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And that brings us to the present! I'm a bit concerned that my "clamp" approach to attaching the plywood to the base isn't going to work out, so I'm going to order a subset of the parts on Monday so I can test it. If all goes well, I'll place the rest of the order. I expect it'll be a week or so...

I've been in touch with Teco Technology in California. They're an 80/20 distributor, and they offer design assistance. What that means is that they'll take the rough drawings you provide (like mine) and turn them into a proper CAD design with all the fasteners and so forth figured out. 80/20 is...

Picture time! I mocked up the table using the 4'x6' plywood to get a sense of its size. The white paper border is where the aluminum rail will be. It's sitting on top of a folding table, and it's stable enough that my gaming group was able to use it for our actual game. This is a big table...

I tested the plywood, so I know it's solid, but how much weight will the aluminum rails take? I have a lot of choices for size and weight. The 80/20 catalog gives this formula for how much weight a rail can take: (L^3 * W) / (48 * E * I) = D L is length, W is the load in pounds, E is modulus...

There's a saying: "Any idiot can build a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands." In other words, it's easy to make something that doesn't fall down if you overbuild it. But to save costs on materials, you need to carefully engineer your design to be just...

As I said, I'm going to clamp the table surface to the frame from the bottom. Plywood comes in 4'x8' sheets and the lumber store will cut it down to 4'x6' for me. With an inch of tolerance on all sides, that means the table's interior dimensions will be 5'10" x 3'10". The frame's rails will be...

I like the general idea of the Game Garage table, but I have reservations about the specifics. The biggest one is the use of marine tape to attach the surface to the table. I'm not worried about the strength of the tape, but I am worried about the repairability. Once the tape is in place, the...

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My wife and I have always wanted a gaming table, but the price always seemed out of reach. This year, we had some money saved up, so we took a second look... and the prices were still out of reach. We want a nice big 4'x6' table, and that's expensive and hard to find. We did find the GameFold...

Hi folks, I’d like to start a thread about a DIY gaming table I’m building. Should I put that in TTRPG General or Geek Talk? Thanks!

I’m running an in-person megadungeon at the moment, and this topic is one that I wrestled with at the start. I feel like the part of the fun of a dungeon crawl should be creating a map, but in practice, actually describing the rooms has been a hassle. Even a rectangular room slows the game to a...

How did you manage that, if it’s coming out on the 12th? (Not doubting you, just curious.)

I tried this with NPC names. Each player was responsible for one race (the race of their character), and was supposed to bring a list of names for that race. I shared some random name generators I had googled. Then, when they encountered an NPC, I would ask them to name them. They actually did...

I'll start. For my homebrew campaign, I thought I could make it low-prep by making prep part of the game. I used Microscope to generate the campaign world, and I asked the players to submit one piece of content each: a map, an encounter, an adventure, etc. I also had a in-depth session zero...

[+] This plus thread is for sharing ideas and building on other's ideas. Use "yes, and" and a respectfully curious approach to commenting on posts. If you need to disagree with someone on the Internet, please make a new thread. [+] I love the idea of a homebrew campaign, and I even ran one a...

Ahem. (Edit: referring to two posts back.)

This is great. I think we’re all conditioned to the idea that a module has to be focused on the “internal” of the game world and scenario. But of course it’s for the GM and an “external” view that speaks directly to what they need is a breath of fresh air.