Results as of 30/11/2023 (31 responses). I will update the genre/system information later but what stands out to me from the point of view of getting more tables going:
We have people interested to play most weeknight evenings - plenty of room to fit in a new game.
We have nine people interested to run a table - behold your player pool!
11 of us are happy to play online
Preferred frequency of play
Multiple games per week
2
Weekly
16
Twice per month
8
Monthly
5
Share happy to play a campaign style
Long Campaign
58%
Mini-campaign
58%
Episodic
71%
One-shots
42%
Preferred session duration
(replies)
2 hrs
1
3 hrs
8
4 hrs
14
5 hrs
6
6+ hrs
1
People available per day
Only Day
Both
Only Evening
Monday
2
3
9
Tuesday
1
1
13
Wednesday
1
2
12
Thursday
0
2
14
Friday
5
3
13
Saturday
5
11
8
Sunday
5
14
6
Everyone is happy to play in person, 11 of us are also happy to play online.
What side of the screen do people want to be?
Only running games
4
Run or play
5
Only playing
21
The genre and system responses had some open text replies that I need to process.
Thank you so much for organising this poll! This has really motivated me to put serious thought into the longer 5E campaign I’d eventually like to run. It’s been half-baked in my head for ages. Maybe I’ll work on it over Xmas and post about it here in the new year
Yep, yep - my read is that there is appetite for almost anything and on a much wider range of times that I would have suspected - so whatever idea you had, give it a go because you are sure to find some folk willing to try.
These are great results! Shows that play time seems to have more issues with supply side than demand side - although of course, some of that is absorbed by the weekly events. DMs should take comfort from the results and the recent popular postings of alternative systems (Household, Itras By, Heart and Spire) to throw something out there if they want to try!
I’m definitely curious about geographical preferences. Like others I’m sure, I was planning to post a new weekday campaign starting in January, but I live in the lower 19th (about 10 minute walk from Turkenschanzpark) which might be a little far for most people on school/work nights. I’m curious to know where people are willing to travel to for a game.
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