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Shadowrun Play => Gamemasters' Lounge => Topic started by: LonePaladin on <01-02-15/0059:17>
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tl;dr Version: Has anyone made a landscape-orientated custom GM screen?
For Christmas, I received "The World's Greatest Screen", a heavy-duty customizable GM screen. It has clear pockets on both sides of every panel, so that a GM can put in whatever they want — tables, reference stuff, artwork, a sheet of metal so that magnets can stick to it, a grid for drawing battle-maps with a wet-erase marker, et cetera. I specifically requested a landscape version, because I've always felt that your standard portrait-style GM screen puts up too much of a barrier between the GM and the players.
As a result, I now have a four-panel GM screen that isn't too tall, and can be customized to show whatever I want, both to myself and to the players. (I dislike GM screens that only show artwork on the PCs' side, especially for games that could stand to put a useful table or two up there.)
Before I can use this screen, though, I need something to show on it. I can probably put together something myself, given a bit of my all-too-scarce free time, but I'd rather not if someone else has gone through the trouble. I might use their work as a starting-point to make my own later, but in the meantime why reinvent the wheel?
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I could probably put together a chart set based on the collective reference charts, but I'm away from easy access to my full computer rig until next week.
But before that, I would love to know where you got that screen. Can you share a link at all?
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That's easy.
http://hammerdog.com/twgs/
They have horizontal (portrait) and vertical (landscape) versions, both with four panels, for about $30. They also have a miniature version that's got six 4" × 6" panels for $20. That one might be worth making inserts for as well.
I think I forgot to specify, I've got both 4th- and 5th-edition games, so I'd need two sets of inserts. (One person in my current group dislikes 5th edition, so I keep the older one around to cater to him.)