bedir than
Full Moon Storyteller
I hosted for coworkers a one hour weekly session for nearly a year. It's fast pace, but easier to tag onto the end of the work day
D&D General How long should an after work online gaming session be ideally?
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
That's a pretty interesting idea.
I previously worked at a place where coworkers in another department had a regular lunch hour D&D session in a conference room.
payn
He'll flip ya...Flip ya for real...
We tried it but was too difficult to do over lunch. Folks had to travel between buildings to and from. We moved to 4-6pm after the work day. During covid we moved to zoom, but then folks left he company and it ended. We did manage to get a 5E campaign up to 20 though.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
That's a pretty good end result, even with all of the curveballs thrown at you.
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
Usually three hours for me.
I played quite a few regular OSE and OD&D sessions during the pandemic over Discord or Zoom for video/audio with strangers which were formally organized as three hours with usually a 5 minute bio-break roughly on the hour each hour. The OSE games also used Roll20 or Foundry, one of the OD&D games used Shmeppy for maps. The other was pure TotM and I'd hold my maps up to the camera occasionally for the DM to verify I had something right or just to show to the other players (sometimes a second player was also mapping) so folks could visualize better.
Right now I'm in a Wednesday night 5E game with some old friends and we start at 6:30 Eastern (one player is in TX, the rest of us are in MA or NH), with the initial half hour as designated social time, then play 7-10 EST. I think more than three hours on a weeknight is tough to do unless it's Friday. When I was still running my 5TD game on Friday nights we'd sometimes run for four or five hours.
I played quite a few regular OSE and OD&D sessions during the pandemic over Discord or Zoom for video/audio with strangers which were formally organized as three hours with usually a 5 minute bio-break roughly on the hour each hour. The OSE games also used Roll20 or Foundry, one of the OD&D games used Shmeppy for maps. The other was pure TotM and I'd hold my maps up to the camera occasionally for the DM to verify I had something right or just to show to the other players (sometimes a second player was also mapping) so folks could visualize better.
Right now I'm in a Wednesday night 5E game with some old friends and we start at 6:30 Eastern (one player is in TX, the rest of us are in MA or NH), with the initial half hour as designated social time, then play 7-10 EST. I think more than three hours on a weeknight is tough to do unless it's Friday. When I was still running my 5TD game on Friday nights we'd sometimes run for four or five hours.
TheSword
Legend
After seeing everyone’s responses I think I’m going to try and push towards 3 hours. That’s seems to be the minimum most folks are running a session for, with a 10 min comfort break part way through.
I agree that it takes time to get into the groove, particularly as it’s an alternating week for my people.
Very useful, thanks!
I agree that it takes time to get into the groove, particularly as it’s an alternating week for my people.
Very useful, thanks!
grimmgoose
Explorer
I have two in-person groups; one meets on Mondays, the other on Fridays.
The group on Monday officially starts at 6:30, but we realistically don't start playing until around 7:15. We usually end around 9:45, or 10:00 at the latest. So all told, about 2.5 hours.
The group on Friday officially starts at 6:30, but it can be anywhere from 7:30 to 8:00 before we officially kick off. We end around 11:30, typically, so about 4 hours.
Both groups are wildly different (from systems to playstyles), and I think they would not enjoy it if the timescales were flipped. (Monday group is more casual; Friday group is more "hardcore").
The group on Monday officially starts at 6:30, but we realistically don't start playing until around 7:15. We usually end around 9:45, or 10:00 at the latest. So all told, about 2.5 hours.
The group on Friday officially starts at 6:30, but it can be anywhere from 7:30 to 8:00 before we officially kick off. We end around 11:30, typically, so about 4 hours.
Both groups are wildly different (from systems to playstyles), and I think they would not enjoy it if the timescales were flipped. (Monday group is more casual; Friday group is more "hardcore").
Blue
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
We usually play 7pm to 11pm online, so 4 hours. Call it 3:45 with some socialization.
Well, one game has a teacher who gets up at 5:30am, so during the school year it was gather at 6:30pm, hard start at 7pm, go to 10pm. And right now we have a pregnancy so it's 7 to 9.
Well, one game has a teacher who gets up at 5:30am, so during the school year it was gather at 6:30pm, hard start at 7pm, go to 10pm. And right now we have a pregnancy so it's 7 to 9.
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