|
Question for Josh,
We've hit a small trip-up in our home game; namely we had two people express express interest in joining our merry band. Right now we alternate GM duties with our six players (five at the table and one GM). A seventh player would be fine, but the eighth complicates things.
We believe that roughly 40% of the time at least one player will be unable to make it. That means over half the time we would need to play with a table of 7 players plus the GM. There's no way to evenly switch up that into two groups (especially with our schedules, we need to stick with one scheduled game). So the question is, do we play with eight under the Play, Play, Play rule, or would you prefer we figure something else out?
I know the rule was put into place for convention play, and that you expect a certain amount of flexibility in the home game, but I'm just not sure what's "correct" under these circumstances.
Thanks in advance.
Seven players is the hard ceiling. If you have 8 players, then you'll need to break into two tables. I'm assuming 8 players + 1 GM, so that means one of the players will need to GM and you'll have 2 GMs + 7 players which means 1 table of 4 players and 1 table of 3 players with the GM running a Pathfinder Society pre-gen NPC as a silent partner.
That's how I'd prefer you handle it. When you get into the neighborhood of 8 players you start breaking down the APL calculations and making the scenarios unbelievably easy for the players. If you have a table of 8 1st-level players, the opposite can be true as you'll dump them into the APL 3 column and they'll get murdered in their first combat in Tier 3-4.
Great! Sounds like you're fine then. :-)