[IAWA] Will it work with 8 or more players?
veritascitor:
Hi all,
Long time lurker, but I figured I'd finally get around to posting something. I've recently found my way into an ongoing game of IAWA, and on Wednesday we played a session with 8 players and a GM. It actually went surprisingly well, all things considered. The experience of the players themselves ran the gamut from having played 8 or 9 sessions, to one player who was a completely new to the system. We used the standard 4 cards from the oracles, and managed to come up with enough characters for each of us with no real problem. I believe 3 of the characters were recurring, and we only got bogged down a little bit in figuring out the relationships between the old characters, the new characters, and the events that would be taking place. As for running the session, it was a little slow just to begin with, as we starting setting up the scenes. Once the GM realized that we were all pretty confident with the conflict resolution mechanics, however, he essentially just let us go at it ourselves, so we had players moving around the table, and having two or three separate scenes going on at once. This had two effects: firstly, the game sped up quite a bit, since everyone was involved in some sort of action at some point, and secondly, each player, it seemed, got to experience the story in their own unique way. There were numerous points in the session where my character moved about and I got to be genuinely surprised by coming across the outcome of conflicts between two other players. Anyways, I'm rambling on, but my point is, the game DOES work with 8 players, as long as those players have a handle on the system and how it works.
-Mike
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