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

[pming]

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

 

[Jeff Albertson]

A truncated list of the party's stats:

-AC
-HP
-Resistances
-Immunities
-Passive Perception

 

[Jester David]

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

 

[Jeff Albertson]

Damage by level

Does that exist in 5th Ed?

 

[TarionzCousin]

"Secret" plans to ruin each PC that somehow get accidentally revealed during game play. Oops.

 

[Quickleaf]

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.

 

[Rabbitbait]

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.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

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

Most of that stuff isn't even needed in 5e--more room for your screen!

 

[Sword of Spirit]

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).

 

[Psikerlord#]

Some good suggestions here. I also put the random traps and hazards tables on my screen. Just in case.