Is it just me...

[Erose]

...and my crew, or does everyone enjoy D&D in the basement? Cold, unfurnished, dank, filled with cobwebs adobe.

[Gryndle]

nan, I'm just fine with game taking place in my living room. big central coffee table covered in a 36x48 battlemat, and me in my recliner with my dog.
ofcourse, my living room does have two walls covered in a variety of swords and other archaic weaponry so there is that...

[Fishyninja]

Kitchen, have a big dining table and we are closer to food or in my room in my recliner when doing Roll20 games.

[8wGremlin]

It's just you...

[JellyPooga]

I'm a kitchen gamer.

Close to the meat uh, kettle and the fridge. I like a brew while I'm gaming and...I dunno; I just like kitchens.

[Kane0]

I have a dedicated sunroom complete with big table, TV, large cabinet and fully stocked fridge.

[pwykersotz]

Dining rooms are my game area of choice. A dinner table is the perfect size and typically comes with appropriate proximity to kitchen and bathroom.

[JAL_1138]

I typically play in a game store since that's a better central location for everyone than my place outside of town. My current place has a pretty good finished walk-out basement (i.e., another normal floor that's half-buried in the sloping land the house is built on) with a decent space to game, but it's a really long drive for any of the groups I play with and hasn't worked out well as a result.

There's something geek-iconic about gaming in an unfinished or workshop/storage-type basement, though. Traditional, maybe archetypal. The image is a classic one, to say the least.

You can keep the #%^*ing cobwebs and the spindly-legged abominations that made them, though. I don't want none of that big ol' heap of NOPE.

[Nifft]

Living room for me.

[Potato_Priest]

I like more rustic spaces with dim light, but prefer wood and or furs to cold cement. Of course, I'll play anywhere there's food and friends.

[Sicarius Victis]

I'm just happy wherever there's room. I don't discriminate.

[Samayu]

I always kinda preferred the players being spread around the living room, but once we needed a scale map, we had to move to a place with a table we could all sit around.

We rotate between different homes: dining room, dining room, finished basement, finished basement, semi-finished basement, kitchen.

[DragonSorcererX]

...and my crew, or does everyone enjoy D&D in the basement? Cold, unfurnished, dank, filled with cobwebs adobe.

I would love to have a place like this to play, except for the cobwebs... I would go full "chemichal warfare" on any possible insect or arachnid in the room.

[CaptainSarathai]

We used to play in a screened in pavilion at my friend's house, and then on a screened in porch. Do you have any idea how awesome it is to roast an entire pig while playing D&D?

[Asha Leu]

Dining rooms are my game area of choice. A dinner table is the perfect size and typically comes with appropriate proximity to kitchen and bathroom.

Agreed. The table has enough room for the battlemap, books, dice, character sheets, drinks and snacks, and everyone's sitting close enough to the battlemap that they shouldn't have to stand to move their miniatures.

Lounging in the living room may be comfier in the short term, but unless you have a truly enormous coffee table, people will tend to have to get up to roll dice and move minis, not to mention not having a convenient spot to store their own stuff (dice, character sheets, drinks, etc), and that becomes increasingly tedious in long stretches

[MarkVIIIMarc]

We used to play board games in the basement all the time...

Then when me and my friends got houses and apartments we started playing upstairs....

Then we all started having kids and back downstairs we went. Just as well Axis & Allies 50th Anniversary and the combined Europe & Pacific games took a ping pong table to play on!

Now I know some people with older kids. So we can play upstairs again.

[JakOfAllTirades]

I'll go out on a limb and say it's a generational thing. My friends and I enjoyed gaming in the basement a lot more when we were younger. Back then we sort of considered the basement "our territory" while the rest of the house belonged to the older folks.

And now, we're the older folks. I mean, it had to happen eventually, right? My current house doesn't even have a basement, actually, so if I game at home it pretty much has to be in the living room. Going out to the gaming club meetings is a different story.

My local gaming club lost their venue at the casino last year (several members of our club work there, but due to circumstances beyond our control, blah blah blah...) and had to find a new place to play. Ironically, one of the other members of our gaming club is a church pastor, and he found a new place for our weekly gaming meetings at his church.

In the church basement! So we're all kind of back where we started, except this time the church isn't trying to burn our D&D books.

[JobsforFun]

My group we use 3 different peoples houses, 1 house we use the basement its nice and re-finished, another we use their dining room, and in mine we use a garage that we had re-done into a office when we moved in.

Sadly we're all close to finishing high school and most of my friends are planning on moving while some stay so I might try and use my local Roll Initiative and see how it goes.

[Tawmis]

...and my crew, or does everyone enjoy D&D in the basement? Cold, unfurnished, dank, filled with cobwebs adobe.

I DM'ed a game with the folks I game with at a hotel's conference room... and that ruled. Fireplace going. The chandler lights were dimmed. Big table for everyone to sit around. Perfection.

[Specter]

Personally, I enjoy any place without players' kids and without players' parents.

[furby076]

A big table for the map and players to spread around. Comfy seats are a must. A small folding table for my laptop. Finally, a grill so i can bbq chicken wings and burgers for everyone

[Hrugner]

The best setup I had was when working graveyard at a hotel. We'd game in the lobby, free coffee, free snacks, all sorts of cools. Now we all play online, but we all miss those old hotel lobby days.

[oxybe]

FLGS gamer.

Since the expansion of the store last year (as in, they rented the store space next door when that store moved out and blew a hole in the wall to connect the 2 areas), we now have a well-lit (natural light or overhead ones if needed) and large open room, nice sized coffee table, 2 nice couches + 3 nice chairs (all new and... leatherish), free wifi and adequate access to electrical outlets for us electronic gamers, access to a bunch of snacks, close and downtown for access to delivery, nice background music playing (audiophile store owner yay!). Plus, they're pet friendly and often bring their dachshunds in.

This is a huge improvement to our quality of gaming, where all 3 gaming nerd varieties had to fight for the limited table space AND be in the way of the comic people. Now the gaming stuff is handled in the 2nd portion while the "old" store handles the comic stuff.

Our FLGS rocks. If you look up the Comic Hunter in Charlottetown PE (rather then the Moncton NB sister store) in their photo section you'll see pictures of the new gaming areas, both the upstairs RPG/Board Game lounge and the downstairs Wargaming/TCG bunker.

I don't think I could go back to gaming in a basement though, unless it was, at minimum, well lit and had decent seating.

[Khutef]

My group(s) play almost exclusively in living rooms. Big table and a bookshelf nearby are the main reasons for that. On the other hand, I usually cannot get to play locally with them, so I'm on the table via Skype call. It's surprisingly fun to play in a train. Everyone else looks at you like you're some sort of weirdo :P

[Parra]

Down the pub is where we game.

But we are Irish, everything happens down the pub.

[Arkhios]

My group(s) play almost exclusively in living rooms. Big table and a bookshelf nearby are the main reasons for that. On the other hand, I usually cannot get to play locally with them, so I'm on the table via Skype call. It's surprisingly fun to play in a train. Everyone else looks at you like you're some sort of weirdo :P

Aren't we then? :P

To add to that, it's mostly because our group (yes, we're RL buddies) have small kitchens and/or kitchen tables. I'd prefer playing in kitchen instead, due to the obvious benefits, but... :smallbiggrin:

[Pichu]

I used to go to a comic shop downtown. We would go out the back door and go into the cellar/storage room to play D&D. I would joke to my friend that it was literally DUNGEONS and Dragons. Sadly, they moved to a nearby, bigger shop. We now play in a back room. :(

[Fishyninja]

Down the pub is where we game.

But we are Irish, everything happens down the pub.

If you are ever in England, in Oxford check out the Thirsty Meeples, its a gaming cafe with loads of tables for D&D, it's a really good place to game!

[mr-mercer]

My house doesn't have a basement and I play on Roll20 anyway, so I play in my bedroom. I'd be delighted to play a game in my basement if I had one and it was clear of spiders, though.

[Anonymouswizard]

Down the pub is where we game.

But we are Irish, everything happens down the pub.

Englishman here, one of my groups used to use the pub, because it was the only way we'd fit the entire group into one room. It felt nice and comfortable, although three of the group were of Irish descent (including myself). That group's dwindled to five members so we now play in the house of one of the player's (the GM's dad), although my family recently moved out of the area so no holiday-time roleplaying for the moment.

For my university group we've done the atrium of one of the university building's after hours (only one member had access on their card, but 4/5s of us are allowed to use the building), then the flat kitchen of a couple of players (eventually abandoned because we were disturbing the flat), then a conference room back in the university building, and now in a different room in the same building. Although everyone prefers gaming on the houseboat owned by the GM and his wife (both players) it's inconvenient for half the group so it's only used for climatic sessions.

[Trum4n1208]

Started in the basement and then migrated to the living room. Luckily, we recently went one a major cleaning/decorating spree, so the basement is open for business again.

[JakOfAllTirades]

My house doesn't have a basement and I play on Roll20 anyway, so I play in my bedroom. I'd be delighted to play a game in my basement if I had one and it was clear of spiders, though.

Kill all the spiders. Once you've cleared the dungeon you can level up!