| mbitterman |
My friend and I built a large 7x6.5 table with a 47 inch TV mounted face up in the middle using plexiglass as the protection for the TV screen. Since we built the table we use Roll20.net as our tabletop instead of battlemap and mini's and overall its very well accepted among our weekly group. The total build was around $300 but that was due to us already having a TV sitting in a bed room we could use. We did visit bestbuy and found a 42inch TV for around $330 which would have been lighter and probably easier to mount. We mounted 2 of the nice plywood planks on a frame with 3 legs on each side attached a power strip and add molding to it and routed the corners and it looks pretty good after it was all sanded down. total project time was a weekend but mainly because we noobed it up on the carpentry and needed to redo a couple parts. Eventually we will build a new one with a couple of comfort features (cup holder, dice box ect) but for now it works real well, one of the players plugs the HDMI into his laptop and joins the campaign as a player. everybody else joins the campaign as normal for ninja notes or other things but mostly we use the TV for the map and for planning.
I'll try and post pictures but I can't now as I am posting from my phone.