DM Screen / GM Screen - - if you're too good for a cardboard box but too cheap for much else

This project requires 10mm (3/8") thick sheet goods. I used 12" x 12" cork tiles from the hardware store, make sure you're buying the 3/8" ones not the even flimsier 1/4".  Also strongly recommend pushpins, it's kind of the whole point.

There are two ways to go about this, the easier more sensible way:

Print at least 2 (I prefer 3 for stiffness, but it isn't necessary):

• 1_cork_holder_Angled

Push the tiles into the brackets and if needed push a pin through the pin holes in one side of each bracket. 

If you would like to do more than 2 tiles, you can choose either another set of angled brackets or a set of "2_Straight_Cork_holder" to add a colinear section. This will make for a very nice screen, perpendicular to the table, like a normal person. You can see this setup in use in the picture with the map screen.   

I am not a normal person.  I'm old and I want my screen angled, and I have just enough engineering competence to do it in only a couple of tries. For the unnecessarily complicated way, and an angled DM screen, canted at 20° print the following:

Left tile sets:

• Print

  • 1_Cork_holder_Angled (print two)

  • 3L_Base_Cork_holder_Corner_Left

  • 4R_Base_Cork_holder **

• Measure 1.75" (45mm) from the bottom right corner of one cork panel and mark the point

  • score a line from that point to the top right corner (hypotenuse)

  • cut away the wedge   

• Connect the printed #1s and the #2 to the angled cut

  • Pin each bracket with a pushpin from one side

• Push the full square tile into the slots, and pin

• slide #4 onto the opposite side of the square tile

Right tile sets:

• Print

  • 1_Cork_holder_Angled (print two)

  • 3R_Base_Cork_holder_Corner_Left

  • 4L_Base_Cork_holder**

• Measure 1.75" (45mm) from the bottom left corner of one cork panel and mark the point

  • score a line from that point to the top left corner (hypotenuse)

  • cut away the wedge 

• Connect the printed #1s and the #2 to the angled cut

  • Pin each bracket with a pushpin from one side

• Push the full square tile into the slots, and pin

• slide #4 onto the opposite side of the square tile

**If you are connecting the left and right pairs of panels, skip the files marked ** and print these instead:

• 2_Straight_Cork_holder (print two)

• 5_Base_Straight_Cork_holder

Back in my early days of playing TTRPGs, we used chunks of cardboard to block the players from seeing all the maniacal stuff that was about to happen, or the fudged roll that averted a TPK.  But I'm an adult now darnit! With thousands of dollars of 3D printing equipment! So I made cheap brackets that I can stab into cheap cork rather than use any one of the myriad e-commerce boxes sitting in my recycling pile.  Then I decided to overcomplicate my overcomplicated thing, and angle it down at 20° so I could read it more easily from upon my throne of Dungeon Mastery.

I tried to get pictures of different configs. I'm just about always going to have my laptop when I DM, so I designed this to be two sets with the screen in the middle.