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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smerwin29" data-source="post: 4716385" data-attributes="member: 15050">This contains the faulty assumption that RPGA = gaming with strangers.  I would estimate that 80% of RPGA play is played in groups that play together just as regularly as a non-RPGA home game.  This is true.  I am not sure how the RPGA caused this change in people's estimations though.Not necessarily true.  I have seen the 4e Command power used outside of combat on several occasions, both in and out of RPGA play.Creative potential is eliminated only if the DM and the players choose to limit it.  I have myself used the power outside of combat to make an NPC seem inebriated to town guards (dazed and falls prone).Again, this assumes that the RPGA is somehow not representative of the wider D&D audience, and in my experiences I have never seen anything to prove that is the case.  I play with/work with players and DMs and developers both in the RPGA and out--as well as outside of WotC completely.  I have not noticed any tendencies for the players within the RPGA that fall outside of the tendencies of D&D players as a whole: they run the gamut, just as any players do.Shawn</blockquote>