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From: Vreejack <homeless.beggar@internet.crossroads.usa>
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Subject: Re: TSR Initiative - 1st Ed DM Screen (1981) - "Dungeon Masters Screen (1979, 1981) (1E).pdf" (00/10) 2.8 MBytes yEnc
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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 must say that it appears that
we now have the canonical booteg.
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