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[tenzil]

Been writing this post in pieces in my head for days. Now I'm writing it in pieces between test runs and subversion updates.

Our gaming group grew in the last year by three players -- from GM plus four to GM plus seven. Now in general this is great. I'm having more fun than I've had in quite a while. rwfetterolf is running a D&D 3.5 game that suits us

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[rfrancis]

Champions.

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[tenzil]

Champions is like the anti-thing.

[rfrancis]

Heck yeah it is. I love me some Champions but a single 7-player combat could go on for weeks.

[cmdrhobbes]

Weapons of the Gods!

I mean, uh, I only say that because I want to play that, not because it actually has any bearing on the questions.

[tenzil]

I suspect that WotG is not a standout in this department, although it does have a fair amount of support for independent goals.

[rickj]

We have a Gaming Group of Unusual Size. (Usually 8, sometimes up to 10.) We play 3.5, and while combat doesn't bog down, the prepping for combat ("hold on, I gotta look through six books to find the Anti-Ghost-Dragon Spell") and shopping trips to town take FOR EV AR.

I thought 4E worked well, but the group preferred to stay with 3.5.

My suspicion is that the level of game complexity (or, to be specific, the number of options available to each player) is the critical scaling factor. My 3.5 fighter finishes his turns a lot faster than the clerics and mages. I'd think a rules-light system will, in general, work better.

[tenzil]

It seemed to me that 4e did encourage all players to continually pay attention during encounters, as they never quite knew when they'd be able to do something cool. I think it might scale to a big group.

[yoshimi]

you're playing an RL game? you're cheating on us?

;)

[tenzil]

On weekends -- and Bob's running it -- I don't have to prep -- whine whine excuse excuse.

[tenzil]

I think *I'm* the harlot in this scenario.

tpk

[rwfetterolf]

You know that the steep encounter curves are a little bit on purpose. You're supposed to get the impression of impending doom and overwhelming odds.

Re: tpk

[tenzil]

Oh I know -- and I'm having fun!