DnD DM Screen 5e

Print them, fold them, stand them up. Or keep them flat beside you - they work either way.

WHAT IS ON THE FIVE PANELS

Checks, cover and light - the six difficulty numbers, all eighteen skills grouped under the ability they use, passive checks, advantage and disadvantage in one line, the three levels of cover with what each one actually gives, and what dim light and darkness do to a roll.

The turn and the fight - what a turn is made of, all ten actions explained in one line each, and the six things a player will ask you about mid-fight: opportunity attacks, grapple, shove, two-weapon fighting, critical hits and attacking something you cannot see. Plus death saves written out so nobody has to argue about them at 0 hit points, and all thirteen damage types.

Conditions - all fifteen, one line each, and the six levels of exhaustion in their own table.

Travel, movement and harm - travel pace by minute, hour and day, both kinds of rest, falling, suffocating and difficult terrain, plus long jump, high jump, climbing, swimming and squeezing.

Objects, magic and experience - what an object takes to break, by substance and by size, with the two rulings that always come with it; experience by challenge rating from 0 to 20; and the spellcasting numbers a table asks for: save DC, spell attack, concentration and ritual casting.

WHO IT IS FOR

A first-time DM who does not want to stop the evening to find a number, and a DM of ten years who is tired of the one page that never has the table on it.

THE FILES - eight PDFs: PORTRAIT and LANDSCAPE, each in A4 and US Letter, each in colour and in a printer-friendly build. Portrait fits the sleeves of a generic 4-panel screen; landscape prints, folds and stands on its own. The printer-friendly version is the same document in pure white, nothing removed.

Compatible with Fifth Edition. Instant digital download - nothing is posted.

Made with AI assistance: the layout and text of this screen were written and designed with AI assistance, then edited, checked and laid out by hand.