[ZhakirSetie]

So I'm looking into getting this as kind of an intro to the Shadowrun universe, as I will be GMing the standard 5th edition game and I have five players that don't know anything about the universe.

I figured it would give them a taste of the art and feel of the world.

However, I'm having problems figuring out how many players I can have playing at once.

It looks like the base game is 1-4 players, but they have character expansion packs.

Do these expansions allow more than 4 players to play or just more options for the 4 players to choose?

Bonus question: If all you can ever have is 4, would it be feasible to buy two copies of the game and either combine them into one or have 6-8 people sitting at the same table and run two of them back to back?

[DeathStrobe]

The game does technically scale to infinite numbers if you have enough enough character cards and base starting cards. However, I feel this would make a very difficult experience as some of the challenges are REALLY hard. Also, it'd take much longer. The game is balanced around 4 players, and it is easy to go to 6 with High Caliber Ops. But in theory you could take 2 copies of the base game and play 8.

I do really wonder how well it'd play with that many people.