D&D 5E D&D Screen & Dungeon Kit

WotC has announced a new DM Screen and ‘dungeon kit’ coming later this year, including dungeon geomorph tiles, condition cards, and initiative cards.

DELVE INTO THE DUNGEONS’ DEPTHS​

Delve into dungeons with this kit for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.

This kit equips the Dungeon Master with a screen and other tools that are perfect for running D&D adventures through dungeons, whether ruined or thriving.

The Dungeon Master’s screen features a painting of a fantastic vista that plunges into the deep reaches of a mountain. Useful rules references cover the screen’s interior, with an emphasis on dungeon-delving.

• DM screen specially designed for dungeon delving, with tables for encountering monsters and exploring ruins and dungeons
• Features 36 punch out dungeon geomorph cards with pathway connection points, perfect for planning a dungeon during game preparation or for coming up with a map in the middle of play
• Customizable double sided dry-erase sheet offers unlimited versatility for tactical game play. Numbered grid for sketching maps on one side, and summary of the main actions a character can take in combat on the other
• 18 illustrated punch out condition cards, including mold and slime cards for dungeon encounters
• 9 punch out numbered and illustrated initiative cards to easily track the turn order for players, monsters, and nonplayer characters

Dungeon Master's Screen: Dungeon Kit | Dungeons & Dragons

The durable, four-panel Dungeon Master’s Screen Master offers an indispensable tool for your Dungeons & Dragons games. Order yours today!

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[eyeheartawk]

Try #3 to have a screen without wasted space and useless tables? Let's hope!

 

[Inchoroi]

Try #3 to have a screen without wasted space and useless tables? Let's hope!

I have no hope.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This looks pretty good. Is that new art?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Try #3 to have a screen without wasted space and useless tables? Let's hope!

I'm honestly too lazy to fine tune what I'd want in one, but there are tons of great choices in customizable screens nowadays, available from everywhere from specialized game shops to Amazon.

 

[el-remmen]

I find it difficult to actually read anything off a GM screen, especially a landscape (as opposed to portrait) paneled one. But I like to have one to clip print outs of necessary info in LARGER print.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Good timing as more people are vaccinated and are resuming face to face gaming. This wouldn't have much use when most of us were only doing online play. But by August? I suspect many more will be back to face to face where this would have value.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Good timing as more people are vaccinated and are resuming face to face gaming. This wouldn't have much use when most of us were only doing online play. But by August? I suspect many more will be back to face to face where this would have value.

I was thinking that exactly. Two of my younger players have been tuning out in our Zoom games, and August sounds like a good time to do an old-time face-to-face dungeon crawl with everyone in the same room together (even if the "same room" is a picnic table in someone's back yard).

 

[Shiroiken]

Try #3 to have a screen without wasted space and useless tables? Let's hope!

Unfortunately a lot of what people want will likely lead to wasted space and useless tables. I don't like all the art they put in, since the side facing the players could easily have various information useful to them (such as equipment costs, container capacity, standard travel actions, light source ranges, etc).

 

[overgeeked]

Try #3 to have a screen without wasted space and useless tables? Let's hope!

You can see a bit of art on the inside of the screen, so nope.

 

[Ibrandul]

I thought the Wilderness Kit screen was decent—3 out of 5 stars—so I'll probably pick this up, too. But for the love of Gygax, just how many sets of punch-out numbers 1 through 9 does WotC think I need before I can properly track initiative?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I thought the Wilderness Kit screen was decent—3 out of 5 stars—so I'll probably pick this up, too. But for the love of Gygax, just how many sets of punch-out numbers 1 through 9 does WotC think I need before I can properly track initiative?

I don't think they assume most people will buy all of these screens.

 

[Necrozius]

All of these kits remind me to print off my own grids and gm tool sheets and laminate them myself.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

But for the love of Gygax, just how many sets of punch-out numbers 1 through 9 does WotC think I need before I can properly track initiative?

However many they can get you to buy from them.

 

[Ibrandul]

However many they can get you to buy from them.

That . . . that's an infinite number . . . my house won't even hold that many perforated squares with the numerals 1 through 9 printed on them . . . but I'll keep buying them . . . forever . . .

 

[Benjamin Olson]

That . . . that's an infinite number . . . my house won't even hold that many perforated squares with the numerals 1 through 9 printed on them . . . but I'll keep buying them . . . forever . . .

You'll just have to get a second house. If WotC was smart they'd start selling D&D themed houses for people to store their D&D merchandise in.

 

[Lanefan]

Try #3 to have a screen without wasted space and useless tables? Let's hope!

There's no such thing as wasted space. There's just space, and if what's printed on it doesn't suit what you're running then type in and print out what you do need and tape or glue it over the material you don't need.

That said, give me portrait over landscape every time so I can clip regular papers to it and not have them getting in my way.

 

[CubicsRube]

What's happening me back from buying a d&d screen is that they never show what tables they're including on the inside.

I'd be much more tempted if I knew exactly what I was buying.

 

[Sketchpad]

I'm intrigued, but I can do without the punch out cards. Instead, I'd rather see a set of nicely done cards for the Conditions, and maybe a dry erase initiative tracker. Also, having some expanded dungeon generating rules would be pretty nice as well.

 

[Shiroiken]

What's happening me back from buying a d&d screen is that they never show what tables they're including on the inside.

I'd be much more tempted if I knew exactly what I was buying.

That would probably reduce sales, since people would know if it fit their needs or not. You're either forced to buy it blind or waiting for a review, and these types of products don't always get reviews.