditions. For example, grabbed is a condition now. Nothing about it has changed, per se, but it being considered a condition and having a listing as a condition on the DM's Kit screen is I think important. Conclusion: the only time you would be wrong and likely be called on it is with a condition. Players are likely to look-up conditions they are subject to or know what a condition they impose is. So, you might run the risk of being called out for getting a condition wrong. By contrast, skill DCs are acknowledgedly the domain of the DM, so what table you use is pretty much a non-issue. That said, the DCs were changed for reason. So, if you've been having issues with the DCs on the screen, you my want to change. If not, then there shouldn't be problem.Also, the effect of new damage expressions varies widely from group to group. Some people had sever problems with the old methods (used in the MMI), others, like me, have never had a problem with them. If the old values are causing you problems, change them.Getting the screen up to snuff: I'd create print out a new conditions table, then affix it to the old screen. That would do it for me. Then again, I'm using the screen from the kit.</blockquote>

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