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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DDK" data-source="post: 693595" data-attributes="member: 6469">Inspired by the 'The Ultimate Gaming Table' thread, and my own fevered imagination, I thought I'd get some input into what would make a great gaming venue specifically for groups of players.Imagine a place where you could hire out a room, say 20'x20' room with couches around the edges and a circular table in the middle with one armchair setup for the DM and the room had speakers and a computer on a LAN with limited player access points, and the computer had a library of sounds and images for monsters, encounters and whatnot and...Ok, I'm getting ahead of myself, but you get the idea, right?I mean, you could fairly easily setup a store like this, although partitions probably wouldn't be enough as I'd be pissed if I could hear what was going on in the next group so proper walls would be in order, but aside from that, even the computers wouldn't have to be huge, just celeron's or whatever the cheapass versions are these days, just enough to provide the facilities for enhancing the gaming experience.Same with the chairs and tables. Nothing too fancy, but comfortable and proper couches, not just dining table style chairs, and a table at regular coffee table height would be best, IMO. Something that you can easily reach over to position mini's and where everyone can see dice rolls.The store could not only hire out the rooms but could provide munchies and drinks and maybe even hot food like pies, pasties (I don't think many Americans know what a four'n'twenty pie is like... but anyway) and hell, I've seen small pizza ovens that make a decent pizza too and really don't require huge amounts of skill to operate.You could have book and mini libraries too. Much like video libraries, you'd have to join and pay to rent them out, but imagine how cool it would be from a DM'ing perspective to have access to minis and books? It would encourage buying too 'cause you'd limit the borrowing to ONLY within the store.Man... I reckon this'd rock and would bring a lot of gamers who had previously not been able to game simply due to lack of venue or lack of suitable venue out of the woodwork and would encourage many more to gather groups.Seriously, I wanna hear opinions on this. I've heard TSR once did something a little like this ages and ages ago but it flopped. I'm not surprised... they were all hippies back then and had no business sense <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Anyway, post your thoughts and let's see if we can come up with a working business model!</blockquote>

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