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D&D 5E – DM Screen – Revised

5 Comments Posted by on November 27, 2023

A follower of this blog sent me a revision to my DM Screen (HERE). I bereave it is an improvement so I thought I would share it with everyone.

You can download your free copy HERE.

Here is his description:

In case you are interested, I edited your provided sheet a little to suit my preferences as a DM. I primarily replaced the whole player actions part with DM focused material, including the stuff that was present in WotC original screens regarding encounter visibility and suffocating. I also adjusted some graphic elements (such as table rows not following proper background order) as well as fixed some minor typos. I also changed/standardized some uppercasing to my preference.

Note to the one who sent this to me anonymously. If you would like me to include your name or a link to your web site here, just let me know.

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5 responses to “D&D 5E – DM Screen – Revised”

  1. Unknown's avatarAnonymous November 27, 2023 at 8:49 am

    No need to give me any credit for these changes, the credit is yours. I found your 3-page DM screen sheets to be the best one out there and I am very thankful for your work!

    I was looking through quite a large number of DM sheets available, including plenty of paid ones and I found plenty of mid to minor flaws in many of them. I could not figure out why many of them have a lot of useless information after you are not a first-time DM!? DM Sheets should remain useful throughout your campaigns even if you have done it a dozen times.

    When I found yours – especially as a three-page landscape one – I became really excited as it covered most of what I was used to from WotC screens, but formatted in a way that suits 3 pages. I do not like portrait height DM screens as they simply feel too high – I want to have a great view of players and for them to also see me. I am using the Dragon Shield three-panel landscape DM screen where you can just insert A4 pages and your sheets seemed perfect for it.

    The only issues I discovered was that some of the (although minor) useful info from WotC official screens (of which I own most of them, including wilderness and dungeon kit ones) was not present and that is why I wanted to make a few changes, replacing directly player oriented info with DM info. And it worked perfectly!

    There are other screen sheets with 4 pages out there and while I am sure I could figure out more DM-useful tables there (such as foraging DC’s and whatnot) but in all honesty most of them are a bit too niche to be included. I think that 3 pages of landscape are the best. DM should not need too much tables in front of them – it is perfectly fine to rely on books for niche stuff.

    Anyways, I wanted to just say thank you again! Your sheets have proven to be the best ones, which is saying much considering how long 5E has been around. And I am sure that your future OneDnD ones will be even better 🙂

    Much love to you and your family!

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  2. Unknown's avatarAnonymous October 11, 2025 at 8:33 pm

    Hello there, I noticed that you misspelt distraction in the “Breaking Concentration” section. Fantastic DM screen!

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