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What do you put on your GM screen? (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 days ago by Paradachshund@lemmy.today to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

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I've always GM'd with my laptop, never used a screen, but I like the idea of it more and more.

I was just curious what people put on there? What do you consider essential and what has come in handy for you?

For reference I run Call of Cthulhu so especially interested in that, but I've also done DND so really just curious in general.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Call Of Cthulhu comes with a DM screen that summarizes the most important rules, at least the edition I had.
As an idea, the things I had to look up most frequently (and under time pressure) were rules on sanity loss, injuries and healing, combat maneuvers, the list of weapons.
I also like to have a long list of NPC names I can just draw from whenever the players decide that a random passerby must be plot-relevant. This can be combined with a list of quirks (limps, shy, drunk, religious, frightened, foreigner, gorgeous,...).
Pick a name, pick 2 quirks, BAM, instant NPC out of the box.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

I like that NPC generator idea. That's clever!

I actually wanted to get that DM screen you mentioned but it wasn't available where I live. Hoping it becomes available someday though.