Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 3784971" data-attributes="member: 22622">Some people don't feel it's naturally dungeons and dragons. I've had a ton of horror stories about the RPGA which caused me to stop playing in events all together a few years ago.&nbsp; RPGA's aren't modules. They are scored games.&nbsp; There is no risky side quests or PC initiated stories that create the plot.&nbsp; Few DMs I know run a long module from beginning to end without instituting many of their own enhancements, stories and multiplots.&nbsp; You don't get that with RPGA events.&nbsp; You get a set story, a random DM (I've had good ones and a majority of crappy ones) and if you're at a convention count on one snot nosed kid.&nbsp; The PCs have no relevance to the plot, as they are designed to be that way so that 100s of groups can run it.&nbsp; It's what you play when you can't get in a real group and want a fix. It's the crack of dungeons and dragons.&nbsp; So little relevance the PCs have to the plot is the writer of the module will tell you what &quot;really&quot; happened in that module sometime later to keep a coherent story together.&nbsp; How many d and d games have you been in where what you did not matter.&nbsp; The RPGA isn't Dungeons and dragons, its a light version in order to get a bunch of people to pretend they are in the same world.&nbsp; A mumbomagumbo of tabletop and mmorpg. So why test out your new system beginning with tests that don't resemble the actual use of the product.&nbsp; It would be like GE testing out toasters by seeing how fast they can warm up a house.&nbsp; So why in the world is it the first testing grounds for the new edition?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DonTadow, post: 3784971, member: 22622"] Some people don't feel it's naturally dungeons and dragons. I've had a ton of horror stories about the RPGA which caused me to stop playing in events all together a few years ago. RPGA's aren't modules. They are scored games. There is no risky side quests or PC initiated stories that create the plot. Few DMs I know run a long module from beginning to end without instituting many of their own enhancements, stories and multiplots. You don't get that with RPGA events. You get a set story, a random DM (I've had good ones and a majority of crappy ones) and if you're at a convention count on one snot nosed kid. The PCs have no relevance to the plot, as they are designed to be that way so that 100s of groups can run it. It's what you play when you can't get in a real group and want a fix. It's the crack of dungeons and dragons. So little relevance the PCs have to the plot is the writer of the module will tell you what "really" happened in that module sometime later to keep a coherent story together. How many d and d games have you been in where what you did not matter. The RPGA isn't Dungeons and dragons, its a light version in order to get a bunch of people to pretend they are in the same world. A mumbomagumbo of tabletop and mmorpg. So why test out your new system beginning with tests that don't resemble the actual use of the product. It would be like GE testing out toasters by seeing how fast they can warm up a house. So why in the world is it the first testing grounds for the new edition? [/QUOTE]

Verification