Wierdest place you've ever gamed

[WaltThelaElf]

A Special Ed/English-as-a-Second-Language Elementary school classroom.

Half the time we'd grab the toys off the shelves. Played in that room for about four months- janitor work pays!

 

[Axegrrl]

Did a few sessions of a V:tM larp in a church basement that had a bunch of classrooms. We used the whole basement, with different rooms representing different areas. I remember being slightly surprised to see the word "SEWERS -- Nos or special invite only" on a sign on one door.

Weirder than that, though, was the location of one guy's apartment. He and his his roommate were night attendants at a funeral parlor -- they had to have someone there 24/7, just in case they got a call at 3am. The apartment was upstairs, with the dining room basically above the "chapel" area.

 

[Ranger5]

My apartment (not really that different) but during Hurricane Charlie last year here in Orlando. We didn't lose power but when those near 100 MPH winds came blowing through, that was a little scary. And weird.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

We played a game of D6 Star Wars with half the people involved swimming. The character sheets were placed a safe readable distance away from the edge and the dice were rolled on the top concrete step, where there was only about 3/4 of a foot of water so you could still read the dice.

This was in Ft. Lauderdale.

DS

 

[fafhrd]

We played a game of D6 Star Wars with half the people involved swimming.

That reminds me. I've also played a few games of M:TG in the pool. The cards actually float for awhile and as long as everyone is careful in their movements, you can rotate the card into tapped position and it will remain that way. The cards become waterlogged and sink after about 20 minutes or so, IIRC.

 

[A'koss]

Out in a field in -12 C temperatures and blowing snow...

A'koss.

 

[Finley DaDum]

Lobby of a Motel

One of the players worked 3 jobs (Remember kids, credit cards are not your friend). Well his overnight job was working the desk at a motel from midnight to eight am. He would finish his night work around 1-1:30, then we would start playing finishing around 5-5:30 when he would start making wakeup calls and prepping breakfast. We'd all grab free donuts and head for our own jobs or to bed.

 

[Mista Collins]

some strange places I've gamed:

- Car ride (not really that bad)
- Pool-side during Gencon with 8 million (minus about 7,999,983) kids jumping and swimming - good things it was a temporary thing and the characters sheets didn't need to survive.
- Top of a roof because the house smelled really bad (skunk) - was kind ahard getting the dice to roll nicely
- Strictly no dice rolling game over the phone once with a DM and 3 players (needed to take care of some character stuff before our next session).

 

[osarusan]

During the AP Calculus Exam which none of us had a chance to pass.

My "essay" page was my character sheet. I'd love to have seen the test grader's face when they read that booklet.

 

[Random Axe]

A car, were were driving home from a game session with the GM in the car and were were talking character. Not sure if it counts as gaming.

Every year we do a gaming weekend up at the cottage. The first night we arrive is usually a wind-down night to blow off steam and consume fermented substances, and not do any gaming, but me and a buddy started talking about our Star Wars campaign, in character based solely on what our characters wanted or thought or believed.

And then, one year (it may even have been the same year) on our way home I was gaming a portion of the Star Wars game with the GM driving on the 3-hour trip back to Toronto. He would pick a RANDOM difficulty number ANYWHERE in the range of my character's possible skill roll, and I would likewise pick a random number in that same range. Comparing my random number with his random number, he took the difference between the numbers and subtracted that number from the max my character would be able to roll, and that would be the skill roll result. Comparing that result against the standard difficulty chart would give him an idea of how well or how poorly I succeeded in the task.