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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UniversalMonster" data-source="post: 4716249" data-attributes="member: 1034">The RPGA has changed drastically not only in the last two decades, but also, just in the last year. For example: RPGA is 100% free. Free as in beer!There isn't just one RPGA style of game. There's several! There are living campaigns, delve events, one offs (like Beyond the Door which ran at DDXP this year), The D&D Championship (formerly the D&D Open)...  and probably more.  NOTHING is banned in RPGA anymore. All Wizards of the Coast releases (including everything that comes out in Dragon or Dungeon or DDI) is legal for RPGA play.  (That is, once it ends up in the end-of-month compilation). That means if you want to play a minotaur (from DDI) invoker (from PHB2) in Living Realms, you can.  I actually have a minotaur rogue. She's awesome! The Living campaigns (the only one right now is Living Forgotten Realms) are a bit of a special case: imagine if you had to organize a D&D campaign.. for 21,000 players! Still, we do manage, and it's a lot of fun. The cool thing about the living campaigns is you can adventure with any one of these other players, and as you level up, you can bring your character with you to any LFR adventure that your character is high enough level to play. We also have LFR adaptions of certain adventures: so if you want to play Scepter Tower of Spellgard, or Menace of the Icy Spire (from Dungeon) your LFR character can get credit for those too. Living Forgotten Realms is also actually really nicely optimized for home play. We currently have around 30 Forgotten Realms adventures that are free and orderable in the system, and much more to come.  You don't have to play them at conventions. Where I live, we run 2-3 LFR adventures every single Thursday night at the local shop. I've also run them at my house, at a private gaming club, at my friends apartment, and at the library. Also: Items have literally not been certed for years. Nothing is really certed in LFR except for story awards, and those are so you can remember them. (So for example if you helped out some NPC when you were first level, and then that NPC pops up again when your 8th level, you can go through your little collection and go "Oh wait, my character knows this guy..and he owes me a favor"LFR DMs are empowered to run adventures as they like. LFR DMs can get rewards.. one of the things we are going to be getting is free "exclusive" dungeon tiles with ships on them, I heard. LFR DMs who run slots at one of the big conventions can get pretty good rewards like going to Gen Con free and staying in the hotel for free. At the big shows (GenCon and DDXP) we often get free swag like books and minis and map tiles and stuff.  It's a pretty good deal. Items and such are recorded on your character journal. We do have a limit of one "found" item per level as a way to manage  character wealth. But your character is free to purchase items of up to his level.  It's a lot of fun! If you go to GenCon or something, try it out. It's absolutely the funnest thing you can do at GenCon. Full disclosure: I've been involved in Living Realms as a player point of contact for the northeast US since just before 4E was released. It's an amazing way to meet people!</blockquote>

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