Strangest place you've gamed...?

[HiLiphNY]

In a car. . .while driving. . .I DMed. It was a Pathfinder rules version of the first few levels of Monte Cook's DungeonADay.com dungeon. We were driving up to Montreal for one of the players' bachelor weekends.

All's well that ends well. . .

 

[billd91]

A couple of friends and I played through part of the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth on a table behind the spectator seats at the local curling club. My parents and older sister were in a mixed bonspiel and didn't want to leave us home alone so we packed up the game and took it curling.

We also used to play with the boy scouts at summer camp. We had a screen tent set up with a couple of picnic tables in it. We played things like D&D and Panzer Leader while the kids from the neighboring site (a troop from the much hated nearby town of Lodi) annoyed us with noisy games of backgammon.

 

[Stumblewyk]

Wow. And I thought that the time my friends and I played at the park pavilion down the street from my house because my mother wouldn't allow us to play inside her house was nuts.

 

[Umbran]

Do you want to include live-action gaming into consideration.

I have, for example, been part of a line of people, doing the conga through a hotel mezzanine, carrying a sign saying "We are invisible". It was late night at a sci-fi convention, so not to many mundane folks to freak out, but still a bit out of the ordinary.

Another, live-action gaming oddity : in the middle of a shopping mall. A FLGS had organized game play at their store, but they didn't have space actually inside the store, so we played out in the common area among all the stores.

 

[El Mahdi]

Under camo-netting outside my tent in Baghdad.

 

[Stormonu]

Some more of the unusual places I also played at:

On the 7th-8th grade "running" track during PE (no books, no dice, just pure Rp, about 3 days a week )

In the center of a hedge maze (at dennis the menace park, for those who know of it)

In the back of a camper shell pickup on a drive to New Orleans. Our table was a jacket laid over a spare tire in the back. And yes, we had moment when the driver (one of the gamer's dad) had to slam on the brakes and we ended up all mushed against the cab's back window.

 

[jbear]

In a hand made wooden pioneer-style horse-drawn wagon behind a hundred year old yellow piano on goat skins. The only light was from a solar powered lamp. The wagon was one of four, both home, stage and setting to the theatrical style circus I lived and travelled with for 3 years in Sardegna, a magnificently beautiful island of Italy. 3 horses pulled 2 of the wagons. A 50 year old blue Mercedes truck pulled the other two big wagons.

When I joined the circus the kids wanted nothing to do with books. I got them all playing AD&D (what I could remember off the top of my head anyway), which they absolutely loved and by the time I had left they had devoured Lord of the Rings and were asking for fantasy books as their birthday presents.

Another night we played out under the stars in sleepingbags on a flat mountain called the Giara. The place was covered in cork trees bent over sideways from the wind and populated by herds of wild horses.

We also played one night out on the battlements of ruined castle on top a hill overlooking the village below. Once again in our sleeping bags huddled into a sheltered corner.

Some of the best years of my life.

 

[invokethehojo]

On a camping trip, in the bed of a pickup truck with a top on it, during a thunderstorm.

 

[chaochou]

I played a session of Pendragon in a ruined castle in Wales.

 

[Henry]

Played D&D in a beauty salon, after-hours. Still probably strangest place I've played. It's possible we used hair curlers for columns in a large castle hall, but I can't remember if they stood up well enough for use to use them.