When you play in person, where do you play? (Poll)

[BookTenTiger]

I'm a forever DM who is really struggling to put together a new D&D (or other RPG) group after moving to Atlanta three years ago.

Part of it is the struggle of trying to schedule anything while also having a three year old child.

Part of it is that we live in a pretty tiny house with no sound insulation, so I can't host games after my son's bedtime. And to be honest, I just really prefer hosting a game that I'm running. It feels strange to me, for whatever reason, to hoist all my RPG stuff to someone else's house in order to run a game.

Now obviously that's not going to stop me from running a game, but it's definitely a hurtle I've had to get over.

I was wondering how common this is. Are most games hosted by the person running it? Or am I just spoiled by my years of child-free gaming?

For those of you who play in person, where are your games played?

 

[TwoSix]

Two of my main groups both play at one of my friend's house. He and his wife have no children, so he's spent a good amount of money setting up his basement with a gaming table, lots of minis, a small bar, etc. We have rotating GMs, so whoever is DMing just uses his minis if they're needed.

We play one game at my house, but that's only about once a month and my kids are older now.

 

[sevenbastard]

My old apartment complex had a great common room that we used. For LA the place had amazing parking for guests.

In Phoenix we played in a game store.

 

[cbwjm]

I selected all 3, last game I played I was at the DMs home, I've also run games at their home, and we often play at a bar when it's closed.

 

[Hriston]

My only in-person game is with my kids, so we play at our house.

 

[John R Davis]

We play at mine or one other players house, who happens to live 237 seconds walk away from me!

 

[Umbran]

Most often, it is at my house, and I'm usually GMing.

I go to a house-con or two each year, but those are kind of different occasions, and probably don't account for most of the gaming I do for the year.

 

[overgeeked]

Typically the GM’s house though a player’s house is a strong second. I don’t play in public unless I absolutely have to, like at a con.

 

[dbm]

I have a dedicated gaming room, so tend to host one of our groups, whether I am a player or the GM.

In my other group one of the players is a landlord and he bought a small house just to run games in… so that group plays there unless he is unavailable for a session, at which point we tend to revert to mine.

 

[jdrakeh]

Usually at my friend's game store (The Yellow King Games & Hobbies in Colorado Springs).