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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 1821939" data-attributes="member: 15651">I think my biggest challenge is the pace of the game.  The group I have DMed most is composed of 8 players.  If I make a balanced encounter, which usually means a good number of opponents, it seems to take forever - two to three hours I'd say.  You combine that with the fact that coordinating the schedules of 8 people means we game once every six weeks if we are lucky and due to that we always have some social time at the start of the session followed by the inevitable "what were we doing last time?" recap and it just seems like we never get anywhere in the campaign.  Right now it appears that we are on average completing a single adventure in about nine months.  I have recently started another group with only three players.  It will be interesting to see how much better the pacing is with them - although to be honest it seems we are having just as much difficulty scheduling games as with the 8 player group.  We keep talking about getting back to regular gaming sessions once we all retire and move into the adult living community together - although I think we might be able to do it sooner, once our kids are all teenagers and going out on Friday and Saturday nights.</blockquote>