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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guyanthalas" data-source="post: 4503818" data-attributes="member: 73919">After reading this post for a while, I decided to take a crack at making my own DM screen. I kept getting new ideas while doing it, and I’m exceptionally pleased with the results.To start with, we bought a foam core board at JoAnn’s (about $3.00) and cut it into 4 segments. The segments were spray painted black (yes, you can probably buy black foam core, I just didn’t look hard), then duck taped together to form a hinge at each panel connection. It was important to measure this correctly has it needed to lie (relatively) flat when not in use and folded up. Originally the plan was to just make a three panel DM screen as I thought 4 panels was too much to have on the gaming table at one time. My friend Tim gave me the inner panel idea (swing flap) that can swing back and forth:[sblock="Swing Flap"]<img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/IMAGE_039.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/IMAGE_040.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]This was a brilliant modification and allowed for two modes that the screen can be in; Story mode and combat mode. I’ll start by explaining story mode. Important note! This is a birthday gift for our dungeon master, and he is left handed. I imagine that if you are right handed you would want to change the position of the swing flap and probably do these flaps in reverse order. [sblock="Story Mode"]<img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/IMAGE_038.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Player Character (Far right): We purchased report cover folders at OfficeMax ($4.50?) and I super glued the plastic holder to the top of the board (it’s the green piece). The concept was to print out a list of our current party (see below), and put it behind the plastic cover. This way it could be easily written on with a Visa-vi (wet-erase marker), and updated as the DM sees fit. My thoughts were penalties and enhancements. Hopefully this will stop the DM from asking “Does a 16 vs. reflex hit you, Guy?”[sblock="PC Tab"]<img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/IMAGE_033.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]The detailed character sheet is produced more clearly below. As you can see it has all the important defenses and what I considered important “passive” skill checks. I forgot religion, but will add that in later if need be. Also of note is the “Bloodied?” and “AP?” field. These are meant to be check boxes. Some monsters do different things to bloodied foes, so it might be useful for the DM to know. The AP field is useful for characters to be “reminded” that they already used an action point this encounter.Also of important note: I did not have my parties stats on hand when making this (and they failed to reply to my text messages), so I made up a joke list of party members. These are not our scores or the characters we are playing, but inside jokes about the kind of people we are. Don’t read into it. ;-)[sblock="PC Sheet"]<img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/PCChart.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Story (Middle):This part changes the most during the game, and I wanted there to be an easy way to put up the campaigns notes easily. I used magnets for this task (OfficeMax $2.50), and a flap of cloth to hold them together in a strap like fashion to prevent them from getting lost (JoAnne’s, $1.69). Super glued the magnets to the cloth, and now it clips to the front and back of the board. It holds quite a few pages at a time (20 was my test) and could probably do more with stronger magnets. If you wanted you could probably use some sort of clip as well, but I was worried a clip would damage the foam core when it closes.[sblock="Story Tab"]<img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/IMAGE_037.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/IMAGE_036.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Skill Checks (right side of swing flap):This was included because I thought it was one of the more useful things in the DM Screen posted by Klaus. Thanks by the way for all of your efforts! Its just a reference sheet and doesn’t change. My place of business has a laminator, so I have no idea how much that would cost normally.[sblock="Skill Tab"]<img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/Skills.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Combat Mode:Swing in the swing flap and we enter combat mode. All of the things displayed now are combat related. You’ll notice that the PC flap is still visible but the story board has been covered up. I figure that the PC tab will always be useful, and it should be visible in both combat and story mode.[sblock="Combat Mode"]<img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/IMAGE_034.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Combat Conditions (left side of swing flap, now middle of screen):This is another extremely useful DM screen piece made by Klaus. As with the other side of the swing flap, this is not meant to be changed or edited (unless some errata is made known). It has all the nice little information in regards to combat.[sblock="Combat Info"]<img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/Combat.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Monsters! (Far left flap):This has the same setup as the PC flap. A report cover plastic holder super glued to the top. A monster spreadsheet was printed out and put into the middle and can be written on with a wet erase marker. I thought that monster name, running damage total and bloodied were important things to know. Bloodied is a check box again. Again, this should be blank when you put it into your screen and modified as the DM sees fit depending on which combat s/he is running. The current monsters are just (hopefully obviously) jokes. I left enough space for seven monsters, but with some tweaks I can imagine this holding much more then that.[sblock="Monster Tab"]<img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/IMAGE_035.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Cover Art:The outside has been decorated by various art I found on the ENWorld forums. I think its important that art goes on the outside! Great job artists, you have a talent that I wish I had!Beholder (middle): <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/art-gallery-cartography-miniatures-painting/242224-3d-art-i-beholder.html#post4492420" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/art-gallery-cartography-miniatures-painting/242224-3d-art-i-beholder.html#post4492420</a>Illithid and Dragon: Somewhere on the forums that I can’t find now. L I’ll update this as soon as I find them again.[sblock="DM Screen Art"]<img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/guyanthalas/DnD/IMAGE_032.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]There you have it folks, Guyanthalas’s DM Screen 4000. (Or some catchy name at least). Feel free to comment on it, as I’m curious what you may think! Happy gaming and thanks a lot for all the brain seeds you provided!</blockquote>

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