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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 3602332" data-attributes="member: 40522">The short answer for me is that it depends on the situation.Paying for a place to play D&D? Probably not. I've got a pretty sweet gaming setup at home. I'm such a gamer nerd that having a room specifically to host games was one of my criteria when I bought my house. So I got a house with two living rooms: the back living room is tricked out into a home theatre (movie nerd too), the front living room is a game room with all the amenities I've ever needed (including all the bookcases/mini storage I need, a dedicated computer just to run game material and play music, and even a full-size refrigerator to hold beer and other game-related potables and edibiles). It'd have to be a pretty damned sweet setup for me to consider not hosting myself, much less paying to host somewhere else.There was a game store in Modesto, CA when I lived there called the Gauntlet. They had a huge back room, but I'd consider paying a modest fee to play there (say, around $5.00-10.00 a night). This is because they have massive amounts of fabricated terrain for wargaming that was incredibly well-made and the owners just let regular customers use it. He also kept the rowdies out and actually kicked people out if they were being jerks. And it was located on the same block as a really good cafe and a bar.Now if you're talking about a LARP game, it's seems to be the norm to pay for a place to play. But you're also hosting a large group of semi-scary weirdly costumed folks and expect a degree of privacy.I could conceivably see a service like this, perhaps targeted at younger gamers that don't have their own house. For example, college kids still in their first apartment and the like, who just don't have the space at home to host. But if I'm paying something for a table I'd expect more than just a table for X amount of time. If the place served food and drinks, I'd expect that the deal would be the tables are free but it's expected that your group buys food and drinks, for example. Or if you're paying for the table, maybe that allows the DM to raid a big box of D&D minis to use, free characters sheets, something.</blockquote>

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