Average number of players in a group?

[KrazyHades]

WotC is building 4E around the concept that most groups have 5 players. How many players does your group have?

EDIT: Just players, don't count the DM

 

[Greylock]

Other. Our group is usually somewhere between 4 + DM and 6 + DM. Sometimes 3, once I think we had seven, and maybe we'll be seven again soon, permanently. Unless a couple of players can't make it.

hth

 

[el-remmen]

Players? Or Players + DM?

Eh, either way it was the same choice, 6-7.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I currently have 3 players.

 

[Baron Opal]

8 players, receintly down from 10.

 

[pogre]

I have 6 steady players. That's a good number for me. I will play with as few as 4, but I like 5 or 6. I wonder if they went with 5 because its difficult to get new DMs going?

 

[TarionzCousin]

Do Power-Gamers count as two each and Social Gamers count as zero?

 

[Lanefan]

There needs to be a second poll to go along with this one, regarding how many characters are in your game's adventuring party. 5 players does not equal 5 characters, once you factor in party NPCs, players running multiple PCs at a time, and so on.

While the game design seems to assume 1 player = 1 character (thus making a standard party of 4 in 3e and 5 in 4e), is this assumption correct? I suggest that more often than not, it isn't...

Lanefan

 

[Pinotage]

6 players. I don't think I've played many times with less. I've certainly never played in a game with only 4 players. So much for the 3.5e system. It was always more fun to have more players.

Pinotage

 

[Piratecat]

I usually vary between 6-7. Right now it's 6.