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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9174871" data-attributes="member: 6684958">There was a time when Tournament play at a convention was considered the only &quot;real&quot; way to play D&amp;D in gaming circles.&nbsp; Anyone who played D&amp;D in their basement was not playing &quot;real D&amp;D&quot;, or maybe it was seen as &quot;practice&quot;, but still not real D&amp;D.For a time too.....lots of conventions made DMs &quot;offical game masters&quot; and you even got a piece of paper saying so.&nbsp; Some times there was even a quiz to prove you knew the rules.&nbsp; Then you could run an &quot;Offical Tournament Game&quot;.And there was a fad, where such GM would wear their &quot;offical title&quot; as a badge and say that &quot;only they were an Official Games Master&quot; and anyone else that just &quot;picked up a DMG&quot; was NOT a real DM.Even into the 90's people were still writing into Dragon, and they would publish the letters, of people wanting to know how to be a &quot;real offical DM&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 9174871, member: 6684958"] There was a time when Tournament play at a convention was considered the only "real" way to play D&D in gaming circles. Anyone who played D&D in their basement was not playing "real D&D", or maybe it was seen as "practice", but still not real D&D. For a time too.....lots of conventions made DMs "offical game masters" and you even got a piece of paper saying so. Some times there was even a quiz to prove you knew the rules. Then you could run an "Offical Tournament Game". And there was a fad, where such GM would wear their "offical title" as a badge and say that "only they were an Official Games Master" and anyone else that just "picked up a DMG" was NOT a real DM. Even into the 90's people were still writing into Dragon, and they would publish the letters, of people wanting to know how to be a "real offical DM". [/QUOTE]

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