#cannibalhalfling

[yourplayersaidwhat]

For D&D ones: Stories of the Fifth Age (another Mad Adventurers Society 'cast) does the trick for help with 5e, again with an eye for story. Godsfall is an excellent live play 5e podcast, with great players, an interesting world, and amazing production values (sounds effects, music, etc).

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[yourplayersaidwhat]

Tales from the Hydian Way, from the Mad Adventurers Society, is a FFG Star Wars RPG podcast. It covers all three game lines discussing a variety of topics, usually with an eye towards the game's story. 70 episodes so far!

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cannibalhalfling answered: 

Aside from the basic mage-hating thing, to Fenris she is terribly casual about being involved in some of the worst magic.

That makes sense... She is a blood mage too, after all.

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cannibalhalfling replied to your post:I'm playing a bard for the first time in a 4e campaign.

Man. The anti-bard thing is becoming less bard-are-goofy amusing and more soul-crushingly tragic-sounding. My party has three and it’s fine, so what circle of Hell did your bardic experience come from? Like . . damn, it must’ve been really awful.

Your party has three BARDS?!

GET OUT! GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

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cannibalhalfling said: Some people are just blessed by the dice gods.

I wish. The dice also say my characters are completely incapable of climbing 15 foot inclines, and my enemy Pokemons can't even hit on a DC 3 check. You win some, you lose some.

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6, 26, 36!

6: Any tattoos do you want?Several. The next one I'm going to get (eventually) is a shamrock. 

26: The reason I joined Tumblr?Originally? Porn. 

36: Favorite food?I can never really narrow it down to one, the thing I really, really, really want right now is crab puffs. 

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So usually I send asks because I like hearing your opinion on things, but this time I'm looking for some serious dialogue: How Many Players Are Too Many For A Group? In the post-PAX East enthusiasm a number of newcomers have petitioned to join my meatspace gaming group, more than doubling its size from 4 to 9. What's better(worse?), so far everyone is interested in at least two of the campaigns being run (Eberron/Only War/Dark Heresy). I'm not sure if it's sustainable. Any helpful experience?

In my experience, the Perfect Player Party Proportion is four.

Four being the best number for a group for various reasons:

If a person can’t make it, it’s easy to run a game with three.

If another person wants to join, running a game with five PCs isn’t impossible. Being said, I regularly run a game with five players. 

In that regard, I would tend to stray away from anything after five. For all intents and purposes, corralling five people into seeing one, focused topic is hard enough. The GM to Player ratio of 1:5 is strong enough to tell a cohesive story without losing personal interaction or focus.

If there are that many people that want to play a game, encourage one of them to start playing. GMs need more people in their army! We are massively outnumbered.

Really, I can’t see running a game with more than five people without some headache involved, and my dream number is always four.

My best advice, either find the time to run two groups, or have someone else take on the reigns. One person can only handle so much. 

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How do you feel about non-meatspace methods of getting the tabletop group together? Skype and such?

It’s a fine solution to an unfortunate problem.

I believe there to be a certain energy and experience about sitting around a table with your friends and peers, adventuring and rolling the dice all over the floor. Eating food, laughing too loud, drinking (heavily).

If that experience is unavailable or otherwise unattainable, I’d prefer Skype or Roll20 with some sort of better messaging system. Like Skype.