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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7224291" data-attributes="member: 29398">A table of movement and travel speeds by round-minute-hour-day using feet or miles as appropriate is a biggie for me, cross-referenced with type of movement (careful search, wilderness, normal walk, run, sprint).A chart or formula for calculating encounter and-or combat xp, for when I'm not using a canned module or have modified an encounter and-or opponent.For my 1e game there's lots of other game-mechanical things I want - combat matrix, saving throw matrices for people and items, a random-action table for confusion effects, etc. - but for a 5e game I'd say the most important thing is blank space for a DM to stick her game-specific notes to.Also useful on the screen but would be different for almost every game:- game-world calendar including moon phases, major holidays/celebratons by culture/race, equinox/solstice, etc.- short notes on each character to remind me what makes them tick - particularly if there's something affecting any of them that their players don't know aboutSimple rule of thumb: if you as DM have to look it up more than once a session it's probably something you want on the back of the screen. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lan-&quot;and make sure the screen is heavy enough card stock to be self-standing and to allow things to be paper-clipped to it&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7224291, member: 29398"] A table of movement and travel speeds by round-minute-hour-day using feet or miles as appropriate is a biggie for me, cross-referenced with type of movement (careful search, wilderness, normal walk, run, sprint). A chart or formula for calculating encounter and-or combat xp, for when I'm not using a canned module or have modified an encounter and-or opponent. For my 1e game there's lots of other game-mechanical things I want - combat matrix, saving throw matrices for people and items, a random-action table for confusion effects, etc. - but for a 5e game I'd say the most important thing is blank space for a DM to stick her game-specific notes to. Also useful on the screen but would be different for almost every game: - game-world calendar including moon phases, major holidays/celebratons by culture/race, equinox/solstice, etc. - short notes on each character to remind me what makes them tick - particularly if there's something affecting any of them that their players don't know about Simple rule of thumb: if you as DM have to look it up more than once a session it's probably something you want on the back of the screen. :) Lan-"and make sure the screen is heavy enough card stock to be self-standing and to allow things to be paper-clipped to it"-efan [/QUOTE]

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