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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1474572" data-attributes="member: 6398">In the thread <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=83478" target="_blank">The top 2 reasons why gaming groups break up</a>, our fellow poster <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/member.php?userid=10638" target="_blank">Emirikol</a> (aka, the dude that wants to be The Dude) brought up a few points.  While the primary focus of the thread is as the name says, there is a topic that I'd like to look at a little closer without side-tracking the other discussion. To which, Emirikol posted these "actual figures": 95% of your gaming is spent adventuring5% is spent in character creation or worrying about the majority of the campaign.95% of DM's dollars are spent on Campaign Worlds5% of DM's dollars are spent on adventures (ask the companies that produce them) To which, I ask the two questions: 1. In your group, how much time is spent doing what sorts of activities?  (If you have multiple groups that would give different answers, post them, but don't include one-night parties since the focus here is "campaign" game-play). 2. GMs, how would you describe your personal spending in regards to gaming? -----My Own Answers---- 1. Four games. A. In one I am a solo PC in Oathbound.  I'd say I spend about 50% of my time either exploring the setting or learning about the specific region I'm in, 30% of the time in social-RP situations (which includes administrating/moving my army), and 20% adventuring. B. I run a solo game with a Channeler PC (read: Spontaneous Casting Wizard that is fatigued by using her more potent spells).  This game is probably about 25% exploration/learning, 70% social-RP, and 5% adventuring. C. I run a solo PBEM game with a High Level (read: 16th-20th) Fighter/Psychic.  This game is probably about 70% exploration/learning, 10% social-RP, and 20% adventuring. D. I run a 3-PC game of various levels (Character Levels 5, 12, and 36).  Being military-based, the PCs are most often doing "there own thing", usually only being together during unit/army administrating or mass-combat scenarios, but otherwise having duties/responsibilities the keep each of them active and important to the story overall.  In general, each probably spend about 25% of their time in exploration/travel, 50% social-RP, and 25% adventuring/missions. 2. For purchases, I tend to purchase about 50% setting specific (although most of these are because the company producing them made them setting-specific, ex: Relics & Rituals, rather than because I'm playing the setting, with "gazetteer"-type books being the rarity, such as Nyambe, Midnight, and Gothos, which I buy because I'm hoping the "world theme" will provide some choice nuggets), while 49% would be straight-up generic (ex: Alchemy & Herbalists, Primal Codex, Occult Lore, Eldritch Might, etc.).  The 1% would be adventures, which I only purchase if there is a specific piece of crunch within it I'm after (and, obviously, these are extremely rare purchases, since the dollar-per-use ratio is often low).  About 50% of these purchases over-all are strictly for monsters, with the next likely reason being the pursuit of different magic stylings to make a region of the world a little more exotic, followed by new Base Classes, Feats, and Spells; Magic Items are at the end of the list, and Prestige Classes don't even show up on radar.</blockquote>

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