GURPS GM's Screen [Paperback]

Steve Jackson (Author), David Pulver, and Sean Punch David Morgan-Mar (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 26, 2004

Put the amazing flexibility and power of GURPS at your fingertips with this data-packed GM's Screen. This four-panel screen features all the crucial charts, tables, and other essentials from GURPS Fourth Edition. . . . complete combat tables, reaction charts, and other references to make the GM's job faster and easier.
Also included is a copy of the new Fourth Edition version of GURPS Lite, the 32-page core of the GURPS rules. GURPS Lite is a valuable rules summary, but it's also designed, in particular, as a teaching tool . . . it makes it easy for an experienced player or GM to introduce others to the system.
This screen is beautiful, useful . . . and yes, you can use it to hide your die rolls, too.

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Steve Jackson Games; 4th edition (September 26, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556347324
• ISBN-13: 978-1556347320
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #144,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good reference, poor art, July 7, 2005

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Alan Cardenas "Cyber GM" (Elk Grove, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: GURPS GM's Screen (Paperback)

The GURPS GM Screen is a great reference for most of the tables that you would need during the course of a night's adventuring. This allows you to avoid flipping through your Basic Set books looking up these items. The inserts are extra-special too, with GURPS Lite and Character Builder and conversion. Great references. I must have been spoiled by the art of Dan Smith though, who did a lot of work on 3rd Edition Basic Set and other books. The current full color art leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe more from artist Alex Fernandez who illustrated GURPS Dragons would be the proper substitute for the missing Dan Smith.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Information, Silly Art, August 16, 2005

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Mighty Tuna (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GURPS GM's Screen (Paperback)

This is a perfect reference for a GM. Almost anything that a GM needs at his/her fingertips is on this screen. There are only two complaints I have.

A) The artwork on the front of the thing is ridiculous and silly looking (almost Disneyish).

B) The screen doesn't function extremely well as a screen. It has a little trouble staying standing up and is not quite large enough to hide all of my stuff behind. But it is functional at least.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good content, poor presentation, October 16, 2009

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Seanmoon (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GURPS GM's Screen (Paperback)

The Good: This shield is packed, simply packed, with information. It's in a small font so that might annoy some, but I'd prefer to have as much on there as possible, especially when it's as well laid-out as it is on this screen.

The Bad: The art is not only weak, but sort of cringe inducing. It must draw from the mediocre Infinite worlds setting, as it's a silly hodge podge, and a poorly executed one at that. The guy with the modern suit and the baroque nuclear flintlock blunderbuss is just silly looking, and the martial artist woman from the 4th Ed basic set books (and, I think the Martial Arts books) has a bazooka for some reason and, worse, is very poorly drawn.

The art is a quibble, but the fact that the screen is printed on such flimsy stock is not. I paid less for my white wolf screens, and they look better and are on panels about as durable as a high-end hard back.

This would be a 5-star product if not for the presentation and physical quality.