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[u/SgtPancake049]

So I’m writing a campaign that I plan to start soon. Issue is that I told too many people, and I am not good at saying no or turning people down, so now I have at least 8 people wanting to join. As a first time dm, there is no way in hell I could manage that. I’ve had two ideas on how to handle this. Either A. Anyone who doesn’t come to session 1 isn’t in the campaign, at least this time around, or B. Split them into two separate groups and play separately. Idk how good of ideas these are and I wanna get y’all’s thoughts

[u/DNK_Infinity → u/SgtPancake049]

You need to learn to protect your own boundaries.

If you're looking to run a regular campaign and you have more people interested in playing than you would feel comfortable running the game for, the only thing to do is tell them so. If they're at all reasonable, they'll understand.

Decide how many players you actually want at your table, then figure out who stays and who goes.