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Just got my new gaming table to usable condition this past week and thought I'd share some pics. It was a friend's train table before. He's staying with us for awhile, and was just going to get rid of it. Instead he allowed us to turn it into a game table. Really all we had to do was put the white boards and lip on the top, so I got kinda lucky. The biggest pain in the but was the grid. The project isn't finished yet, but the rest is likely going to wait until spring. We plan on putting a nice removable top on it, and staining the trim.
This cabinet is right in front of the GM. Planning on putting a shelf or two in it eventually.
Suppose I should have added people should feel free to post their setups here as well...
I am jealous, both of the space you have for that thing and the table itself. :)
My (current) GM table is, "wherever we fit."
Well, the thing does take up most of the dining room. On its longest sides, it is 9'x 6', and our dining room is 13' x 13'. And we have the computer desk, a buffet, and a coffee table in there at the moment. Space is something of an issue, but at least we can get by it into the living room. And there is enough room for people to sit at it. But if we have people sitting around it and someone needs to get through, everyone has to get up.
That's... still more space than we have. :)
That's a pretty awesome setup.
I am considering upgrading/redoing my own game table. When I built mine it was mostly my goal to create a means to put digital images on the table. That worked until I started moving to 3D terrain, so now I've just got a blank screen in the middle of my table, but otherwise it's a pretty standard table. It's not as sturdy as I would like.
I don't have nearly that much room though. I'm wondering if the shape of your table causes any game play issues, for example if the action meanders into the section to the right of the GM, do the players all get up and hover around that section of the table?
Impressive work though. I'd probably stain and varnish it too. :)
Yeah, I realized I didn't say: the table is amazing. It's awesome!
Well, we haven't gotten to try it out yet. Our current group unfortunately does not play at our house. But we will be having a secondary game start up within the next few weeks that will take place here. I don't think we'll have issues should the action drift over to the GM's right. In our current game, the GM moves all the minis around due to how the setup is at the hosts house. People are free to move their own, but they usually just say where they want to move because they don't want to have to get up. So, we're kinda used to the players not moving their minis around because they are out of reach.
My wife just informed me yesterday that she's hoping to run a one-shot the day before Thanksgiving, so the table will hopefully be getting its first "field test" on Wednesday.
EDIT: Oh, and thank you both for the compliments. Really wish I could take more credit for the table, but I really just fell bass ackwards into an already complete table that just needed some modification. Which given how the work went is a good thing. Turns out I'm not as good of a carpenter as I thought. ^_^"
The good news is if you ever play a contemporary earth zombie/dinosaur campaign where your characters set up defensive fortifications using your house they've got an amazingly robust table to use as defense against the incursion.
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The good news is if you ever play a contemporary earth zombie/dinosaur campaign where your characters set up defensive fortifications using your house they've got an amazingly robust table to use as defense against the incursion.
Or indeed, if you ever get a real life zombie/dinosaur incursion :)
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Interesting table...does the GM sit where the woman is sitting in the pic? In that corner area...if so I can see him having a bit more range to engage with the whole board and such...
I like the idea of it and the execution. My group's table is just 2 of the plastic folding tables from rubbermaid (7 feet long or so 2-1/2 feet wide each for a total of 5 feet wide) that we C-clamped together then we built a 3ft x 4ft raised section that is roughly 6" higher than the table, for the map area. It gives around a foot to 18 inches of space around the outside of the raised area for books and such and the underneath is good for storage (although we get kinda messy with it). It works out decently although if I was building from scratch I would lower the actual table's height by 2-3 inches and use labeled storage bins to hold minis and terrain underneath the raised section. I don't have any pics to post but it is fairly basic.
I am toying with the idea of an elogated octagonal design but I am unsure how well it would work out for certain seats. Too many ideas, not enough time, room, money, drive, etc....
Interesting table...does the GM sit where the woman is sitting in the pic? In that corner area...if so I can see him having a bit more range to engage with the whole board and such...
Yes. And the desk behind her is where our PC is, so if the GM needs to pull up a picture during play, they just pull it up on the monitor and all the players should be able to see it without much difficulty. Beats having to print them out or try and show it awkwardly from a book when there is information you don't want them to see.
The good news is if you ever play a contemporary earth zombie/dinosaur campaign where your characters set up defensive fortifications using your house they've got an amazingly robust table to use as defense against the incursion.Or indeed, if you ever get a real life zombie/dinosaur incursion :)
If I spontaneously turn into the Hulk, maybe. The whole thing put together like it is has to weigh in the neighborhood of 400 lbs.
Before I built my current game table, which was specifically built to be portable, I had a table I had built using melamine and 4x4 posts as legs. It might as well have been built into the house. When we moved I had to dismantle it entirely and ended up using it as scrap wood since it was too big to fit in the new house. That table was sturdy though. You could have had an honest to god swordfight on it. Heck, you could probably have jousted on it.