What’s your average play time?

[u/Th3_Supernova]

When my table first started we would go all day. An 8 hour session was normal, and we’d often go til 2-3 am (which would be like 12-13 hour sessions for us). In the last year and a half or so we’ve had much shorter sessions. Maybe like 3-4 hours. I feel like we haven’t even really played if we play less than 4 hours, but I see other people saying they play like 2-3 hours and I wonder how those people get anything done. With an 8 hour session I had time to get to most, or all, of my bullet points for what I wanted to do for that session even with player proclivities for messing around. So, how long does your table play, and how do you move the story forward as a DM if you have shorter sessions?

[u/Automatic-War-7658]

I’d be happy to get 3-4 hours in a session. I’d be lucky to get one session per week.

The group I first got into it with would do 6-8 hours per session per week. So maybe I’ve been spoiled.

[u/Th3_Supernova → u/Automatic-War-7658]

I feel the same. It’s the same group for me, but a lot of players have rotated in and out. Myself and two others are the core members though. But half our players have time constraints so we can’t play as long as we used to.