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<blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 6548512" data-attributes="member: 2093"><p>We currently play at my house on the dining room table. I really HATE to travel to DM. I extend the table with a 4' square card table, which is "my" spot. I don't use a DM screen; on the table are commonly the following - my iPad with the pdf of the adventure of the day. If the adventure I am running is not in electronic format, I type or scan it in so it is. The only thing I print is typically the maps. I keep my DMG, MM and PH in a stack to one side. If I need to refer to one of them, I do it briefly. Monsters are usually what I'm accessing, but even then I try not to have to leave the book open. Spells I make one of the players look up. Usually my husband, who sits to my right. I can generally trust him to explain and apply the spell fairly! </p><p></p><p>Then all I need is my initiative tracker and container of thumbtacks, printed map, notepad for HP tracking, and my box of magic item and treasure cards. Oh, and dice. I generally am rolling them in sight of everyone, so I use the stack of books for that. To the right of my chair, I also have a 3' tall wheeled plastic drawer unit, where I keep all my terrain and monster minis. I keep extra dice, graph paper, pencils and wet-erase markers and spell templates in there as well. We use a mondo battle mat on the table, although with 5e I draw fewer combats than I did in 3.5e. The minis are usually optional; I can get away with a handful of cardboard cutouts, 2-3 sets numbered 1-10, 1-6 and 1-4, then a couple of "specials" for boss monsters. A couple of "large" and "huge" cutouts are nice, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gilladian, post: 6548512, member: 2093"] We currently play at my house on the dining room table. I really HATE to travel to DM. I extend the table with a 4' square card table, which is "my" spot. I don't use a DM screen; on the table are commonly the following - my iPad with the pdf of the adventure of the day. If the adventure I am running is not in electronic format, I type or scan it in so it is. The only thing I print is typically the maps. I keep my DMG, MM and PH in a stack to one side. If I need to refer to one of them, I do it briefly. Monsters are usually what I'm accessing, but even then I try not to have to leave the book open. Spells I make one of the players look up. Usually my husband, who sits to my right. I can generally trust him to explain and apply the spell fairly! Then all I need is my initiative tracker and container of thumbtacks, printed map, notepad for HP tracking, and my box of magic item and treasure cards. Oh, and dice. I generally am rolling them in sight of everyone, so I use the stack of books for that. To the right of my chair, I also have a 3' tall wheeled plastic drawer unit, where I keep all my terrain and monster minis. I keep extra dice, graph paper, pencils and wet-erase markers and spell templates in there as well. We use a mondo battle mat on the table, although with 5e I draw fewer combats than I did in 3.5e. The minis are usually optional; I can get away with a handful of cardboard cutouts, 2-3 sets numbered 1-10, 1-6 and 1-4, then a couple of "specials" for boss monsters. A couple of "large" and "huge" cutouts are nice, too. [/QUOTE]
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