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RPGA website info seems lacking to the casual viewer
Posted 14th January 2009 at 06:59 AM by fba827
About a year ago (when 4e first came out) I went to my first D&D Game Day and signed up for the RPGA as part of participating in the activity.
I never really did anything with this membership and figured it would just be another random thing I signed up for in order to do something for the day.
But, recently, on a sheer random whim, I logged in to my rpga account online and hunted around. I did a couple things (like figuring out how to log in when I didn't know what my initial password would be, etc) but then I found it difficult to do much of anything else - I found it to be completely disorganized and hard to navigate.
Now I completely understand that I was just looking in a rather superficial and casual way -- and perhaps if I was spending longer there, I would have figured out how to navigate and find the current information, but when all I saw was outdated stuff with only the occasional more recent page, I was too turned off to give it the time and stay longer.
By an large (at least is my understanding) the majority of RPGA stuff is volunteer run. I understand that and can respect that aspect of it. But, I really think it's time to give those pages a look over so that it isn't so daunting to casual onlookers trying to find current information on joining or benefits and such.
Does this blog entry have a real point? Not really. I am just disheartened by what I saw and thought I'd share. However, I am sure they are using their time to handle organizing actual play events (of which I hope to have more opportunities to participate in in the future).
I never really did anything with this membership and figured it would just be another random thing I signed up for in order to do something for the day.
But, recently, on a sheer random whim, I logged in to my rpga account online and hunted around. I did a couple things (like figuring out how to log in when I didn't know what my initial password would be, etc) but then I found it difficult to do much of anything else - I found it to be completely disorganized and hard to navigate.
Now I completely understand that I was just looking in a rather superficial and casual way -- and perhaps if I was spending longer there, I would have figured out how to navigate and find the current information, but when all I saw was outdated stuff with only the occasional more recent page, I was too turned off to give it the time and stay longer.
By an large (at least is my understanding) the majority of RPGA stuff is volunteer run. I understand that and can respect that aspect of it. But, I really think it's time to give those pages a look over so that it isn't so daunting to casual onlookers trying to find current information on joining or benefits and such.
Does this blog entry have a real point? Not really. I am just disheartened by what I saw and thought I'd share. However, I am sure they are using their time to handle organizing actual play events (of which I hope to have more opportunities to participate in in the future).
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Getting anything useful done, or finding anything useful out, is either an exercise in futility or several skill challenges in a row, depending on how determined you are. I wanted to try the RPGA for months, but was so discouraged by my early attempts to either 1 - sign up and get info, or 2 - to figure out where my local group would be, that I gave up for awhile. I'm still not sure it was worth all the effort, it's been fun, but it feels more like a series of insert-coin-to-continue games run for metagaming players by railroading GMs, than any sort of a RPGA.Posted 14th January 2009 at 12:04 PM by dammitbiscuit
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