Pre covid we had a game group we found on meetup. We’d go on Wednesdays to Fuddruckers, buy an appetizer and some drinks and then just rove from table to table and play what game seemed good. Made some neat casual friends that way. Our group would rent out the back room every week. Post covid we couldn’t afford the appetizer (went back to school for a better job. Poverty yay!) so our game nights have been at home.
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Screwthehole@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We have a sandwich shop that runs 24 hrs from Tuesday morning until Saturday night. I’ve picked up late night supper there and seen people playing cards, etc and just generally hanging out for long stretches.
When I was younger my buddies and I went to a 24 hr diner and played magic into the wee hrs, occasionally leaving only when the earliest breakfast crowd started to roll in.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 months ago
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I hope you tipped well, lol. my tabletop RPG group may have been known to do this. the waitress kept us up on coffee, so yeah, we might have tipped for the time rather than the percentage of the bill. probably the only reason we never got kicked out.
Nemo@midwest.social 9 months ago
I had a group like this when I was the graveyard shift at Denny’s. I’d get them three apps for eight people, slap down two liter jugs of coke, and they’d collectively leave me about twenty bucks for basically no work on my part. Nice kids, they were usually in there once a week and they always called ahead to make sure it was okay.
They played Vampire: Masquerade, which honestly seems like a depressing setting but they were into it.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 months ago
heh. we were at perkins, and we mostly played stardrifter there. We would have been okay if that’s about all that happened, but they actually kept us in coffee and creamer, and happily brought out the snackage when we asked. The tips were well worth the service.
Metacortechs@lemmy.stellarvortex.com 9 months ago
That brings me back. Many nights at Perkins playing magic, shadowfist, shadowrun, homebrew ttrpgs.
We tipped well, management and the servers loved us. One night a waitress was having a particularly bad night and said just once she’d like to pour a drink on a customer. I volunteered and got a free meal out of it.
EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 9 months ago
Re: Vampire. It can be, but doesn’t need to. It’s set in the real world, so it’s as depressing or not as our world can be.
jet@hackertalks.com 9 months ago
Plus a table of customers/witnesses through the small hours of the morning can’t hurt, makes the staff feel a little bit better.