What might the perfect gaming table look like?
Big but manageable enough for a person to reach up to 75% of the distance across the table without standing up.
Full of people.
>>44305300
One around which you have friends to play with
>>44305300
What is the use of this kind of table in ops pic?
>table
Why not play on the bed?
>>44305393
I'll play on your mom.
>>44305300
I think I've seen some advertisements for Geek Chic gaming tables that looked pretty neat.
What do you guys think. Should the gaming surface be at eye-level? It would increase immersion I think.
>>44305412
They cost a shit ton though. They seem nice and convenient, but buying one isn't practical in my opinion.
>>44305472
No, especially with hambeasts around. I already have issues playing miniature game with people pulling directly up and screwing up everything. Lateral will be nightmarish
>>44305472
Such a table could have upsides and downsides.
(+)You wouldn't have to see the greasy mouthbreathing neckbeard across from you
(-)He might be masturbating over there
>>44305412
Where do I put my drink? How do I roll dice so that everyone can see them but I don't have to get up to get my dice back? It seems awfully big, so reaching to move something on the table would be awkward.
Otherwise, I like it.
>>44305636
Wear one of those hats that holds beer cans
Roll in a dice tower
push figures around dramatically with those sticks they use in war rooms in movies
>>44305636
>Where do I put my drink?
They have side drink holders for most tables that easily attach to them.
>How do I roll my dice so everyone can see them and I can get them back?
Use the felt lined table surface directly in front of you.
The table is big but it isn't fucktardly huge.
>>44305480
>Perfect gaming table
>Worry about price
Pick one OP.
Would these Japanese monstrosities make good gaming tables?
Any conference table, The bigger the better.
>>44305402
DO YOU CATAN!?!
-Large enough for about 6 people, because is the realistic max for any decent tabletop game
-Round, so that all may see each other on even terms and also can move their own minis
-Stone top, because no surface is more satisfying to roll dice on than stone.
>>44305353
>>44305363
thanks for reminding me
A golden satellite in orbit over a planet that has been carved into one gigantic 20 sided dice. The DM is in a smaller, even more expensive-looking satellite which hovers above that of the players. Smaller meteorites are used as the other dice.
I remember my first gaming group and the perfect setup we had. The room had a hugeass bed, where all five of us easily could lie in comfortably at once. Right next to it there was a coffee table dedicated solely to snacks and drinks and two computers on which we could look up stuff we needed to know and such.
Damn, I don't regret paying 10 bucks per game.
>>44305300
i had a felt-covered round poker table with slide-out bowls for dice/chips
it was just the right size
i used it when i started playing D&D in middle-school, but my family got rid of it
>>44305300
Like a girl into BDSM
>>44306162
Covered in cuts and bruises?
>>44305845
I don't know about gaming tables, but it looks like it'd make a kickass fort.
>>44305845
Too comfy, so no.
Here's some things it should probably include:
>Wood probably best material, not too cold to rest your arm on but sturdy as well
>Everyone should be able to see everyone else, no long tables.
>Not raised to the point it's uncomfortable to roll dice or see anything the GM is showing you.
I play most of my games around a sturdy wooden table at my local pub. It's not perfect, but it's obviously good to rest drinks on and though it's square you can still see everyone else at the table pretty easily.
>>44306675
>he doesn't want to curl up close to his fellow players under a nice warm kotatsu
Faggot.
Round tables are the best.
So this table wins.
>>44306898
>it doesn't expand a second time
Disappointed/10
>>44306898
I could just see a DM expanding the table mid-game to reveal some new part of the map or something they never mentioned concealed in the large mode's middle.
also this table would probably be interesting, especially if the DM uses the bottom-most seat in the picture so they get all that space behind them for books and such.
Half oval with the gm on the flat end.
Also large circle.
Idealy with people that you know, a good story is a must.
Scantily clad goth girl.
>>44306898
This table is also perfect for that moment in the campaign when it comes time to say "it appears the tables have turned!"
>>44306998
>>44307055it's "how quickly the tide turns", anon
We won't even move the shit ourselves. We'll have someone do it for us so its an entirely authentic experience. The table can be as big as we can make sticks.
>>44307055
>rolltide
>>44306856
being too comfy makes you less likely to focus on the game. It's a trap.
>>44307280
This is true actually. If people are too comfortable with the setting they'll start to wonder off.
I always play in a public setting for this reason.
>>44306898
all i can see is someone getting their fingers crushed into gore by this fucking thing.
>>44307298
Their minds will start to wonder I mean. I'm not literally implying they'll go senile and start to lurk around your house like stray cats.
>>44305558
(+)You won't see him masturbating
>>44306162
like this?
>>44305300
It must purposely NOT be covered in a waterproof material, so you need to use coasters.
Yes, that makes it less functional as a general-use table. But a GAMING table would benefit from having a way to detect problem players with no respect for your property.
>tables are meant to be used
And we are using it. Coasters don't hang n the air by themselves!
>>44307400
Exactly like that
>>44305636
Get a craps dealer stick and use that to push and pull dice and figures. That's literally what it's designed to do.
>>44307479
Why does that even exist?
>>44307105
THERE ARE MANY WHO BREAK IN THE FACE OF CHAOS
BUT NOT THIS ONE
NOT TODAY
>>44307500
There are cold countries.
>>44307479
Depending on how those 'segments' were designed at the rounded part, that isn't too uncomfortable to sit on. If it was just rounded smoothly then it would be like sitting on a deck chair.
>>44307500
It's an art.
>>44307335
(-)You will still end up cleaning his jizz from the furniture..
>>44307447
>Coasters don't hang n the air by themselves!
Not with that attitude!
Though magnetic levitation doesn't come cheap, looking up prices online suggests it would be cheaper to make your own and apply them to the bottom of the table. Likely easier to just waterproof the table, or even easier, use a coaster.
A table that does this.
Fuck, does anybody have the pictures of that one table a guy here was building a couple years ago, with the hex-etched acrylic surface lit by LEDs recessed in the edges? Because that thing was better than sex.
>>44305845
>sleeping under a kotatsu
Does she WANT to catch the Japanese Cold?
>>44307591
>why does she sit like that.jpg
>>44307500
Kitschy art shit made to attract someone with shit enough tastes to pay more for it than it's worth. I bet you can't even run steam through that to heat the room!
Hex table, six players max of course.
>>44307620
Maybe her butt hurts?
>>44307643
Six players, 0 GM?
>>44307620
>now in smooth.
>>44307659
>his GM doesn't hang from the ceiling during the game
How else is he going to make rocks fall so that everyone dies?
>>44307683
>>44307659
>not GMing on the fly
>not swooshing around emoting the unimaginable
>not straddling the line between reality and unreality
>not letting the Muse take you as it would a cheap harlet
Stay pleb.
>>44307643
>hex
gurpsfags plz go
>>44307718
Saved for posterity.
>>44307659
I almost changed it to "participants" to avoid this misunderstanding.
But fuck that, yes. Six players, no GM. Old rectangular tables often had a king or duke sitting at the end.
Six players, all equals, playing a GM-less system. It's like the knights of the round table.
>>44307219
What game is this? Looks rad as hell
>>44307659
>>44307683
The GM walks around the outside, of course.
>>44305300
A blackjack table is perfect for gaming. GM takes the dealer seat, the rest sitting at the edges. You can get ones with plain felt and they always include areas for dice and drinks.
>>44308166
War. Mostly circa 1950's but i heard that shit lasted into nam in some instances.
>>44305709
Wait. Isn't this the way everyone plays, already?
>>44305709
>those hats that hold beer cans
>not being /fa/shionable while playing
whoa, what?
>>44306963
>table suspended from ceiling
>has legs to kep it from swinging
engineers pls
>>44305402
She has enough surface area to play the Campaign for North Africa with the extended map for Europe
![1417330942335[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OiiV8LC.jpg "1417330942335[2].jpg")
>>44305300
One with chairs that automatically eject the host if no Y chromosome is found.
>>44308342
>yer a friggin genius
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A8Q6J9M?psc=1
>>44309328
Nah. Those are anchors. The cables up top hold it up and the cables on bottom meet and anchor at as small a footprint as possible. All the cables are tensioned to stop movement entirely. Its a prime example of overengineering at its finest.
>>44309590
Aww shit.
>>44308166
Real life.
>>44309673
On the bright side, it's nigh impossible for a neckbear to flip over.
On the downside, you can't move the damn thing.
>>44307305
>dude
>>lol wut
>put... put your dick in it
>>44305300
The traditions:
Wargaming:
4' x 8' piece of plywood on saw horses, cheap folding chairs as necessary. You're going to be spending a lot of time standing up anyway.
RPGs:
All the host's couches chairs & stools arranged along the walls of the living room. No table. The DM sets his notes up on an end table next to his chair. Everybody else rolls dice on the floor.
>>44309744
Real life is a shitty game
>no dice
>no character sheets
how am i even supposed to optimize my character? I keep working out but I don't seem to increase my STR
>>44308275
Outside of the fact that this is definitely made up, there are some cool ideas in there. I'd be down with the hats and a GM pacing around us like a mastermind, instead of sat behind a screen rolling dice (as long as he was honest or at least fair/interesting with those predetermined rolls).
>>44309986
>no dice
The GM rolls all of it for you, too bad he's literally blind and probably not sapient in a way that we understand.
>no character sheets
Too many stats, damage model is ridiculously complex, better to use qualitative measurements.
>I keep working out... STR
The level up system is borked, not only do you need to consume very specific types of potions and elixers in addition to training, but your rate of stat increase and even maximum is randomly generated by the GM based on your char's parents.
>>44307219
Nothing could get me more amped for war gaming than having a set up like that. I can almost hear the artillery.
>>44309986
You need to get more XP. Clearly you haven't killed enough. You need, what, 3 levels worth or so to get a stat increase?
To the thread, I saw some really cool tables a while back. It had a computer screen or something so it'd load and display the maps, little wooden pegs or something you set down to move or pull up a menu or something. I think it rolled dice too. A table that keeps track of everything for me WOULD be pretty awesome.
>>44309787
Well yeah. Post-modernism is you bending to it not the other way.
It just IS so you gotta BE.
>>44309986
you're farming for appearance, you dumb fuck
>>44310061
I got a rolecall cannon if it helps.
>>44310056
Fuck this system.
>>44306025
That setup sounds like it'd have pretty bad latency between the players and the GM.
0/10, would not play with.
>>44306025
dice falling under the table get a whole new meaning
>>44310197
[salutes internally]
One full of cute boys
>>44305480
I won't disagree. That company's stuff runs from $2500 on up to $16000, but damn if it isn't nice.
>>44305300
Something like this, but maybe one with just a central post and a lazy Susan to make it rotate when needed.
>>44306132
You played on the floor?
My buddy had a table that he made out of an old Amish barn door. It was two or three inches thick and he fitted some metal rivets and plates over it before sanding it and applying teak oil to it. He got some armed dining chairs to go around it. It was comfy as fuck. And huge.
He called it the "castle door".
>>44310711
>anon why did you tie-dye your rulebooks?
>>44310711
>>44310844
[TRIGGER WARNING]
>>44310711
>3 sessions of use
>shitty, dingy, grimy, and brown from all the imbued marker dye
No matter how much or how diligently you clean and wipe that down, it will not stay clean.
>>44310894
There's a Physics Nanotech building at my uni.
All the tables in the lobby and 2nd floor are white board tables. There are never any smudges when I look. Whether thats because they wipe easy or the janitors are too good, I'll never know.
But the point is that they can be cleaned
>>44310894
Seriously. My groups has a separate board and it's a mess. We'd have gotten rid of it if we hadn't named it. I can't imagine having a full table.
>>44307619
Dude, don't joke about the Japanese Cold. That shit is lethal.
>>44310927
>that retard that brings a permanent marker
i swear i'm going to kill that motherfucker
>>44310894
That's cheap ones, at my school the writing center has these beautiful yellow ones that they use a lot and they stay perfectly clean, but the surface is more like glass than pure whiteboard. Other than that yeah cheap ones would be super shitty.
>>44310894
>>44310927
Vinegar and rubbing alcohol. It cleans anything off anything. Even tar off brushed steel. Learned it in cooking school. Shit cleans off whiteboards, glass, mirrors, floors, skin, takes blood out of clothing, disinfects wounds, can pickle shit, make your dick bigger. Its like magic try it sometime as wiperfluid when your windows frozen over and thank me.
>>44310894
>>44310876
>>44310844
>>44310711
>>44310927
>>44310929
>>44311030
>>44311079
Bingo, the ones used at my school. Pricy, but super nice
>>44307878
The gm is the duke, don't let your players steal the end of the table, it is a sign of weakness.
>>44311225
>>44307878
https://youtu.be/wWlegT06gDo?t=2m45s
>>44309875
How is rolling on the floor a tradition?
I have a sheet of plexiglass I put over whatever grid mat I want with dry erase markers, and that stays clean as a whistle from simply wiping it down after every session. We usually set it up on the coffee table in our living room--the three couches around it makes for a pretty cushy session.
>>44311179
I've made a better one.
Printed a hexgrid on a canvas.
Took seethrough foil for old graphoscopes and taped it together (since its impossible to buy a large single sheet of plastic)
Some whiteboard markers... Viola.
You have a battlegrid and you can draw cover and terrain.
One of those naked sushi girls
>>44311574
Damn, got a pic of it?
>>44311583
You gotta be traditional jap for that shit man. Trust me. They don't care how much money you got if you can't truly appreciate the art of body and sushi combined in seamless perfection while maintaining true neutrality at the whole affair as only a true jap could then they won't allow you to even attempt to ask for the pleasure.
>>44311030
Go over it with a regular dry erase marker and then it rubs off.
>>44311326
Is the English version okay?
I was scared they'd tone it down since it's literally a game about children dying.
These voice actors seem all right.
>>44305412
love it *-*
>>44307479
Cute piece of art but my ass hurts just looking at it, you'll get some funny shaped hemorrhoids from that fucker. You can't even run hot or cold water through it.
D+: Apply yourself better next time.
>>44311807
The translation is a-okay, the whole plot is understandable and it's enjoyable. I'd advice to get the undubbed version though, the japanese voices are much more emphatic senpai.
>>44311738
Isn't that one of those casino tables?
This setup has always looked comfy to me, and this is coming from a non weeb...
>>44305300
>http://g.e-hentai.org/s/3c848df5cf/393019-16
>>44311738
They make kidney shaped tables, you can buy them
>>44312961
Best part? Those kind of tables have small heater lamps underneath set to "Mother Fucking Cozy". You could live under there if sitting down under them for long periods of time wouldn't cause fever.
>>44313222
I hear that, along with trucks, fevers are a really common causes of death in Japan; do think these are why?
>>44313039
>glass
nah, it will leave fingerprints and stuff
>>44312961
How is that weeb? It's old American.
>>44313368
not fever, flu - and it's because Japanese use "flu" as generic term for "illness", it's one of those things that get lost in translation
>>44313427
Its their population density on both accounts. Pedestrians everywhere. They're all heading places and so are the trucks used to move as much goods as possible at once in small cramped area's on time cause they get slowed down by pedestrians. Eventually someones getting nailed. Then imagine one guy gets a cough and now everyone does.
>>44305472
I was thinking the opposite, something like >>44305412 but a lower table/higher chairs so everyone can see everything and reach farther
>>44307305
Literally my first thought as well.
>>44307657
From what?
>>44316907
Butt stuff.
>>44312961
>jolly fatman attempts to kneel at table
>circulation from knees down immediately severed
>call 911
Nice table, weebs.
>>44316907
>>44305300
A Microsoft Surface, v1-v3, running Tabletop Simulator but with every board game and RPG known to man programmed into it and with Amiibos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXsFNPO_gUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94E3IeBquY
The original Surface was basically 4 Kinects looking through a computer monitor. And it worked really well, it just didn't have many sales because it was only offered to universities to experiment with.
>>44309788
Like fucking a colossal dryad.
My players stayed on a sofa, me as the DM standed up and used a whiteboard to make combat grids and such.
We used a chessboard for improvised combat and rolled on the small table in front of the sofa.
>>44313425
>The Attorney in The High Castle
>>44310711
My DM painted an old table (similar shape to pic related) white and then drew a square-inch grid on top. We all then pitched in to get a piece of glass cut to cover it. It's great, everyone can just draw right on the table with dry erase markers, and the grid is part of the table. The glass lifts off, too, so we can even lay a tablecloth or something under the glass if we don't want the grid but still want to use the markers.
We don't just draw the map on the table. We also write our AC, passive perception, initiative, hero points, fate points, or whatever on the table.
>>44305300
Get some of those lecture hall seats with the desks, but individually and mobile. Put an indent for, say, standard soda can/cup in the desk bit, or right arm perhaps...? in front of a table that's about eight inches below where the desk rests so you can swing it out to reach. Snacks/drinks/personal papers accessible, can still pull chair under table, everything kosher.
>>44312961
I don't think fa/tg/uys can kneel at a table for very long
>>44320125
After a while the lack of circulation takes away the feeling so its all good.
>>44320125
I'm like 150lbs and kneeling is still the most uncomfortable way of "sitting". Dunno how the japs do it all the time. I also just have knees in general, so standing up and getting down from/to a floor position is kind of painful.
>>44321022
From a very early age they do that shit over and over on the daily. Probably nerve damage and butt calcification.
>>44321022
It's like Slavs and squatting.
>>44318929
>>44316907
sitting in that chair.
>>44321022
Cross legged is the way to go. Way more comfortable.
>>44321088
>Probably nerve damage and butt calcification
nah just appropriate flexibility with the feet cradling your butt. crosslegged or one-up-one-down is more comfy for longer duration anyway.
>>44305636
That table has built in drink holders.
Whatever table I don't have to use a coaster on.
>>44305709
>push figures around dramatically with those sticks they use in war rooms in movies
I want these
>>44306993
Oh, fuck, that sounds pretty good
>>44311738
I feel like that's a little too much. The players on the wings would be able to sneaky-peeky behind my special screeny.
An elaborate series of lazy susans.
