Game with seven players?

demoralizer · ANBU Leader Joined: 23 Jul 2009 Posts: 196

If any of you were GMing a Modernized Naruto game, how would you go about the challenge of seven players?

Would you even accept such a challenge?
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Kimura_Nobu · Banned or Something Like It Joined: 01 Aug 2013 Posts: 6

Ive DM'd and played in both scenarios. Biggest problem is turn rotation and people not paying attention during the 1+ hour before their turn again. With that many, you better expect the group splitting up as much as they can, as often as they can.

That being said, when everythings running smoothly, it can be a blast having that many players.

SirShadow · Biffu Aroi Joined: 10 May 2009 Posts: 2654

Haha... we initiated a 5 minute rule in our game <_< meaning you have 5 minutes to complete your turn.

Faran Kredo · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 4:20 pm Post subject:

Hmm, maybe I should initiate that rule in my campaign, although often the players don't think enough about their turns (no offence to them, but in that last encounter, there was an obvious point that could be held as a bottle neck, an obvious tank creature, and I had told you that you only needed to hold the line, not necessarily take out the enemy. So what did you do? You ran out and charged the average tank creature (or at least the two defenders of the party did)...)

Anyway, I'm getting off track. Another problem with it is that keeping each character personally involved can be challenging, and they may often split up since they aren't getting their personal chances to truly shine and be involved in the story. Obviously if you're a good gm you can get around that by challenging the party as the whole directly with shared motivations and other things to make them feel like the party is together for a reason and all in this together even if they may have individual reasons for being in the campaign. The key to doing this well is the player backgrounds...
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TheTrulyAvaricious · Bijuu/Tailed Beast Joined: 14 Sep 2011 Posts: 610

I believe, for Naruto, that amount of players is actually rather good. You could run two separate groups, making two three-man teams and if possible, one of them could be a Jounin. They could interact either between sessions normally, and in the case of different team make-ups being needed for a different mission, you can literally, mix and match players. This of course, only works if they are willing to deal with this. But it makes for a far more interesting experience, players and GM both.
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demoralizer · ANBU Leader Joined: 23 Jul 2009 Posts: 196

Thank you for all the input! Smile

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Kyrone619 · Genin Joined: 31 May 2013 Posts: 48

No matter what, they will always end up trying to kill each other off for no real reasons.

At least in every game I have played with that many players or more.

Normally easy to split them up into 3 man squads, the left over guy can have npcs, or you can have one squad of 3, two squads of 2 that both have an NPC. However they will still try to kill each other.......

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Kimura_Nobu · Banned or Something Like It Joined: 01 Aug 2013 Posts: 6

In the 6-man DND group I played in, our characters -hated- eachother. Some of us did, and it has led to my own character death, the murder of someones entire family (minus the girls[whores now]) There also was the time someone stole a players blimp, and crashed it into his mage tower. Just Saiyin..

Faran Kredo · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 6:05 am Post subject:

Umm, yeah. The problem is again that with so many players, there are more players that can be problem players, and more chance that personalities will clash and with so many players, it is difficult to mitigate. Also, if the players don't feel that they're here for their own reasons that involve their characters specifically, then they grow bored, and bored players well... do things that everybody later regrets.
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Kimura_Nobu · Banned or Something Like It Joined: 01 Aug 2013 Posts: 6

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Faran Kredo · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:07 pm Post subject:

Kyrone619 · Genin Joined: 31 May 2013 Posts: 48

In six years I have never been part of a game that did not come down to PVP.

From college groups, clubs, university groups and the friends that I tried to nerd-up.

......hmmmm maybe it has something to do with me....

DasFoot · Genin Joined: 12 Apr 2013 Posts: 23