9 players. Help.

[Eltern]

I do use a battlemat, it's about 2x4 feet. I'll probably be using that and a little bit of maps thrown up on the TV via my laptop. I can't imagine using graph paper like you describe! It's so -tiny-!

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Don't worry about a big group as some will lose interest and others will not always make to the game.

That won't work with my group. We've been this size for two years.

I do use a battlemat, it's about 2x4 feet. I'll probably be using that and a little bit of maps thrown up on the TV via my laptop. I can't imagine using graph paper like you describe! It's so -tiny-!

If I knew how to do a battlemat quickly, I could do that - just copy from graph paper to battlemat. But, in practice, that isn't likely to work.

But hey, payday is today. I'll see if I can get that to work.

On a note above: I'd love to actually split the group, but it won't happen. Every players claims they like each game, after all, and prepping for GMing is a lot of work (so the other GMs would rather run one game every four weeks than one every two weeks, for instance). And it's a social game, so there's lots of chatter. *Sigh*.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Kill 'em early & often (we are talking RTTOEE).

Let players who's PC died run NPC/Monster's for the rest of the game.

A couple of players may quit, at which point you have managable group.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

With those mods, cut out some of the repetitive parts. Repetitive dungeon-crawling is bad enough, but with 9 PCs battles might take forever (especially if you "scale up" the encounters to keep it "balanced" for such a large party).

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

I do use a battlemat, it's about 2x4 feet. I'll probably be using that and a little bit of maps thrown up on the TV via my laptop. I can't imagine using graph paper like you describe! It's so -tiny-!

Buy a pad of large, 1" graph paper. Pre-draw as much as you can. Saves a lot of time in some of our games.