Quote from: chirine ba kal;1029719I found the campaign map an booklet in his papers after he passed away (six years ago today, I think) and it's a pretty nice medieval-era campaign with the addition of a nation of werewolves. I thought that it would be fun to publish it, as it would appeal both to RPG players and to miniatures gamers, but nothing ever seems to have come of the notion.

What Phil did was do a separate 'nation' for each of the armies he had in his collection of historical miniatures, and the players would send in their orders for the week / month. Phil would move the armies around the map, and then he and the players would fight any resulting battles on the table. All very normal for the kind of Tony Bath-style campaigns that used to be the norm here in the Twin Cities, especially at the Little Tin Slobber Shoppe. Phil, as always, did a really great job of self-publishing the thing, and I think it still holds up today as a campaign setting.

Gronan? Anything more to add?

Only that it was really fun, and a pure "back in the day" wargames campaign.

Oh, and Craig Smith kicked my ass.

Just a quick reminder; 5e this coming Sunday, Free RPG Day on June 16th, both at The Source here in the Twin Cities.

We now have our field production capability back - Sony high-end-digital camera - so we're going to record the RPG Day event.

There's an article on the Multiverse blog about "What's On Your Shelf", looking at gamers' shelves, and they did a little story on my game room:

http://multiverse.world/blog/2018/03/19/whats-shelf-chirine/

Some photos of the place, if people are interested.

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1030360There's an article on the Multiverse blog about "What's On Your Shelf", looking at gamers' shelves, and they did a little story on my game room:

http://multiverse.world/blog/2018/03/19/whats-shelf-chirine/

Some photos of the place, if people are interested.

Uncle,

WOW!!! Love it!!!! The extended view is fantastic. You truly have the dream gameroom.

H:0)

Is there room for a cot? Because I'm moving in.

Blaise

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1030360There's an article on the Multiverse blog about "What's On Your Shelf", looking at gamers' shelves, and they did a little story on my game room:

http://multiverse.world/blog/2018/03/19/whats-shelf-chirine/

Some photos of the place, if people are interested.

Looks gorgeous. I would need more light because of my eyes. Otherwise I would love something like that if I were to ever get back into a maker hobby. :-)

How do you use the underworld portion of your table? Does it swap out with the top?

Blaise

Quote from: Hrugga;1030379Uncle,

WOW!!! Love it!!!! The extended view is fantastic. You truly have the dream gameroom.

H:0)

Thank you! The total room is fifteen feet wide and thirty feet long; the actual workshop is on the other side of the basement, and is fifteen by fifteen. I started with bare walls, and built everything; luckily, I am handy with tools and lumber. There's a 42" plasma screen in the game room for dungeon maps, and a 52" in the lounge for watching movies - "John Carter" on the big screen is something else!

Quote from: bconsidine;1030391Is there room for a cot? Because I'm moving in.

Blaise

Yes. there's room for the Aero Bed in the lounge, assuming you don't mind sleeping with an audience - that's where the mannequins with the costume collection are. Small fridge, dedicated bathroom; better then some hotels I've stayed in.

Quote from: Willie the Duck;1030392Looks gorgeous. I would need more light because of my eyes. Otherwise I would love something like that if I were to ever get back into a maker hobby. :-)

You're looking at the way the digital camera uses light. There's actually over 600 watts of lighting in the track lights, as well as the normal 'work' lights for the rooms. The lighting is for the video systems, and is a lot brighter then it looks in the photos. The LED lights on the table extender are in shadow, so that they don't get washed out by the track lights. (I've had a little experience lighting things... )

Quote from: bconsidine;1030399How do you use the underworld portion of your table? Does it swap out with the top?

Blaise

The underworld in the photos is actually the normal table top. I have several sets of terrain tiles (including a rather nice ocean / lake) for this; the top sits in a 48" x 48" recess, so things don't slide around. The vertical extender duplicates this, and comes off the table when not needed for games. When we play the three-dimensional games, I set up the surface world on the table, we play that until somebody finds the way down, then I clear the table and put the extender in. The surface world goes on the extender, and the underworld tiles get laid down as the players explore the place. If I know that they'll want to go downstairs, I put the extender in and build everything in advance, then put up the black drapes on the sides of the extender to hide everything until it's needed in the game.

I do have several table tops for the system, including several 48" x 48" plexiglass ones for underwater or aerial games. It's all modular, all flexible, and all made from reclaimed or scrap materials. About the only thing I have invested in this set-up is time and elbow grease.

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1030413The underworld in the photos is actually the normal table top. I have several sets of terrain tiles (including a rather nice ocean / lake) for this; the top sits in a 48" x 48" recess, so things don't slide around. The vertical extender duplicates this, and comes off the table when not needed for games. When we play the three-dimensional games, I set up the surface world on the table, we play that until somebody finds the way down, then I clear the table and put the extender in. The surface world goes on the extender, and the underworld tiles get laid down as the players explore the place. If I know that they'll want to go downstairs, I put the extender in and build everything in advance, then put up the black drapes on the sides of the extender to hide everything until it's needed in the game.

I do have several table tops for the system, including several 48" x 48" plexiglass ones for underwater or aerial games. It's all modular, all flexible, and all made from reclaimed or scrap materials. About the only thing I have invested in this set-up is time and elbow grease.

I'd love to see more pictures that show how your table is used in different ways. These days I'm unlikely to ever do anything so fancy, but it's still interesting.

Well, someday I WILL run some kind of RPG or Braunstein using the LEGO fantasy setup I've been building up over the years. Last time I set it up, I used 5'x15' of table space. If I made the sea larger, I could easily enlarge it, plus I've got things under construction on in plan soon that would suggest the next time I display (probably in a year or two) I should plan on asking for 5'x20' space...

Pictures starting here show the display:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=6062857

And a few more pictures that show more:
http://www.gplr.org/2013/03/11/bricks-cascade-2013/#jp-carousel-41
https://www.pinterest.com/ffilzlists/my-castle/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wiredforsound23/8550674144/in/photostream/

And here's a really big set that even shows some of the interiors:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sedmison/8552302097/in/photostream/

Frank

How many hours did that take? And how many Legos?

Blaise

Quote from: chirine ba kal;1030409Yes. there's room for the Aero Bed in the lounge, assuming you don't mind sleeping with an audience - that's where the mannequins with the costume collection are. Small fridge, dedicated bathroom; better then some hotels I've stayed in.

You got to stay in hotels?  I seem to remember a camper at least once, and thank God I didn't go camping for GenCon...

Quote from: bconsidine;1030456How many hours did that take? And how many Legos?

Blaise

That display (which those pictures represent the state in 2013 - though little progress has been made since due to little ones joining the family) was developed over the course of 13 years. How many LEGO elements? I dunno, many thousands (the collection I build from is definitely North of 500k pieces, by spreadsheet tracking the sets I've purchased, it's approaching 1 million, but I've sold some, not tracked in that are pieces bought on eBay, via BrickLink, or in various bulk opportunities from LEGO).

The newest castle on the mountain in that display took a few weeks of evenings and weekends to build, though the mountain was largely salvaged from a train display. The work in progress is that the tunnel in that mountain now branches out to just below the light house and there will be a new castle on a rock sticking out of the sea.

Frank