THE DATAFORTRESS 2020 GAMING ROOM
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I have moved to a new house, be sure to check out the New Gaming Room

Having a room dedicated to my comics, and my gaming has been a dream of mine for nearly 15 years now. Today I am living that groovy dream...

This is how the room started out... the view from the doorway, you can see the shelves in the back, which my brother scored for free from his job. The were used by Applebees in their walk-in to store big crates of potatoes and the like, so the amount of weight they can hold is incredible, especially since they are so thin, aluminum with steel reinforced plastic shelves. Two large couches make for ample player seating when gaming. Ignore the table, its just a cheap folding table that we are using until we can get the ultimate gaming table built (my next big project). I sawed the legs off to make it more suitable for use from the couches, now its the perfect height. There is another folding table, but its being borrowed right now.

Anyway, on the shelves in the back, there are 44 long boxes, the boxes hold only single copies of comics. The four topless boxes on the top right hold comics I don't care enough to actually catalog, but I have a copy of anyway, these range from really crappy indie books, old war comics and westerns, to books like avengers and fantastic four. The boxes on the top two levels all contain either comic or toy related stuff...... including some boxes of old broken star wars vehicles I plan on blowing to hell this 4rth of july......

The room had bare cement floors, and a shitty card table with the legs sawed off...

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Here is what it looks like today. As you can see, I put a curtain up to cover the hideous shelves, and my nice new shiny groovetastic gaming table... 40 x 64 inches, all gridded out in one inch squares.
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The same view, only lower so you can see the cubby holes... The little silver disks are LED puck lights, 6 in all, attached to the table with velcro, so in low light situations players can always find their dice, look something up, etc...
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There is a light inside the table, so the cubby holes are illuminated, makes finding dice and what not a bitt easier...
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A walk around of the table from various angles...
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While under the normal light, the table top is grey, it is coated with an Ultraviolet paint is invisible until you shine a blacklight on it, then it glows bright blue. Even with the normal lights on, you can see the effect...
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But when you just use a blacklight, the effect is stunning, and honestly the blacklight is a 48 inch model, and puts off plenty of light, though will reserve using it alone for combat situations, to preserve the cool...
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Going to take a beak for just a minute and describe the rest of the room for anyone interested...

the corner behind the couch is my little shrine to Godzilla...... sadly, much of my godzilla goodness was destroyed in a flood in my old house....... cry sadness....... But, the odd colored large godzilla in front is actually a lamp, very glad I still have that, its pretty rare.

The other shelves here are reserved for my players to store any books or whatnot they like, these books belong to Cameron, my oldest friend here in Arkansas.
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In the opposite corner, The shelf on the left holds my trades and graphic novels, the other shelf holds the toys I like enough to display. I lost a bunch of groovy japanese toys and models somehow, they just dissapeared.
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A view from the corner seat of the couch looking at the door. The dresser on the left is full of board games, the bookshelf is full of roleplaying game books.


This is my computer and GM corner. Everything I could possibly need to run a game is easily accessable from here.
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In addition to my GM tools, the top shelf also holds all my Art books, sadly there used to be much more, but many were stolen...


A closer look at the gaming books, The top shelf has every cyberpunk 2020 book ever printed, the middle shelf is for "other" gaming books,
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and the lower shelf is strictly for dungeons and dragons. There used to be a lot more dnd and general gaming books, but they have either been lent out, or lost. The cabinet underneath holds CP 2020 material I printed off the net, as well as other tools a large stack of Who's Who/Marvel Universe type books, and dragon magazines..
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A closer look at the graphic novels and trade paperbacks.
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In the cabinets underneath the trades I keep all my prestige format books. plus a few japanese language manga.
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A better look at the toys on my trade shelves...... No way in hell am I ever getting rid of my shogun warriors or my original Falcon....... and how many of you have Spiderman and the hulk toilet paper......... it actually tells a story......
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And the toys on the rpg book shelf
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Ok, here, just because its cool, is my custom GM Screen for Cyberpunk 2020,
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Ready for game...
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Last but not least, as the completion of the table coincides with the ten year anniversary of this group playing together, in addition to the table, I hand painted all the numbers and pips of my players d10's and d6's (the dice used in CP 2020) with glow in the dark paint. These are my dice, but you can see the effect...
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I have moved to a new house, be sure to check out the New Gaming Room

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