My Twilight Imperium 4th edition game hit 9 hours last Saturday

Three friends and I started at noon, planned for a 6 hour game. We got through turn 3 and someone wanted to re-read every rule about wormholes. By hour 8 we had to order pizza and skip the space combat just to finish. I learned that maybe 4 players is too many for a weeknight, or we need a timer per turn. Has anyone else had a game night spiral like that and how do you keep the pace up?

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luna26115d ago

Honestly I used to think long games were just part of the deal with TI4, like you sign up for the marathon and you deal with it. But last month we had a five player game that dragged past 11pm and I totally flipped on that. Now I push for a hard 20 minute turn timer and we just say "no lore debates during other people's turns" no exceptions. It saved our last session, we actually finished in 7 hours and had time for a second game. You don't need to skip combat, you need to make people commit to moves faster.