Tuesday, August 16, 2016

How Often Do You Play?

Serious question: How often is not often enough? Say you play in a weekly D&D game. Sometimes things come up, so let's say your group meets 44 times in the 52-week year to play. That's greater than three sessions per month on average. If a player wants to play, and commits to play, how many sessions a month should he or she play? Is it up to the player? Say a player commits to play but plays only 2 sessions a month on average. Is that enough? Should there be a house rule regarding participation?

2 comments:

  1. Very open ended question. How long is the play, 3 hours 1 per week, or 10 hours 1 per month. Does the player not come cause they are a flake, or because life has other demands. Probably the biggest question is how much does not having that persons character in the mix influence the play, what is the impact on others?

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  2. Your last question would stand alone as a separate question. Your second question has small bearing as the flake isn't really making a commitment, and the life demands are a real thing and are going to happen no matter how strongly committed a person is. Your first question is better as I didn't consider that not everyone plays for at least four hours at a time. I would argue, in any case, that a campaign that plays only once a month is a sign of an unhealthy game.

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