GM's Screens are tools and I usually don't think about them much. But there is one that stands out. The AD&D Dungeon Master's Screen.
There are couple of good reasons for this.
First the screen was on very heavy cardstock so it was durable and stood well on it's onw. There were some very, very flimsy ones that came out in the 90s and even into the 2000s that really were not very good.
The second was it collected a lot of must have information in one place. AD&D 1st Edition is notoriously bad for how it organizes information. You can see this if you step away from the game for any length of time, but come on, we knew it back then too. The DM's Screen puts most of the most needed information in one place.
There are also a lot of nostalgia reasons too.
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Personally I always preferred the four-panel / two panel set. With it I basically didn't use the two panel side; the four panel on its own seemed the right balance of tabletop real estate required for information given. With the 3/3 split I felt you really needed both and six panels was too much. But that's just one old nerds opinion.
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