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So where do you RPG at ? Any special rules ? Worst thing to do while you're at the table ? Horror stories ?
When I DM it's at my house at the kitchen table (put on the 2 extra leaves)
Mute all phones, no booze and put money into the food fund (my SIL puts a swear jar out for me ), keep your family arguments outside the game, and take Beano.
Pick a zit or some other annoying habit.
I tossed my brother out of the game when he and his wife got into it over something else (told em I was nuetral)
strawberry
08-11-2007, 04:43 PM
We always play at one couple's house because they have a baby and it's just easier for them to be home so they can keep his routine relatively normal on game night. We just play at the kitchen table, and we observe the "same seats" rule not because anyone actually gets mad about it but out of sheer habit. Actually I feel very weird if I sit in a different seat than I normally do.
Keeper of Secrets
08-11-2007, 05:20 PM
We play at my place, in the basement. I sit at a large bar the previous residents left and everyone else sits on couches around a massive coffee table.
There are currently very few rules but there really need to be.
Dacke
08-11-2007, 08:44 PM
Usually in my living room. This is convenient for two reasons:
1. We mostly play D&D, and when you bring in as many books as I have it's not a very portable game.
2. I work nights, and if I'm at home I can play longer before I have to change into work clothes and get going.
pandiculator
08-11-2007, 08:49 PM
At a friends around a long card table. Comfortable, and easily accessed.
Janos
08-12-2007, 05:06 PM
Both my games are played off dinner tables at two different friends houses. Our default backup location is either my place or the clubhouse at my place if we want to barbeque as we play.
keryn
08-12-2007, 06:00 PM
We (reveal & I) play in our basement. We're the only people in our group with a kid...or a house for that matter. We've invested in a big table, tact tiles, a dry erase board on the wall, two bookshelves of books, and a mini fridge.
We are currently playing the Savage Tides Adventure Path. We usually play D&D (in Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, or Eberron), but we've played Earthdawn and D20 Modern.
shabois
08-12-2007, 10:41 PM
My group does not play around a table but I think that is the best setting. It keeps all your players alert.
My biggest pet peeve is if a player lays down and goes to sleep during the game session. I don't think there is much that is more disrespectful to the GM or your fellow players.
Keeper of Secrets
08-12-2007, 10:42 PM
My group does not play around a table but I think that is the best setting. It keeps all your players alert.
My biggest pet peeve is if a player lays down and goes to sleep during the game session. I don't think there is much that is more disrespectful to the GM or your fellow players.
Anyone who falls asleep during a game needs to be horsewhipped.
No. Seriously.
Xavier Lang
08-13-2007, 08:58 AM
Anyone who falls asleep during a game needs to be horsewhipped.
No. Seriously.
If we did that we wouldn't have any players left.
Bagpuss
08-13-2007, 09:05 AM
We game in a friends back bedroom which is really just a games room, with a 6 ft by 4 foot table. Only house rule seems to be that we all chip in to buy a gaming book or item of some sort for each members Birthday (which generally arrives several weeks late via Amazon).
Keeper of Secrets
08-13-2007, 09:16 AM
We game in a friends back bedroom which is really just a games room, with a 6 ft by 4 foot table. Only house rule seems to be that we all chip in to buy a gaming book or item of some sort for each members Birthday (which generally arrives several weeks late via Amazon).
Playing in someone's bedroom? Is it easier to fall asleep during a game? :)
Bagpuss
08-13-2007, 09:26 AM
A room is referred to as a bedroom if it's upstairs and isn't a bathroom, so it covers a study or games room, there isn't actually a bed in the room. It's just if he was a normal person (not a gamer) it would be used as a bedroom.
If it's downstairs it's generally referred to as a reception room (covers lounge dining room, study, games room, etc).
Iron Jenny Kidd
08-13-2007, 11:46 AM
Right now, we play in my kitchen. We're the only ones in the group who have a child, and since we play in the evenings they have to come over here. When we move into our new house we will probably play in the basement.
We (reveal & I) play in our basement. We're the only people in our group with a kid...or a house for that matter. We've invested in a big table, tact tiles, a dry erase board on the wall, two bookshelves of books, and a mini fridge.
We are currently playing the Savage Tides Adventure Path. We usually play D&D (in Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, or Eberron), but we've played Earthdawn and D20 Modern. I didn't know you were Reveal's (much) better half !? If I did I'ld forgotten it :shrug:
Anyone who falls asleep during a game needs to be horsewhipped.
No. Seriously. I mixxed cold meds with oozo one time and nodded off, woke up to find my Dwarf PC had been sold to a gay mindflayer (it liked to play with it's food)
Keeper of Secrets
08-13-2007, 12:14 PM
A room is referred to as a bedroom if it's upstairs and isn't a bathroom, so it covers a study or games room, there isn't actually a bed in the room. It's just if he was a normal person (not a gamer) it would be used as a bedroom.
If it's downstairs it's generally referred to as a reception room (covers lounge dining room, study, games room, etc).
Ah, cool. How very British.
Limper
08-13-2007, 12:17 PM
I had a badass game room but I lost the power to it while rewiring the house... I really need to finish that some day.
What did you do, not run the circuit to the gameroom to the new panel ?
Limper
08-13-2007, 12:45 PM
What did you do, not run the circuit to the gameroom to the new panel ?
I was replacing the knob and tube and I cut a wire on one side of the house and lost power to the whole damn thing. The game room is just the hardest to run to and least needed recently.
Knob and tube is shitty and WAY old, we had to redo a few house's last year to Romex from that crap. You got a good fishtape ?
Limper
08-13-2007, 01:04 PM
Knob and tube is shitty and WAY old, we had to redo a few house's last year to Romex from that crap. You got a good fishtape ?
3 of em actually. I've had to sew the romex into the wall a few times now. I really want one of those fiberglass flex sticks but I don't need it for what I have left to do and couldn't really make it pay for itself.
Hope you have good attic space, at 6'4" I let the little guys get up in em now
Limper
08-13-2007, 01:13 PM
Hope you have good attic space, at 6'4" I let the little guys get up in em now
I'm 6'3" and already redid the attic.
Insulated, zone control heating and cooling, new drywall, new flooring and new windows. Its a kick ass master bedroom and office.
Is it a split system or just one AC (or is it a heat pump) ? What SEER is your AC ? The industry standard is at least 13, but I'ld get a 17 (the highest) for the energy saveings.
Limper
08-13-2007, 01:29 PM
Is it a split system or just one AC (or is it a heat pump) ? What SEER is your AC ? The industry standard is at least 13, but I'ld get a 17 (the highest) for the energy saveings.
Its one for the second floor of the hosue I have a seperate unit for the first floor. It was the highest seer I could get in 04. Hell it adds all of $25 to my bill and that includes the past few weeks of hell.
Must be a 10 Seer, it's what was pushed in 04.
This fall you can save yourself a service call and go to a HVAC parts place (look in the yellow pages) and get a jug (gallon) of coil cleaner (NOT the aerisol crap) and clean your coil yourself, It'll save you 75 bucks or so, just be sure to wait JUST 5 minutes before you wash it off. Now next spring it's good to get a tech in to check the R-22 levels, clean the coil (comes with the SC) and check the compresser etc.
Limper
08-13-2007, 01:44 PM
Must be a 10 Seer, it's what was pushed in 04.
This fall you can save yourself a service call and go to a HVAC parts place (look in the yellow pages) and get a jug (gallon) of coil cleaner (NOT the aerisol crap) and clean your coil yourself, It'll save you 75 bucks or so, just be sure to wait JUST 5 minutes before you wash it off. Now next spring it's good to get a tech in to check the R-22 levels, clean the coil (comes with the SC) and check the compresser etc.
No they were talking down the 10's and pimping the higher numbers.
It cost a few grand all said but has more than made up for it. Plus it fit in the space I had which was the most importnat thing.
You talking about the inside or outside coil? I keep the outside spotless and as near as I can see the inside is also still clean.
Outside, but use the Coil Cleaner anyway, it get's all the built up crap out of there (uses acid to boil out pollen etc you can't see , hence washing it out after 5 minutes), the aerosoil is for the inside BTW. We still had 10's down here till last year :) I guess they were shipped to the dumb Arkies.
Limper
08-13-2007, 01:52 PM
Outside, but use the Coil Cleaner anyway, it get's all the built up crap out of there (uses acid to boil out pollen etc you can't see , hence washing it out after 5 minutes), the aerosoil is for the inside BTW. We still had 10's down here till last year :) I guess they were shipped to the dumb Arkies.
Gotta sell that stock somewhere and shipping to Ak is cheaper than to India.
Yep, and it AR. :) , AK is Alaska. Nothing comes to Arkansas willingly, but we do accept rufugees. Speaking of which what board did Eggplant Wizard go to ?
Limper
08-13-2007, 01:58 PM
Yep, and it AR. :) , AK is Alaska. Nothing comes to Arkansas willingly, but we do accept rufugees. Speaking of which what board did Eggplant Wizard go to ?
I think he's still trying to type the url to this one correctly.
:) , I would say the HI of 106 in Little Rock is getting to him but I've been to Ft Puke Lousyana, and our humidity and got nothing on thiers.
Limper
08-13-2007, 02:04 PM
:) , I would say the HI of 106 in Little Rock is getting to him but I've been to Ft Puke Lousyana, and our humidity and got nothing on thiers.
Visit Houston.
Visit Houston.
Been there, breathing though a hot wet towel come to mind
Limper
08-13-2007, 02:10 PM
Been there, breathing hot wet towels come to mind
Fixed it for you.
wesi72
08-15-2007, 01:51 PM
I game with Nerfherder (who a lot of you will know from CM/NTL/ENW etc...), Niannorth (who you may not, he does post on CM as well) and a couple of other lads. We used to take turns hosting but these days it's usually at Niannorth's in his dining room.
We take turns DMing (I do it least of all mind you), and have a fairly relaxed approach. Alcohol isn't banned, in fact it tends to liven the evenings up, but as we have to drive to get there, it isn't often we get the chance.
Harry
08-15-2007, 02:17 PM
We play at Don's house, in the kitchen, or Lisa's, in the den, and William keeps bringing up building a game room at his new house, which frankly, does not excite me simply because Don, Lisa and I live within a couple of miles of each other, and William's new house is far, far out in the burbs.
No one, however, ever wants to game at my apartment. The only time it ever happened was when I was in rehab.
I guess word is out about my chairs.
Phantom Stranger
08-15-2007, 02:19 PM
My place usually, kitchen table or the living room. No place really special. Used to do the whole DM/GM's house but it pretty much just came to be my place.
What do you have the Chairs of death ? I've had several ask me to add cushions to my wooden chairs BTW
Harry
08-15-2007, 02:25 PM
What do you have the Chairs of death ? I've had several ask me to add cushions to my wooden chairs BTW
I prefer hard backed wooden chairs, yep. And, the ones around my kitchen table are unrestored antiques. Roughly from around 1890. Fragile little things. The one time our group included a true fatbeard, I winced every time he moved.*
Whenever I end up in surgery/rehab again, I'm going to make sure to pick up some cheap folding chairs.
[* for alsih2o - I'm referring to another group.]
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