How many RPG sessions do you play in (Weekly, Monthly, Whatever)

[lylsyly]

Reading another thread where the person said he was in 3 games and starting a fourth got my curiosity up. How many different games are you in.

Myself; My home group (gotta find another word for that) has been together for a long time (3 of us since '76 and the newest of the 6 started with us in '98). We play a Friday Night Game, Two Saturday Games, and a Sunday Game, All different campaigns with Different DM/GM.

I also play a Wednesday Night Game with another group.

What's your story.

[Tinkerer]

Reading another thread where the person said he was in 3 games and starting a fourth got my curiosity up. How many different games are you in.

Myself; My home group (gotta find another word for that) has been together for a long time (3 of us since '76 and the newest of the 6 started with us in '98). We play a Friday Night Game, Two Saturday Games, and a Sunday Game, All different campaigns with Different DM/GM.

I also play a Wednesday Night Game with another group.

What's your story.

Right now I'm lucky to play in one game every 2 weeks, sometimes every 3 or 4. For the games that I GM it's once every 1-3 weeks, usually for 3 hour sessions. However in terms of the number of different campaigns that I'm in it is currently between 4 and 12 depending on how you count them.

Yes this means sometimes for those campaigns we only play them once or twice a year, those are usually supporting campaigns such as an NPC campaign where we play important NPCs in the town that our epic PCs founded. Hence why I said it depends on how you count the campaign.

[Blackjackg]

Right now, I've got one weekly game and two biweekly games, with three different groups (albeit with some slight overlap: my partner is in both the Tuesday and Friday groups, and another friend is in both Tuesday and Saturday). It works nicely.

[BWR]

Once a week with one of the games I run. Technically I'm in more games but sessions of these have been getting fewer and fewer over the years.

[INDYSTAR188]

I DM a twice-monthly 5E campaign but it's usually every 3 or 4 weeks instead of every 2 as we intended. It happens, two of us have kiddos and we generally have a dinner together and let the kids play while we go downstairs and roll some dice! This has been going on for almost two years. I was DMing a game that lasted about four years (4E) but it fizzled when most of the group moved or lost interest. This time it's a closer circle of people so hopefully that'll help our longevity.

[Jama7301]

One... annually. At least, that's the current pace.

Ideally, I'd like to run two different games on alternating weeks. Wanted to try to run the same/similar campaign/world in both DnD5e and Dungeon World, but adult schedules are a pain to coordinate sometimes.

[NRSASD]

I DM two once-a-week games, typically 5 hour sessions. One is very fixed and happens every Sunday at 7pm, while the other happens when we can get everyone together in the same room. I get to play once a blue moon, but such is the life of a sought after DM haha

[Knaight]

My RPG schedule oscillates all over the place, but it generally ends up at either a dead period or somewhere between once per two weeks and twice per week. At present I'm running what I call One Shot Club once a week, where every session somebody runs a one shot with whoever comes up. We jump genres, we jump systems, and the structure is set up to jump between GMs, although thus far that's strictly theoretical and it's just me GMing.

I'd like to add a campaign to that (particularly if other people decide to grab a game to GM every so often), but OSC is weirdly prep heavy and came about precisely because it was logistically easier than getting the same people together consistently. Sure, you get wild swings in group size (3-9 players plus a GM thus far), but at least you don't have to deal with that in setting.

Ideally, I'd like to run two different games on alternating weeks. Wanted to try to run the same/similar campaign/world in both DnD5e and Dungeon World, but adult schedules are a pain to coordinate sometimes.

This is why I made OSC. Schedule coordination got sufficiently out of hand that I just gave up, established a standard meeting time and place, invited a bunch of people to show up if they could and they felt like it, and called it a day.

[Koo Rehtorb]

Three games a week.

3 hours, 4-5 hours, 5-6 hours.

[Mike Miller]

I play twice a week. Three campaigns in two groups. We alternate DMs in one of the groups so that group has two campaigns. I DM in two of the campaigns. All online

[DataNinja]

I GM three campaigns, and play in three others, though all are play-by-post, so it's not a huge time commitment. (Besides, it's how I relax.)

[Seerow]

I have one gaming group, we alternate DMs every 3-6 months, playing on average every 2 weeks. While it's not a super frequent schedule, we do at least average fairly long sessions, typically running 8-10 hours with a meal break.

[Psyren]

One weekly (3.P) and one monthly (WoD).

[MrNobody]

One weekly, me being the GM, custom system and setting, 3-4 hours games.

We play with the "everyone -1" formula: we play even if one of the players (one of five) is missing. This helps us to skip as less weekly enconters as possible.

[Guizonde]

i play in two campaigns, one that's weekly and the other every two weeks. only problem? they're both on fridays. so every second week i run from the first session that starts around 6h30 and ends at 10pm and go play from 10h30 to pretty much dawn. i like those sessions. reminds me of when i was at uni and did truly marathonian sessions lasting 20+ hours 4 times a week.

[comicshorse]

1) Changeling the Lost - Meant to be weekly effectively bi-weekly. Tuesday
2) RuneQuest- Weekly. Wednesday
3) 5th Edition Dnd-Weekly. Thursday
4) Warhammer 2nd Edition- Monthly.Friday
5) Serenity- Monthly. Saturday.
6) Rogue Trader- Monthly. Sunday

The Serenity and Warhammer are played at a friends house in another city. So we go up for the weekend to game and hang out, other friends come from where they live.

[Faily]

- Weekly game with BWR and a few other players (usually Pathfinder, but we sometimes take breaks to play something else).
- Bi-weeklyish Pathfinder with another group (graduated from 3.5 to PF).

Have a couple of other groups too (with BWR again), but sessions can go long in-between. One is a 3.5-group where the current GM recently became a father, so we're not expecting much to happen there yet. Have an Ars Magica group that is plagued with a very busy main GM. Then an L5R-group that only get together a few times a year (but when we do, we play for a few days straight).


So I usually get my fix with play-by-post and a good community there. Mostly we play L5R, but we've branched out to Star Wars and SIFRP as well the past years.

[Koeh]

My main group had to split due to schedule conflicts after 5 years together. I have not had a consistant group since, usually breaking up after a few weeks.

Ive only recently gotten to start gaming again in one group, with my gf and another couple. Im forced to DM, but just glad to play again after years of nothing.

[RazorChain]

Currently I run a bi weekly game that has been going for a couple of years. We usually play in 5-7 hour sessions

Then I play occasionally with my old group which is in another country, usually they just put me on a conference call. Then we have our yearly game marathon weekend.

[Mr Beer]

1 session per fortnight, alternating between a game I run and a game someone else runs.

[AshfireMage]

Ongoing PBP (V20) and 2-5 hour meeting weekly when school is in session (been playing with the same group for 3 years, but just switched from 3.5E to VtM Revised because I took over as GM and that's what I wanted to run)

[jojo]

Currently I play in 4 games per week on average.

[Crake]

3 games that run weekly (one of which I DM), though with two of them we have to organize around two shift workers, so sometimes we don't fit all 3 games in, plus another one that runs monthly.

[SirGraystone]

I DM two campaign weekly, Tomb of Annihilation and a 5e conversion of Savage Tide, and play in a 3rd one.

[Black Knight 2k]

2 days a week, 3-7 hour sessions, for the last 7 years.
From what I've gathered this is extremely lucky.

[ko_sct]

We play once a week. With the occasionnal skipped week.

We used to alternate every week between 2 games (one dnd 5e and the other gurps) with two different game master to avoid burn out and running out of idea. But one of our player never know if he'll be able to make it so we simply switched to our dnd game by default and play our gurps game when he can make it.

Honestly I can't imagine playing more often right now.

The only thing that make me sad is how short the sessions are. When we were young, my brother, my friend and I used to play 12h sessions. Now our sessions are only small 4h periods. Barely scratch that gaming itch

[Consensus]

I dm for a game monday, now for a separate game tuesday, and play in one wednesday. All have sessions of about 1-2 hours, which can make progress painful

[Consensus]

We play once a week. With the occasionnal skipped week.

We used to alternate every week between 2 games (one dnd 5e and the other gurps) with two different game master to avoid burn out and running out of idea. But one of our player never know if he'll be able to make it so we simply switched to our dnd game by default and play our gurps game when he can make it.

Honestly I can't imagine playing more often right now.

The only thing that make me sad is how short the sessions are. When we were young, my brother, my friend and I used to play 12h sessions. Now our sessions are only small 4h periods. Barely scratch that gaming itch

Wow... my group can manage to get everyone together for a four hour session only in the summer months, I am so jealous that you can have sessions that long. Then again, I'm spoiled in that I have three games running a week.

[AshfireMage]

The in-person game I've been STing for is more-or-less dying off due to lack of player commitment and my own busy life, but to replace it, my pbp group has decided to start a 40k game to run alongside the vampire one. Funness!

[denthor]

I have one every Friday.

There was one I was invited to upon hearing it was me the 4 people who dropped promptly came back with three others in tow saying we do not want that man to play. Filling the game beyond capacity. It finally broke down about month later.