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It is fun to do that. If your group members have gamed together forever and are comfortable with each other, also have them play the character in the persona/style of the person who handed them the character. :-D

Other people have summed it up rather well. Right now there are problems with the character-tracking database. There will be problems for the foreseeable future. The Factionmasters have spared no feelings and wasted no breath in making sure that everyone at RPGA HQ knows about the problems...

I've done work for Living Greyhawk, Xen'drik Expeditions, Mark of Heroes, and Living Kingdoms of Kalamar. While I like all of them for different reasons, I have a soft spot for LKoK. It is a lower magic campaign, and the staff has attempted to make the campaign more responsive to the players...

The Introductory Adventures have nothing to do with the experience of the judge or the players. They are specifically designed (or at least they are supposed to be) to be played by 1st-level characters and introduce the players to certain aspects of the campaign: NPCs, plots, settings, etc...

Much of what a player can give back during a D&D campaign is creative contribution. They can map out areas of the world, create their own NPCs for the DM to borrow, imagine the PC histories which can in turn fuel the DM's creativity. In an RPGA game, the players are denied this avenue of...

How can you dispute this!? Shawn (teh Factionmaster)

All the RPGA documents and adventurers that I am aware of call them XPs.

116. What race class am I in real life? 117. How much can you do in 6 seconds?

Of course, the situation can be much more complicated than this black-and-white analysis. If a town's mayor is corrupt and evil but not outwardly so, and the human paladin who lives in that town is busy protecting the citizens of the town from an outside threat, then the paladin should not...

I think a main point to pull out of this great thread is that if you are writing a module for publication, write the "DM's Background" section last, only after you have written the actual adventure encounters. This avoids the problem I have seen with some writers who, since they write it down...

I think a lot of the older-style, hack-n-slash modules don't "work" anymore in part because of the aspects of the new rules that tend to slow combat a bit. Back in the days of 1st and 2nd editions, combat was often a bit more free-flowing. Those 4 rooms with the standard gnolls that you had to...

I can't get MS Word to stop autocorrecting my name to Spawn Merlin. Shawn

The models were used for the Eberron Special Delve Event "Death in Darguun." We were given the go-ahead to use them by the RPGA when developing the event through some deal with the Miniature Building Authority. They really do look great, although they are sometimes hard to work with in a...

This discussion comes up every semester with the students in my fiction-writing classes. Those who say that SF/Fantasy differs from other forms of fiction in that SF/Fantasy takes place in a make-believe setting while other fiction takes place in "the real world" don't really understand...

The RPGA hasn't specificied any details. This change was a long time in coming, as the RPGA is simply an extension of the WotC marketing department, and the exclusive (and sometimes exclusionary) nature of the RPGA in the past wasn't making the RPGA as an effective marketing tool as it could...

On the surface, the "Living" campaigns and the D&D Campaigns are very similar. In both, you create a character by a certain set of special guidelines. Then you can play that character at any number of sanctioned events around the world. Your character grows in power (XPs and GPs) just like in...

As people describe their con experiences, I have to add that last year WF did not have a dealer's room. There was one local game store on hand to sell dice and books and stuff, but it was nothing like you would see at Gen Con or Origins or even a large regional convention. I'm not sure if this...

Winter Fantasy is not your normal convention (as if any gaming convention can be called normal). Winter Fantasy is run and sponsored solely by the RPGA, and most likely only RPGA events will be offered. For some reason a few people (some for good reasons, some not) despise the RPGA. If you...

When our daughter was born in 2001, we decided that we needed a hobby to help us have some time for ourselves--as my wife would be home from work and has the tendency to get a bit stir crazy. We'd played DnD for years, so with the release of 3E, we thought we would give it a try again...

Just for the sake of my curiousity, has anyone here ever applied for a job at WotC and taken the editing test?