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I refuse to play D&D online. It is my "real people time", an irony considering we're all playing imaginary characters.
About five years ago I started hosting D&D 9pm (21:00) Friday evenings. There was a restaurant in town that was open late, largely serving takeout orders. So we requested a regular table in the back corner and they offered us a free plate of nachos every Friday. We usually played for three or four hours, and a few people ordered drinks or finger food -- enough for the restaurant to break even on the nachos at a minimum. It was our "bar replacement" activity. I immediately had buy in from the players, and had to turn people away.
I moved a few years later, and my new house had a large-group friendly basement suitable for D&D. In my new city, I posted looking for players for the same time slot: 9pm Fridays. I was oversubscribed within a few hours. We had a few pauses during COVID, but are still playing at the same timeslot.
I still use the "in person only" rule at my table. During COVID, a bunch we're proposing we play online. I don't want to play online. I can do that with innumerable games that already fill that niche. I want pencil and paper and friends.
Yeah, I mentioned us playing online since I can't exactly fly every weekend to the US just to play dnd