Where is the strangest place you have played an RPG?

[pdzoch]

In a gazebo, on an island, in the middle of a park. After finding out that the bar we were supposed to play at was closed...

It is cool that a bar would accommodate a game. I have not seen that before.

 

[steenan]

I've run or played games:
- In train and bus, during long travels
- In conference room at my office, after work hours
- In a park, with people walking by
- During a trek in a forest (this one required some creativity with handling character sheets and randomizers)

 

[pdzoch]

One convenience these days for those who played an RPG on the move is our mobile phones or whatever device can support an app. Several dice apps are out there to provide whatever die role is needed. Of course, I still prefer my bag of dice.

 

[bedir than]

My normal group has played at a sports bar. We all write for the same soccer blog and had a viewing party there. The bar opened 2 hours early so we could get a session in before the game.

I also did Vampire on the streets of Pacific Grove. The police knew that there were several dozen people doing this thing, but the tourists and such did not. Lots of us were in costume which got odd looks. I tried to stay in the shadows, duh. It wasn't because I was embarrassed, but when my non-playing friends saw me with my stage makeup for an emerging wolf-Gangrel I heard about it for months.

 

[Bedrockgames]

When I was younger we once went into a chapel in a local cemetery and gamed there for a horror adventure. I think we brought candles. In hindsight not the smartest thing in the world, but at the time it felt like we were rebelling I suppose.

 

[Anson]

On a ferry during a storm! We were using 4e and there was an elaborate tactical map and miniatures. At the height of a tense battle, Mother Ocean decided to literally 'rock the boat' IRL. The bad guys won by default that day as our heroes were thrown across the room. You know you need to get some help when the need to game is so great you risk it even in unstable conditions

 

[Umbran]

Including live-action play?

On the mezzanine of a hotel, overlooking the lobby.

 

[fjw70]

The only unusual place I've played would be in a hospital room were my friend spent sometime after a food poisoning incident when we were kids.

 

[Desh-Rae-Halra]

This question reminds me of this answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XM5hbS7GlU

 

[ADrollThief]

I've actually never played tabletop RPG in a 'physical format' at a table with fellow adventurers. Instead, most of my sessions were facilitated through MapTools or Roll20.


I was part of a campaign that met on a weekly basis, but for a period of time I was just moving into a new place so I had to wait to set up a new internet plan. What made matters worse was I didn't even have a vehicle available on that particular day, so in order to partake in the session that day, I had to walk my butt 30 minutes down to the nearest coffee shop to take advantage of their free wifi.


Not exactly the most bizzare, but the memories of sitting in a crowded coffee shop with headphones on and speaking with my best impression of a nasally halfling still brings a chuckle to me.