Have you played any RPGA-sanctioned games in the past 3 months?

[cybertalus]

It's quite possible to run a game at home - indeed, I'm sure that's how a lot of RPGA play occurs. I just have my regular group getting together, I know I'm running an adventure from Dungeon magazine, and I just tell the RPGA that I'm doing so.

That's an option I'll definitely keep in mind.

 

[MerricB]

Incidentally, on RPGA participation, here's an interesting bit of information:

"For instance, did you know that our event sanctioning numbers are up 70% from last year (which were up 50% from 2002)? And for all you naysayers who will claim it’s just home play, conventions have gone up 50% from last year. In any given month the RPGA answers well over a thousand questions from members (roughly 70 a week day by my last report), and facilitates almost as many events. " -- Stephen Radney-MacFarland; RPGA Content Manger; Wizards of the Coast
http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=328342

Very interesting.

Although my primary reason for running RPGA adventures is the hope of occasionally getting stuff through the DM Rewards program, the RPGA is also a way of me getting adventures that I don't have to design myself. This is very useful for settings I'm not that familiar with (Eberron, Living Force).

Cheers!

 

[kenobi65]

I play (and occasionally judge) an RPGA game at least every other week, sometimes more often. Most of my play is online; there's a core group of a few dozen of us who enjoy playing together (in various combinations). I also play RPGA at GenCon, and sometimes Winter Fantasy.

For me, RPGA events give me a chance to actually play, as I DM for my two home game groups.

Living Force is my #1 RPGA campaign; I've played every LF module published, and hope my character makes it through to the end of the campaign next year. I also enjoy Living Death (though I don't get to play that one as often as I'd like), and occasionally Living Spycraft.

I played a fair amount of Living City in 2001 and 2002, until they killed the "original" Living City campaign. I played Living Dragonstar pretty regularly until the recent end of that campaign, when Fantasy Flight Games pulled the plug on Dragonstar.

I've played a few Living Greyhawk adventures, but I haven't much enjoyed the combat focus of that campaign, and so I don't really seek out opportunities to play that campaign. (IME, of late, most people who complain about having had a bad RPGA experience played Living Greyhawk, with a pack of munchkins and / or a poor Judge.)

I've actively avoided Legacy of the Green Regent, as they way they handle character advancement and character management don't appeal to me.