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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 483923" data-attributes="member: 2020">Why the RPGA should be appreciatedOk, you go to a gaming convention.  You just want to have some fun playing Dungeons and Dragons.  But NOBODY is running a D&D game at the convention!  Or if they are, that game (or those few games) are booked.  Hard luck.  Try again next year.  You are lucky enough to get into a game.  Congratulations.  Of course, you do not know what rules will be used, because you do not know the DM, and so you do not know what rules the DM allows.  You do not know if you may bring a character of your own creation, or must run a character the DM decides you can run. (Running your own character, is funner, in my opinion.)  You do not know if the game will be consistently run, or if the DM will decide to saunter off for an hour (for pizza) and come back, then discuss non-gaming issues for another 30 minutes, then realize there was supposed to be a game at the table.  You do not know if the DM is going to play favorites.  For that matter, you do not even know if the DM is going to show up.  I have had all of these experiences, plus more, at conventions.  With the RPGA ...  You go to the convention knowing you will get to play.  You go knowing you will get to play the character you want to play, or if you choose (and only if YOU choose) a character handed out.  You go knowing your game will start at the time stated, and it will last for the duration stated.  You go knowing your DM will do his or her job.  You go knowing your DM is unlikely to play favorites - it is possible, but not likely, as the RPGA randomly assigns players with DMs.  You go knowing you will be playing by CONSISTENT rules you can rely on.  There will be no DMs thumping on your winning strategies and tactics you worked on, because the whim takes them that they don't like your style.  Best of all, you go knowing that even if you did not sign up for one event at the convention, you can play in all the RPGA events - they will go out of their way, bend over backwards, to make sure you get a DM and a table.  If you have friends who wish to play, they can play with you at the table - a situation will not arise where there is room for only you at the table, and not your friends.  Oh yes ... if someone misbehaves at the game, and starts ruining the fun for everyone involved, ala Knights of the Dinner Table, they are removed from the game.  How many of you have had to sit, agonizingly, for a half hour at least (or an hour or longer) listening to someone argue with the DM, then rant and rave over a rule or a specific event within the game?  You don't have to put up with that kind of thing in the RPGA.</blockquote>

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