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<blockquote data-quote="Arnwyn" data-source="post: 1029276" data-attributes="member: 7701">Great advice from a lot of people, above. However, I think that you are, to use a crass term, &quot;screwed&quot;.IMO, your biggest problem is the 8 players. As you yourself admit, it really is too much. With that many players (who, as you noted, don't see each other much outside of gaming), I can guarantee that there is going to be *tons* of table talk. Further, as another poster noted, if you are the only one that this annoys, then you're in trouble.In any case, I've discovered that (again, as another poster suggested) rolling dice moves things along nicely. This has, for more than 10 years, *always* caught the players attention, without fail. Very creepy, actually.However, it's my opinion that this is a social game, and not only do we have no problem with table talk, we embrace it. But that's just us. We also play for a rather long time (about 4:00 pm to 1:00 am; ie. 9 hours) so we have lots of time to do both. Guess we're lucky.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arnwyn, post: 1029276, member: 7701"] Great advice from a lot of people, above. However, I think that you are, to use a crass term, "screwed". IMO, your biggest problem is the 8 players. As you yourself admit, it really is too much. With that many players (who, as you noted, don't see each other much outside of gaming), I can [i]guarantee[/i] that there is going to be *tons* of table talk. Further, as another poster noted, if you are the only one that this annoys, then you're in trouble. In any case, I've discovered that (again, as another poster suggested) rolling dice moves things along nicely. This has, for more than 10 years, *always* caught the players attention, without fail. Very creepy, actually. However, it's my opinion that this is a social game, and not only do we have no problem with table talk, we embrace it. But that's just us. We also play for a rather long time (about 4:00 pm to 1:00 am; ie. 9 hours) so we have lots of time to do both. Guess we're lucky. [/QUOTE]

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