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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 2996798" data-attributes="member: 5889">In general, having also seen big groups myself my best advise is....don't. Its hard enough on experienced dms, it could be an absolute nightmare for an inexperienced one. There are some techniques to help cope, but in the long run I think you and your players will be much happier if you trim the fat.Run 2 games with half the group in each, have another person dm a group, but don't do it yourself.Now I'm sure you all want to be together, you all want to socialize. And while dnd is a socialized game, its still a game that's meant to be played. If everyone wants to hang out, then hang out...somewhere else. But you can't throw 9 people into a game and expect it to run well.For the sake of your sanity, don't do it<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>