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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5283014" data-attributes="member: 29398">Agreed absolutely.&nbsp; I'd rather have a big square table.There used to be a table, something like your proposed design, in the gaming area of WotC's old (and now, sadly, gone) gaming center in Seattle.&nbsp; It was round, about 12 feet across, with the main &quot;table&quot; part a translucent plastic lit from below with a grid marked on it.&nbsp; This surface was about a foot higher than an outer 1' wood-table ring, where players would put their books, sheets, etc.; there was a sloped carpeted &quot;wall&quot; from the ring up to the main table, perfect for standing sheets, books, etc. up against.The table had a small bite out of it - reminiscent of what a partial eclipse looks like - and that's where the DM would sit.&nbsp; On either side of the 'bite' a small spur table extended backward, so the DM had surface (and storage) on three sides.There was a projection system for showing images on a nearby blank wall.The whole thing would hold about 10 players plus a DM, at a rough guess.I've no idea what you were supposed to use to draw on the grid, or whether it was designed for a projection system of some sort.As for the original question:$10K - travel budget for con's, various minor supplies, art.$100K - hard to say - not enough for a house but enough for the above plus some awesome gaming-weekend parties! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />$1M - house with custom gaming area including mini-kitchen, WotC-style table (though maybe not as big), decent sound system, image-projection system (but not onto the playing surface), *lots* of shelf storage for books, minis, etc.Lan-&quot;hey, we can dream, can't we?&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 5283014, member: 29398"] Agreed absolutely. I'd rather have a big square table. There used to be a table, something like your proposed design, in the gaming area of WotC's old (and now, sadly, gone) gaming center in Seattle. It was round, about 12 feet across, with the main "table" part a translucent plastic lit from below with a grid marked on it. This surface was about a foot higher than an outer 1' wood-table ring, where players would put their books, sheets, etc.; there was a sloped carpeted "wall" from the ring up to the main table, perfect for standing sheets, books, etc. up against. The table had a small bite out of it - reminiscent of what a partial eclipse looks like - and that's where the DM would sit. On either side of the 'bite' a small spur table extended backward, so the DM had surface (and storage) on three sides. There was a projection system for showing images on a nearby blank wall. The whole thing would hold about 10 players plus a DM, at a rough guess. I've no idea what you were supposed to use to draw on the grid, or whether it was designed for a projection system of some sort. As for the original question: $10K - travel budget for con's, various minor supplies, art. $100K - hard to say - not enough for a house but enough for the above plus some awesome gaming-weekend parties! :) $1M - house with custom gaming area including mini-kitchen, WotC-style table (though maybe not as big), decent sound system, image-projection system (but not onto the playing surface), *lots* of shelf storage for books, minis, etc. Lan-"hey, we can dream, can't we?"-efan [/QUOTE]

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