Where and on What do you Play?

[joethelawyer]

In watching the movie Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising, i was struck by the tiny little L shaped table they played on. We play most of the time in my brother's rec room/finished basement, on a tournament sized pool table, covered in plastic to avoid chip and beer stains. That little L table would never cut it for us. I don't know who has the more abnormal playing situation, us or them. Where and on what do you guys play most of the time??

I'll add though that maybe 15% of the time for whatever reason (meaning one or more of the wives is on a rampage) we play at one of the other group member's houses, in which case it's either at a big kitchen table, a big dining room table, or on couches and chairs in the living room, depending on whose house it is.

 

[Lhorgrim]

I play at my FLGS on three tables arranged in a "T" shape. As DM I sit at the horizontal of the "T", and the players sit around the vertical leg.

The tables are what the FLGS uses for MtG games. I would say they are 3'X5' or so.

When I owned a home with a basement(before a downsizing) we played on a 4'X8' table I built just for gaming, and it had a 3'X3' elevated table on it that we used for the game mat.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

No real set place just whichever friend wishes to host it that day. Though most likely will become heavily situated around my apartment next year.

 

[Scribe Ineti]

When I run games, they're done at my place on my dining room table (oval, approx. 7' x 4' at the widest points) with a simple tablecloth over it. I sit at one of the long sides so that I can reach everything on the table and see (and hear) all my players.

When our other GM runs games, they're at his place, on his slightly smaller dining room table (square, 5x4).

 

[Masquerade]

At the library on my MacBook, or, depending on your perspective, at the Internet on MapTool.

When I did play face-to-face games regularly, in my basement on a large dry erase board.

 

[Richards]

Usually, we play at the home of three of my players, in their kitchen, on an oval kitchen table covered with a checkerboard tablecloth (that can double as a gridmap if we need it to). Occasionally, we'll play at my house, in which case we play on a slightly bigger dining room table, covered in a plain white tablecloth.

At their house, I sit at a long side of the table, and keep my excess books on the kitchen counter within reach. At my house, I sit at the end of the dining room table and have a folding TV tray at hand to hold my excess books and such.

In earlier campaigns with just my two sons, we've played at the kitchen table, around a coffee table in the family room, and on the floor in the library/den in out basement.

The weirdest place I've ever played was a solo-module (you read the DM-only material as needed by viewing it through a red lens), which I had brought with me on alert in a launch control center while on missile crew. In the middle of the night, when there was nothing going on and my crew partner was in the rack, it helped while away the hours.

Johnathan

 

[Shroomy]

In my current game, we play in the back room of one of our FLGSs. They have a couple of long, collapsible plastic tables that we push together to make a larger space. We just sit around the table, in no particular order; our DM uses the 4e screen to shield his notes from our view, but he doesn't otherwise sit apart from us.

 

[justanobody]

Where:

Kitchen, living room, garage, basement, pool hall, middle of the woods, I-95, public park....

on what:

table, floor, lap, car, pool table, poker table, ground....

Most of the time:
Wherever there is chairs and enough room for all to sit.

 

[catsclaw227]

We alternate our location, and I am the DM, on some nights we play at one of the Player apartments, the other nights at my home.

At the apartment, we play around a sofa and coffee table, with some on the floor and others on sofa and chairs.

At my house, I have a game room with a big dining room table with the leaf inserted. There's obviously more room at my house, but there is also a 7 1/2 month old baby, and we don't want to keep her awake when we play late. I love my game room.

 

[Serendipity]

Most of the gaming I've done in the last eight years has been of the "couches and chairs in the living room" variety - though when GMing I find that I do have a marked preference for a nice heavy table for everyone to gather round. (Maybe I just like hearing the clatter of dice.)