"How Far for a Game?" Topic

I've been known to travel for more than eight hours for a tournament.

For a single game, the maximum I've done is probably around half an hour.

As my local gaming community has a great selection of gaming I really don't see the need to travel. Yeah, Little Wars is a few hours away as are the KC area games, but there is top quality gaming in St. Louis so why travel?

Fitzovich, the question was not "how far do you need to?" but :how far would you?"

Tough to say for a single game… I will travel many hours for a con or even a multi-game single-day event.

The number was a lot higher 30 years ago.

My club takes about 45 minutes by car but can be up to ninety minutes if I go by public transport. I do that most weeks.

There is enough gaming where I am at that I really don't have to drive more than 15 or 20 minutes for a game. I've driven an hour or so, and that has been to support our HMGS chapter or help play test a game for an upcoming con. I'd push it to 1.5 hours, but that's about it (and there would have to be a compelling reason beside getting a game in). I have driven 3 hours one way on several occassions for a day trip to a toy sodier show.

I dive an hour plus for my local weekly games(traffic) it is only 35 to 45 min home after.

For weekend game days I would go well past that.

For a great time with friends? Is there a limit?

Okay, realistically, 2 hours each way is probably my functional max. Fortunately my gaming buddies live a bit closer. Without traffic, less than 30 minutes on average, 45 as a max. In traffic it can hit 1.5 (which, with games that start at 6PM, is an issue).

For conventions 4-6 hours.

For an afternoon of gaming…maybe 2.5 hours max.

A lot of it depends on what part of the country you live in or indeed what country.

In the U.S.

On the East Coast, one hour is a long drive for a single game.

In other parts of the country like the Southwest driving three hours for a single game is not at all unusual.

Old Contemptible: "On the East Coast, one hour is a long drive for a single game"

That statement is quite a generalization. The entire Southeast is on the East Coast, and I know most of us travel an hour easily just in the area we live. The South has longer distances and more spread-out cities/communities. When I lived in Richmond it easily took 45 minutes to get across the river to other areas of the city. So, travel is relative. I easily travel up to an hour to game with others in my "region". Driving 2 hours each way is no big deal as I regularly do that just to visit clients for work (and many of the drives are much longer).

In the Olde Dayes four hours would have been doable. Now, an hour is about all the old geezer can take.