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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostwind" data-source="post: 489152" data-attributes="member: 3060">Perfection? Hardly...No, I don't believe anyone here is asking for perfection. For the most part, everyone here supports the idea and organization of the RPGA. However, the criticisms raised are legitimate problems within the organization that need to be addressed. Yes, the RPGA has troubling finding and recruiting good judges. Why not give them an incentive to improve their techniques and skills other than simply saying "you get into the Con for free"?Yes, many times the quality of the scenarios are lacking in terms of proper game mechanics and plot/story (Living City, for example). Again, come up with an incentive that rewards the better writers and yet encourages folks to at least make an attempt to write a good scenario. There are a huge number of very talented people capable of writing who have never had anything published before (I know because I see it with the submissions I receive for my magazine and contests).The overall attitude of gamers at cons is positive but a few bad apples can spoil it for a person, as myself and others have pointed out. To simply brush our comments aside as demanding perfection is as bad as refusing to see that there are problems within the organization that need to at least be acknowledged that they exist. The RPGA is not perfect, nor do we expect it to be. But we do expect to see efforts for continual improvement and betterment of the organization. Edena, it's great that you have such a positive experience with no problems, but giving what folks have posted here, you could be the exception rather than the norm. To imply that the RPGA itself can do no wrong is the equivalent to wearing blinders that only allow you to see directly in front of you and not what is going on all around. You are coming across (whether it is your intent or not) as blindly defending the RPGA from its critics without hearing what we are saying. The facts are there have been people turned away at cons and local gatherings, there are unhappy gamers with bad experiences, and there are gamers who have difficulty even finding a RPGA gaming group. While something may not be broken here, there certainly is evidence of wear and tear.The RPGA is a good organization, but there is a lot of room for improvement and as long as they recognize this and move in a forward direction, I think everyone will at least support their vision, if not the organization directly...[edited for spelling]</blockquote>

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