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<blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 2009565" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>I am going to review this product based on a few categories: Artwork, Tables and Insert.</p><p></p><p>Artwork 5/5</p><p></p><p>I find the artwork on this product to be absolutely amazing. It really stands out when compared to the other DM's Screens currently available and is an improvement over the Generic DnD screen, even with the Easley artwork. Of special note is the middle panel, the party fighting the Beholder and what I believe are orcs. The style is very evocative of the darker style that DnD 3E seems to have in comparison to 2E.</p><p></p><p>Tables 3/5</p><p></p><p>I find the tables on the screen itself to be quite useful but some of them make very little sense and do not really explain why this is a Forgotten Realms Screen. The chart of weapons has been quite helpful in play assisting me in determining exactly what weapons I want to give the random encounters I use and what exactly their threat ranges etc are. Before I purchased this screen I was constantly referencing the Player's Handbook for these things or just using the generic monsters which meant goblins were pushovers, and goblins should never be pushovers. heh heh heh.</p><p></p><p>Now the only part that makes this screen Realms specific is the Roll of the Years table and it makes absolutely no sense to place this table on a DM's Screen at all. How does this help me during a game? ANybody? Anybody? (no more Ferris Bueller jokes please!)</p><p></p><p>I use two screens in my games, the FR screen and the Scarred Lands screen and I have to say that I find the Scarred Lands screen to be a much better screen. WHereas the FR screen is pretty to look at, it is hard to read and they missed a few important tables that the SL screen has conveniently given us, like what skills can be used Untrained, Special Combat Situations, and Turn Undead (is the SL screen the only one with this on it?). There are more, but this is not the place to sing the praises of the SL screen.</p><p></p><p>Insert 3/5</p><p></p><p>I personally find the insert to be quite useful as my players beg for random encounter every session, gots to get them XPs. Most DMs do not use random encounters, and were I to have the time to plot extensively, I would not use them either. Back to the topic though, the charts for Random encounters is quite nice, but not all inclusive. Some places that should have special random encounters do not, like most of Cormyr. The tables are also hard to navigate through to find the right one as it uses an almost uniform font size throughout the text which is hard to read. </p><p></p><p>Overall the Screen is much better than the vast majority of Screens available, though I haven't seen the Kalamar screen from Kenzer & Company yet. I do suggest it as a wise purchase and have found a lot of use for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="teitan, post: 2009565, member: 3457"] I am going to review this product based on a few categories: Artwork, Tables and Insert. Artwork 5/5 I find the artwork on this product to be absolutely amazing. It really stands out when compared to the other DM's Screens currently available and is an improvement over the Generic DnD screen, even with the Easley artwork. Of special note is the middle panel, the party fighting the Beholder and what I believe are orcs. The style is very evocative of the darker style that DnD 3E seems to have in comparison to 2E. Tables 3/5 I find the tables on the screen itself to be quite useful but some of them make very little sense and do not really explain why this is a Forgotten Realms Screen. The chart of weapons has been quite helpful in play assisting me in determining exactly what weapons I want to give the random encounters I use and what exactly their threat ranges etc are. Before I purchased this screen I was constantly referencing the Player's Handbook for these things or just using the generic monsters which meant goblins were pushovers, and goblins should never be pushovers. heh heh heh. Now the only part that makes this screen Realms specific is the Roll of the Years table and it makes absolutely no sense to place this table on a DM's Screen at all. How does this help me during a game? ANybody? Anybody? (no more Ferris Bueller jokes please!) I use two screens in my games, the FR screen and the Scarred Lands screen and I have to say that I find the Scarred Lands screen to be a much better screen. WHereas the FR screen is pretty to look at, it is hard to read and they missed a few important tables that the SL screen has conveniently given us, like what skills can be used Untrained, Special Combat Situations, and Turn Undead (is the SL screen the only one with this on it?). There are more, but this is not the place to sing the praises of the SL screen. Insert 3/5 I personally find the insert to be quite useful as my players beg for random encounter every session, gots to get them XPs. Most DMs do not use random encounters, and were I to have the time to plot extensively, I would not use them either. Back to the topic though, the charts for Random encounters is quite nice, but not all inclusive. Some places that should have special random encounters do not, like most of Cormyr. The tables are also hard to navigate through to find the right one as it uses an almost uniform font size throughout the text which is hard to read. Overall the Screen is much better than the vast majority of Screens available, though I haven't seen the Kalamar screen from Kenzer & Company yet. I do suggest it as a wise purchase and have found a lot of use for it. [/QUOTE]
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