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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7279335" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>Which AL is not. I don't think organized play has been competitive in any sense since it shifted from tournament modules to RPGA back...whenever that was, late 80s? </p><p>Tournaments used pregens, yeah. Though, what I recall seeing of the pregens that came with the tournament modules I saw hardly seemed balanced for a fair competition. It also seemed like tournament modules were particularly arbitrary and nonsensical, even by the standards of the day. (Though, I suppose, they might have constituted the standards of the day...)</p><p></p><p> It's certainly more important than any vestige of 'competitive' play that might be left over from organized play's history of tournaments. But, there's other aspects that are very important. The casual aspect of not necessarily having to show up to every session. The theoretically shared experience of playing the same APs. There's a unifying/belonging side to it, I suppose.</p><p></p><p> AL does have room for that sort of thing. I think it's reported up the WPN chain as 'freeplay' or something like that. It doesn't count towards any AL anything, but it happens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7279335, member: 996"] Which AL is not. I don't think organized play has been competitive in any sense since it shifted from tournament modules to RPGA back...whenever that was, late 80s? Tournaments used pregens, yeah. Though, what I recall seeing of the pregens that came with the tournament modules I saw hardly seemed balanced for a fair competition. It also seemed like tournament modules were particularly arbitrary and nonsensical, even by the standards of the day. (Though, I suppose, they might have constituted the standards of the day...) It's certainly more important than any vestige of 'competitive' play that might be left over from organized play's history of tournaments. But, there's other aspects that are very important. The casual aspect of not necessarily having to show up to every session. The theoretically shared experience of playing the same APs. There's a unifying/belonging side to it, I suppose. AL does have room for that sort of thing. I think it's reported up the WPN chain as 'freeplay' or something like that. It doesn't count towards any AL anything, but it happens. [/QUOTE]
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