Gaming Room Essentials?

[Mr Mystery]

Coasters - good idea.

Also - book case?

[Erik Setzer]

Coasters - good idea.

Also - book case?

Oh yeah, totally a book case! You can line it with books, board games, card games, figures you want to put on display, all kinds of stuff.

[Lord Mayhem]

My plans include a computer workstation; doubles as DVD/movie player, music system, useful for army building (Army builder, etc) Electronic codices, etc etc etc; tied into a 40"ish TV on a wall.

Idly considering, with some of the huge TVs out there, using a BIG screen TV as a game board, with a sheet of Perspex/acrylic to protect it; that way I could display "surface" terrain on the screen (streets, grass, water). Expensive, but it would be pretty cool.

[Defenestratus]

Coasters - good idea.

Also - book case?

Get some of those glass cabinets at Ikea. GW uses them for fig display cases at their stores (over here in the US anyways).

[Erik Setzer]

Idly considering, with some of the huge TVs out there, using a BIG screen TV as a game board, with a sheet of Perspex/acrylic to protect it; that way I could display "surface" terrain on the screen (streets, grass, water). Expensive, but it would be pretty cool.

Sounds cool, but it'd cost a LOT to get one that big, and I'd be terrified of, say, someone dropping an old school metal Dreadnought even a few inches. I've seen the pits and dings and chunks knocked out of well-used tables at a local game store, I'm not sure a TV screen could handle that.

But it's definitely something to dream about for the future...

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Get some of those glass cabinets at Ikea. GW uses them for fig display cases at their stores (over here in the US anyways).

A couple of these on either side of a bookcase would be pretty cool:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10119206/

[Wolfshade]

Mead for the mead god

[Mr Mystery]

Get some of those glass cabinets at Ikea. GW uses them for fig display cases at their stores (over here in the US anyways).

Nø Ï dön't thïnk IKEA is qüite for më

[Lord Mayhem]

Sounds cool, but it'd cost a LOT to get one that big, and I'd be terrified of, say, someone dropping an old school metal Dreadnought even a few inches. I've seen the pits and dings and chunks knocked out of well-used tables at a local game store, I'm not sure a TV screen could handle that.

But it's definitely something to dream about for the future...

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A couple of these on either side of a bookcase would be pretty cool:

[url]http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10119206/[/url]

Yah, that's why I'd put a sheet of acrylic over it; to protect it from dings. I think a 90" to 100" should be big enough to use as a 4x6 game table. By the time I actually have a dedicated room, that should be fairly affordable

[Wolfshade]

The cheaper option (and not quite as good) is to have a projectorand project down, though you end up with shadows :/

[Defenestratus]

Mead for the mead god

Obligatory plug for my buddy James' Meadery Meadworks whatever the hell he calls it.

[url]http://www.charmcitymeadworks.com[/url]