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Hatin' the RPGA? (Forked Thread: The real flaw of 3E/3.5E/OGL)
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<blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4719782" data-attributes="member: 41584"><p>My old-school D&D playing, con-going friends had a virulent loathing of the RPGA, based on experiences many, many years past.</p><p> </p><p>A few years back, I signed up for some Xendrik Expeditions games, and signed one of them up as well, not thinking about how the 'RPGA-thing' was going to go over, and he balked, but went ahead and grimaced and signed the membership card, and we had a great time for the five slots we'd signed up for. We also played a ton of the 'Dungeon Delve' games, also run by RPGA DMs, and they were a fun twist as well, and we got to take home some shiny swag.</p><p> </p><p>My friend admitted that the RPGA we experienced there was *nothing* like the war-gamery hyper-competitive rules-lawyers that he remembers with such distaste from a previous decade. I'm sure that a bad experience could have soured me to the concept as well, but Xendrik Expeditions was run, IMO, brilliantly, unlike Living Greyhawk, where I would have been obliged to only play specific sorts of characters in a specific region, based on where I lived, or Living Raven's Bluff, which, from the sounds of it, was a bit of a disaster...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Set, post: 4719782, member: 41584"] My old-school D&D playing, con-going friends had a virulent loathing of the RPGA, based on experiences many, many years past. A few years back, I signed up for some Xendrik Expeditions games, and signed one of them up as well, not thinking about how the 'RPGA-thing' was going to go over, and he balked, but went ahead and grimaced and signed the membership card, and we had a great time for the five slots we'd signed up for. We also played a ton of the 'Dungeon Delve' games, also run by RPGA DMs, and they were a fun twist as well, and we got to take home some shiny swag. My friend admitted that the RPGA we experienced there was *nothing* like the war-gamery hyper-competitive rules-lawyers that he remembers with such distaste from a previous decade. I'm sure that a bad experience could have soured me to the concept as well, but Xendrik Expeditions was run, IMO, brilliantly, unlike Living Greyhawk, where I would have been obliged to only play specific sorts of characters in a specific region, based on where I lived, or Living Raven's Bluff, which, from the sounds of it, was a bit of a disaster... [/QUOTE]
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