The other day at the office, I got a catalog from a company I’d never heard of before, Ultimate Office, and they had one product in particular that really stood out: a three-in-one GMing tool.

The product is the T-Card Portfolio — take a peek.

It’s a three-panel portfolio with pockets on the inside — the pockets are designed to hold T-Cards, one of their organizational tools. There are 32 pockets on each panel, and the cards themselves are designed so that when you slip them into a pocket, the card’s title is still visible.

As a screen, you could customize the 96 cards to hold a lot more info than most screens do (with the possible exception of Kenzer’s Kalamar & HackMaster screens). Give each card a clear title, and you could pop them out to reference them during play. (It looks rigid enough to stand upright, but I can’t be 100% certain. It’s standing up in the catalog picture.)

The three-panel structure also suggests some organizational approaches: encounters on one panel, fiddly rules on another and NPCs and adversaries on the third one, for example.

When writing an adventure (perhaps for Worldwide Adventure Writing Month), you could use this portofolio to storyboard your scenario, moving cards around as needed.

And as a prep tool, it’s another way to implement Laura Heilman’s excellent idea for using index cards and a cork board for campaign prep.

For $30, you get the portfolio plus a pack of 100 T-cards (an extra pack will set you back $8). (Thanks to TT reader drow for the product link, which, to my embarassment, I couldn’t find.)