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The screen has four panels and is formatted in a landscape style rather than a portrait. The 4th Edition DM screen offers a variety of handy reference tables for the DM's quick reference. The quality of the cardstock is excellent, very sturdy and should last quite a while. The tables are generally ones that are used regularly, particularly the breakdown of the various states combatants may be suffering from. Others, such as the price of a meal, may not be terribly necessary to have visible at all times, but overall the right information is here to accelerate the game pace. The side of the screen facing the players has an attractive mix of monsters rendered in the typical 4E style. A nice, simple product that does what you expect it to.
The kids also like the glossy pictures facing them when they play. The screen is just the right height and width to hide my DM stuff from the rest of the crew. It's really sturdy and should hold up really well. The DMs side has a ton of stats and roll results. I had picked up another set of screens thinking they were for D&D, but they were for some other role playing games and were really flimsy, too tall and not wide enough.
Dungeons & Dragons, an epic part of gaming history has with the 3rd edition become nothing more then the table top variant of World Of Warcraft or Everquest.In their efforts to simplify the system - they completely removed the possibility of real role play from the game, the limiting options and the removal of any need to think or plan ahead, overall the system seems geared to playing with the minis they want to sell you, and to making a profit off of old hand, rather then generating somthin new and better.
So, being a D&D vet I'm not a big fan of 4th Ed. You've read all the gripes about it and I concur, its now Roll Playing instead of Role Playing, but I do like the ease in which new players learn, so I've adopted it as a starting point for newer players and will slowly ween them off and into AD&D/3.5 Hybrid Homebrew. But when your a DM, having something like this in front of you is priceless, so if your creative, make one for yourself, if your lazy, buy this. & it does look pretty.
Sturdy, full of info. Only complaint is that it's a little pricey and needs updating from the errata.
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