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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 408348" data-attributes="member: 151">It might not be, but I'm not sure I have the intenstinal fortitude to find out.  I've only played one RPGA game in my life, at Shorecon 2001, and it soured me enough that I might not try again.I can forgive a DM who's rushed and doesn't know the rules as well as I do.  I can forgive a module that's linear and has mistakes.  But I can't forgive my not having fun.  As the main DM for my group (and for the last three years, up until this previous Saturday, the ONLY DM), I don't get to play much, so I covet the time I get.  There was a non-RPGA game running at the same time as mine, and several of my friends (not being RPGA members) opted for this game, instead.  I stubbornly insisted on playing the scenario because: a) I had joined the RPGA, durn it, and I wanted to play an RPGA scenario and b) I'd already registered for it, and gone to some effort to join it.The end result?  I spent fivehours playing "Brendigund's Blood", a horrible, misconcieved core module for LG, in which we accomplished NOTHING.  We were ambushed, failed miserably, and saved by an NPC.  We didn't follow some obscure clue, and stalled in the module....a good chunk of which was taken up by one player having his dwarf smoke a bong, and then accuse our patron of being evil and trying to kill him.  The guards arrived and took him away.  I got voted best player at the table...for getting another person's character thrown in jail, pending a review by some RPGA board.  Meanwhile, my friends were having the times of their lives, smacking down Frost Giants, Winter Wolves and a Lich.  They show up while I'm still playing and ask "man, why is it so dead at your table?  are you guys even remotely having fun?"My playing time is a little too precious to risk that kind of experience again, despite claims I've heard to the contrary.</blockquote>

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