[Players] How much time do you spend preparing for one game session to the next?

[ThirdWizard]

Depends on the character and if I need to level him up.

A fighter is basically 0 time between sessions unless leveling.

On the other hand, I could spend lots of time making spell lists for a wizard character, or determining what magical items to craft or that kind of thing.

 

[lukelightning]

30 minutes tops if I am playing a spellcaster.
Anything else is under 5 minutes including getting the dice out of my bag and opening my Pepsi

My first 3e character was a druid. After getting sick of spending all that time worrying about what spells to chose, I went with rogue for my next character.

 

[the Jester]

Generally <30 minutes (as a player), though sometimes much more if we're playing high level characters, I'm levelling up, etc.

 

[Thanee]

Certainly less than half an hour on average... leveling and stuff doesn't take much time at all.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Lanefan]

I voted none, as usually I do what needs doing during the sessions. That said, there's times when I'll take a character sheet home and spend a night re-doing it, and other times when a game-related e-mail discussion breaks out - with our verbose crew, those can eat weeks at a time if not monitored carefully - but that's about it. Oh, and on the odd occasion when a treasury division is looking particularly ugly, I'll take that home and work on it; I seem to have defaulted to group exchequer.

Lanefan

 

[JoeGKushner]

Depends on my character.

In one Midnight Game I'm playing, I'm a 6th level fighter. How much time does it take to go, "Yeah, I'm a 6th level fighter." About one minute while looking over everything.

 

[diaglo]

Depends on my character.

In one Midnight Game I'm playing, I'm a 6th level fighter. How much time does it take to go, "Yeah, I'm a 6th level fighter." About one minute while looking over everything.

Rebar the Myrmidon with his trusty blade, Fairreach. Slayer of Giants.

 

[T. Foster]

Zero. I normally don't even look at my character sheet or session notes between sessions. However, there's a "warm up" period of a half-hour so at each the beginning of each session for chatting, socializing, eating, etc. before we actually start playing and I usually do some prep/refreshing work then -- picking spells, making sure my XP totals are correct, buying new equipment, checking on the notes from the previous session to see what we're supposed to be doing, etc.

 

[Raven Crowking]

In one game in California (Hi, Jesse!) I used to play a swashbucker (2nd Ed). I would spend a good 1/2 and hour before games reading Mercutio's lines from Rome & Juliet (and some other Shakespearian characters of the same ilk) so that while I was playing I could speak swashbuckler without fumbling.

RC

 

[JoeGKushner]

Rebar the Myrmidon with his trusty blade, Fairreach. Slayer of Giants.

No giant slayers in Midnight I tell ya!

At least none with health insurance!