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Message: <blockquote data-quote="derbacher" data-source="post: 2497519" data-attributes="member: 23639">My personal experience with the RPGA has been overwhelmingly positive. All my forms, player certs, sign-up cards, etc. have been processed well and quickly. There is a slow down right now in processing with GenCon in two days (woo hoo!). Eberron Mark Of Heroes level bumps for the con just came up about two hours ago, so players everywhere are scrambling to update their characters. The RPGA is the only reason I am even ABLE to go to GencCon this year, as they provide a room and badge for judges. The people I have met and played with have been great. Are the adventures for the Living Campaigns somewhat railroad-y? Yep. When you have to run and complete a game for six players in four hours, it of necessity has to be. Can they be fun? Absolutely, as long as everyone understands that THIS is the adventure, and if you choose to do something else, you will fail. I wouldn't run my home games like that, but this is a con, with a few thousand people playing the same adventure over the course of four days. They are called "Living" campaigns for a reason. When the results of the games are reported, it lets them decide where the story is going next based on what the players did. I really like the "Diggers Union" angle of the MoH games, as everyone has a hook and a reason to stay together.Oh, and as to those "rewards" people have been talking about? You can now sanction ANY campaign you run (as long as its some form of WoTC D20; i.e. D&D, Modern, Star Wars, Kalamar, Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Greyhawk, Generic homebrew world, whatever) and earn points for them to get rewards. Got your own homebrew that folks play in every week? Sanction a Home Game and get rewards points for it. Then you have no one to blame for the quality of the mods but yourself! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Got a Shackled City or Age of Worms game going? Sanction them and get the points. It really is whatever you make of it. Gotta go pack for GenCon. Got games to run, Canadians to meet, and Big Geeks to impersonate! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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