Gaming in the basement

[TheAuldGrump]

First game that I aver played in was in the basement of the U/U church in Portsmouth N.H..

One of the games that I run is in a basement, the other two are at the other old standby - the Dinner Table.

The Auld Grump

 

[Jools]

We play on the floor in the tatami room.

 

[Mark CMG]

Due to the Midwest USA being plagued by tornados, many homes have basements unless they are on a flood plain or are trailers/mobile homes. It's the default rec-room for fun and games.

 

[Elf Witch]

I live in south Florida if you dig to far you hit water so there are no basements. I think only seen one basement in my entire life and that was visit to some family friends in Connecticut when I was a kid.

I usually play at a dining room table. Though we used to sometimes play in a screen porch around the pool when the weather was nice . Which in Florida speak means not to hot or humid.

Of course it never failed that someone's dice would end up in the pool.

 

[Hussar]

High school, we gamed in basements most of the time. After I moved away from home, I've generally lived in apartments, so, no basement games for a long time.

My last few face to face games were always in a spare classroom at the schools where we worked. Whiteboards and desks make GREAT gaming spaces.

 

[Agamon]

The only times I've lived in places without a basement was the times I lived in rented apartments...in which case, I usually played at another player's place, usually in the basement.

I've played once in a while in kitchens and living rooms, but when I was young, I prefered to game out of the way of my family, and now that I'm adult, I like to game in the "man cave", which is the basement. Less interuptions and gaming materials on hand? Yes, please.

 

[Joshua Randall]

A lot of the houses around where I live have half-finished basements. That is, one side is finished (wood or tile floor, possibly carpeting, painted walls, furniture) and the other side is unfinished (concrete floor, unpainted walls).

You put your washer/dryer on the unfinished side, along with the furnace; and you do stuff on the finished side, like play games or watch your home theater or just store extra junk there.

Now, growing up I never played in basements even though the houses I played at had them. Not sure why. We typically used the kitchen or dining room.

 

[karlindel]

I lived most my life in Louisiana and Texas, and basements aren't common in either. I'm currently in Virginia, where there are probably more, but I haven't seen them. I can't recall being in a house with a basement more than a handful of times. The closest I've come to gaming in one was playing Magic and some computer games in a friend's basement when I flew to Ohio for his sister's wedding.

 

[Jan van Leyden]

A house without a basement? What a bizarre idea! How can one live without the additional storage space and a room for drying your laundry in?

Basements are very common in northern Germany; even when I lived in a large apartment building I had my own basement room for storage and bicycle parking.

In the suburb-like areas built in the 70ties and 80ties with all their privately owned houses, where a lot of baby-boomers grew up, the party room in the basement is a must!

 

[Lord Captian Tobacco]

The Perfect Setting

While in the army over in Germany, we had this bar...with a back room in the basement. We arranged to have the room on Saturdays and would run a tab that often got quite high after twelve to fifteen hours (which made the owners happy to have us use the room). The room was medium dark with only a few lights, the air had a touch of musty flavor to it, and the sounds of creaky wood and muffled conversation finished the atmosphere of Adventure.

The owners didn't ask about our books and dice; we didn't ask about the Bund and Reich artifacts on the walls...