This is why you should play Shadowdark.

Which one? We have like 8 and we play regularly

Lol. My current party isn’t (it’s just two people), but my previous party definitely was (13 people).

Most games I’ve played have had 3 or 4 players, which is about perfect for most systems. The one time we only had 2 players, we both rolled up 2 characters each and played them simultaneously. It was actually really fun!

I haven’t watched the video either, but I’m sure they’ll be like 4 is the max.

Edit: it’s mostly about scheduling and combinatorics, and it says for example at 5 players you have a 71% of failure to find a common time, while with 4 it’s 49%.

I also am really tired of whole ass videos that could be a three paragraph blog post.

Another option is to determine when you want to play and set that regularly and in advance. It’s a lot easier for everyone to be available on every Wednesday night because they know that time is already committed.

One thing about this is it assumes the schedule is made like on the fly. The group I used to play with played every saturday afternoon. It was like a club. You only join if you can make it. They rotated games/runners every so often and I got them to rotate every week so that a particular game would be once a month so I could keep doing it for awhile.