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<blockquote data-quote="kiznit" data-source="post: 918289" data-attributes="member: 3994">projected dungeons...I thought of something else...This may be a little geeky, but bear with me. One of the other things I was thinking about was that there's a conference room at my brother's school (UCLA) which has an overhead digital projector mounted over the table.&nbsp; Normally it projects onto the wall, but you can rig it so that it's pointing straight down.If you could set up a map revealing program (I've seen a couple around on the net) maybe using some of <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/csp/page12.html" target="_blank">Kris's</a>&nbsp; cool floorplans or something like that, you could wire your laptop to project the map onto the table, with a little bit of futzing to get it at the 1&quot; size. You could even just scan in your module maps and blow them up on your computer for it.&nbsp; Then maybe you could layer black areas over it in photoshop, and then reveal them as the characters venture through.I vaguely recall Monte Cook (or maybe is was SeanKReynolds) writing something about an ideal digital roleplaying room, which would involve an inset map computer screen in the table that you could put miniatures on and workstations for each of the players - perhaps a dream, but this might be a step in that direction.Just an idea.&nbsp; I still think I'd rather go 3-D/Modular than digital, but has anyone done something like this?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kiznit, post: 918289, member: 3994"] [b]projected dungeons...[/b] I thought of something else... This may be a little geeky, but bear with me. One of the other things I was thinking about was that there's a conference room at my brother's school (UCLA) which has an overhead digital projector mounted over the table. Normally it projects onto the wall, but you can rig it so that it's pointing straight down. If you could set up a map revealing program (I've seen a couple around on the net) maybe using some of [URL=http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/csp/page12.html]Kris's[/URL] cool floorplans or something like that, you could wire your laptop to project the map onto the table, with a little bit of futzing to get it at the 1" size. You could even just scan in your module maps and blow them up on your computer for it. Then maybe you could layer black areas over it in photoshop, and then reveal them as the characters venture through. I vaguely recall Monte Cook (or maybe is was SeanKReynolds) writing something about an ideal digital roleplaying room, which would involve an inset map computer screen in the table that you could put miniatures on and workstations for each of the players - perhaps a dream, but this might be a step in that direction. Just an idea. I still think I'd rather go 3-D/Modular than digital, but has anyone done something like this? [/QUOTE]

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