D&D 5E DM Screens - Which is Best for You? (New Dungeon Kit included)

So the best basic screen should be the reincarnated inside but the original on the outside?

So you don't like winging it. That's my whole DM Style.

There are a bunch of your older videos I would like to see you update. This one maybe not so much, but the mapping and other app/programs very much so. I like your work.

Put them all side by side and stack them like bricks if the players annoy you and you dont want to deal with them.

The one made by dragonshield looks awesome. Could you review that?

The OG screen has my favorite outside art, so I use that and just sticky note any useful stuff I need on the inside

D&D 5e in a nutshell. Dudes making legit attempts at beastiality and dms playing along. Just find a diff game d&d is freakishly bad in 2023. Weird mfrs and internet play is baaaaaad.

I might get the wilderness kit even though I don't play 5e. I really like the art on the front and about half of the back works with any system, I also love hexcrawls and hate dungeons.

I really like the Dungeon Geomorph Cards! Cause I won’t lie. I suck at trying to map out a good Dungeon, especially for a PDF Adventure that doesn’t come with one.

Had We gotten those cards in something like the Reincarnated Tiles, I wouldn’t see it being as a negative. Cause finding a good Random Dungeon generator is hard!

Tbh my favorite dnd material has to be chat got it so mush faster than looking thro books

I actually like the NPC pane on the OG screen, because I can customize it to whatever I want. It's just an easy pane to cover up with notes, a map, or additional tables, depending on the adventure I'm running.

I got the original 5e screen at a used book store in Houston for like $2 seven years ago and I still use it to this day. It is the one I like.

I hate that all these amazing TRPG tools have to be subscription services

The price differences is so big I mean on the website of my local Game store has the Reincarnated Screen for 20$ And the Dungeon kit at the price of 49! It’s crazy price differences

I'm going to go start a group and lead impressionable young kids to satan and the occult.

My most current DM screen is the Lorecrafter GM Screen for 5e by Infinite Black. No charts; mostly text but it does help the best for my darker sessions. I do wish to upgrade it to something that combines the things I need most, but until I gather up my fund for such a project, the Lorecrafter has been my go-to.

What about the Essentials kit one?

i dont understand why people think that the conditions are so useful. I don't need a dm screen to remember that if you're blind you cannot see. it takes up so much unnecessary space!

Very good information.
Personally, I have only ever used DM screens as just a tool to separate my part of the table and as an obstruction to sight, obviously. In all my decades of play, I used them very rarely in game sessions but mostly for reverence generally during preparation time.
If Dog Might stuff would be just more affordable I would probably own several of those screens...

My opinion is that the WOTC screens are good but don’t hit the mark and aren’t as efficient as they could be. There shouldn’t be any artwork on the DM side or at least minimal artwork. Plus the conditions don’t have to take up 1 1/2 panels. I’ve seen a lot more useful and efficient 3rd party screens and inserts that do it so much much better!

Not a bad video but I think you spent more time on the tools that come in the kits than what is present on the dm screens

I kinda want to see some short adventures based on the artwork of the DM screens now lol

I personally have the DM screen that came with the special edition phb, monster manual, and dmg. It matches my books and looks cool. Plus it has a lot of the info I need for most games in terms of status stuff and the other basic information

Pointing at a block image with small text and describing it as useful stuff gives no real info. First time I've ever given one of your vids a thumbs down.

Who has the kind of cash to spend $650 on a DM screen? Those dog might ones are seriously unaffordable.

I got the dungeon screen because I think it looks the coolest

I'm in the process of actually making my own dm screen out of foam board, and I'm using this video to figure out what tools and tables would be best to put on it.

I would 100% (Personal Opinion) go for the dungeon kit since I find the classic d&d dungeons and amazing artwork, fun and amazing to look at and use, make and challenge players who love to combat, but I ended up buying the reincarnated screen and I felt like I made a mistake but a screen is a screen, at this point I'll be collecting all Dm screens in a endless cycle because of how good the artwork is for each set!

I’m looking for adventures I can buy which will provide me with LARGE maps to be able to display on our tv tabletop?
I don’t need hard copy anything, digital everything is fine, I just can’t run a premade campaign if I can’t find the maps and details digitally

But the dungeon cards are so small???

Unfortunately the 5e reincarnated DM screen is really boring. The original 5e screen has this incredible 5e art, which gives off a proper DnD vibe, as opposed to that boring red dragon taking up the whole screen in the reincarnated one.

I wish they sold the reincarnated DM screens with the original art. The only way to get the old screen is to pay a lot of money on ebay for a used one, not to mention if you want to ship it overseas (as 99% of them are in the US), you're looking for a hefty shipping as well.

Frankly I only use the screen for that old school DnD vibe at the table, I never look at the tables, I use my laptop for everything, so the art is what's important for me.
The original art really helps people who have never played DnD understand the fantasy vibe, there is a Barbarian, a Sorceress, a Cleric, Ranger and a Rogue on the art about to attack a dragon hoarding gold, classic. The red dragon on the reincarnated screen is just uninspiring.

I started with the Stratagem DM screen, but found that, while it holds, 8x11" sleeves, the screen height blocked much of my view at my table. In addition, the Exhaustion Level table on the screen contains error(s). I'm now using the screen included with DoIP and just clipping my own notes onto the top

Next time please just lay it down flat. I feel like I'm watching a Shakey cam movie.

i noticed no rick and morty screen it is really helpful

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

Why don't they just include the Wilderness and Dungeon Kit together? This just makes it confusing for players and seems like a money grab.

You should try Pathfinder 2e. D&D 5e is awful.

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!!! I am so beyond thrilled that this is a thing, because the entire reason I like/love DnD IS THE DUNGEONS!!!! And the details of a dungeon crawl!!!!! Oh I’m so happy it’s ridiculous

This was super useful. I've been using the same screen for over a year and was curious what other ones offered. Really nice to see what each of these has to offer. Thanks!

The best DM screen is always the one you make yourself.

A good DM screen would be customizable. Imagine that on the player side, there is cool art, just like we see on some of the screens, but the inside panels are essentially trapper keepers, and the screen comes with dozens of potentially useful inserts that you could put in. As your DM skills evolve, you probably rely less heavily on some panels and maybe would like more of something else, so you change the panels.

They all waste a ton of space on the inside. Conditions are handy but they don't need to take up an entire panel. I print out my own pages and clip them inside.

Jetpack 7 makes a great dm screen. Boring but no space wasted

Conditions are a standard, get them off the DM's screen and have more useful stuff. The cards are better for conditions

I hate hate hate hate hate how EVERY SINGLE ONE has art in it. It's like dude, just please fill this to the brim with stats. No art, no roleplay flavor, just things I might forget. To me, that's the point. I hate how on even the better dm screens, the real estate is so poorly optimized.

I'll be buying this one too...

I can see shuffling the dungeon cards and make a random dungeon that way Extremely fun

I never used the inside of a dm- or GM-screen in any game. The reason is, when I look down on the screen I lose eye contact and some of magic is lost.

My favorite screen is Roll20 and google docs XD

The Wilderness Kit looks good.