I realize there might be correlation between age, and occupation, and the number of Campaigns you have time for. If I was back in school, I'd have a lot more time to run games - same if I was retired :)
But I'm curious as to:
How old you might be ( within a decade or two )?
How many Campaigns are you involved in?
How many of those are you involved in as a GM vs. as a Player?
How often does that group get together to play?
Do you play online ( Discord, Google Hangouts, Roll20, Fantasy Ground, etc ), or in person?
How long do your sessions typically run?
How stable are those groups? Are they run a Campaign of 6-12 months and then the group shuffles and finds new Players? Have you been running with the same Players for 30 years?
I'm just curious how many of us run the stereotypical 4-5 people around the table on Thursday nights for 3 hours, 2-3 sessions a month kind of game - and how many of us are running much much more than that.
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Pre COVID: One was 2ce/month; one was 1ce/month; one was weekly; one was when available. Currently: Weekly
In person
3-5 hours per session
Stable. The majority of us have known each other for 20 years or more. Three of us have been RPing regularly for around 15 consecutive years. Back in the day (our 20s) we would play for 4-6 hours every 5 night/week for several years.
How old you might be ( within a decade or two )? 5 decades.
How many Campaigns are you involved in? One
How many of those are you involved in as a GM vs. as a Player? DM 1 out of 1
How often does that group get together to play? Every other Saturday
Do you play online ( Discord, Google Hangouts, Roll20, Fantasy Ground, etc ), or in person? Google Meet + Foundry
How long do your sessions typically run? 3-4 hours
How stable are those groups? Are they run a Campaign of 6-12 months and then the group shuffles and finds new Players? Have you been running with the same Players for 30 years? About 5 months old so far. No plans to stop any time soon. No shuffling. One player is absent a lot but still technically part of the game.
If I understand you correctly, you're not DM'ing at all right now? I can empathize with that. We moved cities a couple of months before Covid hit, and I haven't had the opportunity to set up a new group. Plus - I'd be starting with pretty much all new people. It's tough screening all new Players. I wouldn't be screening them to make sure I only get good ones :p I'd be screening to make sure we had compatible play styles - they might be great Players with a DM with a different style, but not be happy at my table.
Been strongly considering setting up on discord, but that doesn't get me past the screen issue.
@BioWizard: - I suspected we were of the same vintage ;) You set up a new online Campaign in the middle of the pandemic? That's interesting, where'd you recruit your Players?
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Correct. With COVID going on my wife does not want 6 or 7 people coming over every other Saturday night. (7 PCs, but one player cannot always make it.) That campaign is currently on indefinite hiatus. 😭
I boycott discord. It is owned by a foreign government and the app insists I grant access to my full photo library. The Chinese government doesn’t need the kinds of pictures of my wife that I have on my devices/cloud. 😜
I am hoping to start another small game via Skype in the next two weeks as a spin-off of the campaign in which I am currently playing. (I have to have Skype to talk to my cousin in Asia. I don’t have to have discord.) 🤗
How old you might be ( within a decade or two )? 40
How many Campaigns are you involved in? 3
How many of those are you involved in as a GM vs. as a Player? GM all 3
How often does that group get together to play? Weekly
Do you play online ( Discord, Google Hangouts, Roll20, Fantasy Ground, etc ), or in person? Online. Zoom, D&D Beyond, Encounter+
How long do your sessions typically run? 2-3 hours
How stable are those groups? Are they run a Campaign of 6-12 months and then the group shuffles and finds new Players? Have you been running with the same Players for 30 years? We just started back in April. I wanted to get back into the game after 25 years and learn to DM. I put an email out to a handful of friends to see who might be interested in playing. I was hoping I'd get enough to from one group but I had so many people who wanted to play that I formed three groups! So far so good. We started with Lost Mine of Phandelver and we're now moving on to Curse of Strahd. Everyone wants to keep playing. I'm a college professor and have been off for the summer so I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep playing three nights a week once school starts but I hope to.
How old you might be ( within a decade or two )? 2 score and 6.
How many Campaigns are you involved in? 2
How many of those are you involved in as a GM vs. as a Player? Only as a GM.
How often does that group get together to play? 1 to 2 times per month.
Do you play online ( Discord, Google Hangouts, Roll20, Fantasy Ground, etc ), or in person? Online only using Roll20
How long do your sessions typically run? 6 to 8 hours normally. A couple ran 12 just to get the darn thing finished.
How stable are those groups? Are they run a Campaign of 6-12 months and then the group shuffles and finds new Players? Have you been running with the same Players for 30 years? First is a very stable group of 5 players. Wife and long term friends that I have known 15+ years. The new girl is involved with a friend I have known for almost 30 years. Other group is all family members with teens 14 to 18 years old.
The campaigns have been going on since last December/January. We do fairly long sessions on a Saturday. One person works a 1 in 3 shift so Saturday works best for everyone involved. We normally can get a side quest adventure in 1 session. The main plot adventures normally take 2 to 3 sessions.
No, but that does mean I missed a typo on their when reviewing it. Meant to say 2 score. Probably was stuck in my mind from the actual speech and hit a 4 instead of 2 on number pad. Now I have to go back and edit. Thanks for noticing that.
I'm 16 and I've been playing D&D for about 4 years now. I'm entirely self taught along with a group of my friends. Over the years I've been involved with multiple campaigns, some more memorable than others. I'm currently taking a break from DMing after a 4 month long campaign (playing 2-3 times a week ranging from 1-5 hours) and I am participating in two campaigns as a player. On the weekends we play online and during the week we play together at school. Our group is very stable, with only one of our players hailing from a different school, hence our weekendly discord sessions, and we have seen new people come and go.
How old you might be ( within a decade or two )? I'm 18.
How many Campaigns are you involved in? I don't know if I can count them all. Main ones, probably 6.
How many of those are you involved in as a GM vs. as a Player? I'm the DM for 5, player for 1.
How often does that group get together to play? Now? We are yet to come together completely in any form. I have gotten together with 2 players to do a game, while wearing masks and sitting about 10 feet apart.
Do you play online ( Discord, Google Hangouts, Roll20, Fantasy Ground, etc ), or in person? In person.
How long do your sessions typically run? 4-5 hours.
How stable are those groups? Are they run a Campaign of 6-12 months and then the group shuffles and finds new Players? Have you been running with the same Players for 30 years? Definitely not been together for 30 years :) . My main 2 players have been with the group for 3 years now. The rest for only about a year.
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I realize there might be correlation between age, and occupation, and the number of Campaigns you have time for. If I was back in school, I'd have a lot more time to run games - same if I was retired :)
But I'm curious as to:
How old you might be ( within a decade or two )?
How many Campaigns are you involved in?
How many of those are you involved in as a GM vs. as a Player?
How often does that group get together to play?
Do you play online ( Discord, Google Hangouts, Roll20, Fantasy Ground, etc ), or in person?
How long do your sessions typically run?
How stable are those groups? Are they run a Campaign of 6-12 months and then the group shuffles and finds new Players? Have you been running with the same Players for 30 years?
I'm just curious how many of us run the stereotypical 4-5 people around the table on Thursday nights for 3 hours, 2-3 sessions a month kind of game - and how many of us are running much much more than that.
How old you might be ( within a decade or two )? 5 decades
How many Campaigns are you involved in? Currently none. In the middle of putting together a Campaign design and Player pitch. Last group wrapped up at the end of December.
How many of those are you involved in as a GM vs. as a Player? GM of last group. Played in two multi-session one-shot Adventures run by Players of the main Campaign.
How often does that group get together to play? Group scheduled to play weekly on Wednesdays. Made that commitment about 5/6 weeks.
Do you play online ( Discord, Google Hangouts, Roll20, Fantasy Ground, etc ), or in person? In person.
How long do your sessions typically run? 3-4 hours
How stable are those groups? Are they run a Campaign of 6-12 months and then the group shuffles and finds new Players? Have you been running with the same Players for 30 years? Pretty stable core of of 4 Players for ~3 years. Lost 1, gained 1, 1 short term visitor - so the group ran 5 Players and me.
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How old you might be ( within a decade or two )? Probably a little bit older than Vedex :)
How many Campaigns are you involved in? 5
How many of those are you involved in as a GM vs. as a Player? I GM 3 and play in 2
How often does that group get together to play? GM: 1 group is once a week, 1 group is once every 2 weeks, and the other group is once every 2-3 weeks. Player: once a week, but the two groups I play in alternate weeks.
Do you play online ( Discord, Google Hangouts, Roll20, Fantasy Ground, etc ), or in person? Currently online, previously in-person. Discord/Zoom/roll20. At least 2 of these groups wouldn't have happened without Covid, but since we're at home anyway...
How long do your sessions typically run? For games during the week about 2.5 hrs, for games on the weekend about 4 hrs.
How stable are those groups? Are they run a Campaign of 6-12 months and then the group shuffles and finds new Players? Have you been running with the same Players for 30 years? Very stable, 2 groups are about 4 years old, the other three were started during Covid (the longest being 21 sessions or so, the one most recently started about 4 sessions). Two of the recent groups I started were to introduce new players to RPGs.
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How old you might be ( within a decade or two )? 40
How many Campaigns are you involved in? 1
How many of those are you involved in as a GM vs. as a Player? DM
How often does that group get together to play? Weekly (every monday)
Do you play online ( Discord, Google Hangouts, Roll20, Fantasy Ground, etc ), or in person? In person, although by Skype for a few weeks during the worst of Aussie COVID
How long do your sessions typically run? 3 hours
How stable are those groups? Are they run a Campaign of 6-12 months and then the group shuffles and finds new Players? Have you been running with the same Players for 30 years? We've been playing for 2 years. Five of my six players have been in it from the start, with one player having to quit, then replaced, then the replacement quit, and then replaced once more with the occassional single session cameo role for friends of the table who wants to see what D&D is all about. The campaign is more like a series of adventures tailored to the backstories of the PC's, with multiple arcs happening at once and the PC's can choose which one they want to focus on at any given time.
How old you might be ( within a decade or two )? 38
How many Campaigns are you involved in? 1
How many of those are you involved in as a GM vs. as a Player? DM
How often does that group get together to play? Sundays, as often as possible, on average every 2 weeks, will have a 6 week break now, due to timing issues with everyone.
Do you play online ( Discord, Google Hangouts, Roll20, Fantasy Ground, etc ), or in person? In person.
How long do your sessions typically run? 8 hours
How stable are those groups? Are they run a Campaign of 6-12 months and then the group shuffles and finds new Players? Have you been running with the same Players for 30 years? Running for 3 Month now. Relatively new group of colleagues (been in this city for only 2 years now, know some of them for only a year) They are hyped and motivated, and my campaign has a long term goal. We all run very well together and everyone has fun.
Group I DM plays once a week, one about every three weeks and the other about once a month.
All usually in person but due to covid restrictions two have been online. One on roll20 and the other on just a regular phone video call.
The session I DM lasts about 2 hours, the one I still play in person for however much time we have available and the other one for about 4 hours.
They're quite stable groups. The one I DM has been a covid group but we are friends irl so likely to last a while. The one I still play in person is with my dad and we have played together for about 6 years. The other one has been going for 2 years with some people joining and leaving but usually with about 7 players.
@BioWizard: - I suspected we were of the same vintage ;) You set up a new online Campaign in the middle of the pandemic? That's interesting, where'd you recruit your Players?
We set it up long before. Last fall, a co-worker of mine got a bunch of people together with the plan to start in January after winter break (many of us teach at colleges).
As to where he found us: He discovered that I was a gamer the year before, and was bugging me that I should go back to playing table top D&D. He knew I had one friend who wanted to play but we had no one else. And he knew that I absolutely positively did not want to DM. He found out a former co-worker also wanted to learn D&D, and he had 2 friends who were new to it as well, whom I have never met. He said he would DM, and we could all play.
We are all over the continent, so we had always planned to play online. He intended to use Zoom and screen share Powerpoint when necessary. At some point he became unable to do it. I offered to take over to remove the burden from him and become the DM. His 2 friends (the ones I have never met) backed out. This left us with me + 4 players.
It took me most of Jan and Feb to get things ready. We did a session "minus one" (pre session zero) where they picked what campaign they wanted, in late Feb, and then in early March did our real session 0 where they finalized character choices, and we discussed various things like house rules. So we had already planned to do remote play, and the pandemic literally has not affected any of our sessions, at least not directly.
At first I used powerpoint and Zoom but then I tried Astral and eventually settled on Foundry VTT. We use Google Meet now instead of Zoom mostly because one of the players doesn't like Zoom.
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I'm curious as to how many Campaigns people run.
I realize there might be correlation between age, and occupation, and the number of Campaigns you have time for. If I was back in school, I'd have a lot more time to run games - same if I was retired :)
But I'm curious as to:
I'm just curious how many of us run the stereotypical 4-5 people around the table on Thursday nights for 3 hours, 2-3 sessions a month kind of game - and how many of us are running much much more than that.
I'd appreciate hearing about you and your Game :)
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Pre COVID: 4; Currently: 1
Pre COVID: 1:3; Currently 0:1
Pre COVID: One was 2ce/month; one was 1ce/month; one was weekly; one was when available.
Currently: Weekly
In person
3-5 hours per session
Stable. The majority of us have known each other for 20 years or more. Three of us have been RPing regularly for around 15 consecutive years. Back in the day (our 20s) we would play for 4-6 hours every 5 night/week for several years.
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If I understand you correctly, you're not DM'ing at all right now? I can empathize with that. We moved cities a couple of months before Covid hit, and I haven't had the opportunity to set up a new group. Plus - I'd be starting with pretty much all new people. It's tough screening all new Players. I wouldn't be screening them to make sure I only get good ones :p I'd be screening to make sure we had compatible play styles - they might be great Players with a DM with a different style, but not be happy at my table.
Been strongly considering setting up on discord, but that doesn't get me past the screen issue.
@BioWizard: - I suspected we were of the same vintage ;) You set up a new online Campaign in the middle of the pandemic? That's interesting, where'd you recruit your Players?
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Correct. With COVID going on my wife does not want 6 or 7 people coming over every other Saturday night. (7 PCs, but one player cannot always make it.) That campaign is currently on indefinite hiatus. 😭
I boycott discord. It is owned by a foreign government and the app insists I grant access to my full photo library. The Chinese government doesn’t need the kinds of pictures of my wife that I have on my devices/cloud. 😜
I am hoping to start another small game via Skype in the next two weeks as a spin-off of the campaign in which I am currently playing. (I have to have Skype to talk to my cousin in Asia. I don’t have to have discord.) 🤗
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The campaigns have been going on since last December/January. We do fairly long sessions on a Saturday. One person works a 1 in 3 shift so Saturday works best for everyone involved. We normally can get a side quest adventure in 1 session. The main plot adventures normally take 2 to 3 sessions.
A Score is 20. You’re 86 years old?!?
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No, but that does mean I missed a typo on their when reviewing it. Meant to say 2 score. Probably was stuck in my mind from the actual speech and hit a 4 instead of 2 on number pad. Now I have to go back and edit. Thanks for noticing that.
I'm 16 and I've been playing D&D for about 4 years now. I'm entirely self taught along with a group of my friends. Over the years I've been involved with multiple campaigns, some more memorable than others. I'm currently taking a break from DMing after a 4 month long campaign (playing 2-3 times a week ranging from 1-5 hours) and I am participating in two campaigns as a player. On the weekends we play online and during the week we play together at school. Our group is very stable, with only one of our players hailing from a different school, hence our weekendly discord sessions, and we have seen new people come and go.
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"An' things ha' come to a pretty pass, ye ken, if people are going to leave stuff like that aroound where innocent people could accidentally smash the door doon and lever the bars aside and take the big chain off'f the cupboard and pick the lock and drink it!"
Age:13
Number of campaigns:3
One as DM other two as a player
Group I DM plays once a week, one about every three weeks and the other about once a month.
All usually in person but due to covid restrictions two have been online. One on roll20 and the other on just a regular phone video call.
The session I DM lasts about 2 hours, the one I still play in person for however much time we have available and the other one for about 4 hours.
They're quite stable groups. The one I DM has been a covid group but we are friends irl so likely to last a while. The one I still play in person is with my dad and we have played together for about 6 years. The other one has been going for 2 years with some people joining and leaving but usually with about 7 players.
We set it up long before. Last fall, a co-worker of mine got a bunch of people together with the plan to start in January after winter break (many of us teach at colleges).
As to where he found us: He discovered that I was a gamer the year before, and was bugging me that I should go back to playing table top D&D. He knew I had one friend who wanted to play but we had no one else. And he knew that I absolutely positively did not want to DM. He found out a former co-worker also wanted to learn D&D, and he had 2 friends who were new to it as well, whom I have never met. He said he would DM, and we could all play.
We are all over the continent, so we had always planned to play online. He intended to use Zoom and screen share Powerpoint when necessary. At some point he became unable to do it. I offered to take over to remove the burden from him and become the DM. His 2 friends (the ones I have never met) backed out. This left us with me + 4 players.
It took me most of Jan and Feb to get things ready. We did a session "minus one" (pre session zero) where they picked what campaign they wanted, in late Feb, and then in early March did our real session 0 where they finalized character choices, and we discussed various things like house rules. So we had already planned to do remote play, and the pandemic literally has not affected any of our sessions, at least not directly.
At first I used powerpoint and Zoom but then I tried Astral and eventually settled on Foundry VTT. We use Google Meet now instead of Zoom mostly because one of the players doesn't like Zoom.
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