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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sigfried" data-source="post: 408593" data-attributes="member: 1798">RPGA (often better than not)I've played in a fair number of RPGA games and a fair number of not-RPGA.  I'm here in Seattle and RPGA is very popular these days so we may have a better quality of folks running the events.Anywhow, Ive been in some stinky RPGA adventures, mostly because the module was trying for some wierd concept or trying to be funny.  In one game there was a "Donkey Kong" room, another had 1000 terrasks (SP) running around and gama world space ships.  In most the players or the GM managed to salvage a few fun moments but the adventure was crap.  But most of the ones I've been in were average adventures with above agerage GMs.On the other hand, non RPGA games are usualy an abject lesson in how to be the worst GM possible.  Either the GM dosn't know any of the rules of the game, they just want to run 4 hours of boring combat, they see a game as an excuse to tell you about all their own cool characters that show up as unstopable NPC protaganists that complete the adventure for you, they are psyco nutcases that cry and scream and throw fits, etc etc...  Id say one in 5 is decent and one in 10 is realy good, as where with RPGA its at least 50/50.Personaly I've taken to writing down the names of both the good and bad GMs in my area and I only play with people on the good list or ones I've heard good things about.</blockquote>