I ran this game for a group of 9 people. While we all got set up, we talked through the rules and how to run them so everyone was on the same page. I'm glad there's safety tools baked in - we also talked about tone at the start of what we wanted. I wasn't sure how the play experience was going to go, but it felt natural once we got into the groove of it! All said, we took about two hours of game play and 45 minutes of set up. I'm looking forward to playing this again.