Gaming duration

[aramis erak]

How often does your group meet (weekly, every two weeks, every third Tuesday that falls on an odd date in a month with an 'a', whatever)

and

How long do you game each session?

My group meets weekly (F2F), usually cancelling only one or two sessions a year unless the holidays fall wrong.

Our schedule is 6pm-10pm, but generally we run over a bit, sometimes up to an hour.

Weekly. Group A meets at 1800, runs to 2200, actual start of play varies from 1800 to 1930.

Group B I log in to voice at 1800, game usually starts at 1930, runs to 0100. (note that my players are one hour earlier.) Players and I chat until either people show, or half the players have attacks of real life.

 

[Ulfgeir]

We play over the net at the moment, every other Friday from 18:30 to 22(ish. Used to be 23.), and the Sunday on the same weekends from 13:00 to 21:00 with about 1-1.5 hour foodbreak in it.

 

[Dragonsbane]

Saturday mornings 3 hours for main DnD group with 4 players, 3 hours one weeknight with a single player Cypher System Sfi-fi/Superhero game.

 

[Marc_C]

Friday, every second week, from 19:00 to 22:00. We sometimes go over until 22:30. Usually if a level up occurs.

Other times I end the session a bit early because the next encounter is a big one and I call tell we are too tired to do a good job on both sides of the GM screen.

 

[el-remmen]

My main group meets remotely (for now - we got three sessions in F2F before the pandemic) about once a month, but try to schedule a second session a month when there are five Saturdays - and that's because we play on Saturdays from 2 pm to 7pm.

This has been the same basic time I've run D&D on and off for 20 years (though it used to be every two weeks) - though I prefer starting at noon or 11 and playing til 5.

My secondary group meets once a month or less (remotely) on a Friday night from 7 to 11 pm (which we only do that late because one player is on Pacific time and I'm in eastern).

EDIT to add: My main group has been playing for nearly a year and we haven't missed a session yet (and everyone has made every session except for one player who joined us with our second)

 

[Thomas Shey]

I should mention that we shifted to remote when COVID Happened, losing two players in the process.

 

[embee]

How often does your group meet (weekly, every two weeks, every third Tuesday that falls on an odd date in a month with an 'a', whatever)

and

How long do you game each session?

My group meets weekly (F2F), usually cancelling only one or two sessions a year unless the holidays fall wrong.

Our schedule is 6pm-10pm, but generally we run over a bit, sometimes up to an hour.

Weekly online.

We all have small children. So, every Saturday night from 930 to about midnight. Occasionally 30 minutes over.

 

[iserith]

Every Friday, 7 pm till 11 pm, without fail. (Except for Christmas this year.)

 

[Hastati]

When I DM we play once a week for about 4 hours. It’s online and 4 hours is the most I can take of that. For in person games I’m happy to go up to 6 hours.

 

[ccs]

Current game runs every Thur, 6pm-10pm.
Depending upon vacations, holidays, etc (even pandemics!) we generally get 40-45 sessions/year.

About 5-6 cancelled sessions each year are accounted for from three sources:
•Holidays - we always lose a few sessions to these, especially Halloween/Nov/Dec. Either as direct meteor stikes to the calander, or as collateral to overtime/shifting work schedules, family stuff, etc.

•GenCon - is this a vacation? A holiday? Sometimes work?? Whatever you count it as its a set date on the calander when I (the DM), & sometimes a few others, are several hundred miles away....

•The host being on vacation in the summer. Exact date varies, but like GenCon its a known down week.
Sure, the rest of us could relocate for a session. But that's more effort than its worth.