Explain what you mean about being too forgiving for chipping - couldn't you use artificial rough? I would think you could make it as unforgiving as you want. Granted you can't dig your club into the ground.
I think it would be very useful to hit a whole bunch of shots from a short distance to get a feel for how far the ball carries off your club, how it rolls out, and so on, so that when you get on a course you have a better sense of "if I hit the ball with this much weight and open my club face to here, and I've read this green right, it's going to land at that spot, and then release to that spot over there."
I actually have a piece of artificial grass in my back yard that I was using last summer to chip off of, but solely to get a feel for height and carry distance off the face, which obviously is only one part of the battle. And I don't really have the space or inclination to do that inside my house. I do putt on a mat at home but it's... well... flat. And 8 feet long. There are practice greens around obviously (including at golf dome and riverside), so I use those when they're available. But no room to chip.
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