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<blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 2008392" data-attributes="member: 21076">The 3rd edition Dungeon Master's Screen consists of a four-panel screen and an 8-page booklet that can be legally photocopied. A veteran DM is going to immediately notice that the 3rd edition screen is a much thinner cardstock than the 2nd edition screen. However, this one is still nice and stiff, and stands up very easily, thanks to a slight curvature of the card stock. The art on the back is a standard-grade Easley painting, but that's not the most important part of this product. The most important factor of this product is that the charts are very useful. All of the important combat charts are on the two center panels, with the various types of actions and attack of opportunity information right in the center. The left panel has difficulty classes for various skill checks, and the right panel has some useful dungeon-crawling information. The eight page, black and white booklet consists of a &quot;combat planner&quot;, two pages on town generation, summaries of grenadelike weapons and area effects, disease and poison tables, the weapon table from the PHB, and a single page one-inch grid. Unfortunately, the booklet is of minimal use. There's nothing on the combat planner that can't easily be done with less scratch paper, the center pages don't contain anything that needs to be looked up faster than is possible with the books, and a single letter size page of grid is too small to be used effectively as a battle mat. Still, the booklet doesn't diminish the value of the screen itself, which is a good buy even without the booklet. All in all, the new DM screen is very useful tool. Unless you know all the combat charts backward and forward, and have no sensitive notes or maps to hide, you really should have one of these inexpensive screens.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IronWolf, post: 2008392, member: 21076"] The 3rd edition Dungeon Master's Screen consists of a four-panel screen and an 8-page booklet that can be legally photocopied. A veteran DM is going to immediately notice that the 3rd edition screen is a much thinner cardstock than the 2nd edition screen. However, this one is still nice and stiff, and stands up very easily, thanks to a slight curvature of the card stock. The art on the back is a standard-grade Easley painting, but that's not the most important part of this product. The most important factor of this product is that the charts are very useful. All of the important combat charts are on the two center panels, with the various types of actions and attack of opportunity information right in the center. The left panel has difficulty classes for various skill checks, and the right panel has some useful dungeon-crawling information. The eight page, black and white booklet consists of a "combat planner", two pages on town generation, summaries of grenadelike weapons and area effects, disease and poison tables, the weapon table from the PHB, and a single page one-inch grid. Unfortunately, the booklet is of minimal use. There's nothing on the combat planner that can't easily be done with less scratch paper, the center pages don't contain anything that needs to be looked up faster than is possible with the books, and a single letter size page of grid is too small to be used effectively as a battle mat. Still, the booklet doesn't diminish the value of the screen itself, which is a good buy even without the booklet. All in all, the new DM screen is very useful tool. Unless you know all the combat charts backward and forward, and have no sensitive notes or maps to hide, you really should have one of these inexpensive screens. [/QUOTE]

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