The Adventure Role Playing League
Hey gang,
Michelle is one of our board members and I see she has already posted here, giving a nickel review of the Adventure Role Palying League, generally in response to the post that one should not join the ARPL becuase we require dues and we have not yet put up many adventures for play at cons.
I am the league director of the ARPL. You might expect me to get all defensive, but I won't. I agree, now is not the time to join ARPL. We are just getting started. We recently finished the business of writing our rules and bylaws, and now we are moving towards gathering up adventures and campaigns for sanction. When we have a good sampling, we will move forward to create game days all over the country for people to try us out without having to join the league. These are also our fundraisers. Meanwhile, we will be bringing games to all major cons in North AMerica and many throughout the world.
So, give us time to do this right, and when you see that ARPL is right for you, sign up as a player!
Our web site is growing. It seems a little sparse right now, because this is just our beginning. As we get more volunteers, it will move faster. The Web site has three types of access: public viewing, registered visitors, which is free, and player access which is for players only. Feel free to sign up as a visitor and get our information.
We also have a yahoogroups discussion list, which you can join from the Web site. That list is for discussing what ARPL is up to and what we should be doing. Now is the time to contribute ideas, because we are taking ideas very seriously as we create our infrastructure.
The mission of the ARPL is "to support, promote and advance the sport of role-playing games, by being a sanctioning body, by centralizing distribution, and by providing organizational assistance to role-playing-game events." We are independent and non-profit. Dues are meant to to cover expenses at cost, without any profits. Our board of directors and our executive staff are forbidden from accepting money or employment from game publishers. Campaign directors for adventure settings have full artistic control, and writers can use any game system they choose in writing the capsule adventures (which are often called Classic Adventures).
We are looking for volunteers who share our ideals. There is a lot of work to do, adn the sooner it gets done, the sooner we can show the world what the ARPL is made of. If you want to learn more, join us on the discussion list or ask me for more information. There is also a text file on the yahoogroups site that explains what we are doing.
And please, tell us what we are doing wrong if you should see something amiss! That is the reason for having our discussion list.
Feel free to ask me questions. I will try to get back to this forum again in the next few days, and I am on the ARPL discussion list daily.
--David Rozansky, League Director, Adventure Role Playing League
LeagueDirector@arpl.org. Web site:
www.arpl.org. Yahoogroups list:
adventureroleplayingleague-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
