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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gaming, like garlic, is a binary spice. There are only 2 states - not enough, and enough.
-clash
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.
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).
In the wrds of an old early 90s alternative song : "Its never enough, never enough...."
- Ed C.
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.
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?
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.
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
Play twice a week, run twice a week.
Run a game once a week. Maybe twice, depending on the inspiration of the moment. Generally, when I get a motivated group, it motivates me, so more would be imaginable.
The most I have ever done was running games five days a week some of those days with two different groups. Also two of those days were one shot demo type games. This went on for a month before I burned out.
Now I enjoy running games once a week at the most. I prefer a little prep time and time to do other things besides gaming.
Playing games I could probably do more often but right now there aren't any being ran that I am interested in at all.
Once a week with each group, not more than two different groups.
Once a fortnight with one group is definitely not enough. Once a week with one group is okay. With multiple campaigns, I want multiple groups, too. I don't want to see all the same people every day, that makes gaming seem too much like work! Though having 1 or 2 people overlap the different groups is fine.
I've been most happy when I ran a game weekly, and played in a second group fortnightly.
I mean, I have a woman, non-gaming friends, and other hobbies, too. And of course work. So I couldn't game every day, and wouldn't want to.
One of the other players in my current group runs one other game, and plays one other each week, and also has occasional boardgame days on Sundays. So he's gaming 3-4 times a week. He finds it a bit much but also just can't say no...
Most gamers I know of are pretty content with a single weekly session, though they like a break every four weeks or so - if there's no official break, you find they mysteriously get busy or sick or something, but are happily back next week.
Quote from: flyingmice;292501Gaming, like garlic, is a binary spice. There are only 2 states - not enough, and enough.
-clash
Sigged! :D
Presently, one day a week is my max...but like Pundit, that's as much due to outside factors as anything...I have a wife, two kids, a fairly time consuming job, until recently spent one night a week dressing up in a silly costume and being a pro wrestler, trying to break into comic books...more than once a week would probably break me.
I wouldn't want to run or play in a game more than once a week.
Once every two weeks is much more likely. Gaming is such a time sink and I don't have near as much time as I used to.
Running one game a week is my limit right now, what with work and school. I could probably play in one or two on top of that, though, and still be OK. I can run 3-5 games over a con weekend, though, of course.
I can GM 1 session per week at max; I have way too many other things (band, writing gig, domestic life) taking up my free time to get in more prep time than that.
As a player, I'd do a session a night if I could!
Most of the time (although not currently alas) I run two games a week, and that's about my maximum. They're different campaigns, and one of the games is a solo game so I don't get burnt out GMing because they are so different to run. I've run two sessions of the same game every week for a few months in the past, and while it was fantastic gaming (the best I've ever been involved in - the players really got involved in their characters and developed them amazingly), it ultimately burned me out for a while.
As for playing - I don't know, as I've never played more than once a week (and don't play at all at the moment).
I'm in a weekly group that plays about 6 hours per session... and it's a bit of a drive to get there. So that's enough for me... playing wise.
If played with roommates... for maybe 3 hours at a go... just casually start up when we were all in the mood... I could see playing more often.
As for GMing... I've got an occasional game going with my girlfriend that seems to happen a couple times a month for a few hours.
I run 1 or 2 games a week, and that's abouy my top. I have many hobbies.
For me too much RPG is more than:
12 hours in a single day
16 hours in two days
28 hours over the course of a week
2 hours a week amidst squalor, decay or cats.
I don't GM more than once a week. I like having the extra time to muse over the possiblities. I favor sandbox style games so long range prep isn't as valuable as short range.
I don't think I could ever be in too many game groups if they were coordinated. Two or three is the limit practicaly speaking.