How Much Is Too Much?

jeff37923 · March 25, 2009, 11:44:27 AM

How many games per week would be too many for you as a player? How many games per week would be too many for you as a GM?

How many different game groups would be too many for you to be involved in?

David R · March 25, 2009, 11:53:02 AM

As a GM once a week is enough for me. My players enjoy our weekly sessions. Any more would drain the fun out of gaming for us.

Regards,
David R

Herr Arnulfe · March 25, 2009, 11:53:14 AM

More than 1 session/week is too many for me to GM, and 2 sessions/week is my preferred maximum whether I'm a player or GM. Since I usually play in several concurrent bi-monthly campaigns, I rarely exceed 2 sessions/week. When I'm working on a writing job with deadlines, I usually have to scale back to just one game.

Warthur · March 25, 2009, 12:13:57 PM

I've found that more than 3 sessions a week - as player or GM - is a little too much, but it's rare that I even get the opportunity to play that often. Normally I have 1 or 2 games a week.

I don't GM more than once a week.

HinterWelt · March 25, 2009, 01:14:39 PM

I have run games 7 days a week, multiple ones per day, and I can say that is too much. Gaming is like fast food or snacks, great when you get it once in a while but you get bored and fat is you do it too often.

stu2000 · March 25, 2009, 01:23:34 PM

I can go several games a week, but really--if it's more than just a couple rpgs, they run together in my head. I have to take notes. Most of my friends are broad spectrum gamers, and we seem to find that we can play a lot if we mix up the rpgs and the minis and boardgames and cards and whatnot.

flyingmice · March 25, 2009, 01:26:25 PM

Gaming, like garlic, is a binary spice. There are only 2 states - not enough, and enough.

-clash

kregmosier · March 25, 2009, 01:31:10 PM

Quote from: flyingmice;292501Gaming, like garlic, is a binary spice. There are only 2 states - not enough, and enough.

-clash

ahh, but that depends on the type of food!

Thinking Korean, in the case of garlic.
(which adheres to the SubG principle of "Too Much Is Always Better Than Not Enough")

back on subject, once a week for me.

if i were still in college and single, more would be fine. Otherwise, to much real-life to handle more than once a week.

beejazz · March 25, 2009, 01:55:32 PM

If I didn't have to work or go to school, and there were that many games going, I'd happily run and/or play constantly. 3 games a week tops for running though. And I'd prefer a variety of systems and settings if I did something like that.

As it is, I run games weekly when I game (bit of a dry spell at the moment... hoping to get going again this summer).

Koltar · March 25, 2009, 02:12:00 PM

In the wrds of an old early 90s alternative song : "Its never enough, never enough...."

- Ed C.

(un)reason · March 25, 2009, 02:16:10 PM

1 per week playing and running each would be about as much as I could take. Too many other things I want to do with my evenings.

GlauG · March 25, 2009, 03:09:23 PM

I used to run once a week, and play twice on other days (Admittedly, one was as part of a gaming club I helped run at work). I couldn't keep up with that now sadly, but it was fun while it lasted. I did that for about a year?

Spinachcat · March 25, 2009, 03:22:20 PM

I do 4-5 conventions per year where I GM/play 5-7 events in a Fri-Sun marathon so 2/month is fine for home gaming for me. More than that would bite into my writing time. I enjoy having multiple gaming groups.

Right now, I have 1/mo gaming and that works because I am deep in the thick of writing. Once I get the stuff out there, I will probably join a 40k group or maybe another RPG group.

RPGPundit · March 25, 2009, 03:36:30 PM

I've found that my limits are only based on external questions of other commitments or players not being able to get together on certain nights. If there was no outside barrier, I'd surely game seven days a week.

RPGPundit

DeadUematsu · March 25, 2009, 04:43:53 PM

Play twice a week, run twice a week.