A Wii room, with open space and NOTHING breakable in it.
Oh, and a pool with a bridge over it for nifty assassin tag.
Custom built gaming table with built in die rolling trays, felt covered gamings surface with pre-drawn 5' squares, cup holders, shaped like a U, with an elevated DM's station in the middle of open U portion.
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Custom built gaming table with built in die rolling trays, felt covered gamings surface with pre-drawn 5' squares, cup holders, shaped like a U, with an elevated DM's station in the middle of open U portion.
We have something like this so far. Right now the table is about 4' wide by about 7' long and covered with felt. We push another table up next to it, forming a T. Ultimately, one of the DMS is talking about installing a projector above the table for mini-scaled maps. He's done it before, but only on a temporary basis. We also have a combat board with 1 block of number squares to indicate the round and magnetic nameplates for everybody to indicate initiative order. Oh yeah, and a clock upon the face of which our host installed a picture of a centaur.
A fridge or at least an ice chest is important, along with comfortable chairs.
My own idea would be a computer whose screen is built into the table top. This computer would have pdf versions of the PHB, DMG, as well as maybe the Spell and Magic Item Compendiums.
This, but totally not in a basement
Our group has talked about what the best gaming space would be. We came to the conclusion it would look like a hobbit hole and have a room for actual gaming (complete with the table but all classy like), a library for books and research, a nice kitchen next to the gaming room since we like to cook and game, a few places to crash out after a long session of evil smiting and a nice backyard to sit in afterward.
What's actually going to happen is that the building behind is going to one day go on sale and then we'll have a D&D building! It used to be a mechanics garage but now it's an apartment/yard stick shop. No joke. But we'd turn the yard stick shop into our gaming space and then either rent out the apartment to a friend or one of us would live there.
A beautiful shelf behind the DM's comfy chair, full of all the great big baddies. Grinning dragons looming expectantly over the shoulder of the gaming God, Muhuhahaha.
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This, but totally not in a basement
That's pretty cool; I hadn't seen that one! I thought that link would point to the Agyris Game Table, which I think was featured in an issue of Dragon a couple years ago.
I also love the idea of a ceiling-mounted projector for displaying maps. I waste so much time drawing or otherwise prepping/setting up the maps.
Currently we use an elevated mini-table that sits on top of our dining room table to almost double our table space. My apartment is decent for living, but small for gaming, so one of my players had her husband build us a table-sized platform that sits on top of our table, on posts about eight inches tall. We game on top and put all our drinks, snacks, papers, and books underneath.
A big room (20x20, min)*, with a big game table in the middle. The table is white dry-erase material, and magnetic. There are either pull-out drawers, or a lower level wide 'lip' on the table to promote keeping notes and books off the game surface (dice are fine, though.) Big comfy swivel chairs along the wide sides of the table, one at the head. These have heavy, wide, round bases, so they can be pulled away from the table, but people can't just roll around and be idiots like with desk chairs. The head of the table has a computer monitor under one of those polarizing privacy screens.
A projector is suspended over the table, with a mirror so that the image can be projected downward onto the table, or at the screen on the opposite wall. Possibly just use two projectors, so that portraits or clues can be on the wall without removing the map from the table, or vice verse.
The projector screen has a Wii sensor bar installed over it.
There is a drafting table outfit as a painting station in one corner. Wargame-scale terrain is either hung on the walls or kept in bench-bins around the walls. All minis and terrain pieces have magnets to help them stay in place on the table and not be moved by stray dice.
Under the table, there is a mini-fridge kept stocked with the gamers favorite beverages. A trash bin is located next to the fridge, to prevent can pile-up.
*Feet, not meters. I'm not that crazy.
Currently we use an elevated mini-table that sits on top of our dining room table to almost double our table space. My apartment is decent for living, but small for gaming, so one of my players had her husband build us a table-sized platform that sits on top of our table, on posts about eight inches tall. We game on top and put all our drinks, snacks, papers, and books underneath.
Now THAT is a totally awesome idea. I'm doing it!
What's inside?
One of these.
...who am I kidding? Several of those, in various sizes, programmed to simulate a bunch of board games and map tiles.
