March 6, 2025
Text: Asger Wilhelm Kristensen - Photo: Helle Bjerre Christensen
After a long time in Præstøgade, the popular activity has now moved to Jens Munks Gade, where Peter and the role-playing children have their very own space. I - children's reporter Asker - visited the new role-playing room to ask Peter some questions about how they are doing over there and what you can do in the new space.
Why was it that you moved in the first place?
"There are many reasons why we moved. A café employee was hired who was going to do other things down in the café. That's where we were before. And you can't make slime and play board games at the same time. So that was one of the reasons."
"The second reason was that there were too many of us role-playing. It went from 5-6 people to double that. Since there are more of us, we needed more space."
What are the benefits of moving over here?
"The obvious benefit is of course more space. But the most important advantage is that it's quiet down here when we feel like it. So if we need to concentrate on learning the rules of a game or I need to give a joint message, I can do that."
"In role-playing, you have to do some things that might seem a bit embarrassing. Usually it's an intimate atmosphere where you sit with a couple of friends, where you dare to fail, and dare to be silly, and dare to look stupid because we are all friends here."
"There's room to immerse yourself here, and here you can also better paint a role-playing character without someone running past you and pushing you." "Then of course there's also the fact that we can hear music that we couldn't over there. Because it just becomes noise pollution."
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What are the disadvantages of moving away from the club?
"The biggest disadvantage must be that we are isolated. We've moved "away from home". And then you have to go and visit your 'parents' once in a while, and you always feel guilty that you don't see them enough. But every once in a while you have to see them."
"It's kind of the same situation here, sometimes we get hungry and then we have to go to the Pump." "It can seem like we're a bit of a closed circle. Because we're somewhere else and you have to know your way in. But we're not a closed circle, and we want more people to come over here. But if you don't know that we're here in Jens Munks Gade, you can spend months or years running around and being part of the Pump Station without realising that we're here. And that's my biggest fear, that we'll become too isolated."
What was the hardest part of moving?
"There are several things that have been difficult about moving. I had to organise our space. I had to figure out how many tables we needed. I had to figure out how to set up a painting table and where to put the paint. So there has been some interior design that has been quite difficult."
"We are possibly the only place in the club where you don't wear shoes. Both because it gives a cosy atmosphere, but it also has something to do with noise, because the building is noisy."
What will be different compared to the old role-playing game?
"Not so much, but at the same time a lot. We do the same things, and I'm the same person. But one of the things that's changed is that we have room to mess around, for example. This means that we can role-play one day, and if we don't manage to finish it, we'll clear it aside because tomorrow we'll be playing board games. This means that it will be possible to leave projects behind."
What else will be different?
"I'm going to make some schedules for what we need to do in the future. We might also talk about it at our meetings down here. We have a meeting every last Monday of the month at 15.00. Here you can help decide what we should do." "I would also like to organise some competitions."
3 Fun things you can do in role-playing games:
1. You can play with role-play swords.
2. You can unleash your creativity by painting a character.
3. You can play a variety of board games with your friends.