D&D 5E Must-Have's on personal DM's screen

pming

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Hiya.

I'm just wondering if anyone has made their own DM's screen, and if so, what charts/tables/info from the DMG you have on it? I have all the stuff from the PHB that I use, but I still have space and am going to hit the DMG up for filling it.

Are any tables/etc in the DMG that are "must haves" that really don't look like it at face value?

What's on your screen?

^_^

Paul L. Ming
 

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Cover and concealment
List of actions
Conditions and their description
Light
Rates of overland travel
Skills and related abilities
Table of DCs
Damage by level
challenge calculation table with damage/hp/DCs/AC
 



Good suggestions so far. Some things I am including that havent been mentioned yet in my DM screen are:
  • The chase rules in abbreviated form (DMG 252).
  • Mob attacks (DMG 250).
  • Object stats and damage types (DMG 247).
  • Map travel pace (DMG 243).
  • Common wilderness & dungeon hazards in abbreviated form (DMG 110 & 105).
  • Visibility, underwater (DMG 117), at sea (DMG 119), outdoors (DMG 243), dungeon ?
  • Exhaustion track (PHB 291).
  • List of NPC names.

Does that exist in 5th Ed?

Yes, unquestionably.

For monsters, see DMG page 274: Monster Statistics by Challenge Rating.

For traps, see DMG page 121: Damage Severity by Level. This is also replicated on page 249: Improvising Damage.
 
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I'm a big fan of the list of trinkets from the PHB, myself.

I don't use it all the time, but probably once every couple of sessions one of those trinkets is found and the party discuss at length what it might mean.

:devil:
 


The thing I find myself hunting for and wishing I had available is the improvising damage table (the part that says 1d10 for burning coals--I don't get much use out of the following table).
 


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