Hours actually playing RPGs, non-D&D?

[Staffan]

My main group is, in theory, playing three hours a week. We often get started a little late so call it 2½. We sometimes have to cancel because too many people have other things come up, but we've easily played more than 3/4 of the 43 weeks so far this year so call it 32 x 2.5 = 80 hours. This year, we played GURPS for the first month and have been playing Savage Worlds since then. Even if you subtract one session for character creation, that's easily more than 60. In addition, I'm in another group that only meets about every month on either a Saturday or a Sunday, but plays a little longer then. This group has been alternating between D&D and a homebrew system the GM has created, so I'm guessing maybe 15-20 hours or so there as well.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I easily blew past the largest category, as we play every other week for 7-8 hours. I'm not sure when in the last two decades I'd have said less than 150 hours, and that's probably being seriously conservative (there were years I easily played twice that being involved in a game every week). It gets a little smaller if you exclude the whole D&D-adjacent sphere, since some of that included 13th Age, Shadow of the Demon Lord and Pathfinder 2e, but still well beyond the 60+ range.

 

[bsss]

I feel like 60 hours/year is a pretty low bar to cross, such that I safely crossed it and my free time for any hobby is at a premium, and I play with busy adults. I honestly thought it was 60 hours/month at first.

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

Since I spent a month this spring in intensive heart care at the hospital and have been rehabing since then, and are just about to start up my first rpg actual gaming activity, a new Savage Pathfinder campaign, 2025 is not a representative year.

But after 45 years of roleplaying, I’ve spent the vast majority of my time with non-D&D rpgs.

 

[coyote6]

So far, 47 sessions of Mutants & Masterminds 2e (as a player), mostly about 4 hours (not counting an hour of chatting), so that's more than 150 hours, maybe about 175-180? Perhaps more; there've been a couple of 6 hour sessions.

I have also GMed 67 sessions of Shadowrun 5e this year, mostly about 3 hours long I figure.