#dm screen

[mmothmanners]

My amazing D&D party gifted me a homemade DM screen for the ending of our 5 year campaign. It's my BBEG lich and the crystals of the game. And I am overwhelmed with how incredible this is. I am truly so blessed.

Screen lovingly and fantastically crafted by @adoradoi

[captain-pentagon]

DM Screen Design Project

To help my players that are new to DND, I made a DM Screen with a modular design emphasized on displaying information and visuals to the players, such as NPC portraits, campaign information, and actions to take during combat.

the design was inspired by cassette packages, New York City subway signages, and the George Benson Beatles cover album.

Product shots

Chapter covers

My players called themselves The Beetles. Aren't they cute?

NPC Portraits

I opted for a more diverse art direction across the illustrations, choosing styles and compositions that best capture the world and life of each individual NPC, over cohesion between the portraits.

Thank you for reading!

[hormonalroleplayingtherapy]

Some old school art + reminders for my new players

[littjara-mirrorlake]

Super happy with how my custom DM screen for Glistener's Guide to New Phyrexia turned out!

(There's 2 middle panels, but those are a bit harder to photograph due to how they fold.)

Next stop: Chicago!

[lucheek]

The WinGM Screen! A wooden Game / Dungeon Masters screen, themed like nostalgic Windows XP!

I'm very tickled by it.

I designed the pattern for the folding screen, with 2 built-in dice towers, myself- and drew the artwork for the panels as well. I laser-cut and painted the wood, and pressed the sublimation elements, too. It also has a dry-erase board on the inside, as well as magnets to help it lock closed!

I hope to sell these through my day-job soon!

(This first version has a bit of a transfer issue on the artwork, and need a bit of a modification on the internal path of the dice towers…. so this prototype one is all-mine!)

[geminivriskq]

Finished dm screen!!!!! Themed after the villain in my campaign!!!! Made from a trifold, acrylic paint, and a lil bit of ribbon <3

[tofu-bento-box]

pov: you show up to your curse of strahd session and this is the DM’s screen

this took forever (30+ hours) so now everyone has to tell me how cool i am and show their friends. i still need to finish off the edges and add the center fold, but at least the design’s done.

process below the cut!

materials talk first. the skull is done in micron pen, with the solid areas being filled in with various black markers. the colors and large black areas are done with acrylic paint. this is all being put on a cheap trifold board. maybe it would have ripped less if it wasn’t two years old, but it worked out fine in the end

anyway i cut the cardboard for this WAY too big at the start of the project, so it was banished to the corner of my room for over a year. i don’t even have pictures of it. anyway i had to cut the thing into pieces and then tape it back together

those finished crescent moons were originally above the horns. not anymore bucko

next step: cover almost the entire thing with painter’s tape. draw the design you’ll be masking. cut away and remove half the tape (while praying the cheap trifold board doesn’t rip)

and then paint it. paint it again because you’re using cheap paints and bright colors. peel the rest of the tape off (more praying). and then paint the newly uncovered areas black. give up on doing a second coat because it’s been twenty hours already

there. not hard at all. can you feel my eye twitching through the screen

fyi if you’ve made it this far, i don’t regularly post art. you can follow me because i’m super cool and funny, but this is not an art account

[oldschoolfrp]

The Combat Shield and Mini-adventure for Basic and Expert D&D served the same role as AD&D's DM screen, with art by Jeff Easley facing the players along with the PC experience tables for level advancement, and important tables for the DM on the opposite side (TSR, 1984). This was for the 1983 3rd version of Basic D&D and 2nd version of Expert, to which TSR added Companion in 1984, followed by Master and Immortal Rules in the following 2 years to complete the "BECMI" D&D set.

The 8-page adventure "The Treasure of the Hideous One" by David Cook includes a full page scroll of backstory in tiny italic text, which seems an unnecessarily tedious way to begin a short adventure.