Gaming in the basement

[amerigoV]

I never did the stereotypical "gamer in his mother's basement." I did rent a house for awhile that had a finished basement with a bar - I did game down there, to much enjoyment of the other players.

 

[Diamond Cross]

I lived in my mother's basement for few months before moving here. At the time though I never knew it was anything stereotypical though.

The difference though is that it was carpeted and had lots of shelves for my books and comics.

 

[IronWolf]

In summer and good weather, we tended to play outside (picnic tables and patios). When weather wasn't good, maybe half our games were in a basement.

What is this outside you speak of?

 

[WizarDru]

When I first started playing in my early teens, our house didn't have a basement, so we played in the dining room. In college we played in the dorms or apartments. We didn't start playing in a basement until we bought a house with a finished basement and then turned it into our game room.

Not unlike my uncle, who had a pool table and bar in his basement, except we have an ikea table, bookshelves and a mini-fridge.

 

[nedjer]

Never, but then you don't get American style basements in houses over this side of the pond.

Instead we have the 'garden flat', which is way of incarcerating students, grannies and first time buyers below ground without telling them it's a basement.

 

[Ranes]

As Dragonlancer said, we don't really get basements over here (or good weather, for that matter). But when I was nineteen, I moved into an old house with four other gamers (three of whom are still good friends, twenty-seven years later) and that house had a cellar.

It was a big cellar.

I remember there being massive Warhammer (2nd edition) tabletop battles, and expansive games of Starfleet Battles down there but we mostly roleplayed in the lounge.

And I haven't played in a game underground since, except for those rare occasions when I've been in a group that's taken over a pub basement for the evening.

Gaming outside. Just wow. I think I did that once...

 

[Matchstick]

Wisconsin here too, and I think all of my Wisconsin gaming has been done in a basement, including my current VTT game (the computer is downstairs). In every house I can think of where we played in high school we were in the basement. Occasionally outside, but mostly downstairs.

When I lived in NC we gamed at the kitchen table on the ground floor.

 

[Umbran]

What is this outside you speak of?

Friend Citizen, surely you are aware that "the Outside" is a rumor perpetrated and perpetuated by commiemutanttraitors. Rumors are treason. Would you prefer to restate your question, or simply be sent to Research and Development for Mandatory Extra Bonus Fun Duty? I believe this week R&D requires test subjects for the products of the new experimental food vats in YUK Sector. The testing procedure should be quite... invigorating.

I was in the suburbs, where they figure that teenage boys are photosynthetic, or something, and always toss them outside to "get some fresh air". They didn't care much what we did outside, so long as it was legal and nobody got too damaged.

I think it was just so that we wouldn't mess up the house so much.

 

[Desdichado]

My parents never had a basement, because they lived in an area with a high watertable and lots of clay in the soil. Nobody built basements.

Where I live now, basements are very common, and finished basements tend to be exactly the place where most people set up their "hang out" rooms. Therefore, gaming in the basement makes perfect sense. So, for that matter, does using the basement as a home theater, or for hosting a party, or for coralling the kids so them and their toys don't wander all over the house, etc.

Basements are great. I don't know why gaming and basements have developed some kind of stigma. Maybe it's the concept of the parent's basement (especially for someone in their thirties) that has the stigma, though.

 

[Bullgrit]

Friend Citizen, surely you are aware that "the Outside" is a rumor perpetrated and perpetuated by commiemutanttraitors. Rumors are treason. Would you prefer to restate your question, or simply be sent to Research and Development for Mandatory Extra Bonus Fun Duty? I believe this week R&D requires test subjects for the products of the new experimental food vats in YUK Sector. The testing procedure should be quite... invigorating.

I was in the suburbs, where they figure that teenage boys are photosynthetic, or something, and always toss them outside to "get some fresh air". They didn't care much what we did outside, so long as it was legal and nobody got too damaged.

I think it was just so that we wouldn't mess up the house so much.

All of the above is just full of funny! (Can't give you xp yet.)

Bullgrit