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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bgaesop" data-source="post: 3970576" data-attributes="member: 57730">I just got the Hackmaster GM Shield and I'd be hard pressed to ever see myself replacing it.Of course, I could have more than one screen...Not to be a dick or anything, but if I saw that I doubt I'd even bother to sit down before quitting the game. In the majority of games I've run and played in the DM rarely used a screen, and when they did it was there to have notes and reference tables on it to speed up play. Using it just to hide the rolls is okay, but then putting the "The DM is ALWAYS right!!" on the front? And not using it as a reference in any way? Seeing that would immediately make me think "this DM is on a power trip and my character won't get a fair shake" and would put me off the game immensely. What it says to me is that you don't trust your players 'cause you're dividing them from you, your players shouldn't trust you since you admit it's to hide your rolls, you aren't placing emphasis on being prepared or setting the mood since you're not using it as a reference for your notes or charts and you're breaking up the table without using an art covered screen, and you don't know the rules well enough/you're a jerk DM because you have to remind your players that "The DM is ALWAYS right!!" before the game even begins. Good lord, I'm hard pressed to think of anything that could possibly give me a worse first impression of a DM.</blockquote>