{"id":829,"date":"2004-01-05T16:28:40","date_gmt":"2004-01-05T16:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2004-01-05T16:28:40","modified_gmt":"2004-01-05T16:28:40","slug":"eight-is-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2004\/01\/eight-is-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight is enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game Wish asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do you think is the best cast size for the games you?ve played? What are the factors that go into your answer: genre, play group, gaming system, etc.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The simple answer is &#8220;four or five players, plus GM&#8221;, regardless of game system.  Ironically, I rarely GM groups that small.<br \/>\nRight now (or recently) my group sizes were (NOT counting the GM):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DnD: 7 (and too big, really)\n<li>OA: 4.5 (with .75 npcs)\n<li>Nobilis: 4, or 7, or 8, depending on how you look at it.  I&#8217;m currently running two groups of 4 in a concurrent intertwined storyline on different days.  While I might do a massive Group Thing in the future, doing all eight people regularly would drive me nuts and probably be less fun for most everyone in the long run &#8212; that said, we started the Nobilis story with one group of seven.\n<li>Pulp: usually six, which still feels big, but it&#8217;s mostly designed for Convention play, so what&#8217;re you gonna do?\n<li>Star Wars: six, and again, that was really a bit unweildly.\n<li>Amber: I ran TiHE with anywhere from two to seven people, plus the GM.  We started with five and when we dropped to two I didn&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d ever figure out how to run the game at that size.  I figured it out, and it went really well for awhile &#8212; it was just different &#8212; then we added a few other people and it took me awhile to remember how to deal with a larger group.<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got other games I want to run and a genral idea of how many players I&#8217;d want for each, but I&#8217;ll keep all that to myself for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Wish asks: What do you think is the best cast size for the games you?ve played? What are the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}