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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8021224" data-attributes="member: 29398">Your post badly mixes up players - as in the real people at the table - and PCs, the characters in the fiction.&nbsp; This is quite relevant if-when a DM allows a player to run more than one PC simultaneously in a party.So, for your combined sessions do you mean 7 or 8 players sitting at the table (which gets unwieldy fast) or do you mean 7 or 8 PCs being run by a smaller number of players (which is trivially easy)?&nbsp; Are there real-world players common to both groups?I usually have 4 or 5 players at the table but between second characters, adventuring NPCs, and other add-ons the average party size I run is closer to 8-10.The biggest session I've ever run as part of an ongoing campaign (as opposed to a one-off) was something like 10 players and upward of 25 PCs plus at least 10 adventuring NPCs: multiple parties had a long-standing common home base, many PCs had been retired there, and the base came under attack at a time when most of the active groups were at base during downtime.&nbsp; All hands on deck!Not something I'll soon want to do again, but it was fun to try once. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8021224, member: 29398"] Your post badly mixes up players - as in the real people at the table - and PCs, the characters in the fiction. This is quite relevant if-when a DM allows a player to run more than one PC simultaneously in a party. So, for your combined sessions do you mean 7 or 8 players sitting at the table (which gets unwieldy fast) or do you mean 7 or 8 PCs being run by a smaller number of players (which is trivially easy)? Are there real-world players common to both groups? I usually have 4 or 5 players at the table but between second characters, adventuring NPCs, and other add-ons the average party size I run is closer to 8-10. The biggest session I've ever run as part of an ongoing campaign (as opposed to a one-off) was something like 10 players and upward of 25 PCs plus at least 10 adventuring NPCs: multiple parties had a long-standing common home base, many PCs had been retired there, and the base came under attack at a time when most of the active groups were at base during downtime. All hands on deck! Not something I'll soon want to do again, but it was fun to try once. :) [/QUOTE]

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