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Originally Posted by martinl
Another observation is that if you have a complete A-List AND follow the half barbs and knights rule, you need more than 6 PCs before you even consider the B-list professions. Who regularly games with 7+ PCs?
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Interestingly, the expectation for a lot of old-school games seems to be a party size of 6-8 PCs (that's even before hirelings, followers, torch bearers, etc)... but 3-6
players (with frequent comments that 2 players is doable but tricky).
This also goes with systems where combat is rather abstract and is resolved quickly, and you might need to roll up half a dozen new PCs at once because of expected character death rates, so that's a thing.