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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7717901" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>In the computing world, security depends critically on trust authorities issuing certificates of authenticity. </p><p></p><p>So many convention horror stories to me revolve around when you sign up for a game, you never know just what you are going to get. Trust worthy game masters seem to be in short supply. And this goes back to the story about 'professional DMs' from a few weeks back. </p><p></p><p>There are plenty of fan communities though that maintain relatively high bars and self-police themselves regarding authenticity. If you want to claim to be an actual knight or master in the SCA, the process of obtaining that title is pretty darn rigorous. Fundamentally though, we don't have anything like the RPGA was supposed to be and never really have (not even the RPGA). The reason we don't have more Cons I'm convinced is because we don't have more communities. Cons grow out of active communities. They are the big annual parties that active communities throw, principally for themselves, but also to draw more people into the community. In Columbus for example, there is a large active board gaming community, of which Origins is simply the more visible resulting representation.</p><p></p><p>Look at it this way: do you know all the active GMs in town, and could you say which of them you wish you had time to spend at their tables? Solve that problem, and the world will get more quality conventions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7717901, member: 4937"] In the computing world, security depends critically on trust authorities issuing certificates of authenticity. So many convention horror stories to me revolve around when you sign up for a game, you never know just what you are going to get. Trust worthy game masters seem to be in short supply. And this goes back to the story about 'professional DMs' from a few weeks back. There are plenty of fan communities though that maintain relatively high bars and self-police themselves regarding authenticity. If you want to claim to be an actual knight or master in the SCA, the process of obtaining that title is pretty darn rigorous. Fundamentally though, we don't have anything like the RPGA was supposed to be and never really have (not even the RPGA). The reason we don't have more Cons I'm convinced is because we don't have more communities. Cons grow out of active communities. They are the big annual parties that active communities throw, principally for themselves, but also to draw more people into the community. In Columbus for example, there is a large active board gaming community, of which Origins is simply the more visible resulting representation. Look at it this way: do you know all the active GMs in town, and could you say which of them you wish you had time to spend at their tables? Solve that problem, and the world will get more quality conventions. [/QUOTE]
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