I assume this will be coming out after the DMG.
I'd like to see what conditions give Advantage and Disadvantage for sure, as well as what things are what types of Actions. Also some standard stuff such as various tasks with their Save DCs, traps and DCs, etc.
Thoughts?
No love for this product?
Tables useful to players (in large print) on the outside, I'd rather have utility than artwork.
I want the standard style Dm screen including relevant page numbers for rules quotes. I do want bad ass art on the player side done by Tyler Jacobson.
That dude is an awesome artist.
I don't use a DM's screen. If I did, I suppose I would want it to be opaque and corporeal.
I can't think of any references I would need regularly. The base mechanics are really straightforward.
TiaNadiezja wrote:
I prefer not to use one as a barrier between myself and the PC's, but I do like an easy to use/read table reference chart. 5e doesn't seem to need a chart of many DC's, condition explanations, etc. however. Really a laptop is the best DM aid/screen, IMO. I keep encounters and track monster HP on a computer (wordpad/notepad works fine), campaign notes on a computer (word doc), but still use paper for my maps, and for some notes.
One thing I'd like to see someone sell, however, is a screen that had the combat round/turn flow printed on the player side (for newbies) and a dry erase bar at the top for initiative tracking and round counting.
I love playing with dry erase boards, and even my PC's each have an 8x10 one for HP, conditions, expended spells/powers/ammo, etc. Writing and erasing and re-writing on a paper character sheet sucks. (And we don't all own tablets/smart phones.) Really, that's tons more useful at the table during play than a folding one-sided static chart of stuff form the PHB and DMG.
Thick durable cardboard, I was shocked when I saw the Pathdinder one for the 1st time used to the ye olde AD&D ones or the 3.5 freebie that shipped with Dungeon Magazine 10 years or so ago.