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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 5529861" data-attributes="member: 51942">We also had a similar scenario, and will again soon - and we split the groups.  Some players (those with more interest+time) play both groups.  Playing with 6 players at anything but the lowest levels is simply slow.  We play for about 3hours at a stretch, and even with just 5 players commonly don't manage more than 1 encounter (or 2 small ones), and it's nice to have at least some non-combat play too...So, another vote for split.  Ideally, you'd keep in contact, and you can even have a bit of crossover for fun, but heavily entwined campaigns sounds tricky - that'd take significant investment by both DM's and before attempting that I'd let the new DM cut his teeth first on a normal campaign (that's also good socially, so you don't get into an awkward situation with inter-DM hierarchy or whatever).  Let him build his dream, and try the coordinated campaign later.  Or play in the new DM's world if you really want to coordinate from day 1.So, split and don't heavily connect storylines at first would be my preferred course of action in your situation.</blockquote>