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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 482650" data-attributes="member: 2020">Edena_of_Neith here.  Have you ever gone to a gaming convention, and found that all the games were booked, and you were out of luck?  Heh.  If you are lucky, they will say:  We are sorry, but we are full up.  Try that group;  they might have an opening.  Or perhaps they will not talk to you at all, except to be very annoyed you interrupted their game.  Well, the RPGA always has openings for gamers.  You can arrive at a convention without knowing what's going on, without ever having looked at the registration sheet, and get into games from start to finish at the convention, if the RPGA is there.  You are ... always ... welcome in the RPGA.  The question you might ask is:  how do they do it?  The answer to that is:  they work their butts off.  The typical RPGA Judge pulls a 12 hour shift at conventions, for each and every day the convention is running.  Some of them, pull 16 hour shifts.  RPGA Judges, of course, have the right to refuse to DM just like anyone else ... these volunteers choose to work that hard, and people benefit from their work.  Imagine for a second that you are a DM, and about one hundred people are standing there, waiting to get into your game, and somehow you must admit all of them.  Well, the RPGA must deal with that situation every 6 hours at a convention!  The Event Coordinator works with the Judges to get everyone into a game, this process being arduous and sometimes taking a half hour to accomplish, but they do it.  They do it, and they do it every time.    When the Coordinator runs out of Judges, volunteers come in to help, giving their time so that people with generic tickets have a chance to play.  In all my years of gaming and of attending conventions, I have never seen anyone work harder than RPGA event coordinators and RPGA judges to perform, to give players the chance to have a game and enjoy the game, to work their butts off to please the gaming audience.  I think they deserve some respect, and wish to say so here.  - - -  Now, if you are one of those people who have heard bad things about the RPGA, I suggest you go to an RPGA Gather, and see for yourself.  These people TRY VERY HARD, and they work very hard.  You will see this, in spades, at each and every Gather.  You will probably be very glad you are not the Event Coordinator, who has about 10 people talking to him at once, and is somehow talking back to said 10 people, for 30 minutes straight.  And THEN he must rush off and run a game himself.  Cheers to the Coordinators and Judges of the RPGA!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Edena_of_Neith</blockquote>

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