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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5703728" data-attributes="member: 8835">I finally saw you had links to pics.the Sultan is big and bulky.  Built like a pool table you sit down to.  That means reaching in and over to move figs.  The bottom bar connecting the legs is going to get feet rested on it, it blocks parking chairs under the table.Your design is more streamlined, though a big rough looking.Your sliding shelf thing is what I was talking about.Point of fact, since each player has one, you can shrink the table size down, as the table will grow with the shelve's expanded.I which case, I do recommend the 2.5' x 5' form factor for the playing surface, with the shelves used to hold books, and drink.  You could do a drop-pin system to keep the shelf from rolling in/out during moving or play.  This would reduce drink spillage if I put my coke on the shelf, and then the shelf were bumped.Fitting 6 players at the table should be good enough for most.Also consider parking the GM in the center of the table (on a long side), rather than at the end.  This gives all players full access to the GM, rather than getting preferential access to the GM by proximity.With this in mind, the GM side would sit at the center point on the long side, and have a shelf on each side that pulls out to hold his books, dice, laptop.  He'd be better able to belly up to the table itself.For battle mat, consider just doing a solid table surface.  The battlemat would be a customer option, embeded, Chessex, maybe a plexiglass sheet with grid on it, so I can slide the map underneath, and dry-erase mark it on top.I like how you handled the shelves on the ends.  The long side shelves rest close against the underside of the table.  The end shelves sit below the side shelves, so neither blocks the other.</blockquote>

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