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Ekim Toor
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:21 am

Very cool!

Mars
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:13 am

That looks great guys!

Kires1
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:08 pm

Incredible! Soooo jealous....

I wonder, how long did it take to complete that project?

If me and my friends gamed in a room like that, nobody would pay attention to what was happening in the game, they'd be gawking at every little detail in the room all night...

Kires1
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:54 pm

Ah I see it took two years, duh! I was so enamored with the pictures I didn't even read the header!

burntwire brothers
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:59 pm

Phaedran wrote:Great job guys, especially that portcullis!

What are the dimensions of the room and back closet area?

Its not a large room. Was a kids bedroom. The room is about 11'x13' and the closet is 4'x4'.

-Devon

burntwire brothers
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:06 pm

Kires1 wrote:Ah I see it took two years, duh! I was so enamored with the pictures I didn't even read the header!

Probably could have done it in a fraction of that time but it seemed to go in spurts. Did all the shelves then the room sat for awhile. The stone took awhile because I wanted it to look "stacked" instead of the way the box showed which looked too planned. Once it started coming together at the end I worked alot of hours to have it done by GenCon so we could unbox all our D&D stuff.

-Devon

xraygord
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:47 pm

That is my dream room! One day...

Beautiful!

Deogolf
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:28 pm

I bow before thee!!

Very nicely done!!

Eulaliaaa!!!

-Defjeff-
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:13 pm

Great Geebus!

And I thought MY game room was tops...!

Incredible. How big is your game crew? That table actually looks kind of small.

Whats with the DM screens that look like a castle gatehouse? Cool beans! Make it yourself?

Hmm... I see youre not too far from Louisville...

I must make a pilgrimage to see your Mecca in person one day.

Live and in yo face!

Kingofpain89
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:25 pm

-Defjeff- wrote:Whats with the DM screens that look like a castle gatehouse? Cool beans! Make it yourself?

Pretty sure it is the 4th edition promotional screen:

http://www.dragonavenue.com/dnd/post/du ... mate_doom/

Pretty pricey from what I have seen as well. I dont have a clue how many were made but I have seen a couple on Ebay and IIRC they went for around $300.

You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. - Homer Simpson

Kingofpain89
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:36 pm

I just noticed this in one of the pictures:

http://www.geekvintage.com/mattel-aquar ... tarmin.php

I didnt even know they made this one. I guess the Aquarius is a bit out of my video game collecting scope though.

You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. - Homer Simpson

Agent Cooper
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:56 am

The blindingly overwhelming awesomeness of that game room simply cannot be expressed properly in any human language. I cannot stop staring at these pics.

That collection is not too shabby either.

The owls are not what they seem...

SimperingToad
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:41 pm

Congrats, guys! You have achieved a new level of fame. Aaron Williams (of Nodwick fame) has this thread linked to on his site... at least until his next update.

http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/index.htm

Tharizdun
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 5:58 pm

Your next project should be to turn your kitchen and dining room into the Thieves World tavern :wink:

Ask me about my new M16!

brute
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:17 pm

Awe inspiring. Thanks for sharing!

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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:05 pm

Thanks for the praise. No wonder my photobucket accounts bandwidth is already exceeded for the month.

As to the DM's screen there were 220 made and were exclusive to retailers if they ordered alot of 4th Edition books from WOC.

Defjeff, you could always come to GenCon and meet alot of the Acaeum crew. Less than a 3 hour drive

the-topdog
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:47 pm

Kingofpain89 wrote:I just noticed this in one of the pictures:

http://www.geekvintage.com/mattel-aquar ... tarmin.php

I didnt even know they made this one. I guess the Aquarius is a bit out of my video game collecting scope though.

The Mattel Aquarius is one of the shortest lived home computer systems of the 1980's but the AD&D Treasure of Tarmin game was state of the art at the time... so Mattel ported it over to the Intellivision.

What was interesting about this is that Mattel had already made an AD&D game cartridge a year before so in the advertisements for the Treasure of Tarmin game they gave the previously unnamed adventure a title "Cloudy Mountain" Volume 1... and Treasure of Tarmin was thus dubbed Volume 2.

But as you can see by the advertisements for the original cartridge, the adventure had no name.

Subsequently, all of the future releases of the original game bore the new subtext "Cloudy Mountain".

So if you collect all of the retro Dungeons and Dragons video games, you will need to have both releases of Intellivision's "Cloudy Mountain" to have a complete set.

simonmwh
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:32 am

Grats on your games room. Amazing work.

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