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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 1980475" data-attributes="member: 1515">I concur with all of Henry's advice...one of our groups has 8 players (plus me as DM), and all of these help a lot.We're "capped" at 8, and have been for about 7 years now.  When one player leaves, another one has always seemed to materialize to take his or her place.  Technically, we've got two former players who are on "reserve" -- the game date (Friday nights) doesn't fit with their schedule right now.  If they ask to come back, we'd probably let 'em back in, but it'd get a little tight.Oh, and we *rarely* have all 8 there at once.  Of the 8, four are hardcore (always there), two miss every so often, and 2 are only there about 50% of the time (one of those lives out of state now, and isn't always able to finagle a trip back to coincide with our game, and the other has a vehemently non-gaming wife, so it's often hard for him to join us).To build on Henry's point #5, I also try to, longer-term, make sure every PC has a session in which he's in the spotlight -- this usually revolves around the PC's class (i.e., the ranger shines in the adventure that takes the party deep into the high forest) or backstory (i.e., the party visits a small village that's one PC's hometown, and that PC's mother is a key NPC for the story).</blockquote>