D&D 5E How often have you played D&D 5e over the past year?

[Mistwell]

Approximately how often have you been playing 5e D&D over the past year, as either a DM or a player?

Playing online with Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds or a similar method counts, as do convention games and of course in-person games. However, solitaire games do not count (at least two people, including a DM and a player, must be involved).

Please select the response which comes closest to your average.

If you have comments about play frequency, or how your frequency has changed over the years, or what play frequency might mean, or anything similar, please feel free to comment

 

[iserith]

Between my regular campaign and intermittent one-shots I've run or in which I've played, probably somewhere close to twice a week in the past year. I'm almost always DMing, but get a reasonable amount of table time as a player - just enough to keep me humble.

 

[kbrakke]

I think I barely managed to get over twice a week on average, but I might be underestimating each campaign's breaks, so I might be on the merely twice a week plan. Nearly all of that was as a DM, though I got to play a wonderful few months of Storm King's Thunder before the LGS I played at needed more DMs. Lately I've been branching out and trying new systems, though I'm always finding ways to take what I like and add it back to 5e.

After my first 2.5 year campaign, I figured out that you can pretty easily simulate any very heroic high power story by granting magic items and a few freebie boons. Currently I'm moving in the opposite direction and figuring out how to make things more gritty. After running many shorter campaigns or one shots I really find 5e as the everyman edition. With fairly minor tweaks, sometimes nothing that even the players know about, I can get the system to fit the tone of the campaign. Conversely I would have trouble forcing 4e or 13th age in to a gritty exploration campaign in the same way I would have trouble turning Basic or DCC in to a heroic story game. Not to say that it's not possible, but rather to say the amount of changes needed would make me just play another system. 5e on the other hand has never made me feel like I should just be playing another system no matter what story we are telling.

Part of it likely stems from the sheer system mastery I have in 5e. When I compare my dming and playing of 5e I feel like I know why things tick. My pathfinder games mostly make me feel like I have no clue how character building works, and when DMing, I can promise I remember the monster feats 0% of the time unless they are already in the stat block.

Though overall play has slowed for 5e, I'm now only on 1 consistent 5e game each week, stupid work taking up more time. My group that I started with is going through a 13th age mini-campaign and then trying out DCC. But I think after that we'll be going back to 5e, in fact I know that because I'm the DM and my word is law.

 

[TwoSix]

I have 2 games, both of which meet every two weeks. We can't always meet up, so I think I've been in a total of 40 sessions in the past year.

 

[Ancalagon]

I GM one session every 2 weeks, and I play in 3 pbp games on this forum. I wished I played in an in person game, or maybe even rolld20 etc, but alas ...

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[ccs]

Currently;
I DM a 5e game on Fri evenings down at the shop.
I play in a 5e on Thursday evenings.
And I'm in a 5e game here on these boards - but I don't really count a couple of posts per week as being the same as the real world games. So I only voted 2/week.

 

[Valmarius]

I'm running a Sunday evening game each week, a fortnightly game for workmates, a two-monthly game for family, and playing in iserith's Roll20 campaign.
I'd say twice a week, on average, since sessions get skipped every now and then.

 

[pukunui]

I voted "about twice a week" but it's actually twice a fortnight. I DM two games and play in a third, and they're staggered so I have two in one week and one the next week. Sometimes the schedule gets rearranged, though, so like I had no games last week but this week I've got all three.

 

[Miladoon]

Run a live game every fortnight on Wednesday in my garage. Run one and play one php game everyday.

Every once and a while I wonder if I am playing the same game as posters on EW.

EDIT: fortnight for the win.

 

[Azzy]

My group schedules for once a week, and we typically keep to that, but occasionally Real Life™ gets in the way.