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<blockquote data-quote="pedr" data-source="post: 6313172" data-attributes="member: 33464">Indeed. The success of Living Greyhawk and Pathfinder Society in the UK (and most play of LFR) was down to home play. Not always closed/privately organised home play - I helped organise a Living Greyhawk group which actively welcomed new players and arranged games as often as possible around a few dozen people's availability, but hosted those games in homes for lack of a store or other free venue (particularly a venue which would let us play into the middle of the night, which happened with quite a few complex LG mods). I'm not sure AL will find it easy to progress beyond Encounters in the UK if groups which are currently playing LFR in extended home groups and go to occasional conventions find that they can't get the most &quot;living&quot; style bit of AL, and the bits they can get aren't suited to single-session games which can cope with a fluctuating player-base.The article seems to suggest that &quot;convention&quot; only really means &quot;in public&quot; so perhaps I'll be able to encourage people who are on the fence that they can run Expeditions in cafe's, pubs, University gaming clubs, etc, but that remains to be seen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pedr, post: 6313172, member: 33464"] Indeed. The success of Living Greyhawk and Pathfinder Society in the UK (and most play of LFR) was down to home play. Not always closed/privately organised home play - I helped organise a Living Greyhawk group which actively welcomed new players and arranged games as often as possible around a few dozen people's availability, but hosted those games in homes for lack of a store or other free venue (particularly a venue which would let us play into the middle of the night, which happened with quite a few complex LG mods). I'm not sure AL will find it easy to progress beyond Encounters in the UK if groups which are currently playing LFR in extended home groups and go to occasional conventions find that they can't get the most "living" style bit of AL, and the bits they can get aren't suited to single-session games which can cope with a fluctuating player-base. The article seems to suggest that "convention" only really means "in public" so perhaps I'll be able to encourage people who are on the fence that they can run Expeditions in cafe's, pubs, University gaming clubs, etc, but that remains to be seen. [/QUOTE]

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