"What is your "Range"" Topic

1. What is the distance/time you would willingly travel to play in a game (say a 4-6 hour session)?

2. What is the distance/time you would travel to a Convention/Show (looking at the US model of a mult-day event)?

For me, 1 is @ 2 hours (roughly 100 miles) and 2 is 6-10 hours (roughly 5-700 miles)

1 is 1 hour (I have a lot of great gaming close by)
2 is 6 hours (Occasionally much further for a big con)

1. 1 hour (2 hour round trip).
2. Honestly, not much more. Maybe 2 hours (4 round trip).

I just don't like to drive that much. That's why I'm glad Nashcon is local for me.

1.1 hour 2.1- 2 days of driving. I am in Nebraska,everything is far away.

I base it on a mix of the game should be longer than the dive and what time I'll be getting home.

No more than 15 minutes (10 miles)for an evening game, a couple of hours/150 miles for a day long game (or two games back to back, maybe three to four hours for a weekend game or event.

jugenation, which end? I drive to Denver for GenghisCon (7 hours)

1 is 1.5 hours max

2 is 13-14 hours since that's how long it has taken to get to Cold Wars or Fall In when the weather didn't cooperate.

1. I have done 2-hours one way, several times.

2. I have done 4 hours, could do twice that without too much trouble.

1) is 4 hour round trip (100 mile Circle around Philly- Fantastic area for Gamers)

2) I have done 12 hours round trip (Looking to try my first Fly in convention soon)

Local group games average one hour or less (50 miles). Conventions travel about the same here in Los Angeles CA.

1. 1 hour or hopefully much less.

2. 4 hours drive by car and 4 hours back again or 700-800 miles by plane over 3-4 days and 700-800 mile home again.

1. Is 1 Hour
2. Is "what ever time it takes" ( which in a normal year is from 3 hours to 20 hours )

1 1 hour or so
2 have not been to a convention since 1979 or 80

In January I traveled 3,720km from Perth to Canberra.

1. 1 hour.
2. 12 hours.

1) I used to drive roughly 3 hours each way about once a month from Yuma to Phoenix for an afternoon of gaming. Once in a while they would come out to Yuma.
These days I found a group 5-10 minutes away.

2) I have yet to go to a convention. Maybe this year… maybe next.

1. 1.5 hours – though it helps if that's due to range, and not traffic. A nice drive in the country is great – driving around rush hour traffic in the DMV is something I just won't do.

2. I'd say 3-5 for regular convention attendance, but that's because I have options locally. Once in a while I'd take a day drive (12 hours).

If the game is with a friend, 8 hours.

For a convention 2 days.

My ability to do the latter has been limited by working. So for example it would take me two days to get out to the Seven Years War Convention, which I never can find the vacation time to do.

After August, when I retire, all things are possible.

Please note this is for America.

I regularly (4-6 times a month) travel an hour each way to play at one of two clubs but will only do it if I'm getting 2 or more games in, usually Bolt Action or Infinity. I used to travel 20 minutes once a week for a game of Malifaux but that group seems to have fallen apart.

My work life only allows me to go to one convention which is local, but I'd be willing to travel 3 hours each way for a weekend convention.

1. 2-4 hours depending on the group running the game.

2. I regularly drive 9-10 hours to HMGS functions up in PA.

My actual stats:
1) 1 hour each way (maybe 75 minutes if traffic is bad)
2) 3 hours each way (doing this again Friday!)

Both would increase for special opportunities, I hope to get to an American con sometime (I'm in Canada).

#1 is 3 hours
#2 is 12 hours for a multi day con

Most of our games are down on my basement. 10 seconds?

3 hours to drive to a convention if I drive by myself. Longer with shared driving.

1. Travel 75 minutes to club games (that's just over 40 miles on country roads) and 20 minutes or so for regular weekly games at a friend's house.
2. Try to limit journeys to conventions to a couple of hours- say 80 to 100 miles, but have driven up to 4 hours for something special.

At my age, have to take into account availability of " pit-stops" ( rest rooms to our US friends)!

1. Just over 2 hours.

2. Just over 2 hours.

1) 1 hour
2) 8-9 hours

1) 2 hours (and I do it every 2 weeks)

2) Driving? Not an option (zero cons in my area). But did just do SoCal to Cold Wars (6 hours by plane and then driving from Philly to Lancaster on Thur in the snowstorm…).

1) 1 hour
2) 5 hours

It depends on the group hosting the game, attendance and to a slightly lesser extent---the game itself. I guess about (75) miles to a game that will last about six to eitht hours. Usually after about eight hours of continuous gaming, I start to mentally wear out.
Tom Semian
Avalon, Pa. 15202

1) 90 minutes
2) 6 hours (but that's pushing it)

As a vendor, my shortest trip is between 4 and 5 hours (Hattisburg, Augusta and Nashville). My longest trips used to be 1314 hours to Historicon, Chicago, OKC, Dallas. My average trip is 9 hours (Orlando, Tampa, St Louis, New Orleans.).

RE: My longest trips used to be 1314 hours to Historicon

YOU WIN!

Yes was a long one any way you look at it. LOL! 13/14 hours.

1. I've driven up to 2 hours one way for a single game. Usually try to keep it around an hour.

2. If it's a distant convention, then I fly. When I went to Huzzah in Maine a few years back it was around 6 hours with a lay over.

Used to regularly travel 200 miles, say, around 4 hours, for a weekend game and once a year I used to go down to the depths of Cornwall for a week long game, probably only 250 miles but a 5 hour drive due to the roads, then discovered railways, much easier.