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<blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 2994604" data-attributes="member: 4682">I was once a Shield Lands Triad member.&nbsp; I have also authored four LG adventures.&nbsp; I've been playing LG on and off since about 2001.I used to go the Gencon when it was in Milwaukee, but when it was moved to Indy it was too far for me.&nbsp; I go to the big LG events around my region.&nbsp; I have always wanted to to go Origins, Winter Fantasy, Gencon (Indy and SoCal), but my wife looks down at spending money at such events when I can get my LG gaming done at home just fine and cheaply.About the forced retirement.&nbsp; The characters are not totally removed from ever being played again.&nbsp; There is supposed to be a &quot;high level&quot; campaign for those retired characters.&nbsp; The work on the high level LG campaign is still being done.I don't have all of the information for why the forced retirement was put in place, I had left my Triad seat and briefly left the LG scene when the retirements were first being implemented.&nbsp; The biggest reasons were spells; wish, limited wish, miracle, true resurrection, polymorph any object, time stop.&nbsp; Authoring adventures for high level play is extremely problematic when everything needs to be accomplished in a 4 hour time slot.&nbsp; I could go into all the other unique challenges of LG-style play, but the crux of everything is&nbsp; that players and judges don't have the flexibility of &quot;Rule Zero&quot;.&nbsp; They play by the book, flaws and all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AdmundfortGeographer, post: 2994604, member: 4682"] I was once a Shield Lands Triad member. I have also authored four LG adventures. I've been playing LG on and off since about 2001. I used to go the Gencon when it was in Milwaukee, but when it was moved to Indy it was too far for me. I go to the big LG events around my region. I have always wanted to to go Origins, Winter Fantasy, Gencon (Indy and SoCal), but my wife looks down at spending money at such events when I can get my LG gaming done at home just fine and cheaply. About the forced retirement. The characters are not totally removed from ever being played again. There is supposed to be a "high level" campaign for those retired characters. The work on the high level LG campaign is still being done. I don't have all of the information for [b]why[/b] the forced retirement was put in place, I had left my Triad seat and briefly left the LG scene when the retirements were first being implemented. The biggest reasons were spells; wish, limited wish, miracle, true resurrection, polymorph any object, time stop. Authoring adventures for high level play is extremely problematic when everything needs to be accomplished in a 4 hour time slot. I could go into all the other unique challenges of LG-style play, but the crux of everything is that players and judges don't have the flexibility of "Rule Zero". They play by the book, flaws and all. [/QUOTE]

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