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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9376555" data-attributes="member: 7030563">We play a 4-hour sessions once a week for each campaign, 5 PCs in the party.&nbsp; A 1-20 campaign typically lasts about 7 months, sometimes a little longer, sometimes a little less.&nbsp; I play two 4-hour sessions a week with this group (two different campaigns).&nbsp; Not everything we do is 1-20 and campaigns with fewer levels are generally quicker.&nbsp; I think we played SODQ from beginning to end in 11 weeks.One thing we don't do in these games is the endless planning that many groups do, both in and out of combat.&nbsp; During combat you get groups that talk about how to handle an encounter in the middle of an encounter - &quot;the Wizard will put a Web in that direction then&nbsp; the Tank can go engage the two outside the web and then the Paladin can .... no wait lets to it this way instead the Tank charges that guy and then ....&quot;&nbsp; IF you do that kind of thing games take much, much longer.In our game you can't initiate conversation with another Character except on your turn (you can answer) and any dialog has to be quick (it is only 6 seconds right).&nbsp; Anything more than a quick &quot;don't attack that guy I charmed him&quot; or &quot;stay out of the circle or bad things will happen&quot; requires an action.I play two other regular games weekly games besides these.&nbsp; I am a PC in another weekly 3-hour game with 6 characters, that one is a lot slower, mostly because there is a lot of talking about what we are going to do instead of doing it.&nbsp; Last session we debated how to sneak into a bad guy castle for over a half hour.&nbsp; Then the DM said that was it for the day and the players wanted to get together between sessions to plan some more.I DM a regular game with 4 players.&nbsp; That is usually once a week but the time varies from 2 to 4 hours.I do a one-shot here and there in addition to these.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9376555, member: 7030563"] We play a 4-hour sessions once a week for each campaign, 5 PCs in the party. A 1-20 campaign typically lasts about 7 months, sometimes a little longer, sometimes a little less. I play two 4-hour sessions a week with this group (two different campaigns). Not everything we do is 1-20 and campaigns with fewer levels are generally quicker. I think we played SODQ from beginning to end in 11 weeks. One thing we don't do in these games is the endless planning that many groups do, both in and out of combat. During combat you get groups that talk about how to handle an encounter in the middle of an encounter [I]- "the Wizard will put a Web in that direction then the Tank can go engage the two outside the web and then the Paladin can .... no wait lets to it this way instead the Tank charges that guy and then ...."[/I] IF you do that kind of thing games take much, much longer. In our game you can't initiate conversation with another Character except on your turn (you can answer) and any dialog has to be quick (it is only 6 seconds right). Anything more than a quick "don't attack that guy I charmed him" or "stay out of the circle or bad things will happen" requires an action. I play two other regular games weekly games besides these. I am a PC in another weekly 3-hour game with 6 characters, that one is a lot slower, mostly because there is a lot of talking about what we are going to do instead of doing it. Last session we debated how to sneak into a bad guy castle for over a half hour. Then the DM said that was it for the day and the players wanted to get together between sessions to plan some more. I DM a regular game with 4 players. That is usually once a week but the time varies from 2 to 4 hours. I do a one-shot here and there in addition to these. [/QUOTE]

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