lol, come on now, we all know no one has been asking about that thing you call a table. First off, it needs cup holders, what happens when your friend drops a beer bottle on it, or his brat kid spills a half gallon of koolaid on it, do you just wipe it up? Now it's all sticky and nasty, no one wants to play on it, so I say no drinks or snacks near the table, everyone thinks I'm a prick, no one comes over to play anymore, I stand on table to hang a noose and shuffle off this mortal coil. What fun is that😢?

Why wouldn't you just use a SoC like a raspberry pi or something similar instead of the massive PC

@@spik330 That requires a more thorough understanding of electrical, electronics, and computer sciences. To integrate all of that knowledge along with the carpentry, design, modeling, and basic electrical he already utilized to achieve this table would be an exponentially more difficult task. Being able to do all that would put you on par with the most competent engineers on earth. This is my first time seeing this channel, but the work is inspiring!

@@spik330 yeah putting the PC under the table seems a bit much IMO, I'd just upload some D&D maps to a USB thumb drive, it would work for board games too like Scrabble and Monopoly, all you'd need are the tiles or the pieces you would use to play the games!

That’s just awesome

ROFL!

as a coffee table with 3 legs , i felt that

like ok DAD

You failed your stealth check and told them you were going to steal from them. Welcome to jail.

why would you use this for a ttrpg, this is a table, why are you so fale

HELLO

​@@raversmiracle2 I roll to seduce the guard captain. **Roll noise** Whoo!! Nat 20 baby!!! I tell the guard captain to forget about my friend and let him go. In exchange I'll give him the ramming of a lifetime!!

@@Zerosblade13 weighted dice. you've been kicked from the game.

Agreed! I love woodworking and RPGs so this is perfect for me. Don’t currently have space for one of these, and I am busy making cabinets right now, but I would love to try something like this. Don’t know about the dice towers though. I am too big a fan of the sensation of rolling dice by hand. On the other hand I do love the monitor in the table.

Exactly :)

Ditto man ditto

Good thoughts. 💪

Just watched this video and had the same thoughts. Do you know of a good way to or of a video on how to add said support for the LCD

@@gimlithegrey4863 you could try a bracket attached to the wall mount points on the back. Personally, I would remove the outer casing of the TV and rest the panel directly on supports.

@@AJamesCo When I built ours I did just that. The supports that hold the TV in place are screwed in to the mounting holes on the back of the TV. So far, after 2 years, it hasn't sagged at all.

I think they're talking about the actual panel inside the case.

I was thinking laptop.

I think you want a bit more processing power than a pi. You wanna run a full browser, music player, maybe some other tracking programs in the background. I agree with laptop. That way you have a DM screen then the player/map screen

USFF PC. Very small, same hardware.

PC is better, since you can always update it later when newer and better software to support DMs becomes available, and the PC isn't going anywhere. It's strapped in by 1/4" thick aluminum bars.

I noticed it was an HP that he bought, they manufacture minis that are the rough size of 2 maybe 3 slices of bread stacked. I think Lenovo does the same.

That would require so much more infrastructure, supply chain, employees etc. There is a reason these sell for a stupid amount and the companies that do them barely turn a profit.

@@HeroOfTheWeb Yep, exactly. But they're still Awesome! :)

I'm definitely not going to be building a complete table for anyone, but keep your eyes peeled for updates...

@@MoreToolsThanSense How about for... (Dr. Evil Pinky) one MILLION dollars?

@@MoreToolsThanSensethat’s too bad. I’d love one of these, but I lack proficiency and possession of virtually all tools. Just out of curiosity, how many hours did it take to make and if you were going to sell one, what would you charge?

Oh nice, using a projector is a great idea for a project like this!

Get some experience with other projects, then you'll be able to make things like this after merely glancing at them. It's all really easy once you get some basics down.

Nails, wood puddy and 90 degree clamp can do the trick

I got an A in woodwork and metalwork but ive mostly forgot evrything lol

Yeah my only real thought from this video was, you could sell that mechanism alone and sell out quick

Bruh, i'd need a tutorial on the epoxy. never mind the rest of what he did

Critical success on that video, well done!

DnD just works, great video.

I had the exact same idea in my head about 2-3 weeks ago to do a table just like that, but also have a built-in DM screen. The dice towers were something I didn't think about, and are a very nice touch. Thanks to you I have somewhat of a rough guide on how to do this myself without so much trial and error, and the thought to use a prefab table never occurred to me. Many thanks man!

Amen! This was refreshing, informative, and just funny enough

Great work Indeed I did a TV table top way back but the TV were probably different, with the thickness of the glass, our minis were floating a few millimeters above the screen. From a top down view it was great but when we were sit, there was an angle and our characters didn't seem to be on their right place. When I switched and installed a projector it solved all m'y problems

That's a great idea. He could even put a small one inset into the table top like the dice towers. Where it could slide up into view acting like a GM screen.

@@nathanwall6253 Since the real estate under the table might not support adding another 14" monitor that pops up, he could add just a little pop out insert for a power plug and a VGA/HDMI extension. That way it's not in his way or visible unless he specifically wants to utilize it. He could, instead or in addition, make a cool DM screen that has a cheap connected/networked tablet in it that lets him drag and drop new things into the built-in monitor. I'm certain there are PC anywhere apps that would let him do the same thing with much less work, though the rule of cool would be ashamed of him.

There are a couple of things that could be done here if you really felt you needed an attached screen you can always take one off of an old laptop. As they are slightly more rigid and flat. But at that point I would have it as a stand alone that could fit in the keyboard slot. I did notice that one of your players was a virtual player in the video. Now that I do think would be worth addressing if this is a regular thing. The option for that would be to use either a laptop or a low cost unit like a Arduino or raspberry pi and an old laptop screen (thin and rigid. Might even have a web camera) this covers your table camera options and you could set it up in place of the drawer.

No more printing paper maps! Yay! LOL 👍😜

Awesome, thank you!

a rubber gasket to set the glass panel on would do the trick.

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that and I wouldn't want to be the guy who knocks over their drink on the table and have it spill on to the TV screen...

That was my thought also, but cool build nonetheless

Something I've always wanted for a build like this is almost a "viewfinder" for the DM, sort of a small slide-out display so the DM can make changes & view the map from their end- Although of course that idea works 100% better with digital player character trackers

using a laptop and just mirroring the screen for the players would be more efficient.

Thanks for the heads up, the camera must not be mixing the mono audio from the shotgun mic.

Glad you like it!

The way I have learned nearly every skill I have is by just trying it out. If you jump in to a project, not expecting it to be perfect but just trying to learn something new, it will be a million times better than the table you never made at all!

I had zero experience with woodworking either but the thing is that there are tons of youtube videos (like this one) that usually go over how to make the thing you are trying to make. Just by watching them I've been able to do some maintenance to my furniture and make some cool presents for people to use.

I did cabinetry and custom storage for over 20 years, and one of the best tricks I can share with you is to get yourself a decent pile of scrap material and keep that onhand for trying new things. You can use this junk material for teaching yourself new techniques without a lot of costly 'dammits' on your actual project stock. The second best info I can give you is to go through your tools and see what shape they're really in. Bearings wear out, and then your cuts won't be true. See if any of your cutting tools have 'slop' in the blade (see if it wiggles laterally to the cut direction). If they do, only use them for rough cuts and get a new, but cheap, piece of equipment that hasn't seen any abuse and use that for finish work. And last, use push blocks on small cuts. They're easier to replace than fingers. Now, go make something cool ;)

@@ApeBlin some advice from a guy who did a 2 year course in carpentry be very careful with any machine with spinning parts we had a guy in the year above us try to use a table router and tried to rout from the wrong direction, the piece flew out of his hands and his fingers got turned into ground meat by the router blades.

@@borderlandsforlife7068 Thanks for the tip. I knew about that and honestly most of the heavy tools that I use scare the living crap out of me even though I know how to operate them safely. My pops is a carpenter by trade and has started to pass his skills to me now that I'm actually interested.

I'll second that. 🤓

Wow, thanks!

Look up Wyrmwood furniture

Hum, interesting. A digital roller... maybe a tablet on wifi... dunno