D&D General Hours actually playing RPGs, D&D?

[FitzTheRuke]

I play about 9 hours per week, in 3 to 4 games, and that's not including my PBP games here on ENWorld (because they were outlawed by the OP, which is fair - they take sooo much more time than "normal" games do).

 

[overgeeked]

I play about 9 hours per week, in 3 to 4 games, and that's not including my PBP games here on ENWorld (because they were outlawed by the OP, which is fair - they take sooo much more time than "normal" games do).

I was going to ask in another thread, ¿what’s a good way to measure PBP games? I run them fairly regularly but it seems like a weird outlier. How many posts? How much time spent reading and writing posts? Given I read in snippets and work on writing posts in fits and starts on my phone at random times, I have no concept of how much time it takes.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

How many hours in this calendar year (2025)

Survey design: I would make the time period a bit more prominant. I would have gone for "last 12 months" to be more meaningful too. And your bins seem a little small, I play about 3 hours per fortnight (so 60 hours in 10 months) and I would consider that as being at the low end. 200+ would seem about right for your upper bin.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I was going to ask in another thread, ¿what’s a good way to measure PBP games? I run them fairly regularly but it seems like a weird outlier. How many posts? How much time spent reading and writing posts? Given I read in snippets and work on writing posts in fits and starts on my phone at random times, I have no concept of how much time it takes.

Yeah, I have no idea either. My best guess is that it takes (on average, it can wildly vary) about a month of real time to run the equivalent of a two-hour session. And this is at a decent rate! They can lag (and even fall apart, clearly).

 

[xyrad]

I've never really stopped to think how much D&D I've played until now.

My group would find a night every month and a half or so to get away from our young families and play, and sessions would be 5 hours or so, so probably 40 hours at most that first year or so I played. Then COVID hit and we switched to every Friday online since there wasn't much else to do. Our partners all got used to Friday nights to themselves and love it and as the world opened back up we kept at it. There's the odd week we miss, but it must be nearly 200 hours a year now.

Over the past 5 years we've played through Storm King's Thunder, Rime of the Frostmaiden, Curse of Strahd, Shadow of the Dragon Queen and now Tomb of Annihilation, in addition to one shots from Eberron and Candlekeep Mysteries.

 

[jasper]

As Dm on my sign in sheet I have a start and end time which I suppose to use for Adventure League DM points. My friday night game generally runs 3 hours. So with just my Princes run I am over 60+

 

[ECMO3]

I'm curious so thought I'd start two threads, one for D&D and one for all other games. This thread is for D&D. Edition doesn't matter.

The rules are simple. It needs to be 1) a live game, played in real time (sorry PBP gamers); 2) it needs to involve other people (sorry solo gamers), and; 3) it needs to be hours spent actually playing the game, so prep doesn't count, making characters doesn't count, reading the books doesn't count, etc. Only time actually playing at the table (whether real or virtual).

Simple question really. How many hours in this calendar year (2025) have you spent actually playing D&D?

I play between 10 hours and 30 hours a week for the last 3 years. Currently in 6 regular games, 3 weekly, one biweekly and one every now and then not really scheduled. Then occasional one shots on top of that.