{"podcast":{"title":"The Whispering GM","slug":"the-whispering-gm-4090423","podcast_index_feed_id":4090423,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/39180338/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://clericswearringmail.blogspot.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/9478750/9478750-1683552007305-60266de099de1.jpg","author":"CWR","episode_count":91,"summary":"Reviews, Rants, and Old School Gaming","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T08:21:09.982548+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-whispering-gm-4090423"},"episode":{"title":"In Defense of the Screen","slug":"in-defense-of-the-screen","published_at":"2024-08-07T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-whispering-gm-4090423/in-defense-of-the-screen","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-whispering-gm-4090423","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-whispering-gm/episodes/In-Defense-of-the-Screen-e2mpf0c","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/39180338/podcast/play/90012108/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-7-3%2F1ffc0d57-f1b8-e98c-4fdf-5c8af3f724d0.m4a","summary":"-- Description -- The Dungeon Master Screen: do you use one? I do - but some other folks don't: why would they eschew this time-tested tool and why I think DM screens are great. Like what you're hearing? Visit the blog: ⁠ https://clericswearringmail.blogspot.com/⁠ Want to get in on the conversation, yourself? Send in a voicemail on SpeakPipe: ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/WhisperingGMPodcast⁠ ...or join the conversation on Spotify for Podcasters: ⁠ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-whispering-gm/message⁠ ...or come hang out with all of us on Discord: ⁠ https://discord.gg/kQnrK4YCCn -- Show Notes -- 00:00 - Intro 00:08 - Theme 00:28 - The Dungeon Master Screen 01:19 - A Case Against: Transparency in Dice Rolls 02:18 - Some Rolls Should Be Secret 06:06 - What about the RAW? 08:19 - Rolling in the Open: A Guard against Fudge 09:18 - The ACTUAL Point of the DM Screen 13:04 - The Best of Both Worlds 13:40 - Some Secrecy is Good for the Players 15:07 - But What about Low Prep / No Prep? 17:25 - Call in: Red Dice Diaries John - Scheming Players & Fudging Dice 19:54 - Call In: Diagetic Advancement Riley - Active Defense 23:24 - ...A Final Word on Ghouls 24:08 - ...LBB-ified Thief vs Greyhawk Thief 25:32 - Ghouls! What constitutes a Touch? 26:43 - Why Specify a Wand of Paralysis? 29:20 - Where did Con-Based Resurrection Survival Come From? 30:52 - What actually IS Ghoul paralysis? 32:15 - Thank You, Callers, Listeners, and Other Interacters 32:45 - Outro -- Links -- Aug's Entirely Too Long Custom Screen: https://clericswearringmail.blogspot.com/2024/01/0e-reference-sheets.html Confessions of a High Prep GM: - Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-whispering-gm/episodes/Confessions-of-a-High-Prep-GM-e2dr5lp - YouTube: https://youtu.be/3omIW4201EQ Red Di…","meta_description":"-- Description -- The Dungeon Master Screen: do you use one? I do - but some other folks don't: why would they eschew this time-tested tool and why I thin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2056,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-whispering-gm-4090423/episodes/in-defense-of-the-screen/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-whispering-gm-4090423/in-defense-of-the-screen.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}