Preferred method of play.

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What game time do you preferred?

Eary bird gets the XP; 8am- 2:00pm
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5%
I never wake before noon; 2-10:00pm
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60%
Night Owl- coffee is our moto; 10:00pm-8:00am
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36%
 
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Preferred method of play.

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i have always preferred the late night special to any other game time preference. Though, it is hard to find a group who likes to do the same.
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when playing on satudays, between 2 and 10 pm

week days after 4 pm to 9ish

all times are PST
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We used to game every Saturday, from Noon to Midnight.
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Early afternoons and early evenings are best, I'm in an age bracket where everyone has someplace to go the next morning, so we can't be out too late.

We also have our sessions be 4 hours or less, which puts the impetus on the GM to keep things moving quickly.
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- Week days, from 8 to 12 pm.
- Saturdays, from 16 to 20 (sometimes from 12 to 21 pm).
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Noon to Midnight with a 30 minute breaks at 3pm, 6pm, and 9pm.
We game Weekday Tues to Friday at least one day a week...we are not solid on which day anymore, ever was in fact.
I prefer Weds myself (not much on TV now that night).
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my group meets every other Sat from 11am - 6-8pm, depending on when wives/GFs start calling. :-(
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We currently try to go from afternoon (2-4 pm) to late night (11pm-1am).
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my friends, we say "game at 1pm" and we get people who show up at 2. thats if we call them at noonish to make sure they are awake... i have called a guy at 1:30pm to see when hed get there, to find he was still alseep, thus delaying game until 3pm... when someone has to leave for work at 6.
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Gaming late is the way to go.

Pizza at 8 pm, game at 9-10 pm, follow up with breakfast. Repeat next week.
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Unread post by Damian Magecraft »

4 to 5 hrs? most of mine are just starting to get rolling into the good stuff about then....how do you guys do it? not combat i mean but just....well all of it...
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ya, i miss the days that i played late nights from 12am up til 8 am or til the GM fell asleep.. we would continually wake him up to tell what was going to happen next and would only stop when he would stay awake for seconds at a time and got confused as to what we were talking about.
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