The proud hunter mounts the busts of his prey, reminders of conquests on many an adventure, deep in the wilds.
But no taxidermic deer, moose or antelope hang in his home. His walls are adored with beasts far more monstrous.
The heads of a “mind flayer” and an “owl bear” — creatures of Dungeons & Dragons lore — decorate Michael Jimenez’s game room, furnished with fantastical figurines and assorted medieval weaponry. A flail dangles. Swords shine all around.
And a custom table dominates from the center of the room.
Jimenez, 49, owns and operates The Weathered Dragon, which constructs gaming tables tailor-made for enthusiasts of Dungeons & Dragons and other similar sci-fi and fantasy tabletop role-playing games.
Each table takes a month to build and on average sells for between $12,000 and $15,000.
A game table by Michael Jimenez of The Weathered Dragon game tables in South Mills, North Carolina, on Dec. 17, 2025. (Peter Casey/The Virginian-Pilot)Commissions come from all across the country. He once shipped a table to Western Australia.
This month, Jimenez walked into his game room in his South Mills, North Carolina, home that he shares with his wife and children and circled to the back of the 6-by-6 custom table he keeps for himself. He flipped a switch, turning on internal LED light strips.
The table glowed purple and blue. He touched its African mahogany hardwood and slowly patted the tabletop.
“To think, it’s all for a game,” he said, with a smile, knowing the brand’s extreme popularity.
A view figures on the game table of Michael Jimenez, the owner of The Weathered Dragon game tables, in South Mills, North Carolina, on Dec. 17, 2025. (Peter Casey/The Virginian-Pilot)The company that owns D&D, Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, estimates that over 50 million people have played since its 1974 release.
The game is based on storytelling — and imagination. Players are the characters in their own narrative of adventure, choosing who and what they want to be.
They first select their species. One can always, of course, choose to be human. Elf, gnome, dwarf, orc, half-orc, half-human are all also fun choices.
Next they choose a specialty: warrior, mage, a healing cleric, etc.
One person, the dungeon master, guides the players through a fantasy land and sets the framework for the adventure.
Dice are rolled to determine if individuals’ actions — i.e. picking locks on treasure chests, stabbing malevolent necromancers — succeed or fail. Miniature figurines that depict players’ characters and their foes are sometimes employed to enhance the imaginative experience. Hence, the need for a good table.
Jimenez played Dungeons & Dragons as a teenager but took a more than 20-year hiatus from its magical world until 2017, when he walked into a store to buy Magic: The Gathering trading cards for his son. He noticed a D&D starter kit on a shelf, took it home and played a little with his kids before reaching out to other adults inquiring if they might want to play.
Soon he built an official group of local friends who’d gather at his house to play. And Jimenez, who’d worked as a home improvement contractor for years, built a table for their games.
Its bar height gives the option of sitting or standing. The table is equipped with cup holders and decked out with ornamentations such as old-timey lanterns and runic carvings.
Michael Jimenez, the owner of The Weathered Dragon game tables, talks about the construction of the tables built in his garage in South Mills, North Carolina, on Dec. 17, 2025. (Peter Casey/The Virginian-Pilot)His friends persuaded him to take his table to the biggest tabletop gaming convention in the country, Gen Con, a multiday festival that hosts about 70,000 per day. He set up his wares in its Hall of Vendors and quickly received five orders for custom tables.
He officially founded his company in 2019 and routinely travels with samples of his work to U.S. gaming conventions, steadily picking up new commissions.
Customers can choose their preferred wood and designs, including maxims or spells carved into the table frame in languages such as the elvish ones developed by J.R.R. Tolkien for his “The Lord of the Rings” books.
On his own table, Jimenez carved in the language of Tolkien’s dwarves: “Gather here and be merry, forget your woes and slay dragons.”
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