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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5162528" data-attributes="member: 2011">I don't.We have 6 PCs in our current campaign and one of the players wanted to know if a friend of his could join to make it 7.Our group was on the fence, we didn't want to slow down combat, but we did want our friend to have his friend join.We eventually decided to not let the friend join (we are starting a different campaign on a different day to do that), but the convincing argument by one of the players was "I already get too much time to check my e-mail between turns".He's right. With 6 PCs, combat is often grindy and slow. It can easily take up to 1 minute per PC/NPC on average with rolls, conditions, movement, questions, illegal moves by players, spending action points, jokes, (passing food at our game which is important <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=";)" />) etc. and with 11 or 12 characters on the board, that's a minimum of 11 or 12 minutes between a given player's turn to his next turn. A 6 round encounter can easily take well over an hour, often more.As DM, I try to speed it up in various ways, but the problem at the moment is 6 15th level PCs. There are just too many options for each player (10+ powers with magic items) and too many conditions and effects on the board and although the players try to plan their next move ahead of time, the game is just too fluid where their plans can quickly go awry with a single Slide.Throwing more NPCs into the mix just makes the problem worse.</blockquote>

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