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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2265834" data-attributes="member: 30035">I have several friends/GMs with similar gaming room setups. Two of them recently purchased split-level homes and both installed a gaming room in the lower level. One is using a big piece of masonite framed onto a smaller table to give it more surface space, but I don't think this is entirely satisfactory since the masonite tends to bend if you rest your elbows on it where it extends beyond the top of the table. His wife won't let him buy a mini-fridge because she says then she'd never see him again. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />  The other person has the better setup (althought the first guy has more comfortable chairs <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ). He has an 8-foot table. The room is surrounded entirely with shelving to hold his miniature collection and game aids. He also has purchased a lot of spare foam inserts for Games Workshop miniature cases and has mounted them on the walls on vinyl-coated wire racks. He has a wet-erase Chessex grid mat on the table at all times. There's also a large wipe-board on the wall behind the GM's chair.  The room does have a slight loss of traffic space, but he can keep it set up 24-7. Conveniently, there's a bathroom right across the hall. Unfortunately there's no room for a mini-fridge - we all bring our own snacks, and have to store them in the main fridge upstairs.  I also play at a friend's home where we play in the living room. There's no table to put a battle mat on, and usually at least one player ends up sitting on the floor because there's not enough room for chairs. I do not find sitting on the couch conducive to good roleplaying. There's nowhere to put my stuff, nowhere to write unless I do it on my binder, nowhere to roll my dice except on the coffee table. I usually get very sleepy during those games because the light is poor, and I get a backache from leaning over to roll dice. I'd say the best things to have in an ideal gaming room are good lighting, good storage, comfortable chairs, and easy access to the bathroom and kitchen. I think a fully finished basement with a kitchenette would be the perfect location.</blockquote>

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