Where do you meet to play?

[Lwaxy]

I was wondering how many of you play in someone's home or in a public/semi-public location. Would also be interesting to know how common the way you meet is in your country.

 

[Dice4Hire]

We alternate between homes.

In Japan, libraries and such are not open very late, and we have had trouble finding other places to play that are more public.

Thus we rotate between player's homes.

 

[OnlineDM]

I'd suggest a few other options, or clarifying the options on the poll.

I chose the first option, "In the home of one of us", since that's where my primary in-person group meets.

However, I also have two groups that play online via MapTool and Skype, which is a valid option.

Finally, I also play regularly in organized play (Living Forgotten Realms) at a local game store. I'm guessing that would fall under "other public place" but it didn't feel quite right for me to choose that option.

 

[Lwaxy]

Yeah game stores would fall under public place. I didn't include online games because the poll was to focus on RL groups.

 

[hafrogman]

We meet in my dining room.

In the past we tried a gaming area at a store, but found in general that it was too crowded and noisy to actually be able to hear people from the other end of the table.

Previous groups that I've been a part of have also been held in someone's home. One DM invited me straight in as a stranger, another vetted me in a public place (gaming store) before giving me his address.

 

[Richards]

My son and I drive over to the house that my three other players (a husband, wife, and son) live in -- it's easier that way, since the majority of the group is already in place.

Johnathan

 

[Ahnehnois]

In something over ten years now, I have played in a public place (Starbucks) once, and every other time at someone's home; formerly at the parents' house of someone, but now that some people have gotten their own places we're actually meeting at our own homes.

I'm not an incredibly loud person, but I really don't need the distractions of being in a public place and there is no practical reason not to use each other's homes. I haven't played with someone I didn't know or introduced a new member at least one of us didn't know well in a long time. I don't particularly like my FLGS (LGS?). Thus concludes my random thoughts on the matter.

 

[Zhaleskra]

The short answer for me is "wherever is the most convenient for most of us".

 

[Michael Silverbane]

In the two games that I'm in at the moment, we meet at one of the player's homes.

Games that I have participated in previously have met in various places, mostly in one of the player's homes, but also - at the game store, in a church, in an office-building, in an outdoor structure at a park, in a restaurant, in a classroom, or in a dormitory common room.

 

[kitsune9]

I play at my friend's house. The Mrs. doesn't want gamers in her house, so I have to play elsewhere.