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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairfoot" data-source="post: 2862084" data-attributes="member: 23732">I used "book club" to describe groups which nominate a book of the month, read it, then assemble to discuss the book: the author's style, likes/dislikes, what they would have liked the author to have done differently etc.  It's gaining popularity as a social activity which doesn't involve alcohol or sport, but does involve the intellect.  Good article here: books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1411452,00.htmlIn some cases a publisher lends assistance with establishing and managing the group so that their product reaches a wider audience.My idea is that WotC could enroll "designated DMs" who receive regularly updated campaign material from HQ in order to run campaigns that have some consistency in quality and flavour worldwide.  Players who attend could contribute a small fee and receive a bound SRD, plus regular campaign updates packed with adverts for the publisher's newest products.With commercial endorsement and support, groups could be run from community centres, social clubs, libraries, or - better yet - co-designed with educators so that they could be run as elective or extra-curricular activities for schools and universities.It could open the hobby up to people who might never walk in to their FLGS or go out of their way to find a group which plays around someone's kitchen table in the suburbs.  It also could break the knee-jerk D&D=Satanism/geekness reaction, and demonstrate that RPG doesn't mean LARPing.Actually, I wouldn't nominate D&D at the vanguard - the appeal of the genre is too narrow - but D20 Buffy, D20 Matrix, or (holiest of holies) D20 Harry Potter would be ideal.Computers are going to eat tabletop alive unless we play up the strengths of TT: interaction, socialising, in-depth narratives.  A lot of people who attend reading groups also aspire to write.  It seems to me that RPGs are right on the border between being a reader and an author, being more involved than the former and less daunting than the latter.</blockquote>

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