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What's your tabletop look like?

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adzling

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« on: <05-11-15/1124:04> »
Hoi Chummers been meaning to post this for a while now.

This is a photo of our setup.

We use a 46" LCD laid on it's back for player/ map view.
This is driven by a laptop running Realmworks (currently).
Figures are all lead ones, most of the original FASA releases under either Grenadier or Ral Partha.


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« Reply #1 on: <05-11-15/1837:38> »
unfortunately the technology to show you the thoughts inside my head is not currently available, so you will have to instead imagine a 6' long 32" wide folding table with chairs around it  :( however how it looks in my mind is SOOOO much freakin better :D

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« Reply #2 on: <05-11-15/1845:31> »
Our table varies every month but common to them all is their dual purpose as dining tables, only stacked up with mountains of snack bags, beer cans and the occasional rulebook. Additional decoration comes in the form of crayon marks and scratches left behind by extremely young runners. Battle maps are handled by using pen&paper, toy cars and Lego blocks. Tables and are the only high technology devices at our table, used primarily for reference.
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« Reply #3 on: <05-11-15/2050:30> »
Our table varies every month but common to them all is their dual purpose as dining tables, only stacked up with mountains of snack bags, beer cans and the occasional rulebook. Additional decoration comes in the form of crayon marks and scratches left behind by extremely young runners. Battle maps are handled by using pen&paper, toy cars and Lego blocks. Tables and are the only high technology devices at our table, used primarily for reference.

That's cool, pictures or it didn't happen!

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« Reply #4 on: <05-11-15/2231:25> »
Using the tv is cool but it would never work with my group.  One of the guys is basically an ogre errr  troll and has a tendency to break things.

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« Reply #5 on: <05-12-15/0340:27> »
Imagine a small cramped space with no floor visible filled with card tables, folding chairs, and laptops. Most weeks there's piles of soda and one of the mini rotisserie chickens I picked up. It's always a million degrees, even if it's raining in the (any season here, we don't believe in seasons.) and the windows are open. Gives me an excuse to wear stockings and skirts. That's a good idea for a TV, though I'm not sure I'd want to see mine scratched to hell though.

I'll have to take a picture just so everyone can see how small of a space 8 people will fit in.
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« Reply #6 on: <06-04-15/1055:02> »
Currently my most regular table looks like this.



My colleagues and I try to have a game every Thursday, during lunch break :)

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« Reply #7 on: <06-04-15/1517:33> »
Add beer bottles and you have my table too....
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« Reply #8 on: <06-04-15/1538:43> »
I prefer the more low-tech approach... http://gamerboard.tp-media.at/shop/index.php/en/shop-overview/category/view/1

Sooner or later my gaming group would damage a LCD...  ::)

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« Reply #9 on: <06-05-15/0211:49> »
We also play at the dinner table of whoever's house we're playing at.  For technology we use smartphones (to quickly look up a city map or picture) and I have an iPad where I put my rule books on.  I bring the core rule book in paper, but the others I mostly only have on PDF so I bring them on the tablet.  Most of the times one or more of the players have a laptop with them as well, so between all those we can manage.  We normally don't use miniatures and maps (like buildings or caves or things like that), are just a scetch on a piece of paper.
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« Reply #10 on: <06-06-15/0437:07> »
Here's our usual table, slash recording room for our german Actual Play Podcast "Die SchattenSpieler.  :)

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« Reply #11 on: <06-07-15/2203:27> »
We play in my living room, since I'm the GM. My setup is using a couple of the old 1E maps, laminated for use with dry erase markers, and I take one part of the table for my notes and such. I've got a GM binder with a calendar, floor plans and maps, campaign info, plots, and custom Seattle security ratings behind the screen, but I mention those because they sometimes get put out on the table for general reference. Also got my NPC binder and stacks of books (we have almost all 4E ones and a smattering of other edition ones) to the side. And behind me is my desktop comp, where I play background music and have access to the Google.

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