Do you spend more time on forums/Den than you do gaming?

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:13 am

Per week.

I do a lot more arguin' about games than I do actually playing them. Or working on them...

Libertad · Post by **Libertad** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:33 am

I spend more time on forums because I'm on a brief hiatus.

Even when games are regular they're once or twice a week.

And forum posts are short, quick, and simple that can be done at one's leisure.

In terms of total time accumulated over the years, I'd say I spent more time gaming.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:29 am

Sadly, yes.
Work's a bitch <.<
And i can go here and read/post from work.
Can't do that with gaming i'm afraid x.x

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:13 pm

Libertad wrote:I spend more time on forums because I'm on a brief hiatus.

Even when games are regular they're once or twice a week.

And forum posts are short, quick, and simple that can be done at one's leisure.

In terms of total time accumulated over the years, I'd say I spent more time gaming.

Pretty much this, although I'm not currently on hiatus.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:44 pm

Not sure.
I get in about 12 hours of gaming between two sessions approximately every two weeks. so, forums probably wins, but not by much.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:26 pm

Going through a dry spell on the games. So yeah.

CapnTthePirateG · Post by **CapnTthePirateG** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 6:14 pm

Unfortunately, yes.

Hicks · Post by **Hicks** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:23 pm

Yes; i may game 3 to 4 hours every 2 to 3 weeks, but I read/write for at least 3 hours on this forum every single day.

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:26 pm

Hmm...

Probably, but not by more than an order of magnitude.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:42 pm

Yeah.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:02 pm

There's an interesting duality, in my opinion. Much of my "gaming" time involves trying to produce something useful or entertaining for people online. If 10 hours of module build time went into something that could have taken 2 if I was just scrawling notes on the bus only I could interpret, do I count 8 hours of forum time?

Also depends on how much enthusiasm I feel for RPG stuff at the moment.

I think I spend more time reading forums than I do actively gaming, but I spend more time than either discussing RPG group stuff with Akula. And I do sometimes spend significant amounts of time writing down game ideas and deciding whether they'd be worth posting here.

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:05 pm

Note: for my time comparisons, I compare, "time spent on forums," to, "time spent playing tabletop games (not necessarily RPGs) with other people," not, "time spent on TGDMB," to, "time spent playing TTRPGs."

Post by **fbmf** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:20 pm

I'm on tgdmb about an hour a day. I game about 3 - 5 hours a week.

Game On,
fbmf

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:08 pm

If you include computer games, then no. But with friends around the table? Yeah, more times on forum.

Including computer gaming, I spend more time gaming than sleeping.

ModelCitizen · Post by **ModelCitizen** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:17 am

My gaming buddies are currently scattered across the country, so yeah, definitely more time arguing about RPGs than playing them.

I don't even try to write homebrew RPG stuff anymore. I spend all of my free working on a vidjagame but I only read gamedev.net or any other indie game development forum when it comes up on google for programming questions. *shrug*

Datawolf · Post by **Datawolf** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:28 am

Ever since my old group parted ways I have yet to find other gamers whose company I can tolerate for extended periods of time.

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:31 am

Since I can only game with my two groups every other weekend, for about nine hours each week, and I'm on forums generally every day of the week, yes I certainly do talk about gaming more than I actually play.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:30 am

Currently, yes. Haven't spent any time gaming lately and I've haven't spent enough time with a friend who is in the K of C honor guard to get into his games.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:19 am

Tabletop: I game 1/fortnight for 3-5 hours
IRC: I game like 4/week for 2-4 hours each
Forums: I play a lot of play-by-post games - more time is spent on them than just posting here and telling people they suck.

That said, I have a quota to fill, so, [you, the reader] suck dicks. Duck dicks.

Seerow · Post by **Seerow** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:33 am

Hrm... I was going to say easily, but I guess it depends. If we're saying forum time dedicated to arguing about D&D and other tabletops, probably not. If we're saying forum time in general, I easily spend several times more on forums than I do playing.

Aryxbez · Post by **Aryxbez** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:11 am

I probably spend an hour or few on here a day for the most part, and only reliably get a 4th edition game every other week. So it would seem for the most part I do in fact spend more time on the forums, discussing RPG's, than playing them.

Even if get going the random RPG night, which not playing in D&D, and I get back into Shadowrun, unlikely to surpass total time I'll be on here, or it'll cut it close at least.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:21 am

Much more time online.

I'm in two groups, which each average about 4 hours per weekly session, and they both skip some weeks due to holidays, illness, scheduling, etc.

Neurosis · Post by **Neurosis** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:58 am

I used to spend a lot more times on forums than I did gaming, sadly. But recently it's evening out nicely, which is a big improvement.

hogarth · Post by **hogarth** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:18 pm

Most of my games are play-by-post on the Paizo forum. Does that count towards both?

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:17 am

I refuse to GM as much as I did in the past (despite people asking me every so often to head a game) so forum time tends to take up more time than gaming. I say this assuming that my time on every forum I post on is included.