On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:11:35 -0500, Vreejack
<homeless.beggar@internet.crossroads.usa> wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 01:41:15 -0500, Spanky The Man
><SpankyTheMan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Ah, the good ol' Dungeon Master's Screen. Nothing shouts "Dungeons &
>>Dragons" more than a picture of a table with one of these propped up
>>at one end; it is the true shibboleth of the hobby. "TSR 9024 Dungeon
>>Masters Screen" (note the lack of an apostrophe) may not have been the
>>first of its kind, but it definitely was one of the more professional
>>of that sort of accessory made at the time. The set included /two/
>>double-sided three-panel DM screens, with more charts than any DM knew
>>what to do with. It wasn't particularly well organized but honestly,
>>nothing in that era was. Originally printed in 1978, it was
>>re-released in 1981 with little difference except for modified
>>copyright dates (this is the 1981 printing).
>>
>>This was a tough piece to finish. None of the scans I found included
>>all 12 panels in a single file, so I had to combine several PDFs to
>>get the complete set. But that was just the start; none of the files
>>had any of the panels in the correct order either. Worse, none of the
>>usual online resources showed the front and back of both screens; I
>>had to comb the 'web looking for pictures trying to figure out which
>>panel went where. Even then, none of the pictures I found ever showed
>>the complete picture, so I had to cross-reference five or six
>>different images to figure out the right order. But I persevered and
>>say with great confidence that what you will find in this file is the
>>complete package, with all the pages in the right order. Whew!
>You worked way too hard on this.
But I think the stitched-together screens look pretty, so it's all
worth it. ;-)
It seemed such a shame that all this stuff was chopped up into tiny
pieces. I'm happy to be able to restore them to their original format
so they can be appreciated in full rather than seen in fragments.
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