The Usual: I usualy play at Denny's (a 24 hour chain resturaunt, for all of you without one near). Depends on the game but I tend to start sometime around 7pm. I like to run, 3 month long or so, short campaigns in whatever game I feel like at the time. I try to play once a week.

Common Alternates:

The Living room of my or someone elses house, sitting on couches or on the floor, rolling dice on the books.

Around a table at my/someone elses house. I try to bring snacks to any event lined up like this. I also give XP to people who bring/buy food for everybody.

Quote from: KrakaJakThe Usual: I usualy play at Denny's (a 24 hour chain resturaunt, for all of you without one near). Depends on the game but I tend to start sometime around 7pm. I like to run, 3 month long or so, short campaigns in whatever game I feel like at the time. I try to play once a week.

How is playing at Denny's, actually? I've proposed it to my gaming group once or twice but most of the players were worried about 'outer interference' with the game... Feel free to elaborate on some of your experiences.

Quote from: Nihilistic MindHow is playing at Denny's, actually? I've proposed it to my gaming group once or twice but most of the players were worried about 'outer interference' with the game... Feel free to elaborate on some of your experiences.

It's super easy, as long as you don't get distracted easily and have a group of players that don't give a crap about other people seeing them play RPGs. I think having a waiter removes outer interference.

Just be sure to tip well (20% or more) as some servers will get annoyed when you take a table for 3-4 hours. Also, don't go during breakfast.

I think I'll give this a shot when my group gets too big for my living room... Thanks!

The game I run is held at my house. We play in a side room, that we use for gaming. It has a big retangular table we all sit at. The session starts with all of us either pitching in on pizza or something. Or I will make food. It really depends on how early I get up. (The game starts at 1 on sunday.) We typically play for about four hours. I dont use a screen. My players are pretty good about not looking at my notes. Which really only consist of monster stats as the majority of the plot and stuff is in my head.

The game I play in is held in a friends basement. Which is basically his hobby room. It has a large retangular table with a small table placed at one end. The GM sit at the small table. He uses a screen. As far as food goes. We all bring our own to the game. Occasionally one of us bring snacks for during the game.

We have done everything from the kitchen/dining table to the easy chairs and coffee table.  We've LARPed scenes on the deck, around the pool and through the woods.  We've had standing sessions around the BBQ pit; we've RPed while road tripping; we RPed on the way to and from conventions in cars and aircraft.  We once did an RP session in the back row of a buddy's wedding, all shush-shush and hand motions.  

We rigged up a method to roll dice and water proof character sheets so we could RP in the pool, in a hot tub and while canoeing.  

We've RPed around a campfire at night.  We've had sessions with our wives/SOs/girlfriends/SNTFs and our offspring.  We've had sessions that ran around other sessions in a nearly incomprensible nested session when various people couldn't make various sessions and had to resolve each nested game session to figure out what the final story looked like.

I daresay, we have gamed in as many places as I can imagine it is possible to game.

Now, our STANDARD fair is to sit around a dining table with snacks in the center and most of the details in our heads.  (I really enjoyed having whiteboards and laptop projectors when I could get them, but sometimes all that extra stuff took away from the experience.)

Getting older has moved most of my compatriots into the realm of leading gaming sessions for our offspring and their friends, then interweaving those tails.  

Wow, have I really been gaming for over two and a half decades?

Quote from: VellorianWow, have I really been gaming for over two and a half decades?

Never do the math.  

- 1x every other week. If everyone is there, we play D&D. Otherwise, we play Spycraft or Spirit of the Century. (In D&D, the game is a dungeon crawl which is much more vulnerable to missing players.)
- We play at A's house if she can play, otherwise we play at K&R's house.
- Always at a table. At A's house, long table in the den. At K&R's house, small table if few players, otherwise fold-out table in living room.
- If spycraft, stero is playing spy music. :cool:

In any groups I play in, table-less play is a rarity and proven to be a distraction.

there are just two of us now, myself and one player. at first this bothered me, but now I kind of like it. My player gets to be Conan, and he really digs it.
There isn't any booze- but that's because neither of us drink; if we acquired another player and they wanted to get loaded, I have no problem with it- actually it's kind of fun. Drunk players take chances and do stupid shit; as a GM, I love that shit. That said, it's a rare (read never) night when we don't burn one or three down while we're gaming.
After the game we hang out, sometimes for five or six hours, and watch movies, or talk about drawing, or filmmaking, or one of the other eighty things we both like to do- we've been friends for going on 20 years, so there's plenty to talk about.
I almost always end with a cliff-hanger; I find that starting a session with an initiative roll really gets things moving.
So if you're a drunkard looking for a game, pm me.

ed: s&p

Unfortunately I don't get to play much anymore. When I did, it was usually at a kitchen table, sometimes in the dining room. We always had snacks and stuff like that. Good times.

I have a 2 bedroom apartment. What in other homes would be the "Master Bedroom" is at The Briarpatch my gameroom. Not only is it the largest room in the apartment, but it's the one farthest away from my neighbor (who is also my landlord) so late night noise is less of a problem.

one bookcase loaded with game books.
One closet loaded with binders of Magic The Gathering cards.
One rack of gamer movies from 13th Warrior to Xmen
large rectangular table
chairs donated by arien when she worked next to an office supply store and raided their dumpster.

Deirdre the Gaming Cat is buried outside the window, so she'd always be close to the games.

2 windows, ceiling fan, nice cross breeze during Georgia Summer Nights.

One bookcase loaded with miniatures and old Dragon and Dungeon magazines.

We played once a week, and are trying to get back to that.