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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 5209862" data-attributes="member: 19083">chat over ont he Piazza got me thinking about DM screens...I LOVE the 4th ed screen for 2 reasons:1) they finally made one low enough, so you can work/see over it! Jeesh, no use having very tall ones, they get in the way too much. The DM can't see the board.2) it is made of thick card, about damn time. thus it won't get damaged so easy Dunno about you all but DM screens always ended up needing taped up, lol.So anyway, I decided to try and design my own "ultimate" DM screen and carry all.this is the idea:it unfolds like a painting/papering table. central section and 2 halvesit's deep enough to carry some stuff, maybe a PHB, notes, character sheets, pencils or whatever.it's got it's own built in dice roller, so you never have to worry about losing dice, or loaning 'em to gits who lose 'em...adjustable inserts of text for whatever system you want to use. Does mean you will have to print up tables, etc, but that's no biggie.when it's finished I may put up blueprints (freebies) for it on me site for any folks wanting to build their own <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />this is what I've cooked up so far[sblock="SIlverblade's Ultimate Gm Screen"]<img src="http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/rhino/2010/dmscreen2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]work in progress as said.I'd use magnets and thin clear sheet to sandwich text pages in, easy to swap that waynot sure on most economic/easy way to make the dice roller and keep it strong enough, idea being you flip it 180 degrees, dice fall bottom of tubes (2 halved tubes for percentile)a large collar (fixed to housing) enclosing a flanged rim (fixed to dice tubes) is probably strongest, but without a machine shop etc hard to make that.simple rivet's kind of weak and leaves rivet/washer proud on other side which is ugly.Hm?may hunt ebay for rollers and suchbuilding it in a CAD program (Rhino) so it's accurate.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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