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I’m making a GM screen for my VtM game, so I bought an old horror mag and used it to collage ✌️ the other side is a magnetic whiteboard so I can write notes easily! now I just need to add the hinges to attach them together - this is what they're gonna look like together:

#personal #vampire the masquerade #gm screen

MY DREAM IS REAL

Thank you to the incredibly talented @andengeu for this commemorative piece! Now a little bit of my first 5 campaigns (LS, EWW, 20COI, TSC, and LEDI) can follow me around to all my new games as a custom GM screen! I’ll probably add some stuff to the inside eventually, but for now I just want to appreciate the gorgeous art!!!!!!

#my campaign #d&d #GM #game master #dungeon master #gm screen #commission #not my art #LEDI campaign #ttrpg #tabletop

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!)

#ttrpg #tabletop rpg #windows xp #old web #gm screen #dm screen

Dungeoneerium Custom GM Screen by Liew YenHwa (Bad Moon Art Studio)

#Fantasy #ARt #Dungeoneerium #GM Screen #Liew YenHwa #Bad Moon Art Studio

So I had one of these. ☝️

But what I wanted was one of these. 👇

So I made one...

#gm screen #handmade #made from the trash around my house

Why A Gm Screen?

I first had the idea for the basic concept of a game on a gm screen when Reizor was talking about player screens at TableTopCon. She described them as (to paraphrase and massively oversimplify) equalizing the power between player and gm.

This idea really intrigued me and I had an concept: what if there was a screen where information wasn't limited to one person, but rather each player had access to different information and the goal was to work together each utilizing that different information.

It was then that I remembered something that had happened to me several years ago. I was at a wedding in Denmark and had been sat next to a Norwegian friend with the assumption she could translate for us both. Anyone familiar with the nuances and differences between Norwegian and Danish knows that's a tall order. Luckily a Danish friend stepped in, crouching between us at the table to translate.

I'm forever grateful to this friend, especially because she didn't have access to the speeches beforehand. She was literally translating the speech, line-by-line, on the fly. Remembering this gave me an idea: what if I adapted that into a game using a gm screen? In some ways, having each player looking at each other whilst also each having access to their own information is perfect for this game.

It highlights the connections between each player and how they can be formed despite the language barrier. It gets players thinking about the nuances of translation, how to communicate the feel of something rather than a word-for-word translation.

Sure, you can directly translate a speech word for word, but would that get across the wordplay, the jokes and the central themes? Would it be coherent in it's meaning? Or do you attempt to take a more nebulous approach? Is that speech still the same speech at the end?

All of these questions are things I try to explore in To Speak In A Strange Wedding, if any of this ramblings appeal please check it out.

#indie ttrpg #ttrpg #indie ttrpg designer #ttrpg stuff #gm screen #To Speak In A Strange Wedding #weddings #Danish language #Norwegian language #indie tabletop #table top role playing game #table top roleplaying games #table top games #tabletop

the topic of bang the doldrums brings up something ive been struggling to admit to because of how much i hate the meta around that song but i have to admit. best friends ex friends to the end better off as lovers and not the other way around the tombstones were waiting they were half engraved they knew it was over but just didnt know the date happily ever after below the waist. you guys dont know this but this describes rhea and jules to a T.

#dils declares #gm screen #like its so them. its like the prologue in romeo and juliet but for lesbians surviving in a cyberpunk dystopia

My GM Loadout

Knave 2e for characters & core mechanics. Some light houseruling for things like initiative & reactions using community ideas I've read online, in Knock!, and some of my own homebrewings.

jodthecod's Knave 2 character sheet

OSE Referee's tome for monster stats and magic items.

The Monster Overhaul to flesh out NPCs and monsters. Maybe use the statblock if I prefer it over OSE.

To make dungeons, I use the six room dungeon generator. I populate it with traps I've garnered from random tables around the net, most notably 34 good traps. Lots of random tables in Knave to help with dressing & themes, npc motivations, etc.

OSE GM screen has the best art. I use the 2 knave end leaf spreads and some of my own houseruling notes blutacked on the inside.

A5 Binder for rearrangeable campaign notes, tracking dungeon turns, monster HP etc.

I keep all the books and notes I can in a a5 card box from Muji.

Meeples as miniatures when combat gets too tricky for theatre of the mind. Pictured: fighting peryton (donkeys) on a fishing sloop with mercs (white) and sailors (green).