Location, location, location

[Ragitsu]

What is the coolest/worst/most unique place you've ever ran or played a pencil and paper roleplaying game at?

[Shadow Hawk]

Aft Battledressing Station, USS Thach (FFG-43). Had a table for patients, but no chairs. We played standing up. It was right under the flight deck, and all the way aft. You could hear ocean noise and when we were operating heliflopters, the helo and the chocks and chains.

[Ragitsu]

I am not sure I could handle playing an entire session (one to two hours on average) standing up.

Anyhow, one of my favorite places to play had to have been the attic above a garage in a house that was under construction.

[Ragitsu]

So, everyone else just played in a basement? Really :(?

[Burrito Boy]

The coolest place I ever played was in a coffee shop called The Java Gallery. Which we called Gava Jallery. Because we were just that cool. :P

[Blue]

Best unconventional spot: I played a game on a construction site in the dark at night, which was kind of fun and creepy (since it was Call of Cthulhu).

Worst spot: At an acquaintance's house, in a trailer twenty feet from his drunken, angry, prison-guard father's room, across a see of loud gravel. More nerve-wracking than fun. One minute that guy would be fearful of something he'd do to set his father off, then the next he'd be doing something likely to get him in trouble ("Hey, let's go use the trailer!"). I'll be surprised if that guy is living a normal life today.

[Nolgroth]

Played in all sorts of places, but the best games I had were in an apartment where I lived. We used to catch the delta breeze coming up the Sacramento river and it was just an awesome place to game.

[mayapuppies]

Champions game on my tank in Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield.

[Shadow Hawk]

From 1990 to 1993, I worked in the "Flag Loft" of Recruit Training Command San Diego, making flags for the recruit companies. We had a set of three tables for working cloth: four feet high, six feet wide, and twenty feet long. We played "BattleTech/MechWarrior" on them, spreading maps to cover most of one table while the mech/character sheets were on a different table. Talk about big battles...

[Ragitsu]

Best unconventional spot: I played a game on a construction site in the dark at night, which was kind of fun and creepy (since it was Call of Cthulhu).

I don't know what is is about playing in a place that's under construction that's so cool, but it is :thumbup:.

[greenbriar]

On stage in a college auditorium, or at the Heidelberg resturant

[tkdguy]

My group used to game in a classroom on Saturday night, when a couple of us worked in the University. Before that, we played in the Chemistry lab.

[Blue]

I don't know what is is about playing in a place that's under construction that's so cool, but it is :thumbup:.

It's as close as I can get to playing in actual Ruins ;)

[SatinKitty]

I got to play AD&D on a Naval Base, despite not being in the navy because the whole group was stationed there.

[Killer Shrike]

I suppose most people would consider the USS Peleliu squad bay an unusual place to play, but it was really mostly just a pita.

[casualplayer]

In high school in the school library during class time. It helped to be the school librarian....

I've played Vampire and Call of Cthulhu in a graveyard, near indian burial mounds and in a deconsecrated church. Not desecrated, just deconsecrated as the building had been repurposed.

[Wulf]

In Winterthur (Switzerland).
The location was a crowded place. A friend of mine lives in the middle of the city and his living room was occupied by some other gamers, so there was no room left for us.
It was fun. (weirdest and coolest place)


Wulfi with his own gaming dungeon full of spiders and other living stuff

[tkdguy]

In a car, while my friends and I were driving home. Of course, there was no dice rolling, just dialogue as we wrapped up the adventure.

[Beetle]

On a 1/2-full TWA flight from Boston to Rome.

[Vondy]

The best games I've played were traditional dining room table games.

And the party nook at Pietro's Pizza worked for one group on Sundays.

And I do recall Boy Scout gaming in remote locales.

But mostly it was my place and my dining table.