D&D 5E How long is your average session?

[Langy]

4-5 hours; our scheduled start time is 5 PM and scheduled end time is 10 PM, but we don't usually start promptly or end exactly at 10.

 

[Imaculata]

We play for about 10 hours straight, which is only interrupted by dinner.

 

[Blue]

Usually play in the evening, 7pm to 10:30ish.

Back in college we used to play either all day (7-10 hours) or marathon until wee hours of the morning (12-14+). It would be hard to capture the differences between those on the poll.

 

[AngryTiger]

I rarely have time or interest to run games these days, so when i do run games, they tend to be 12-14 hour marathon sessions, starting after we are done with breakfast and finishing when we are too tired to keep playing(with dinner and bathroom breaks between). If i still have stuff prepped when we are done for the day we continue next day with another session until i run out of material, and continue the campaign when i can be bothered to prep more stuff(couple months to a year).

 

[bkwrm79]

No D&D thus far, but our games run from 12-5, with about 1D4 hours spent actually playing.

 

[madrivi]

3 hours, we meet for 4-5 hours but we "lose" a couple of hours with dinner and sidetracking

 

[Draegn]

The entire group usually starts after lunch and end before dinner. Before and after this we might have smaller "split the party" side adventures. My group consists of four magicians, an elementalist, two thieves, a druid, a ranger and a paladin.

 

[LarryD]

4-5 hours. Or until the Red Vines run out.

 

[Mercule]

We block off 4 hours. Officially, that's a 30 minute "warm up" and chatter period and a 3.5 hour play period. Sometimes the chatter runs long. Sometimes the play runs late. I don't allow either to run more than 30 minutes extra, though.

 

[was]

normally aorund 5 hours