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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shaylon" data-source="post: 2495860" data-attributes="member: 22867">I play in RPGA sponsered events occasionally at my FLGS and at Cons, but I think that the RPGA has serious problems and I believe that veteran gamers are quickly put off by them.A couple of examples from an RPGA adventure I DM'd as a one shot for my regular group.-There was a murder in the module and the PC's were investigating.  The module required a heal check (DC 25 IIRC) to determine certain things about the murder.  I thought this wsa the strangest thing, and so did my group.-One of the grey boxes was missing the last three or four sentences leaving an "ad-lib" moment.-There were countless mispellings-They seem to have a terrible railroading effect.  I understand that there are goals that need to be accomplished in a set amount of time but there are many published adventures that do this and don't make the party feel like they have only one choice.I think that the RPGA can be good at getting people to start playing the game but with their mistakes and sometimes odd ways they turn a lot of people away as they get better at adventuring.  Oh and I have never played in an RPGA event where I met a stranger and we continued to play, although I did hang with a couple of guys at the RAM after a Green Regent game last year.-Shay</blockquote>