When do you game?

Curiosity overcame my reluctance to start a topic on a more-or-less inactive board, so here goes!

How often/when do you game? Do you play for hours at a time or even all day?

Two nights a week is my ideal and I presently get to follow through on that schedule exactly, gaming for about 3-5 hours on Wednesdays and Sundays. Both nights are D&D at the moment, though that may or may not change in the future.

Currently, I only game online so that's about whenever I can... breaks between lectures, evenings, mornings, when I can't sleep... it's a very flexible schedule...

Right now, we tabletop on Sundays for about 5 hours a session. I'm actually pushing for a rotation of two Sundays on, one off, currently.

My situation is quite similar to kawika's. We used to play each Sunday, for about 5-7 hours. Currently, however, due to the DM's work schedule/etc., we are playing every other Sunday.

When we can get all the players together, we play until someone falls asleep. (This takes quite a bit of work, mind you.)

Sounds like you have a lot of fun on your sessions...

Since graduating from college my gaming has tapered off, and it is pretty much restricted to online sources. Right now I'm in one NWoD game (not a pre-constructed storyline) that's conducted via Skype every other Friday starting at 20:30 EST. Sessions typically run for four or five hours.

I also do freeform cooperative storytelling via AIM whenever I get the chance. Since the people I generally play with are all in California, this can be somewhat tricky to arrange--a three-hour time difference does that.

The online nature of my gaming isn't necessarily a preference of mine; I like playing around a table. But I haven't been able to find a group I click with locally. Not like I clicked with my college gaming groups, that is. So I keep meeting with those groups from college, just virtually instead of physically.

I now have three gaming nights a week! It seems as though my locale is prone to harboring tabletop gamers as there is no overlap (other than me, of course) between the three groups. The best part is that nearly everyone I play with are good players/DMs and fun people in general.

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday... and the Wed. gang wondered why I didn't want to join their Monday night White Wolf sessions. >_

I only have time to game about once a week. Actually it works out to about 3 times every month. We get together on a Wednesday or a Friday after work, usually about 6:30 pm, and go until about 10:30 or 11 pm. It's about right for me, but the other guys in the group don't, for the most part, have as many other obligations, so they participate in another game at least once a week.

When I was in high school and college it seems like I played all the time. The trickiest part of picking it up again later is finding the right people. For years I gamed with the same people I started gaming with in high school. Later I tried meeting other gamers and getting in on their campaigns, but frankly it's been difficult. I feel like I lucked out with this group. After years of gaming, everyone develops their own style, their own approach, their own biases in gaming as with any other social activity.

As I've reached the grand old age of 39 I'm not in a regular gaming group. But like Cthulhu, I'm not dead just dreaming (of games). The books and dice lurk in my cupboards. The ideas lurk in my mind. Of course now I'm an uncle I have the next generation to inspire into gaming. In about 12 years time several children will be introduced to a new hobby. Cthulhu will rise. Once a gamer, always a gamer.

I'm also an old-timer (reaching 44) and gaming with people in their mid-30s and above, with other activities on the side, so it is always a bit hard to meet, The fact that I'm one of the few willing to GM does not help,

On the average, we have a game every month or so, usually playing on Saturday evening, from 5 PM to midnight.

Too much. Every other Wednesday 2-3 hours, Thursdays 2-3 hours, Friday nights 4-5 hours, Saturdays 2-4 hours afternoon, and 2-4 hours evenings.

I run with a small gaming group (six people or so) that meet twice a month when we can to spend an evening around the table. Our games run between four and twelve hours, depending on how deeply we get into the plot and whether or not we're about to fall asleep.