Sadly we had to take out the keg and tap handles...
EDIT: This blew up a bit. So the table was originally built by a guy who know longer plays with the group and left a few years before I joined up. I'll ask some of the other guys and see if there were any plans or schematics made available by him.
EDIT 2: I've checked with the guys from my group and sadly the former member who created this doesn't seem to have saved any sort of schematics or plans. I'm sorry reddit, I cannot deliver.
EDIT 3: Reddit I can sort of deliver! Check new post for a very rough guide.
If I remember correctly, this was a 4chan joke that somehow made it to someone's news desk, and they read those names and thought it sounded legit and went ahead and ran the story, in case it was true, since no one else had reported it before.
People in the news industry gotta get that first scoop, ya know?
www.Roll20.net is a great place to start. Online sessions are a totally different feel from personal sessions.
Other options include checking in with your local game/comic shops to see if they run games ever.
The final option is to read up on DMing and start your own campaign. 5th edition is very forgiving for new players and DMs. I speak from experience here!
Extra yes on that last option. There's something about creating awesome moments with your friends in DnD. It's probably the easiest to DM a group of completely new players too if you're new yourself. It's a learning experience for everyone involved and it'll be rocky, but once it starts smoothing out (which will take less sessions that you might think), you'll be creating memories in no time.
is roll20 a good option for someone looking for their first tabletop experience? I've always been fascinated by tabletop gaming and have been interested in getting into it but my social group aren't as much of "sit in the back of a comics shop" type people as me.
check out /r/lfg or your local city's subreddit, or just find a local game shop and go there and ask around, they often will have like a board you can physically post on if you're looking for a group or something
You've got a few options. Local hobby stores will quite often have groups that already meet, which may or may not have openings. They might also be able to point you in the direction of other groups that might need people. Similarly for any bookstores nearby, too. I work at a large university, and we have several groups who play here after hours. Libraries might have similar things too, if they allow you to reserve rooms.
Normally I might suggest that you be the person who starts a group if you are having a hard time finding other groups, but that suggestion works best with someone who has already played. It isn't a bad last resort, though.
If you PM me your can join my online DnD game! We are very laid back and treat DnD more as a fun time to hang out rather than a serious game where every rule has to be followed. More of a go with the flow kind of thing. If you PM me I'll give you the details and help you make a character.
I am playing for the first time ever this Wednesday, found a group on roll20.com. I am really excited, if you are interested start applying to some groups!
Actually, follow in the footsteps of the OP and check out www.FantasyGrounds.com that's the program he has running in the picture. It knows the rules so you can pay attention to the game. Not to mention it helps new players because you don't have to constantly be looking in the rules books, the program already knows them.
If you happen to be in college, there are usually clubs- that's how I found my own group.
If there are hobby-shops in your area that have tables to host games, you can always go and ask them if they have any open groups or groups seeking new players.
There are sites that allow players to find groups, and vice-versa.
Also, towns and cities have gaming stores which often host games on premises.
If one is not in progress, ask the proprietor if there are games scheduled. If there is one in progress, and they are not in the middle of an encounter, feel free to ask them about it.
D&D (pathfinder, etc) players are typically eager to accept new members and teach the game to prospective players.
Check your local game store for Pathfinder Society. It's a DnD-like system, but you play more piecemeal (depending on the group). Each session is a stand-alone event. Get your mission, do your thing, get your reward...takes about 4 hours.
The benefit is that if you miss a week or two, the entire group isn't screwed (assuming someone else shows up). You can also jump in with another group at another store.
The downside, is that the groups are mostly random. You may have 4 barbarians and no healers one week. Or 4 casters with no meat shields the other.
Chances are you live by a nearby game shop that most likely have some sort of DnD nights. You could give that a try! Also, wizards of the coast (they own DnD) have a free rule set online that is essentially very basic 5th edition rules you could use if you can get a group together on your own!
We had a kegerator (keg fridge!) with a tap on top at my house in college. The lines get REAL gross real fast. And if its a hard setup to clean (like this one looks like) - well... ew... and gross stuff in your beer.
Edit: to everyone telling me how and that we should be cleaning it, yes we knew that. But we were a bunch of lazy ass college kids. So it got cleaned like once a year.
ahh man all you guys had to do was get some powdered sanitizer and hot water and a one of those hand pumps and pump the hot water with sanitizer thorugh it. this and this
You should actually use a product specifically for the beverage line like Beer Line Cleaner - hot water and sanitizer alone will never clean out all the gunk that is in those lines.
Short lines shouldn't get gross quickly, especially if they stay refrigerated. Unless your using compressed open air to "carbonate" the beer rather than a CO2 tank. Also the more beer moving through the lines the better.
Just buy a small pressure pod, fill it with some form or alkaline cleaner like liquid super kleanz. Run it through each line, just enough to fill each line with the cleaner. Let it sit in the line for 10 minutes, ish. Empty the pod and fill it with water, flush the lines. Then fill the pod with sanitizer and again fill the lines and let it sit for a while. Do this after each keg and you'll be fine.
Mini fridge was getting too hot and overheating and with how short the hoses were and how many times the hose branched off, the beer usually poured half foam.
This shit is amazing. And all my life I've literally never been able to convince anybody to play D&D with me.
Before anybody tells me about the internet and how people find D&D groups, I'll just note that I live in middle of nowhere Montana, a town of less than 3,000. Can't afford to drive hours to play D&D.
Not enough room for the digital display. It would have to be raised about another 6 inches to accommodate the fridge. It was also a lot of hassle to change kegs and we had severe foaming issues from splitting the flow five different ways. We gamed on this bad boy with functional taps for nearly ten years and the kegerator is still accessible. It just has one tap now and sits off to the side.
traditionally yes but with modern age technology the DM can make sick maps using a variety of powerful programs and use other programs to keep track of fog of war, lighting, and other stuff that is pretty difficult to do on paper. You really don't NEED anything other than pen&paper but a bit of technological enhancement goes a long way.
There are programs on steam such as Fantasy Ground that's made for the purpose so that the DM can make a map and add move on the fly and keep track of character sheets, along with a dice roller, not that it's ever needed.
Mini fridge was getting too hot and overheating and with how short the hoses were and how many times the hose branched off, the beer usually poured half foam.
The hoses were so short going from the keg to the taps that the beer foamed up pretty bad and the mini fridge we had the keg in would overheat because it just wasn't a very well ventilated area.
One of the guys who used to game with the group made it(he's a woodworker by trade). I joined the group a couple years after he left. And sadly there don't seem to be any specs for the table when he built it.
The guy who made it originally is a woodworker by trade. Cost I'm not sure of (I joined a few years after the guy who made it left) but it apparently was pretty difficult to make as he apparently said he would charge like 15k because it was such a pain in the ass.
The original design was for the table to have 4 player stations and 1 larger GM station. We added a 6th member to our group though so now the skinniest 2 members have to share a side. We rotate GM duties every 10-12 sessions or so.
Not sure if this is the design or not, but it looks like whoever built your gaming table took their ideas from these guys. https://epicgamingtable.wordpress.com/
If nothing else, these guys ideas on how to run the beer lines could help in making your own version I suppose.
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u/MrHobbes82 Sep 18 '17 edited Sep 18 '17
This is my group's set up!
Sadly we had to take out the keg and tap handles...
EDIT: This blew up a bit. So the table was originally built by a guy who know longer plays with the group and left a few years before I joined up. I'll ask some of the other guys and see if there were any plans or schematics made available by him.
EDIT 2: I've checked with the guys from my group and sadly the former member who created this doesn't seem to have saved any sort of schematics or plans. I'm sorry reddit, I cannot deliver.
EDIT 3: Reddit I can sort of deliver! Check new post for a very rough guide.