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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 2252111" data-attributes="member: 53">As far as I know, if you are using the RPGA to sanction your home game (i.e. earn reward points), there are only two main restrictions.  You are limited to 4-6 players per session and all players must be RPGA members.  I suspect the "home games" are mostly market research for WotC.  They can track how often group that would do this play, and see what worlds they are playing in (you choose to sanction either a Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Eberron or other game).I've started delving into the RPGA recently to play in the Eberron Mark of Heroes campaign.  My general impression is that the RPGA is hit or miss, like any large group.  It depends on who you deal with.  However, my experience with the Mark of Heroes tells me that the leaders in the RPGA either aren't doing their jobs, are in over their heads or are given too much to do by WotC without enough resources.Since the debut of Mark of Heroes at the beginning of the year there have been 5 events you can play in.  Of those, 2 have been limited to only Winter Fantasy (or alternate "premiere  conventions"), so very few will play in those.  Supposedly there are supposed to be monthly "DM's Mark" games where each DM can design their own adventure.  They were late on the first and are, again, very late on the second.In addition, Dungeon magazine has been advertising that you can run Dungeon adventures sanctioned by the RPGA and earn rewards points.  I received issue #123 and the last available adventures you could run were in issue #120.  After getting absolutely NO response from the RPGA or WotC (and the run around from their new support system), I concluded they had stopped supporting Dungeon.It finally took an email to the editors at Dungeon (asking why they were still advertising it when the RPGA had stopped supporting it) to get an answer.  They stated they didn't hear anything and would check with the RPGA.  A day later the Dungeon adventures were updated in the database (kudos, to James Jacobs and Eric Mona for the quick problem solving).On the other hand, I've heard good things about the Living Greyhawk campaign.  I expect, however, this varies from area to area, depending on who is in charge.From this I've decided that the RPGA can be worthwhile, as long as you don't expect anything from anyone in charge.  They seem unconcerned with the rank & file members, and certainly not with communicating with them.</blockquote>

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