Customer Reviews

GURPS GM's Screen

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

It's a GM Screen, tables, charts, etc. Pretty good selection and i like the multi-panel design. However, it is ruined by the cover art. Man, couldn't they find some better art? Even recycled art from older books would've been better than the disappointing cartoon-y purple travesty that is the cover of the GURPS GMs Screen.

What could be more useful to a GM than a screen that doubles as a reference and a cover for his campaign secrets? This one for GURPS is very nice.