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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 2495995" data-attributes="member: 53">My understanding is that recently the RPGA was somehow moved under WotC's marketing division.  However, they apparently have only three employees that are in charge of everything the RPGA is doing.  That seems to include the person responsible for the web updates.I've started running a few events.  I occasionally run some of the Dungeon adventures, and published adventures that points are available for.  I also have started running my home games under it, since you can earn points for that.  I also have started running the Mark of Heroes campaign.My experiences, some based on hearsay, is that the Living Campaigns are the best the RPGA has in way of organization.  It's not really run by the RPGA, but by volunteers.  The participation in your area will pretty much determine how good it is to you (regionally or locally).  Even so, the adventures are still produced by amateurs.  That means the adventures will range widely in quality (although they have an approval process that theoretically will eliminate the true drek).The Mark of Heroes has been mismanaged almost from the beginning.  I hear the Legacy of the Green Regent was worse.  They were supposed to be a regular series of adventures you could run as part of a campaign, with your recurring characters.  However, adventures were sporadic and often very late.  The adventures have almost no tie into Eberron (indeed, one plotline deals with a "new" plane which really doesn't fit in with Eberron's unique cosmology) and could be for any generic campaign (I do have hopes for the upcoming 7th one, though - it's written by Keith Baker).Supposedly, there was supposed to be a monthly series of adventures that each DM could use to run their own adventure.  Given the number of adventures missed for LotGR campaign, this made sense to keep the campaign going.  However, the RPGA couldn't even keep this going and have only had 3 non-convention ones so far, since January (3 out of 8 - not a good percentage.)Also, they have Dungeon magazine advertising you could run their adventures for RPGA reward points.  However, the refuse to keep the website updated with those events.  Only by bugging the Paizo people was that fixed earlier this year.  I just recently checked and they are just a bit behind, they are missing the ability to run adventures in some issues.After some discussions on various forums, people who are close to those on the inside (but not officially part of the system) have basically said that the RPGA doesn't care about their participants concerns.  I'm sure the staff is overworked and probably is burned out.  WotC cleary has it on the bottom of their priorities, or they'd give them enough employees to get out from under their backlog (at least).</blockquote>

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