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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gothmaugCC" data-source="post: 3785090" data-attributes="member: 54883">The RPGA is the perfect place to quickly and efficiently test a large batch of mechanics over a wide variety of players, many of whom are very knowledgeable about the game. Remember, in RPGA games you HAVE to play by the rules, no house rules allowed, so If somethng is broken/unbalanced or generally a pain in the A**, the RPGA guys and gals will find it quick. Also your talking about a group of people with a ridiculous ammount of gaming experience. Look at me for example. I have played just about every Living campaign out there, but if you jsut look at my Living Greyhawk playtime, i've played about 25-30 sessions of Greyhawk a year for the past 5 years. Since each session is 4 hours long, I'm looking at having played 100-120 adventures at about 400-480 hours in greyhawk alone. That doesnt count all the Living Arcanis , Living Force, Living City, and Living Blackmoor adventures i've played, or the countless adventures I've been  DM for. AND scarily enough, there are guys in the RPGA that make my time played look like a joke  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> So yes, if you want to test game mechanics and class balance, the RPGA is a suitable testing ground. If there's a loophole they will find it. GothmaugCCP.S. Just a comment to some above posts about RP and the RPGA. Depending on your table (and I try to never sit at a random table) you can end up having groups who are all about the roleplaying aspect of the game, and you can get groups who are pure, as we call them, "stat monkeys or Cheese Weasels", but most of the time you get a healthy mix of all the gaming archetypes. Yeah you get a bad group once in a while, but remember, most of the people playing are there for the same reason you are, to enjoy a DnD game. The RPGA has beena  great outlet for me when Ive been too busy to host a weekly home game.</blockquote>

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