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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 2504651" data-attributes="member: 1457">RPGA good for what it isI got into the RPGA a few years ago. 3E had been out for about a year and my group was having a great time. Thing is, we all had jobs, families, and other time-sinks. Everyone wanted to play this cool new game system, but no one wanted to take on the responsibility of running games. Instead, we all wanted to play together.Enter the RPGA. I made a post on the local RPGA Yahoo! group: "Experienced gamers seek fun DM. We: late 20's to mid 30's, gaming since grade school, good vocabulary, fresh breath. You: same, plus tend to roll more 1's than 20's."Within a day I had a response from an articulate guy who volunteered to run a game for us and introduce us to the whole RPGA Living Greyhawk system. It was a total blast. The adventure was pretty good but the DM was fantastic: knowledgable, good role player, skilled at keeping the pace moving. The whole grip really clicked so for the next year and a half this guy would come over every other weekend and run a game for us. Since it was always the same players with the same DM he would throw in customization elements: recurring minor NPCs, slight adjustments to non-critical plot points, and whatnot. So we had the continuity of a home game with the flexibility of a distributed global game network (we did attend the occassional con; I took my character to GenCon one year). I admit my experience was atypical and eventually my group chafed at LG's rigidity (and certain players). We've moved on to a homebrew, with each person sharing DM duties. Point is: the RPGA is zero-effort gaming. Feel like playing D&D but don't want to regularly have to wrangle all your buddies into one place? Don't want to feel obligated to show up to each of your group's game nights? Don't want to bother with creating and running your own adventures? Go with RPGA games. All the organization is handled online (typically with a yahoo group), and you can game according to your own individual schedule.-z</blockquote>

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