Product Description

Official Dungeon Master s screen for the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons® Roleplaying Game This four-panel cardstock screen features new full-color artwork and allows Dungeon Masters to keep their campaign notes and die rolls private, without blocking their view of the game table. Easy-to-reference rules and tables appear on the inside panels of the screen; these are designed for the Dungeon Master s eyes only and comply with the rules in the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game core rulebooks. Quick and easy play: This official Dungeon Master s Screen enables faster game-play by allowing the Dungeon Master to reference important rules information quickly. The outside of the screen facing the players features a lavish full-color illustration depicting iconic D&D monsters in a classic dungeon environment. The Dungeon Master s Screen accessory complies with the 4th Edition D&D game rules.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34496 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Board book
• 1 pages

Customer Reviews

Very Happy
Don't be put off by the (Paperback) next to this products name, the screen is actually hardback, unlike the 3rd edition screen, which I am impressed with since the new one doesn't fall over or bend.
It is longer than the last one, meaning DM's can hide more sneaky stuff behind it *snigger* and the art is very good, depicting a gargoyle, beholder, vampires, lamia, mind flayer, umber hulk, black dragon, bugbears, troglodytes, drow, drider, hell hounds, fire giant and a roper, *phew*.
On the DM's side are over a dozen tables listing lots of useful things you don't want to have to look up in the middle of a game. Including Types of actions, light sources, attack modifiers and so on. But the best thing is it lists all the conditions (Blinded, Pertrified, Stunned etc.) and what they do to a character or monster, which is brilliant because without question the sessions before I got this, I inflicted a condition on the PC's or vice versa and had to look up what it meant, which detracted from the game.
When I recieved the character sheets last month, I was very disappointed, but when I opened the Dungeon Masters screen I was very happy and would recommend it to every DM out there, buy it!

Must have DM tool
An excellent product that has been a great help to me during the transition from 3rd to 4th edition. The best DM screen I have ever owned and I can't recommend it highly enough to other DM's. It saves an enormous amount of time having all the important tables right in front of you especially, if like me, you are brand new to 4th edition.

A vast improvement, like the rest of the game has been so far.
The screen is a 4 fold, landscape format made with thick cardboard that is laminated. They said it would stop a dice being thrown and they were right! More like a tip over proof DM screen.

Using a landscape format of the four panel wide screen is amazing, it makes it feel that your still apart of the table without cutting you off from your players. You can still see most of the dice rolls, and the action on the dungeon tiles without having to stand up every time something happens.

The outside is a well-done piece of artwork features all of D&D's most famous monsters together in one scene.

The inside contains lots of handy tables taken from the Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide for quick reference. While I probably don't need the XP listings in the middle of a game, I do like how they have all of the status effects and standards DC checks all listed in a very easy to follow and find format. While some people prefer the new DCs the errata has release (which did not make it onto this dm screen), on the plus side, the errata is a nice printable PDF that you can cut out and stick on your screen.

Overall, a vast improvement, like the rest of the game has been so far.

Unfortunately Wizards of the Coast are being affected by the credit crunch and sadly they have recently had to restructure and lay off some staff.

As an example of this they will no longer be producing the D&D Collectible Miniatures Game, instead focusing on non-random and semi-random miniature packs aimed at those role playing 4th edition D&D. There will be two types of packs, one type aimed at players with player characters and the other type aimed at DM's with monsters. Good news for role players and bad news for miniature players.