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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 784434" data-attributes="member: 4779">As of now, I run for 2 PC's.  Since I am heavy on RP it works well even though one of the players isn't a huge RPer, he does well enough for my tastes as I have seen much worse.  I would like another player or 2 but more than 4 (unless that 5th person was an excellent RPer who really added alot) would be a burden because I love plot and working with the character's backgrounds.Actually, one of the best campaigns I ever ran was with just one regular PC and different PC's would come and go all the time.  I had a bunch of recurring NPCs including one that was the best friend of the 'main' PC that seemed to work well.  I'd have to say that about 40% of the sessions in that campaign I just ran one-on-one.  Interesting stuff that I know I'll never be able to duplicate because that player no longer is in my group.  Great stuff.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  That said, I have high hopes for my current group and one other that I am a PC in.In short:  For heavy RP (As others have said before I), 3-4 is right.  More than that is too limiting to the story.For combat you need at least 4 perferrably 5-6.  More than 6 is too much for me to handle at any length of time.  I have done it for a few indy sessions but nothing campaign length with any success.</blockquote>

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