Judge's Shield is a gamemaster's screen that was designed for use with TSR's new role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.

[2] This design allowed the gamemaster to peer over the lower middle section more easily.

Information included "Attack matrices with minus armor classes, saving throws, weapons' strikes & damages, weapon priority, phantasmal forces, encounters, experience points & levels, monster compendium of statistics.

[3]: 191 Judges Guild began its publication of original materials with a subscription format, and the Judges Shield (1977) was the first original item that they produced outside of their subscription system — following their reprints of the City State and Ready Ref.

[6] Turnbull commented: "These panels contain virtually all the information needed for DM and players during a game, and moreover are much more durable than the Ready Ref Sheets.