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Ah! Yes, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

That's strange. We released a bunch of adventures just before the level bump. In fact, the main complaint I heard was that there wasn't enough time to play all the adventures we released before the level bump. Perhaps you are thinking of Mark of Heroes and not Xen'drik Expeditions? There...

We've adapted it so the players in the RPGA's Xen'drik Expeditions campaign can play it and gain XP and treasure for the XE characters. I did the adaptation for Part 1, and it is going to be a lot of fun! Very good adventure that really hits on a lot of the best parts of the Eberron setting...

As soon as I read the class, I thought, "Why couldn't they have released this six months ago?" With the focus on knowledge, the class is a natural for the Crimson Codex adventures. Now to just make it work. Hearing about your experience will certainly help. Thanks! Shawn Crimson Codex...

I honestly wish that there would be a way to bring back Classics, in whatever format that would work. I just don't see any significant demand for them, and I don't see any sort of format that would make the demand significant enough, short of cash prizes.

As kind of a refocus of the topic, and this is the same question I once put to Ian at RPGA HQ: "why does the RPGA want to bother with Classics at all?" [By the way, I love Classics with the in-depth roleplaying and character hooks.] The Living and D&D Campaign models sell books, as people have...

One thing to try if you do have to write boxed text: avoid using the word "you." This mostly eliminates any tendencies to tell the PCs what they do or how they feel. It also tends to eliminate "lazy" writing; it really makes you look at the scene you are setting in a new way.

Agreed, for the most part. I think it is possible for someone to judge something without having tried it, because they know their own preferences and experiences. What is wrong is making that judgment FOR others based on individual preference. Which is why as right as people are to say that...

I can only speak for myself, but this is the EXACT situation I am in. There are several campaigns I would like to play in, but the only way I could play them regularly is online. I tried it. I found the experience, even though I tried with different groups on different platforms, to be no fun...

I have both played and DMed online games using a variety of different interfaces. At this point in my life, and with the current technology, I can honestly and safely say that I would rather not play at all than play online. I spend my working hours staring at a computer screen boxed away from...

I have no problem with a DM running their campaign any way they want. It's always interesting to hear how people work things. As a player, I could be happy playing a commoner with an 18-point-buy for stats, or I could be happy playing a uber-tweaked gestalt character. For me it's more about...

So what you mean is that the expansion slot system can be a good thing, even in a home campaign, because it can eliminate DM favoritism from one player to the next?

This is only true to a point. Rules elements that are in the book where a class first appears are also unlocked to avoid the situation you describe. For example, if you play a warlock you get all the invocations in Complete Arcane, but you still have to unlock invocations appearing in other...

Heh. This is very much like the RPGA system, except for the "must be cleared with the DM" part. Imagine having 10,000 plus people emailing you each time they level up to ask if taking this or that is allowable. What the RPGA's Xen'drik Expeditions campaign expansion slot system does, in a...

Awesome question. Ah the memories . . . At least a score while gaming in high school and previously. Another 30 or more playing in college. About 15 in groups after college. Then, with the RPGA and other conventions, DMing six slots per convention, with 6 player at a table, times about 60...

While an interesting idea, I think the following dichotomy will become apparent in responses: A majority of the people play in or run campaigns where they create their own adventures, or modify published adventures trememndously. Such a system of adventure building, to these people, is at best...

Just as a less tangential tangent, let me say that writing a good RPGA adventure, especially a Core adventure, is difficult. I've tried to describe writing one to my peers who write fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and this is the closest I could come: it is an ugly amalgam of short story...

At the Worldwide D&D Gameday, after the very "interesting" game that came with the support materials, they asked me to talk to the 20+ players who were there about the RPGA. I didn't quite have time to prepare anything too eloquent, so I went with something like this: ----- Right now, the RPGA...

What Glyfair said, plus this. If you have questions about things with the RPGA, you are much better served by contacting the people directly in charge of the particular campaign you are interested in or dealing with. GenCon SoCal is happening in a couple weeks, and it is also possible to get...