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Message: <blockquote data-quote="qstor" data-source="post: 2519197" data-attributes="member: 1489">Getting in on this a bit late....This thread seems to come up every few months...For my RPGA experiences..I've organized conventions, game days, judged twice at GenCon, once this year and another time in 2001, played, DM'd. I've played with Endur a few times too  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I joined in 2000 for Living Greyhawk because I was a huge fan of the setting. I was around an RPGA *club* (the RPGA used to have a club program in the late 1990's) in Michigan for the 2e period of Living City but all the PC's where high level and I didn't want to start in LC. So I joined for the starting of Living Greyhawk.I've also written four RPGA Living Greyhawk modules. I think over all my experinces have been positive as well. As for newer players, at the conventions I've run, I've always made time to sit down and help players create a new character. I think if the game day organizer didn't do that its a very POOR decision on their part and shouldn't reflect on the over all RPGA community.I've made a lot of friends amoung the RPGA players here in the area. It's mostly where I get my gaming now a days. I play mostly Living Greyhawk and Living Kalamar. A lot of people I know like Living Arcanis as well but personally the setting really isn't my cup of tea, but thats just me its like arguing over which is better the Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk.I've played Living Force and Living Death too. I'm kinda upset that Force is closing off at Winter Fantasy 2006. I hope they're able to create a new sci-fi campaign. What I enjoy is playing my characters in an established setting and rule system that I know pretty well. I had some bad experiences with a DM that mixed 2e and 3e rules in a *home* style game and haven't really found a DM with the kinda game I'm looking for, so I gravitate to the RPGA games. I've attempted to run home games but with players busy schedules and people moving and getting new jobs and new children coming into their lives, the games have kinda broken down. So I can DM and play my PC's at various RPGA events from Winter Fantasy to GenCon and local cons here. Players I know have traveled to GenCon Europe as well with their PCs, so there's protability of the characters which I think is a good thing to some respect.Are there downsides? SURE just like with everything, does WOTC push the marketing angle too hard sometimes? Sure..and I feel  at times they loose site that the RPGA should be for the members and not the almightly dollar or pound  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I wish that other games like Shadowrun or Call of Cthulhu still have a place in the RPGA. I hope that new campaigns like Living Death which is also ending and Living Force can be continued in some respects.I think the horrible editing, poor campaign managment and limited campaign length are reasons why the Dungeons and Dragons campaigns of LotGR and Mark of Heros are NOT they way for the RPGA to go in the future. If so I'll probably drop out..I've run and played both those campaigns but I think those campaigns are not what the majority of players want.I also want to reflect the opinions that Living Greyhawk regions are varied. I used to live *sigh* in Maryland where I was born and raised. The Living Greyhawk region there is Geoff. Geoff as well as Wisconsin (Highfolk) are very often rated in the top five regions for overall quality. Where I live now unfortunatly is at the bottom. (This is from a survey done by the LG campaign staff a few years ago) I'm trying to help out by writing mods and trying to improve the quality. I was asked to volunteer for the local Triad but unfortunatly I don't have the time to devote to that but still enjoy judging and writing. So my advice if your region sucks, try and help to make it better.As for people complaining about the RPGA someone once (IIRC it was Jae Walker the old head of Living Force) said "That if who give people a free donut they'll complain it has a hole in it" Some of the complaints are well founded and there are issues that need to be addressed...But I wouldn't say as a whole the RPGA has failed.Mike McKeown</blockquote>

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