location poll

[Agback]

G'day

Over the years I've played RPGs in all sorts of places: sitting around dining tables; lounging around in sitting rooms; in railways carriages; on the grass in parks; around coffee tables in the school library; around the table in a group study room at Uni; and with twelve people crowded into a college room, with one in each chair, four on the bed, three on the desk, and three squatting on the floor. Nowadays we mostly lounge on the sofa and easy chairs in a sitting room, but I am inclined to think that people would be less easily distracted, and that the game would go quicker, if we sat around the dining table.

So: where do you most often play RPGs? What are the advantages of that attitude? What would you prefer?

Regards,


Agback

 

[OaxacanWarrior]

We usually play lounging around on sofas and such, but I'd rather play on straight backed chairs around a dining table because everyone would be less distracted, IMO.

 

[Crothian]

Now, we play in my friends family room sitting on the couch or other chairs. THe DM, she uses a coffee table to help organize things and keep her one year old from grabbing books, pencels, and dice and figureing how gravity works. My old group would sit around my kitchen table. The group before that played on and around my pool table in the basement.

 

[madriel]

There's no better way to game than sitting around a kitchen or dining room table on straight backed chairs. You don't have dice eaten by the sofa, people don't fall asleep and you're all focussed on the same spot. Most of my group came from a wargaming background, so we almost always use a battlemat and miniatures which work best on a dining room table.

Straight backed chairs can be hard on the butt, but people stay awake better. You can either use a cushion or get up and stretch.

We always get more done in a session if we're all together around the dining room table.

Not to mention it's harder for people to cheat if they have to roll the dice in front of everybody.

 

[Aitch Eye]

Around a card table on mixture of a sofa, folding chairs and a couple of really nice swivelling chairs from a game table.

Sitting around a dining table is probably best, though I believe one of our DMs prefered setup was when he was sitting on the floor with everyone else either in chairs or on the carpet.

 

[Corinth]

Straight-backed chairs and a large dining room table does it for me.

 

[Agback]

bump

 

[Tonguez]

I break into vaults at the local cemetery and draw pentagrams upon the floor before casting my runic dice, sacrificng the neighbours cat and invoking the name of Dread Cthulu....

 

[alsih2o]

gotta be at a p.c.,....our party barbarian/ranger is in london,.. our bard is at purdue or in Az,... i am the sorc/druid near memphis,tn...our monk is in wisconsin,...and our ranger rogue is in san diego.

high back chairs owuld be neat, but we would really have to shout!

 

[Lady Starhawk]

We play in teh conference room at one of the guys' work. So we sit around a huge table in office chairs. Comfy enough to relax in and have everything on the table (including a nice big battle mat) and the chairs aren't so comfy that you're falling asleep (although it does happen).

Before I joined this group we used to lounge around on chairs and sofas and the floor and stuff, usually around a coffee table, or just with the dm having a tv tray.

Lady Starhawk