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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blakey" data-source="post: 2670258" data-attributes="member: 31498">Okay, I got the go ahead from the GF for buying a projector!  Wahoo!  I am pretty much convinced that the BenQ PB6210 is the one for me.  Its expensive over here, but what the hell, eh?   So, my next issue becomes a practical one.  How am I to mount it?The GF doesn't want anything which is screwed/bolted into the ceiling (our Games Room also doubles as a spare bedroom at times although it's mostly a Games Room).   She's fine with stuff screwed/bolted into the walls though.We play on a dining room table, with a standard overhead lamp situated right in the middle of the room - which is a bit of a pain but I can't take it out.So, in a perfect world I think my solution would be to buy a wall mounted boom arm which would hold the projector.   My idea would be to screw this thing into the wall, at ceiling height.   It would have a swivel arm which would allow the boom arm to swing out from the wall over the table.   It would also have to be telescopic probably so as to allow adjustments according to where the table was.   On the end of this boom arm would be some sort of clamp which could hold the projector totally still - and probably the projector would need to be at a slight angle as the lamp fitting is right in the middle of the room, over the table - so the projector would need to sit as close to the central light as possible, and angle down onto the table.    We do have plenty of side lighting so this central light would not have to be on - so don't worry about heat build up there.Does anyone know if such a boom arm exists?   I know you can get photo lighting arms which attach to vertical poles which are supported by tripods but that would mean a big piece of kit which people would have to move around and which would have to fit in my not too massive room.   I'd much rather have a wall mounted boom arm which was all above head height and effectively out the way.Any suggestions?Also, whilst I'm here, a few people have talked about software.   I have a copy of NBOS' Fractal Mapper 7.0 and I can't recommend it enough.   It has inbuilt layers including a GM's Layer and has a button to pop up a players map on an extended monitor (e.g. a projector) which has the whole map displayed on it appart from those bits on the GMs secret layer.   So simply build your maps with everything on the GMs layer and then click and change layer to General each room and corridor as the PCs arrive at them.  Very easy and the software also allows you to build superb maps in general too!CheersBlakey</blockquote>

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