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Wraithborne
Commander
3244 Posts
    
West Virginia
 | | 03/10/2008 4:17 PM |  Alert |
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Thought it would be neat to see what a typical session was for most people. | |
4dv3ntur3
It's totally bonzer!!!!!
Wraithborne and Teflon Jeff: RPGing through others since 2007... | |
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Wraithborne
Commander
3244 Posts
West Virginia
| | 03/10/2008 4:23 PM | Alert | | Ours usually run about 8 hours or so. Ran more in the 10+ range back in the day when no one had jobs or kids....ahh memories. | |
4dv3ntur3
It's totally bonzer!!!!!
Wraithborne and Teflon Jeff: RPGing through others since 2007... | |
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
5407 Posts
Idaho. Yes, we have Gamers in Idaho.
| | 03/10/2008 4:43 PM | Alert | 4-5 hours, start before 7, usually till around 10:30-11:30...
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Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Against The Giants Called Shot: Huge Green Dragon
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
"Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen." | |
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Bert the Troll
Commander
3603 Posts
Adelaide
| | 03/10/2008 5:58 PM | Alert | Depends on the group.
One is more social than just game playing, has a couple of wanderers in it (the sort that have inner instinct that when its their turn they are off making dinner, buying drinks etc) that normally meets about 2pm and plays till about 10-12pm.
Another is nearly always four hours, hard concentrated playing.
At the game shop, I prefer 4 hour session, but effectively with late arrivals and finishing up with discussion, makes three hour game.
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"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer." Bert the Troll - The Hobbit
Semi-Secret sig business: Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. ~ Seinfeld
Champion of Epic Lolth, Orcus, & Demogorgon and bring us Asmodeus! | |
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kestrel.ca
Underboss
1664 Posts
| | 03/10/2008 8:00 PM | Alert | | We play generally from 7:00-10:00ish weekly, so although usually 3+ hours, it doesn't often get to 4. | |
Completed Trades/Transactions: 91 || Pending Trades: 0 || Bad Trades: 3 (Chaotic Good x2, MackeyV) | |
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Oryan77
Sergeant
944 Posts
| | 03/10/2008 11:46 PM | Alert | We do about 8 hour sessions every other week. We take breaks and goof off here and there though. So it's not 8 hours of straight hardcore gaming 
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Shottglazz
Sergeant
831 Posts
Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
| | 03/11/2008 6:29 AM | Alert | | We do 4hrs weekly 6pm - 10pm...back in the no-kids-no-wife-no-responsibilities stage, it was 12+ hours 3-4 times a week... | |
Shottglazz
"Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand;
I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me."
Completed trades ( 40 ): Pikel, Darrell, JeffDHarvey, BiggPappa001, Ghendar, Valinrook X2, Wolfgang x2, Wraithborne x4, Mr Ruffles, Anothermullen, CKissee x3, Browns_Scoundrel, Kyrin, GuJiaXian x2, Tyngfumv, Basic_Aim, Mickey Mouse, Berus316, Crisisman, Zoons, Rockfrd, Sterling40 x2, Brucemc, 2007 Magical Mystery Trade, Redskullz x2, Stephengroy, Lyus_Sleyden, Foolforthought, 2008 Magical Mystery Trade, Kilsek
Pending trades ( 2 ): Generic Fighter, Wraithborne
WotC trades ( 1 ): Red_Deceiver
Bad trades ( 2 ): LeftEyeofGruumsh, Yotebeth | |
| Master of the
Awesome Sauce
Teflon Jeff
Warlord
5407 Posts
Idaho. Yes, we have Gamers in Idaho.
| | 03/11/2008 12:00 PM | Alert | Posted By Shottglazz on 03/11/2008 6:29 AM
We do 4hrs weekly 6pm - 10pm...back in the no-kids-no-wife-no-responsibilities stage, it was 12+ hours 3-4 times a week...
Yeah, back in the day, it'd be days of Sleep, Game, Lather, Repeat as necessary...
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Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Against The Giants Called Shot: Huge Green Dragon
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
"Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen." | |
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Kat_Dawg33
Warrior
287 Posts
USA
| | 03/11/2008 5:31 PM | Alert | | We start between 8-8:30pm and always play past midnight (made it to 3am a few times). We mostly play on Saturdays, but once in a while we change to Friday. | |
Champion of "Ember, Monk Champion"
Vindicated Champion of the "Mounted Dragon Knight" | |
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realmaster
Underboss
1838 Posts
Home of the 2002 Winter Olympics
| | 03/11/2008 9:52 PM | Alert | | we play saturdays starting around 6 or 7pm and go for 7 to 9 hours per session. | |
Thanks, realmaster. Let's split up!!!!!
Unhallowed vindicated champion: van richten
Successful trades:72
Trades in progress:0
Have issues with:1 burning_kazuki
Bad trades:0
References: I have given up on creating a link down here so you will have to click the green shield on the left and I hope that it works for you. Sometimes it does not work for me. | |
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Round Table
Thenameless
Warlord
8004 Posts
The Fortress of Solitude
| | 03/12/2008 12:49 AM | Alert | I chose 4-5 hours, as it's what we currently play, with some of us having family/work obligations.
When I was a teenager (I'm 38 now), we'd start at around 6 pm on Friday night, and go 'til 9 am Saturday morning. There'd be pizza breaks and such in between, but we'd go 'til we dropped. Oh, to be young again... | |
Over 270 successful online DDM trades. | |
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wicked cool
Underboss
1963 Posts
| | 03/12/2008 12:50 PM | Alert | | 3-4 hours every 2 weeks . i miss the 8 hour days. maybe when the kids get older ill get back to playing more | |
The ROCK layeth the smacketh down. Long live Farscape
Vindicated-CHAMPION of the INTELLECT DEVOURER
i will change my avatar when martin completes dances with dragons | |
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yack
Commander
3086 Posts
Ottawa, Canada
| | 03/12/2008 3:58 PM | Alert | My 3.5 group was 4-5 hours
But my AD&D group that I play with , we play for like 10 hour sessions. | |
Champion of the Peryton
Vindicated Champion : Pit Fiend, Devourer
ATG: Fog Giant
DW: Duergar Priest
RPG Only!!!! The Drumming Drunkn' DM | |
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PaSquall
Underboss
1376 Posts
| | 03/21/2008 2:27 PM | Alert | | Around 10 - 11 h. Typically playing from saturday 3pm to sunday 2am, once per month (wish it was more often). | |
Vindicated Champion of the PSEUDODRAGON
(Unhappy) vindicated champion of the DRYAD
Against the giants called shot : huge cloud giant female
Demonweb called shot : ghost | |
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arbados
Underboss
1374 Posts
New York, USA
| | 03/21/2008 9:51 PM | Alert | | Every Tuesday night from 7-11pm. 4 hours hard core. I think at our age this is a good go with work and all. However, abpout 2x a year we do a 10+ hour run!! | |
Give me more MIND FLAYERS! | |
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AnarionZelle
Underboss
1034 Posts
USA
| | 03/22/2008 6:50 AM | Alert | | We play every other Tuesday night from 4pm to around 10:30pm, although with everyone arriving, getting settled, ordering and eating pizza, smoke breaks, etc., we usually end up playing for 4 hours... I would love to move our playing time to Sunday afternoons, and with a couple of players moving/going off to school, it looks like this will be possible toward the end of summer. | |
Completed Trades: Cha0tic g0od x2,IHawk x6,demagogue x5,jcnorris00,Sammael x3,Diomedes x3,Pan,Phoenix,samstephenson500,sage_raistlin,jai,simage,Lab Monkey x4,bugsy,Vulturedoodle,T-Bone,niolo,GreyOne,Kunimatyu,Mullins,ShivanWurm,berus316,Thenameless x3,Tysac,ksuvampire,Mama Cass,Metz,Zim x2,brucemc,Krush x2,Venport,RedneckDM,nycfarmkid,Corim Danex,Chad the DragonLordofAiur x2,Puggins,Izeya82 x2,Oryan77 x3,Zenako,Wayne,Vocenoctum1,Drakkengi,Username x2,lyus_sleyden,Cyberia,Star x2,xuthal x3,Qucalion of Celene x8,sam500 x2,Blob39,Keoki x2,hazel monday x3,emontedodger,Dargoth,Wraithborne,Anothermullen,Vrecknidj x4,Ghendar,Gunthar,shoesan,beurice,ckissee,kyrin,Khellrendros,GuJiaXian,Wolfgang,True_Blue,md3,stephengroy(MMT08),Teflon Jeff,GuJiaXian(MMT08),aries71,Count DookuI I I I I I I I I I 0 I I I I I I I I I I Pending: | |
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Wolfgang
Underboss
2104 Posts
Milton, Ontario Canada
| | 03/22/2008 12:09 PM | Alert | | i used to play 6 - 7 but haven't played in like over a year | |
Proud member since March 26 2005
Champion of the SIVAK DRACONIAN
Joke champion of the epic sage!
Halls of the giant kings called shot - Sivak draconian
Demonweb called shot - Sivak draconian
Completed trades: (67)
Bad traders(2) DJchuckles, sardal
Trade References
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Round Table
Thenameless
Warlord
8004 Posts
The Fortress of Solitude
| | 03/22/2008 12:37 PM | Alert | | Congratulations on hitting the 1k mark AZ. | |
Over 270 successful online DDM trades. | |
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AnarionZelle
Underboss
1034 Posts
USA
| | 03/22/2008 8:34 PM | Alert | Posted By Thenameless on 03/22/2008 12:37 PM
Congratulations on hitting the 1k mark AZ. Thanks, Joe - although I kinda liked being a Sergeant 
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Completed Trades: Cha0tic g0od x2,IHawk x6,demagogue x5,jcnorris00,Sammael x3,Diomedes x3,Pan,Phoenix,samstephenson500,sage_raistlin,jai,simage,Lab Monkey x4,bugsy,Vulturedoodle,T-Bone,niolo,GreyOne,Kunimatyu,Mullins,ShivanWurm,berus316,Thenameless x3,Tysac,ksuvampire,Mama Cass,Metz,Zim x2,brucemc,Krush x2,Venport,RedneckDM,nycfarmkid,Corim Danex,Chad the DragonLordofAiur x2,Puggins,Izeya82 x2,Oryan77 x3,Zenako,Wayne,Vocenoctum1,Drakkengi,Username x2,lyus_sleyden,Cyberia,Star x2,xuthal x3,Qucalion of Celene x8,sam500 x2,Blob39,Keoki x2,hazel monday x3,emontedodger,Dargoth,Wraithborne,Anothermullen,Vrecknidj x4,Ghendar,Gunthar,shoesan,beurice,ckissee,kyrin,Khellrendros,GuJiaXian,Wolfgang,True_Blue,md3,stephengroy(MMT08),Teflon Jeff,GuJiaXian(MMT08),aries71,Count DookuI I I I I I I I I I 0 I I I I I I I I I I Pending: | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10205 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 03/23/2008 1:03 AM | Alert | Most games I run or play in.... they would be in the 4-5 hour range. However only 2-3 of those hours are realy spent gaming. There's a fair amount of background chatter and people running down to the cafeteria before it closes.
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Robert E. Howard | |
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vanrulzz
Underboss
2159 Posts
¯\(°_o)/¯
| | 03/23/2008 8:07 PM | Alert | | 3 hours | |
TENTACLES!!!!!
STRANGE TEMPLES!!!!
FREE PIE!!!!
IM CRZY KEWL!!!! | |
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Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
10647 Posts
In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
| | 03/25/2008 4:38 AM | Alert | | These days my group is running at 4-5 hours per session. Back in 2003, when this group formed we were playing Friday nights for 4-5 hours and then all day Saturday, starting at noon and going to usually 10 or 11. Man, those were fun times. Course back then I was unattached and childless. | |
The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner and RPG designer from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute and RPGA certified DM named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark and THAC0. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons, D&D every night. In the spring we'd make meat helmets for LARP. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag, forced to walk the walk of a thousand four siders, and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe, which was very handy for D&D. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles for LARP. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.
Spreading the love of the Digitus Impudicus
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Ctulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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Wraithborne
Commander
3244 Posts
West Virginia
| | 03/25/2008 9:41 AM | Alert | | So, 4-5 seems to be the norm. Kinda surprising to me. We've had to play in shortened sessions before and it seemed like we just didn't get enough done, but I suppose it's all in what you're used to and how well you manage the time you have. I really do miss the marathon sessions, even if I don't miss the brutal hangovers that followed. | |
4dv3ntur3
It's totally bonzer!!!!!
Wraithborne and Teflon Jeff: RPGing through others since 2007... | |
| Master of the
Awesome Sauce
Teflon Jeff
Warlord
5407 Posts
Idaho. Yes, we have Gamers in Idaho.
| | 03/25/2008 12:26 PM | Alert | Posted By Wraithborne on 03/25/2008 9:41 AM
So, 4-5 seems to be the norm. Kinda surprising to me. We've had to play in shortened sessions before and it seemed like we just didn't get enough done, but I suppose it's all in what you're used to and how well you manage the time you have. I really do miss the marathon sessions, even if I don't miss the brutal hangovers that followed.
Our 4 hour sessions just make it seem like chapter jump to chapter jump in a story.
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Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Against The Giants Called Shot: Huge Green Dragon
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
"Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen." | |
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Bail Ohmar
Sneak
56 Posts
Black Country, UK
| | 03/26/2008 3:20 AM | Alert | 7:30pm - 10:00pm is the time for both groups i play in.
So wish I had more time. | |
"No disintegrations? Yeah right!" - Bail Ohmar, Warriors of Gar
Sithspawn's Lair - www.ugavine.com | |
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Dordledum
Commander
2942 Posts
Netherlands
| | 04/17/2008 7:39 AM | Alert | 3 hrs, sadly,
D. | |
Champion of the Huge Spider (WotDQ 46/60), A New Umber Hulk (DoDe 57/60), and Hardcopy Printed DDM 2.0 Stat-Cards for all Minis!
Completed: got them all!!! | |
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arbados
Underboss
1374 Posts
New York, USA
| | 04/19/2008 8:53 PM | Alert | If you have a heavy role playing group, which I do, then a 4 hour session can sometimes be without one attack role the whole night! In truth sometimes these are the best gaming sessions! Right now we are running Return to the Tomb of Horrors and are going on our 5th game night.Â
SPOILER UPCOMING
They have not even entered into the original lair yet so it is expected that we will have at least another 6-10 games before this comes to conclusion. The group has come back and forth into the Black Academy 2 times already with both being huge battles which lasted most of the night. They are heading back into the academy again this week for a third run! This third battle is another which will probably run a good portion of the 4 hour session. Usually after a huge battle the group chats about what just played out, good or bad! It is all fun!!     | |
Give me more MIND FLAYERS! | |
| Master of the
Awesome Sauce
Teflon Jeff
Warlord
5407 Posts
Idaho. Yes, we have Gamers in Idaho.
| | 04/22/2008 4:13 PM | Alert | Unfortunately, mine may be reduced to 0 hrs.
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Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Against The Giants Called Shot: Huge Green Dragon
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
"Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen." | |
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Wraithborne
Commander
3244 Posts
West Virginia
| | 04/22/2008 7:26 PM | Alert | Posted By Teflon Jeff on 04/22/2008 4:13 PM
Unfortunately, mine may be reduced to 0 hrs.
Ouch!! That's terrible. Really sorry to hear that dude. | |
4dv3ntur3
It's totally bonzer!!!!!
Wraithborne and Teflon Jeff: RPGing through others since 2007... | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10205 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 04/22/2008 10:50 PM | Alert | I'm likewise sorry to hear that. I had two years of that. Diablo II was the only thing filling that empty hole in my soul.
Posted By Wraithborne on 04/22/2008 7:26 PM Posted By Teflon Jeff on 04/22/2008 4:13 PM
Unfortunately, mine may be reduced to 0 hrs.
Ouch!! That's terrible. Really sorry to hear that dude.
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Robert E. Howard | |
| Master of the
Awesome Sauce
Teflon Jeff
Warlord
5407 Posts
Idaho. Yes, we have Gamers in Idaho.
| | 04/23/2008 3:06 PM | Alert | Well, I have about 1 month to finish the card game I'm designing, so we're going into overdrive.
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Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Against The Giants Called Shot: Huge Green Dragon
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
"Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen." | |
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