Opinions on the Conan GM Screen

[Azgulor]

Haven't found any review on the Conan GM screen. Any opinions? What are the good & bad points?

Azgulor

 

[VincentDarlage]

I don't use GM screens, but I have the Conan screen for the huge, poster-sized map of Conan's world, which is a good point for me.

 

[The King]

Haven't found any review on the Conan GM screen. Any opinions? What are the good & bad points?

Azgulor

My opinion about it is the following:
it's a great screen for the players and useful for the GM. The map is superb of course, though the paper is too thin to my taste and I have would have appreciated a more parchment-like paper.
In conclusion I find it somewhat expensive for what you get. There is no booklet of any kind associated with the screen (neither scenario or errata). Thus $15.00 is a bit high.
But sure, your players will enjoy the colourful panel with Quilliams' art.

 

[Hudson]

Yes, I have to agree. I thought the price was a tad high. (Canadian dollars for me!) The map is great! I will most likely get it laminated to avoid the inevitable rips. The Quilliams art is great.

The screen is missing the one thing I think all screens need and that is a small section on it that tells you what page to look up info in the main book that is not covered on the screen. Other than that, pretty cool.

 

[cyrus]

Is the map that comes with the GM screen merely an enlargement of the one from the basic rulebook inside cover, or does it show more detail?

$15 does seem kinda expensive, but I guess that's consistent with the pricing of all the other Conan books, which are about 50% more than I'd like to pay for them :-(

 

[The King]

Is the map that comes with the GM screen merely an enlargement of the one from the basic rulebook inside cover, or does it show more detail?

$15 does seem kinda expensive, but I guess that's consistent with the pricing of all the other Conan books, which are about 50% more than I'd like to pay for them :-(

The map that comes with the screen has more details. It is more like the one you see in the inside cover of the Road of Kings sourcebooks.

 

[Damien]

I thought about getting the screen - a friend of mine had it. I looked at it - and I agree with some others here that the only really cool thing about it was the map.

So I downloaded a Hyborean map from Mongoose's website, and had my fiance print it out on gloss cardstock, 11" x 17" -- - looks awesome. Gotta love a fiance' that works at a print shop, can draw, can paint, and paints wargaming miniatures.

I'm a lucky boy.

 

[Diabolus]

I'd rather a screen that offered more in the lines of play-aids than a map. Either a scenario or some additional rules, heck - throw in a 10 page black and white booklet on gladitorial combat or something. I'm sure there's a use for that somewhere and everyone loves gladiators! :wink:

Maps are well and good, but I use the game system with another campaign world, so $15 for a screen itself wasn't worth it to me.

 

[Ashigaru]

The GM's Screen was, IIRC, released right after the first printing of Conan. Does it need any updating for use with the Atlantean Edition? Errata and so forth?

 

[The King]

The GM's Screen was, IIRC, released right after the first printing of Conan. Does it need any updating for use with the Atlantean Edition? Errata and so forth?

I can't answer there because I don't have the AE. However I don't think there is much change in the tables.
That being said I still would appreciate some kind of errata.