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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 4047419" data-attributes="member: 2">Actually, I'd say you have. Everything I know about GMing came from studying astonishingly good DMs in the RPGA. Jay Tummelson (now with Rio Grande Games), Teeuwynn Woodruff (who is now at WotC), the late Brett Bakke, and a dozen more -- people who could make a pre-written module simply sing. I've had some of the funniest, most exciting D&D games of my life running or playing in RPGA classic games. I've also made dozens of great friends who I'm in touch with to this day.Of course, I've also played with sucky tables and beginning DMs. It happens. But in my experience, the superb outweighs the mediocre.The Campaign style of RPGA play doesn't appeal to me, so I can't speak for games nowadays. But I'm hesitant to condemn RPGA games as a whole. If you want something a lot like I'm describing, try coming to one of the EN World game days, or play in ENW games at GenCon. It's very similar to the old classics: friendly people and good DMs running really good games with pre-gen characters.</blockquote>