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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdeleski" data-source="post: 2509685" data-attributes="member: 33307">New Player?WILL ADDITIONAL PLAYERS OVERTAX MY RESOURCES AND ABILITIES?As an RL gamesmaster, I am comfortable with moderating a group of up to 8 people, given the limits of any particular scenario or campaign. Considering the leisurely pace of a PbP campaign, I think that we'd be fine; occasionally I might find it difficult to respond to 8 different sets of actions if all were posted at once, but I'd methodically work through them and I think that we'd be OK from that perspective. I therefore assume that I would be within my limits to accept up to 8 people in a play-by-post campaign, provided that the campaign world and scenario can accommodate that number of players.  WILL ADDITIONAL PLAYERS OVERTAX THE SETTING?In my opinion, the "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" campaign is able to accommodate 8 players, so long as I adapt an NPC or two, or a sidestory or two. There are many opportunities for a number of characters to experience different aspects of this environment. Within the main flow of the storyline, I believe that there are also numerous possible sidequests that can be explored. Were we to reach a bottleneck, I would feel comfortable in modifying the situation to accommodate the group. My only area of concern would be where a new player might overlap the skills and background of an exiting player. I would not add new players if that addition set limits on the options of our existing players. WILL ADDITIONAL PLAYERS LIMIT THE FUN OF OUR EXISTING PLAYERS?All other considerations aside, this element is really the key for our game. To motivate me to extend our team beyond 6 players, I would need to see no overlap in character skills, personality, etc., I would need to see a possible "synergy" effect that your new character might have with the existing set, and I would need to gain the concurrence of our existing players.  1) Overlap? I could not see much overlap in character roles or skills. Your character is quite unique. Of course, your character would need to run the gauntlet with James Starkweather...2) Character "Synergy"? The priest/scientist might present a lot of interesting inter-character exchanges. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> 3) Since your character is interesting, Dallas, and appears that he might even broaden our roleplaying options, I'll consent to allow you in the game if a few of our players agree that it would be OK for them (or if noone objects). Please allow us a few days to discuss this. Even should the players have concerns about a larger team, Dallas, you'd be first on the alternate list. Since this is expected to be a lengthy campaign, and since I've noticed a fair amount of turnover in other PbP games, you'd probably find an opening within a reasonable amount of time. Players are welcome to send me emails with their thoughts. What does everyone say? Dallas, to satisfy my own curiosity (it won't impact whether you are allowed in the game), are you familiar with this campaign?  Have you read the material or any bulletin board descriptions?  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Job (the tortured one).</blockquote>

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