Gaming in the basement

[IronWolf]

Despite having had basements available for nearly all of my gaming days, I don't think I've ever actually played in a basement. A lot of my books live in the basement in a pseudo office area.

I would like to finish some of the basement and have the option to play down there, but those plans have not come to fruition yet.

Now, just last week the house we play our weekly game at was having AC issues, as in it was broken. We suggested playing the basement, but I think the host thought we were joking...

 

[renau1g]

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

Bullgrit

Gotcha covered.

I played in my parents basement when I was still in school, now that I moved out I play at our dining room table for RL games, or in my office for Virtual Tabletop games, because that's where my 'puter's at.

Our basement is awesome though, temperature is great in the summer especially with humidity pushing the temp to like 46-47 last week (or about 116 Farenheit)...

Hobo - you experienced that yeah?

 

[noffham]

Played in several friends basements, never in my parents' though. Haven't gamed in one since college oh so long ago.

 

[Henry]

Basements are not common in the southeastern U.S., but kitchens, and secondary workshops/buildings are quite common. In my teen years, two different friends had rec rooms that were separate from their houses, and we played in those, or in the living rooms or kitchens of other gamers in the group.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Never. The ground (ie, bedrock) was too hard for basements where I grew up.

Gaming generally happened on a kitchen table or bedroom floor.

 

[S'mon]

No, habitable basements aren't common in the UK. Lived in a house with a basement once in Sheffield, but it was just a big windy hole to make the house extra cold in winter, icy wind blew up through the floorboards into the living room and froze us.

 

[Ktulu]

I gamed in my parent's basement until I was about 21. I then moved out, but for about 4-5 years that was the only place we played.


Now we game in the livingroom of one of my players. He's got a great setup and his wife's cool with it.

 

[Stoat]

I grew up in the Southeastern U.S. (Charlotte, NC) and played D&D in a friend's basement regularly from 1989 to 1993. Granted, his house was built into a hill and one wall of the basement opened onto the outside, but it was an unfinished room with a concrete floor, and they called it "the basement."

For bonus points, we used the Ping-Pong table as our game table.

 

[ExploderWizard]

My house is is a split level and we game downstairs so I guess that would be a basement. Much cooler and roomier than the upstairs dining room.

Only had a basement for a brief tome as a kid (an old unfinished civil war era house basement) so I didn't do much basement gaming then.

In the late 80's/early 90's we gamed in a buddies basement.

 

[The Shaman]

What is this outside you speak of?

*gollum . . . gollum*