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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5288596" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, just like any social situation, there is an upper limit where things just get too crowded.  Try having a conversation with eight people - possible, but, it's likely to devolve into two or three separate conversations with people kinda moving between groups from time to time.Imagine trying to do a really role play heavy scene (regardless of system) dealing with three or four NPC's and eight players.  There's still only one DM, so, he can only answer questions so quickly.  It can easily bottleneck and lead to frustration.In some games, where the primary focus was less on social interaction and more on task resolution, it tended to work easier with larger groups.As RPG's have become more and more focused on social interactions between PC's and NPC's, the small the groups have seemed to become.</blockquote>