Thursday nights, 6-7pm until about 11:30pm. One of the players works graveyard, the others work in fast food. One of them delivers the almighty pizza, and it would be a cold day in Baator before he got a Friday night off.
*sighs*
I miss being a kid and being able to play all Friday AND Saturday night gaming. Damn those responsibilities!
Every second Tuesday from about 7 in the evening till around midnight. So far this has been a really good schedual in the sense that almost no one has commitments on a Tuesday evening. However twice a month is not ideal so the plan is to try and add a saturday evening session in once a month as well. Still working out the details on that however.
Tuesday nights. Supposedly every tuesday, but that doesn't work out very well most of the time. 7pm to 11pm, though its not uncommon if we get on a roll to keep going until 1 am. I do have to work the next day, but only every other week, so we go until we have had enough.
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My current group plays once a month, usually the third Saturday (depending upon schedules), starting at 2:00 PM and playing until 9:00 PM or later. Our limiter on meeting is distance (we're scattered all around Houston) and two of the players currently work on Saturdays (they request our game day off, so we have to schedule a month in advance to get all the players).
Unfortunately we meet around 7, screw around till 8-8:30 and play till 10:30. The more often we play the less we waste early in the evening. Focus can be a problem if we haven't played in a while with everyone catching up with each other.
I'm currently not running anything but my last group used to meet on Fridays. The session usually runs about 6-10 hours. With maybe a hour break during for a foodrun.
We also play every other week, from about 3pm untill 11pm.
Well, back in my high school days, we would play like four or five times a week, with some sessions during entire nights. But now, with the busy schedules, we only play once every two weeks, and RARELY get more than four or five hours of gameplay. I would surely like for my games to last longer, but I think that once every other week is just fine. The adversaries are just getting too long to create (thanks Dungeon Magazine!). I mean every NPC (and monster) now have different skills, feats, special attacks etc... Especially in the higher levels. I remember when I could just open the Monster Manual and throw a monster at my players. Well that time is long gone. Now I need major preperation and intense studying if I'm to come up with something interesting. I just couldn't play multiple nights like I used too.
Currently I'm in 2 bi-weekly games played back-to-back. First one runs about 4 1/2 hours (a homebrewed-world campaign) the other about 6 hours (Eberron campaign.) There's a third game (Forgotten Realms campaign) that we're playing in periodically, whenever the DM has the time and it's not a regular gaming day. Considering the dry spell I went through for way too many years I'm loving all the gaming I'm getting in now.
- Chris Shadowens
We normally play on wed. at 7am until about 5pm, and sometimes thurs. but later in the afternoon (the weekend for us). We have odd work hrs. lol. Most of our time is bs'ing about the game we played last week. Our DM normally has to set everything up before the game because barely anything is planned, its only a thought of a battle plan for him, lol he likes to keep us and sometimes him on our toes. He says it makes him less impartial to us and the npc's. Okay now that I have written a "short story" lol (I'm actually waiting for my DM to get finished doing what he's doing lol) Take care all = )
Ps. It's so nice to read about other Female players !
I feel vindicated! Reading all these posts, I thought we were the only D&D group who didn't work a 9-5 job. My players and I are mainly casino workers here in CT. Getting out of work @ 5am, we find the best time to game is in the morning. We gather @ my place trickling in from between 7:30am to 8:30am and get started as the last persons books hit the table. (Hey, if you came late you don't get the BSing privlages the folks @ 7:30 get! :) Our sessions run from 8:30 till 1 or 2pm depending on if we are in the middle of a battle or not.
I noticed a few folks also have the problem I do, we never get as much done as I expect. If we get two or three encounters finished in a session I'm a happy DM. You guys who still get to play 6 to 10 hour sessions make me green with envy!