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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duncan Haldane" data-source="post: 1691564" data-attributes="member: 514">I've been reasonably involved in the RPGA for a few years now - since the start of Living Greyhawk (LG) really.I no longer play LG, but I DM it a lot.  And most of the time I enjoy the experience.  Sometimes I get a player who annoys me.  But then we don't have a huge number of people here in Australia, so you often work with the same people multiple times.Given I've received 3 expansion boxes of minis, 2 spell templates and a handful of individual minis over the last year or so, and I haven't paid a cent to be a member, I'm pretty happy with it.I agree that you can get bad players, and bad DMs, but if your area doesn't have a large number of players then you can find out soon enough who you do and don't like.The modules can vary.  Give yourself time to read them and check up on abilities you don't know fully.  I also enjoy running the games for other DMs as they can usually be trusted to help me out when DMing - ie, look up a rule, remind me of something I missed that is not in their favour, etc.  The editing of modules can be funny at times.  From the number of spelling errors I've seen in modules (often quite humorous, such as the man with lots of scars being the very SCARED man instead of the very SCARRED man), the editing focuses on rules rather than grammer.DuncanDuncan</blockquote>