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<blockquote data-quote="WillieW" data-source="post: 1649995" data-attributes="member: 4299"><p><strong>Bar-room Gaming</strong></p><p></p><p>Gaming in a bar is fine, except for some unexpected pitfalls...</p><p></p><p>I used to host a gaming group in our local hostelry on its traditionally "slow" Tuesday night. The idea was that we would keep the noise levels down and buy a few drinks. Seemed fine.</p><p></p><p>We had a snug to ourselves, and apart from some curious passersby who'd poke a head over the partition on the way to the restroom, and an occasional longer-term spectator, emboldened by drink, we were left to our own devices.</p><p></p><p>One logistical problem of drinking in a bar is that in our neck of the woods the local lounge-type bar has small round tables. This meant that though we were in one small area, we were also broken up into sub-groups. Add a modicum of alcohol and these had a tendency to turn into cliques. And clique-ishness has a habit of getting louder and meaner the closer to closing time it is...</p><p></p><p>Then, of course, the Tuesday-night session was often accompanied by the landlord's money-making ideas, so that we would be roleplaying to the accompaniment of a whiskey promotion. (See twelve swaying role-players in new Whiskey-promotional tee-shirts having won all the raffle-prizes being asked to surrender some to make it fair on the rest of the punters... Heh.)</p><p>Or there would be a race-night, or live music...</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the booze and the game didn't mix, in my experience. I called time on the pub sessions before someone got a live-action smack in the puss.</p><p></p><p>It might suit some people. Didn't suit us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WillieW, post: 1649995, member: 4299"] [b]Bar-room Gaming[/b] Gaming in a bar is fine, except for some unexpected pitfalls... I used to host a gaming group in our local hostelry on its traditionally "slow" Tuesday night. The idea was that we would keep the noise levels down and buy a few drinks. Seemed fine. We had a snug to ourselves, and apart from some curious passersby who'd poke a head over the partition on the way to the restroom, and an occasional longer-term spectator, emboldened by drink, we were left to our own devices. One logistical problem of drinking in a bar is that in our neck of the woods the local lounge-type bar has small round tables. This meant that though we were in one small area, we were also broken up into sub-groups. Add a modicum of alcohol and these had a tendency to turn into cliques. And clique-ishness has a habit of getting louder and meaner the closer to closing time it is... Then, of course, the Tuesday-night session was often accompanied by the landlord's money-making ideas, so that we would be roleplaying to the accompaniment of a whiskey promotion. (See twelve swaying role-players in new Whiskey-promotional tee-shirts having won all the raffle-prizes being asked to surrender some to make it fair on the rest of the punters... Heh.) Or there would be a race-night, or live music... Anyway, the booze and the game didn't mix, in my experience. I called time on the pub sessions before someone got a live-action smack in the puss. It might suit some people. Didn't suit us. [/QUOTE]
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