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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 2009566" data-attributes="member: 3457">Hello all another DM Screen review. I love these things. Again I will rate according to three categories: Artwork, Tables and InsertArtwork 4/5The artwork is nice and details the Scarred Lands signature character, Vladawen, with a part of adventurers exploring a forested region and encountering what I believe is a Fatling as well as the leader of the Paladin Order of Mithral. The other two pictures are of an adventurer with his back to the players making a deal with a Wrack Dragon and Vladawen returns to encounter a Slarecian remnant in the last panel. Over all the artwork is very nice and flowing from one panel to the next and the wings of the Wrack Dragon create the borders between the three illustrations on the Screen. Very nice and evocative of the Scarred Lands in the same way that the Realms Screen is evocative of the Realms and the generic Screen is Evocative of campy fun like the DnD Movie.Tables 6/5Yeah, I give the tables a 6. Why? They are that danged good. On this screen I find charts that I do not find on other screens, charts for things that come up in play unlike the Realms or Generic Screens that have come out. WHat tables are on it do you ask? Well, how about a nice list of them for those of you who don't believe me?Well, we have the GM's reference table which lists the three core rulebooks and important page numbers so that a DM doesn't have to flip through the books to find the danged things. Hs proven EXTREMELY useful in actual play.Movement rates is the next useful table usually excluded. For on the spot calculations this table has proven useful on occasion.Material Hardness/Hit points was also included in the insert for the generic Screen from Wizards, but here is printed where it will actually find use, and it is, again, EXTREMELY useful in play. Untrained Skills really helps in trying to determine if a skill is useable untrained and is very helpful to me and my players.Spellcraft... do you have to ask why this table is helpful?Jump DIstances... I find this to be a wonderful addition to the tables. Turning Undead. Before I got this screen I have no idea how I ran turning undead in my games... we had to open up the PHB so many times that I decided to fudge it somehow. Well this screen ended that problem.Lastly, SPecial COmbat situations is a wonderful addition because it is actually useful. All you need to add to this screen is the Weapons chart from the FR screen and you have accomplished perfection in Screen design and execution. The design is simple and easy to read with this black borders to seperate the tables and bright white backgrounds to pull out the letters. The font is very easy to read and there isn't a distracting background to hurt the eyes.Insert 1/5 for non SL DMs and a 4/5 for SL DMsThe insert requires two classifications because it is Scarred Lands specific. I will review it for Scarred Lands DMs first. This screen is absolutely essential for a SL DM because it contains all the necessary information for races in the Scarred Lands. In the same way that the characters chapter of your standard D20 campaign setting book outlines the differences in races in that specific setting, so does the SL DM COmpanion insert. The artwork is spot on and quite nice, the races are balanced and provide level adjustments based on the outlines in the DMG. SOme races as PC races make little sense though, like the Dark Elf (very different from standard Drow). I haven't been big on Drow being a player race as it destroys the mystique of the race.ALso included are two adventures for a DM to kickstart a Scarred Lands campaign. They both seem interesting, but I don't like commenting on adventures until I have run them. For the non SL DM this insert is almost completely useless except for the adventure which can be easily converted to another campaign setting with little to no work. Overall the best screen on the market and really helpful to the Scarred Lands DM. The only thing missing is the weapons chart from the FR screen which I also use.</blockquote>

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