Are you exclusively table-top or have you delved into PBP?
My group (table-top) plays every other week, generally. We have 6 folks in the group and we miss a few sessions here and there. We try to do make-up sessions but sometimes it just doesn't work out. We usually play for about 8 hours at a time.
I'm very likely in too many groups. :-D Most of them meet face-to-face.
- Friday night D&D group (3.5): meets about once a month, I'm the DM; the campaign is one I'm writing. Sessions usually run for 4 hours or so. Group has been together (in various permutations) for over 25 years; I've been in the group for 20 years, and have been DM for the past 15.
- Sunday night D&D group (3.5): meets about once every two months. I'm the DM; we've nearly completed Age of Worms. Again, we play for about 4 hours per session. This group has been together for about 15 years; I've been in the group for the past 11 years, and the DM for the past 8.
- Wednesday night D&D group (3.5): meets every other week. I'm a player, not DM, in this one. We're playing through Shackled City. We play for about 3 hours per session (it's hard on a weeknight to play for longer). We've been together for about 3 years.
- Wisconsin group (primarily 4E). This is the group with which I first started playing D&D, 30 years ago. There's a core of four of us who have been together for the entire time; the rest of the membership has changed over the years, and there's currently 7 of us in total. Due to geographic spread (3 of us are in Chicago, 3 in northern Wisconsin, and 1 in Milwaukee), we only get together to play 4 or 5 times per year, but two of those gatherings are multi-day affairs, where we play a *lot*. I'm the primary DM for this group, but 4 of the other 6 players also take some DM duties.
- Online group (mostly 4E). This started out as an online group for playing Living City and Living Force (two RPGA campaigns). We still mostly play OP campaigns (lately, it's been LFR, Heroes of Rokugan, and Legends of Arcanis). We've been playing together online for about a decade, and probably play two to three times a month.
- Supernatural group. Most of us from the Wednesday night group also get together to play the Supernatural RPG every month or two.
- Middle-Earth PBP. I got involved in this about 2 years ago. It's a 1E AD&D game, set about 60 years after LotR. It's been a lot of fun, and it's the only PBP game I've ever played.
Plus, there's Pathfinder Society play, LFR play at cons and game days, etc.
I game too much. :-D
I'm involved in four groups (wow, I just realized that. After so many years of having just one motley band, I'm gaming in quadruplicate!). Unfortunately, none of the three have a set in stone schedule.
My primary group contains members who have families and their activities, jobs with travel, and of course their other commitments that make having a regular night very difficult. We optimistically try for every 3 weeks, but that rarely happens. I share DMing duties with another guy in the group, with a few different members in his campaign than in mine.
The group I play in tries to run every other Friday, but with my health issues and family commitments it's hard for me to make the sessions each time.
I just started a new group with my college freshman son, his friends and girlfriend, and his youth pastor and his wife. We had two sessions last weekend, but it may be at least 2, maybe 3 weeks before we can get together again.
It seems I play enough now to keep the dice monkey on my back happy, but wish we could get together on a more regular basis.
My 8-man RotRL group has met every other Saturday evening from 5 pm to 1 am on Sunday morning since the start of last June, missing only 1 session, Christmas Eve (people and their families and all of that nonsense).
Other than that, there is another GM in the group who theoretically runs his 4-man LoF game every week on alternating Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but in reality, with all of his last minute cancellations, we play closer to once every 3 to 4 weeks for 3 to 4 hours.
Haven't actually gamed since October 2011.
I'm working on a Pathfinder campaign set in Ustalav but I'm not sure it's ready for players yet so I'm not recruiting players yet. I need to work out what kind of stuff they'll be doing at low-level yet, most of the main plot stuff I have is geared more for levels 6-10.
I'm looking to get in a weekly game at my FLGS. Probably not with the previous GM since he wants to run a "beginners" game and seems keen to "reset" his game a lot, and I want to get in an ongoing campaign.
I play table top 1-3 times a month, and MMORPGs whenever I have the time to spare, less than you'd think.
I haven't touched PbP, but that's a reliability issue on my own behalf.
Normally we're playing every Wednesday for about 4-6 hours. Every two or three months we're doing a special no-sleep-all-pen&paper weekend. that's fun!
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About 3 times every 2 weeks (a little less perhaps), around 3 hours each, depending on the work schedule of one player. (actually those are three different campaigns - 1 Pathfinder, 1 Deadlands soon to be Babylon 5 and one Delta Green soon to be Buffy i try to juggle mastering). Plus I play once a month in a different group and I am involved in a PbP here on the boards, but the latter doesn't really take much time.
I used to play 6 nights a week, sometimes multiple games in one day, all different campaigns, but half as many different groups.
Since I settled down and became a family man, I'm down to 2 nights a week. I miss the non-stop gaming a little bit, but now I can focus my ideas better, not worrying about 6+ different campaigns at once.
I play quite a bit. Correction, I run games quite a bit!
I have two weekly games that I'm currently running, with a third game that I run every two or three weeks. I also run a M-F PBB and play in two others.
I'm in a single table-top group. We switch off GM duties at the end of a given campaign. After the last D&D 3.5 campaign ended last May, I took the reins. My group generally meets once a week, usually on Wednesday nights, for about three or four hours. Between socializing, cocktails, snacks, and that one player who regularly shows up 30-45 minutes late, we usually only get in 2-3 hours of actual gaming per session.
Which might explain why we've played 37 sessions of "Rise of the Runelords", and just finished "Skinsaw Murders" last session.
Part of me would like to join a second group as a player, but other life commitments (work, volunteer organizations, owning a home, wife & kids, need to sleep) prevent me from committing to another game.
I'm not a fan of PBP. I've tried it a couple of times, but I need the face-to-face interaction with other people to really enjoy gaming. To me, table-top gaming is all about the role-playing: improvising dialog, directly interacting with other players and/or GM, and ultimately developing a character by co-creating an interesting story. The rules and dice-rolling, while important, are strictly secondary.
That might also explain why I've never gotten into MMORPGs or single-player computer RPGs either.
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I'm in one face-to-face group - we aim to meet once a week, but we wind up missing at least one session per month, sometimes two. We play on Wednesday nights, generally from 8pm or so to somewhere between 11pm and midnight. We also alternate campaigns - I'm running a Star Trek TOS campaign using Starblazer Adventures, and another guy is running Kingmaker every other week. Starblazer runs quickly enough that I don't have a problem finishing up an episode per session, but we just started the Kingmaker game and I'm not sure what the pacing will look like over the long run.
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Alternating Saturdays - PF group, though we have also played All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Serenity, D20 Modern/Future, WEG SW, etc. - typically play from about 1pm - 1am.
Alternating Alternating Saturdays ;) - PFS game play 6pm - 11pm.
Alternating Fridays - PF group, though we are currently running PFS - usually 6 or 7pm until 12am
Alternating Sundays - PF kids game - RotRL and they are getting ready for the (edited) Runeforge. ;) This one runs typically form 1pm-6pm.
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My regular group has been meeting every Thursday from 2 till 10 (sometimes later) without fail for the last 3 years now (it doesn't feel that long man time flies). I have GM this one since it's inception
My second group used to meet every week for at least 4-5 hours and is a few of my returning members from my alpha group and some of their friends and significant others who want to learn for the first time. They have been running through feast at ravenmoor (which is excellent if you haven't gotten a chance to look at it). Unfortunately we have been having schedule conflicts and haven't ran in almost a month
I am in the middle of starting a 3rd group to meet on Fridays and test out an a module I have been writing in the hopes of helping me gauge it's appeal and help me pull bugs and tune it up so I can see if I can find a publisher. This group is also all either new to pen & paper in general or to pathfinder and has some of the coolest and most exciting new characters I have seen thus far as they have really gotten into the world and helped build upon it and make it their own.