POSITIVE: Most of what you need is here.

NEGATIVE: INK HOG!!

Better to buy this hardcopy and professionally printed.

Unlike some 'screen' products which give you extras like an adventure, this one is fairly basic - a nice image of a large ship, a medium-sized one and a flock of fighters in low orbit around a planet to keep the players amused, and a collection of charts on the other side as ready-reference for the GM. In four panels, the GM has access to weapons charts, a skills & specialities table, assorted tables for combat, movement and healing, and even the plot points & story impact table.

There are two sets of deck plans, though - one for the Galactica herself and one for a smaller ship of the Griffon X-7 class... possibly more likely to be assigned to a group of characters, unless of course you choose to play a bunch of Viper pilots.

Fine if you find GM Screens useful, but a touch thin for a fairly high pricetag as such accessories go.

This is a followup review. Within twenty hours I received notice that a modified product had been placed at RPGNow and available for download.

This new version of the GM Screen satisfies my earlier criticism. The tables are now divided into single pages that may be printed separately and mounted in plastic document protectors or be laminated together to form a screen. The poster is now present and is an excellent pair of diagrams of the Galactica and of a smaller ship from the Quickstart Guide. These are presented on individual 8.5x11 pages, so they're not much of a poster, but I am told a later effort will be made to provide such a poster in a format that may be printed out and assembled.

The tables provided take care of most of the GM's needs for running a basic game. I could wish that more information be provided about ships as well, but there is little enough space for the items that are there.

The BSG RPG GM Screen is an extremely useful tool for the Game Master and I intend to be using mine this Friday evening. I am adjusting my rating upward to reflect the new presentation of this product.

Not Happy. Not Happy at all!

The product took an hour to be delivered AFTER the checkout program said it had been delivered. When I downloaded the PDF, it was not in single page format. I don't know about you, but I don't have any 36 inch paper or cardstock to put through my printer. There were no instructions on how to reformat so that it could be printed single page.

Furthermore, there is no sign of the poster of the Galactica.

This looks like it could be a very useful, cool and colorful product. At the moment, it's useless to me.