Our sessions are mighty, and always have been. A Saturday, with enough time to get in character, roleplay in various places and across a decent amount of time. Important encounters and either a really long battle or several short ones! It's the best way to play, really.

Those are the sessions we want to have. But I'd be really remiss in all of this if I didn't float the idea of a baby session. Not as satisfying or as long, but starting at something like 5-6 PM and ending at like 10-11 PM. Compatible with afternoon activities and work the next morning.

When we chose our current schedule long ago, we were pretty reliably able to land one session a month like that, and while we could probably have played every two weeks (or even every week and a half) with shorter sessions, there was never any need to go up to that level of frequency. But with so many blanked out days, something like this might allow us to color in a small session in a month that would otherwise be missing one.

There's some obvious downsides- to some people, scheduling an evening is exactly as costly as scheduling an entire day. That might, however, be worthwhile some of the time.

Anyway, thoughts?

I think my "I'm OK after 3pm" looks worse than it really is. I'll still be there, but it means we don't start at our now-usual 2pm (or you all start without me and I get there when I get there). But, my preference is to stay the way we currently have it, because of this:


That's the way it is for me, but it may not be for everyone.

That said, I'd be open to the occasional mini-session, if things are looking bleak schedule-wise, but if we can continue with our marathon sessions, that's my overwhelming preference.

I'll also point out that a smaller session is possible on days that are not Saturday, at least hypothetically.
In the main time thread, you can see how there's just a lot of unclear days. I assumed all the "I can't start until 3" was functionally a "yes" because a day that starts at 4 PM is like 90%+ as good as a day that starts at or before 3 PM. Combining the three responses we have, July 19th is the earliest. If I had no travel, that doesn't change. If instead Yeti was a pile of yesses it's June 28th. If instead you were all yesses it's July 12th. This is a lot of congestion before half the group has posted, this summer has busy stuff and a whole lot of busy Saturdays.

If instead we could have some evening session we would have more days to check- something between the 24th and 29th of June might be open besides blocking out the entire 28th, as an example.

Anyway this is all just hypothetical for now, but once others have posted we'll have a better idea about it. Ultimately it doesn't really matter if we end up missing June and hitting July, but like, I'd like to at least think about this sort of thing. We don't run into this constantly but it's often enough to admit that it's hard enough to land close to the 1/month soft goal here.

I would be fine with a shorter session if we could fit that in. I’m in the same place as Chris on Saturdays it won’t really make a difference if we start a bit later. Usually the things that keep me from a yes are evening things like my sisters birthday dinner on the 28th or I am out of town like the two dates I am out in July.

I would be fine with trying out a shorter session on a different day. Sundays are usually pretty open for me or even a Friday evening could work.

June and the beginning of July are just packed with “stuff” because summer vacation and whatever.

Going forward from there I’m totally down to add mini sessions as an option. It could be really cool and allow some extra opportunities since Saturday can get unpredictable for me. End of the day, I enjoy the company of you fine folk. If that means 3-5 hours at a time, I’ll take it!