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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Badkarmaboy" data-source="post: 3785091" data-attributes="member: 39489">Contentious you say?Gosh, I don't know why I'd feel at all insulted by someone saying playing D&D with the RPGA isn't "naturally dungeons and dragons".  I'm one of the "crappy DM's" the OP spoke about who wrote some of the "scored games" (not adventures, oh no) that the snot nosed kids play.  Maybe play is the wrong word, mabye I should say we just sit around and pretend to be in the same world.  DonTadow, you really nailed it  <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:" /> .    Done with the sarcasm- I've been heavily involved with the RPGA for a few years now and it's been a very positive experience.  Is it the same as having a home group?  No.  Is it better?  Not a fair question, it's a different way to do the same thing-have fun role playing.  IMHO, given the structure of the RPGA, it lends itself well to discovering flaws in the rule set.  The campaign setting for Living Greyhawk tries to address it, but players are a crafty bunch and will find ways to break stuff.  Discovering the breakage and dealing with it would be one of the reaons that I think that wotc would want the RPGA to playtest 4E.  That's just one reason I could think of.  Another reason-maybe some of those RPGA pukes who write the non-adventures that the OP hates so much are a known quantity to wotc.  One of the perks of being part of LG is getting to know the devs at some of the cons.  Writing and organizing for the RPGA is a good way to get your foot in the door.  There's this guy named Chris Tulach (you may have seen his blog on the wotc page) who started as a lowly player in the RPGA, became a Triad member in LG, moved on to being a Circle member and is now the RPGA coordinator (and wotc employee).  Gosh, it would seem that him wasting his time not-role-playing with the RPGA helped him get a career in gaming. Ok, I'm done.  Game on.</blockquote>

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