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<blockquote data-quote="D'karr" data-source="post: 3785653" data-attributes="member: 336">I've been DMing D&amp;D for over 30 years.&nbsp; I've been playing 3.X since it came out in 2000 and I've been running games for the RPGA for a little over 4 years and I still run games for my home group and only a few of them are RPGA members.I've run a couple of hundred games (over 300) for the RPGA at home events, local gamedays, and conventions, including GenGon.In that amount of time I've only run into ONE group that totally sucked and made me want to pull my hair out.&nbsp; If I limited my experience with the RPGA to that group then I'd say that the RPGA was a turn off.&nbsp; However, that is a very limited minority out of thousands of players that I've had at my table.Anecdotal evidence usually works like that.&nbsp; We see what we decide to focus on.&nbsp; Unfortunately on these boards a lot of anecdotal evidence is used as proof.&nbsp; As if that limited experience was all there was and all there will ever be.Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that there are no bad players in the RPGA.&nbsp; I'm sure that from what I read on these boards regularly there are a lot of bad players in home groups too.&nbsp; In any case one thing does not relate to the other.&nbsp; The RPGA has a good means of providing support for playtesting and do it in an efficient manner.&nbsp; There is going to be additional playtesting outside of the RPGA, and that is good too.To cry to the winds that the &quot;RPGA is not Dungeons and Dragons&quot;, is disingenuous at best.&nbsp; Then to use that opinion as proof positive fact that the RPGA is not a good vehicle for playtesting is ludicrous.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="D'karr, post: 3785653, member: 336"] I've been DMing D&D for over 30 years. I've been playing 3.X since it came out in 2000 and I've been running games for the RPGA for a little over 4 years and I still run games for my home group and only a few of them are RPGA members. I've run a couple of hundred games (over 300) for the RPGA at home events, local gamedays, and conventions, including GenGon. In that amount of time I've only run into ONE group that totally sucked and made me want to pull my hair out. If I limited my experience with the RPGA to that group then I'd say that the RPGA was a turn off. However, that is a very limited minority out of thousands of players that I've had at my table. Anecdotal evidence usually works like that. We see what we decide to focus on. Unfortunately on these boards a lot of anecdotal evidence is used as proof. As if that limited experience was all there was and all there will ever be. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that there are no bad players in the RPGA. I'm sure that from what I read on these boards regularly there are a lot of bad players in home groups too. In any case one thing does not relate to the other. The RPGA has a good means of providing support for playtesting and do it in an efficient manner. There is going to be additional playtesting outside of the RPGA, and that is good too. To cry to the winds that the "RPGA is not Dungeons and Dragons", is disingenuous at best. Then to use that opinion as proof positive fact that the RPGA is not a good vehicle for playtesting is ludicrous. [/QUOTE]

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