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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:12 pm
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So, tomorrow I'll be playing D&D at the table again for the first time in months. Even that last time was a one off, and before that it was nearly an entire year! I'm really looking forward to it (obviously), but one of the main reasons is the party size.
My first ever D&D session was 8 years ago now (give or take), and there were 4 PCs. One of the players didn't really get into it, but we found someone else who did and we continued the campaign. Then another started losing interest before he just stopped coming. Ever since then I've been used to playing with those same guys. 3PCs, with the DM NPCing the guy-who-left's character. I wanted to introduce some friends to the game, as well as meeting new people who I found played RPGs, and now the party for tomorrow has grown to 7PCs! I'm a bit nervous for my friends who've never played, but overall really excited to see how the game will be with 8 people round the table.
So there's my life story, but heres my question:
Whats the biggest amount of people you've ever played with? Whats the smallest party you've been apart of? Most importantly, which do you prefer? I know some of you like Rain have played at conventions and stuff where there tends to be bigger parties, but I'm not sure that counts towards my questions since that's literally just the battle mechanics (or so I'm led to believe). One of the things I'm most looking forward to tomorrow is the RP element, or how easy/difficult it would be to get into the mindset with 6 other PC's to argue communicate with. As a DM, online I think 6 is the perfect number of PCs, but at the table I think I'd be uncomfortable with more than 5 (I'm PCing tomorrow, thank GOD!).
Well this has been a lot of dribble, but I'm just excited for tomorrow. >.< Let me know what your views are though! I'd love to read other peoples views and/or experiences.
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:14 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:17 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:22 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:25 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:38 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:41 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 5:08 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 5:12 pm
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:24 pm
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I hate you and your ability to be able to play in-person, I so do. razz
All my experience is play-by-post/IRC/AIM chat, so make of that what you will with my responses.
The biggest group I've been apart of is 8, with me as the DM. That was slow as hell (play-by-post) and I'm never doing it again. I'm sticking to 4 - 6.
The smallest 'group' is two; however, I have DMed a fair share of solo/one-on-one games (about 5, IIRC) that were actually seperate games (and not just one character in a group game going off on their own for a little while).
Personally. I'm a fan of 3 people or solo games. I like the speed of play-by-post with three people, and if you have an interesting group dynamic, it works out pretty well. That being said, I'll almost always enjoy a good solo game (as a player, or a DM) just due to the fact that its' far more character-based than anything, and that lends itself to some amusing/interesting situations that you couldn't really have in a full group game.
In-person, I suspect as a DM, I'd probably not go over 4. As a player, I'd probably want the group to top out at 5 (PC-wise, so 5/6 including DM).
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:59 pm
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