''Chill Master's Screen'' is a 1984 role-playing game supplement for ''
Chill
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'' published by
Pacesetter.
Contents
''Chill Master's Screen'' is a three-panel
gamemaster's screen
A gamemaster's screen, also called a GM's screen, is a gaming accessory, usually made out of either cardboard or card stock, and is used by the gamemaster to hide all the relevant data related to a tabletop role-playing game session from the playe ...
printed on cardstock and including the most often used charts and tables. The adventure book contains an 8-page scenario titled ''Castle Dracula'', which adapts the four beginning chapters of the novel ''
Dracula
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''.
''Castle Dracula / Chill Master's Screen'' is a
GM's screen
A gamemaster's screen, also called a GM's screen, is a gaming accessory, usually made out of either cardboard or card stock, and is used by the gamemaster to hide all the relevant data related to a tabletop role-playing game session from the playe ...
with a miniscenario based on the first four chapters of Bram Stoker's classic tale; ''Vengeance of Dracula'' is the sequel.
Publication history
''Castle Dracula / Chill Master's Screen'' was designed by Gali Sanchez, with a cover by Susan Collins, and was published by
Pacesetter, in 1984 as a cardstock screen with an 8-page pamphlet.
Reception
William A. Barton reviewed ''Chill Master's Screen'' in ''
Space Gamer
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'' No. 71.
Barton commented that "the ''CM Screen'' should prove useful to most ''Chill'' GMs who like more than an ordinary binder to hide their notes, and the ''Castle Dracula'' adventure can be a fun – if potentially deadly – bonus for those times you can't get together an entire play group."
References
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Chill (role-playing game) supplements
Gamemaster's screens
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1984