We started playing Saga Edition before 4'th ed came out, but scheduling was becoming a problem. as a result, we started playing at work. Graveyard shift is pretty dead. each agent gets (at most) 2-3 calls per 8 hour shift, so this is viable.
I'm pretty sure, however, that we must be breaking some kind of rule by doing this.
Unphased by our corporate disobedience, we played for a good 4 months. On one occasion, a customer stopped in the middle of troubleshooting, hearing us play in the background: "No, the lights are... ...are you guys playing D&D?" On another occasion, we were seen playing by management, and later, upper management. confronted with this, I decided to apply my bluff skill, and told the Call center manager that we were participating in a "team building exercise." ...the manager asked us what time we started, and if we had any open slots.
the game ended when shift bids rolled around, and scheduling again became a problem. Fortunately, you can't keep a good gamer down. We kept playing on a different night, though we moved the location from work to another player's house once 4e came out.
Discussion: unconventional (work, school, etc.) places that you have had D&D, or playing D&D in places were the establishment says you really shouldn't.
And you got paid for that?
Nah, I only ever played at people's houses. Never at mine, though. Our play style doesn't mesh well with family.
The interesting part was that the librarian loved me, and had absolutely no problem with us playing in the reference room during lunch until she discovered that the game she'd said looked like a lot of fun and wouldn't mind trying someday was the dreaded DUNGEONS & DRAGONS...
Back during the "Inquisition" days in the 80's, I got kicked out of the reference room of my junior high's library for playing during lunch...
The interesting part was that the librarian loved me, and had absolutely no problem with us playing in the reference room during lunch until she discovered that the game she'd said looked like a lot of fun and wouldn't mind trying someday was the dreaded DUNGEONS & DRAGONS...
I believe this belongs here.
I believe this belongs here.
Not really - back then, people freaking out about Dungeons & Dragons usually had absolutely no idea what it actually was.
Hell, I'd taught the nun who was in charge of my 4th grade Sunday school class to play, and she had no problem with it, but all these people in the area were hearing so much crap about the game on the news and through gossip, and they had no idea what the game was even about.
They just assumed it was Satanic because it mentioned demons and spells.
Heavy metal, D&D and the occult were all just one big "epidemic" to people...
Most of the kids in the area had already stopped playing by that time, but it still got the credit for a lot of the bad stuff that hapened around here at the time - this was back when heavy metal was becoming the "in" thing to blame for everything, but the parents around here just found it easier to blame D&D since they could just forbid their kids to play it and think they'd accomplished something, despite the fact their kids weren't playing it anymore anyway.
A few things just happened to have occured during the same time as the witch hunt. There were two or three completely unrelated suicide attempts (and one success) by kids around here in the year or two before the incident at school, as well as some other bullsh** like shoplifting, fighting, and general teenage stuff.
But any time something happened, a lot of people would start saying that D&D had somehow influenced them to do it.
So, when the school librarian (who was religious) finally dicovered the name of the game we were playing she got all bugged out about us playing in the library, even despite the fact that she's seen us playing all year.
Two years after I got kicked out of the library for playing, a local guy murdered his wife with a home-made spear, and all the local papers were calling it the "Dungeons & Dragons Murder" and claiming it was a Satanic thing...
But, to get back on topic...
I've played in parking lots after school, on the back seat of a bus during a school trip to Gettysburg, and the most fun would have to be rolling dice behind my hand on my math notebook during algebra class...
Yep, we actually played a four-player game in math class one time without the teacher knowing. We used hand signals and drew maps on our notebooks to show what we were doing. We came up with a list of symbols that we could point to to show our actions - point to the sword and then hold up two fingers to attack the second orc from the left... :D