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The most recent episode (Episode #100.5) of the Secret Identity podcast has a nice long interview with Chris Perkins about 4e, the Forgotten Realms, and other general topics. The link to it is http://secretidentity.podomatic.com.

The 4e preview adventures running at DDXP in February are not truly part of the Living Forgotten Realms campaign. They are previews of 4e, and they may be loosely tied to the campaign as mere previews, but they are not part of the campaign. Unless RPGA HQ changes current plans, the official...

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I renewed my membership back in October of 2007, and now my status has changed as well. Thanks, Shawn Merwin

They were not RPGA events really. They were adaptations of the D&D Open that ran at GenCon.

Just as background, I run (with three other fine folks) one of the RPGA's campaigns: Xen'drik Expeditions. So while I do not have direct knowledge of anything happening at WotC (and can't talk about it if I do), I do have a pretty good view of the RPGA, from all sides of the equation. That...

This would be a common assumption. However, all the reports I have heard say that not just a majority, but a vast majority, of RPGA play is home play.

That's a good thing. Consumers/participants making informed choices lets the company know what is working and what isn't. If 4e does not sell well, in the long run, WotC learns from it. If the 4e version of the Realms does not sell well, lesson learned as well.

On the topic of the RPGA running a Living FR campaign and its effect on the development of and continuing relevance to the FR setting, I think it is wise to not overstate things in either direction, especially with all the misinformation and prejudice about the organization out there already...

Module quality is going to vary greatly from one adventure to the next, and from one campaign to the next. One thing to be aware of is that the RPGA adventures are meant to be played in a 4-5 hour time slot (unless it is a multi-round adventure). That means the scope of the adventures are most...

Go to www.rpga.com. In the top-left menu, find and click "Sign In." Supply your RPGA number and password. You have just logged in to the RPGA. Go wild!

I will try to answer as briefly as possible, but there is a lot of ground to cover. To get RPGA adventures, you need to be an RPGA member. It is free to join, and the easiest way to join is to attend an RPGA event. When you go, there will be a membership card you fill out, and on that card...

If you look at the original moderator's warning, you see that it mentions that RPGA-bashing was happening in other threads, and the moderator didn't want it to happen here. So I think that answers your question, especially if the people taking part in the thread were contributing to the...

Interesting. Can you elaborate on what an "everyday DM" is? Also, can you provide a method by which WotC could sign up these "everyday DMs" while ensuring their credentials and trustworthiness?

There is no such thing. Each campaign has a document that discusses things like how to create a character, how to track experience points, etc. It also includes rules on things that, in a home campaign, the DM would have to make rules about anyway. In RPGA campaigns, there needs to be...

As a matter of fact, I have gotten email polls from WotC, or at least a marketing firm that was gathering information for WotC. I got them about once every 3 months for about a year. The polling campaign ended a few months ago, IIRC. On the other hand, I have never seen a poll or a survey...

OK, let's look at it this way. WotC R&D needs the initial playtesters for 4e (outside of internal playtests). They have some choices about how to go about it: --They can accept applications from players, and therefore have to weed through hundreds of "gaming resumes" which would mostly say...

Ok, although I was an administrator in the LG campaign, and I am currently a Factionmaster in the Xen'drik Expeditions campaign, here is my speculation, based on no inside knowledge whatsoever. I think some players see the voluminous canon of FR as a burden, and others see it as benefit. The...

Wow. Can I play "appeal to fear" too? How about this? "If you don't play Living Forgotten Realms, WotC will see that the success of the Living campaign system was a fluke, and they will shut down the RPGA completely! Then there will never be any chance of seeing Greyhawk again anywhere!" Or...

I've been trying to put at least one "adventure secret" into each adventure I write, since that card (as well as some other game elements involving adventure secrets) are established in the campaign. As the Faction known to the tricks, traps, and puzzles, I thought that was a good way to...