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{{short description|Tabletop role-playing game supplement for Dungeons & Dragons}}
{{Refimprove|date=January 2017}}
{{DnDmodule| module_title = ''Master Player Screen''
|module_image = [[Image:AC07MasterPlayerScreen.jpg]]
|image_caption = The cover of The Master Player Screen (Accessory AC7) shows an adventurer riding a dragon flying high above ground (art by [[Clyde Caldwell]]).
|module_code = AC7
|tsr_product_code = 9156
|module_rules = ''Dungeons & Dragons'' Basic, Expert, Companion, and Master Sets.
|module_character_levels =
|module_campaign = [[Mystara]] or Generic
|module_authors = [[Bruce Nesmith]]
|module_first_published = 1985
|series = [[The Shady Dragon Inn|AC1]], [[Combat_Shield and Mini-adventure|AC2]], [[The Kidnapping of Princess Arelina|AC3]], [[The Book of Marvelous Magic|AC4]], [[Player Character Record Sheets|AC5]], [[Player Character Record Sheets|AC6]], AC7, [[The Revenge of Rusak|AC8]], [[Creature Catalogue|AC9]], [[Bestiary of Dragons and Giants|AC10]], [[The Book of Wondrous Inventions|AC11]], [[Poor Wizard's Almanac and Book of Facts|AC1010]], [[Poor Wizard's Almanac and Book of Facts Vol.2|AC1011]]
}}

'''''Master Player Screen featuring The Spindle''''' is a short [[Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons)|accessory]] designed for the Pen & Paper [[role-playing game]] [[Dungeons & Dragons]].

==Contents==
''Master Player Screen Featuring the Spindle'' features a [[gamemaster's screen]] designed for master level characters up to level 36.<ref name="HW">{{cite book
| last = Schick
| first = Lawrence
| authorlink = Lawrence Schick
| title = Heroic Worlds
| publisher = [[Prometheus Books]]
| location = Buffalo
| year = 1991
| doi =
| isbn = 0-87975-653-5
| page = 134 }}</ref> This product also included a short adventure titled ''The Spindle of Heaven''.<ref name="HW"/>

===Screen===
The new screen includes hit rolls, saving throws, thief abilities, experience tables for all classes, turning table for clerics, and a spell list for magic users and clerics. It folded out into four sections to hide the Gamemaster's dice roll and prepared work from the players.

===The Spindle===
''The Spindle of Heaven'' adventure is a short but difficult module for extremely high level characters between 26th and 36th level.

In it the group goes to the great mountain, the Spindle of Heaven, and finds a clue to the secret to immortality. The adventure is just an introduction that leads to a long campaign left up to each individual gamemaster.

====Plot summary====
The group starts in the village of Nareeb where they hear various rumors about the mysterious spindle. The group travels across the desert battling vicious creatures to reach the Spindle of Heaven.

The group climbs the great mountain and fights creatures sent by the ruler of the region every step of the way.

Eventually the group reaches in the inner sanctum of the main boss and a terrifically high level battle begins. Once the group subdues the Master of the Spindle they can gain information about immortality or any other quest current to the particular campaign.

====Enemies====
* Airdrake
* [[Black pudding (Dungeons & Dragons)|Black Pudding]]
* [[Genie (Dungeons & Dragons)|Djinni, Lesser]]
* Druj
* [[Elemental (Dungeons & Dragons)|Elemental, Air]]
* [[Giant (Dungeons & Dragons)|Giant, Cloud]]
* [[Ooze (Dungeons & Dragons)|Gray ooze]]
* [[Hobgoblin (Dungeons & Dragons)|Hobgoblin]]
* [[Invisible stalker]]
* Manscorpion
* [[Rust monster]]
* Scorpion, Gargantuan
* [[Sphinx (Dungeons & Dragons)|Sphinx]]
* [[Vampire (Dungeons & Dragons)|Vampire]]

==Publication history==
AC7 ''Master Player Screen Featuring the Spindle'' was designed by [[Bruce Nesmith]], with a cover by [[Larry Elmore]], and was published by [[TSR, Inc.|TSR]] in 1985 as a cardstock screen with an 8-page pamphlet.<ref name="HW"/>

==Reception==

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web|url=http://pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showbook&bookid=2494|archive-date=February 27, 2005|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050227155721/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showbook&bookid=2494|url-status=dead|title=Pen & Paper|access-date=September 7, 2005}}

{{D&D topics}}

[[Category:Dungeons & Dragons modules]]
[[Category:Mystara]]
[[Category:Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1985]]

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