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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 4921445" data-attributes="member: 52734">I'll play just about anything at a Con but an RPGA game.&nbsp; I've tried RPGA on three different occasions ('92, '02 and '07), and I have no love for it.&nbsp; I got off to a bad start with the 1st RPGA game being about some sort of (very lame) turkey drive (with premade characters and a DM who had no prep time).&nbsp; In the 2nd game, the entire story took place in a section of cave-in and half the players were buddies who were in-fighting against one another for some reason (or not paying attention).&nbsp; In the last one, most of the group was over 7th level (me and one other person was 1st), and the entire adventure didn't seem to account for non-standard classes very well - between my druid, the ranger and the bard, we beat the adventure easily with only one fight - at the very climax of the adventure (and it was the 1st level wizard that cinched that fight with a sling bullet vs. an invisible bugbear).&nbsp; In each case, it was the actions of my fellow players - and their overall attitudes - in each of these games that just bugged me more than anything else.I much prefer one-off games, and I've found I generally have more fun with systems I'm not too familiar with - but have some knowledge of.&nbsp; These games seem to come off more relaxed and social, where the RPGA games seemed to have a &quot;get on board and do things right&quot; or &quot;gather-power&quot; driven attitude.&nbsp; Not to mention they felt rushed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 4921445, member: 52734"] I'll play just about anything at a Con but an RPGA game. I've tried RPGA on three different occasions ('92, '02 and '07), and I have no love for it. I got off to a bad start with the 1st RPGA game being about some sort of (very lame) turkey drive (with premade characters and a DM who had no prep time). In the 2nd game, the entire story took place in a section of cave-in and half the players were buddies who were in-fighting against one another for some reason (or not paying attention). In the last one, most of the group was over 7th level (me and one other person was 1st), and the entire adventure didn't seem to account for non-standard classes very well - between my druid, the ranger and the bard, we beat the adventure easily with only one fight - at the very climax of the adventure (and it was the 1st level wizard that cinched that fight with a sling bullet vs. an invisible bugbear). In each case, it was the actions of my fellow players - and their overall attitudes - in each of these games that just bugged me more than anything else. I much prefer one-off games, and I've found I generally have more fun with systems I'm not too familiar with - but have some knowledge of. These games seem to come off more relaxed and social, where the RPGA games seemed to have a "get on board and do things right" or "gather-power" driven attitude. Not to mention they felt rushed. [/QUOTE]

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