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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6315074" data-attributes="member: 5143">From what I can tell, right now they've centered their Organized Play heavily around stores.  Stores have to order the materials to run them in their own stores.  Stores have to order the materials in order to partner with conventions(thus, the statement above about how "It’s best for a convention to partner with a game store").They've included the section on conventions in order to provide exceptions to certain cons who are too big to be sponsored by a game store.  That way they can get around their own rules for Gen Con and Origins and the like.I see it being very likely that anyone with a convention smaller than 100 people is going to be asked to contact a local store and ask them to order the adventures for them.  It'll technically be called a "convention" in that it doesn't actually have to take place at the store.  However, it'll still need to be in a public location and open to the public.  And it'll require a store to "sponsor" it.Unfortunately, I think this will cause a lot of problems.  I missed the time to ask our local store to order the first batch of Expedition adventures already and it is unlikely they ordered them on their own.  Which means I'm going to have to ask them to order it for the next month.  Then I have to rely on the owner being smart enough with computers to order it properly and send me the materials in time.  Which he'll keep promising to do as soon as he gets a chance.  Then, I have to try to find a public place to play it in.  Our game store owner will insist it be his store since he's going through the effort of ordering it for us.  However, his store closes super early and isn't open the vast majority of the time we'd want to play in.At the moment, given what has been announced, I think it'll be impossible for us to run any Expeditions adventures.  We already can't play Encounters because the one store that runs it gets the materials to the DMs too late to prepare and run it(they gave the opening weekend packet to the DMs 3 days after opening weekend and was unaware that opening weekend was a thing).  The other store that used to do it decided not to stay open later than 6 on Wednesdays and therefore isn't open when Encounters should run.</blockquote>

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