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Herrbard:
Present were Ian Richards, Chris Tulach, I believe six members of the Living Greyhawk Circle, and one Xen'drik Factionmaster.
1. RPGA campaigns are doing great. Play numbers are up, more people signed up every year, Conventions get bigger every time. (The standard Ian opening speech. And I still believe him, as I see the evidence with my own eyes.)
2. Mark of Heroes is over with the finale running at D&D XP. It will be available for other play venues so everyone can experience the finale and be a part of it.
3. Living Death is over as of D&D XP. They had a great finale, Claire Hoffman spoke eloquently and at length about the campaign, and was rousingly received and thanked for her tremendous effort to keep the campaign going for its ten-year run.
4. New rewards mailing will be five Xen'drik cards and five Greyhawk cards. These are newly designed cards and official for use in the campaign. (One Greyhawk card is a reprint, but I forget what it was. All five say Living Greyhawk on them.)
5. We have big announcements for you all! Really big! About new campaigns and other good stuff! (Rousing cheer from the audience.)
And if you want to hear about them, come to GenCon Indy in August because we can't tell you about them yet. (General feeling of deflation from the room.)
This was very disappointing. And Ian and Chris Tulach were just as disappointed as the rest of us, but WotC corporate won't let them announce anything yet.
Grahamdrew:
1) Living Kalamar is not going anywhere. There were a number of rumors that it would be dropped in the next year, especially with the RPGA trimming it's non-Wizards campaigns. Those rumors are unfounded.
2) The Mark of Heroes finale will not only be available at other venues, it will be available for ordering outside the extended premier program.
3) GenCon will be seeing a 3 mod mini-campaign based in the Forgotten Realms. It will tie in to the new Undermountain product. I got the impression that this was going to be GenCon-exclusive. They mentioned the possibility of certs or other rewards that would be assignable to characters in the main RPGA campaigns.
4) The RPGA is interested in hearing recommendations on how to handle Classics in the future. Right now there are none available, and historically they've gotten little play. Chris and Ian would like to see them continue, and would like to know how to do that.
5) If there's a problem, blame Chris. He reserves the right to then blame it on SRM, his predecessor.
6) There is a new campaign in the works, and was just on the edge of an announcement at WF. It's something "people have requested." (this is the thing Herrbard referred to in #5).
7) Chris brought up the idea of having periodic online open discussions in a chat room. A number of people there (including myself) were highly receptive to the idea, and it met with a fair amount of applause. He said he'd see about getting something set up on a monthly basis or so.
As much as I'd love to see a new Star Wars campaign I've got to throw my money in the hat for a Living Ebberon campaign. They made a big deal out of the difference between the D&D Campaigns system and the Living Campaign system. I got the impression it was going to be a Living campaign and not a D&D Campaigns-style campaign. I could be totally off base though.
They made a big deal out of the Undermountain thing being the return of FR to the RPGA. If they had an FR campaign in the works I don't think it would have been nearly as big of a deal.
I'm really hoping for a Star Wars campaign, I really am. But when I asked about Saga Edition Classics Chris mentioned he hadn't even seen a draft copy of Saga yet. I didn't think about it until later but it seems really strange that the content manager wouldn't have at least seen the new ruleset if there was going to be a new Star Wars campaign based on them.
Planescape would also be cool, but I really don't think Wizards has it's head around it right now. As things stand right now Wizards has kind of put the setting aside for fans to work on (like Spelljammer, Birthright, etc). I don't think they would succeed in pitching a new campaign to corporate that they aren't going to sell a lot of books for. MoH and XE have sold a lot of Eberron books for sure.
Queen Talyn:
They also announced that the RPGA would be at Origins this year.
Cheers!
Herrbard:
Present were Ian Richards, Chris Tulach, I believe six members of the Living Greyhawk Circle, and one Xen'drik Factionmaster.
1. RPGA campaigns are doing great. Play numbers are up, more people signed up every year, Conventions get bigger every time. (The standard Ian opening speech. And I still believe him, as I see the evidence with my own eyes.)
2. Mark of Heroes is over with the finale running at D&D XP. It will be available for other play venues so everyone can experience the finale and be a part of it.
3. Living Death is over as of D&D XP. They had a great finale, Claire Hoffman spoke eloquently and at length about the campaign, and was rousingly received and thanked for her tremendous effort to keep the campaign going for its ten-year run.
4. New rewards mailing will be five Xen'drik cards and five Greyhawk cards. These are newly designed cards and official for use in the campaign. (One Greyhawk card is a reprint, but I forget what it was. All five say Living Greyhawk on them.)
5. We have big announcements for you all! Really big! About new campaigns and other good stuff! (Rousing cheer from the audience.)
And if you want to hear about them, come to GenCon Indy in August because we can't tell you about them yet. (General feeling of deflation from the room.)
This was very disappointing. And Ian and Chris Tulach were just as disappointed as the rest of us, but WotC corporate won't let them announce anything yet.
Grahamdrew:
1) Living Kalamar is not going anywhere. There were a number of rumors that it would be dropped in the next year, especially with the RPGA trimming it's non-Wizards campaigns. Those rumors are unfounded.
2) The Mark of Heroes finale will not only be available at other venues, it will be available for ordering outside the extended premier program.
3) GenCon will be seeing a 3 mod mini-campaign based in the Forgotten Realms. It will tie in to the new Undermountain product. I got the impression that this was going to be GenCon-exclusive. They mentioned the possibility of certs or other rewards that would be assignable to characters in the main RPGA campaigns.
4) The RPGA is interested in hearing recommendations on how to handle Classics in the future. Right now there are none available, and historically they've gotten little play. Chris and Ian would like to see them continue, and would like to know how to do that.
5) If there's a problem, blame Chris. He reserves the right to then blame it on SRM, his predecessor.
6) There is a new campaign in the works, and was just on the edge of an announcement at WF. It's something "people have requested." (this is the thing Herrbard referred to in #5).
7) Chris brought up the idea of having periodic online open discussions in a chat room. A number of people there (including myself) were highly receptive to the idea, and it met with a fair amount of applause. He said he'd see about getting something set up on a monthly basis or so.
As much as I'd love to see a new Star Wars campaign I've got to throw my money in the hat for a Living Ebberon campaign. They made a big deal out of the difference between the D&D Campaigns system and the Living Campaign system. I got the impression it was going to be a Living campaign and not a D&D Campaigns-style campaign. I could be totally off base though.
They made a big deal out of the Undermountain thing being the return of FR to the RPGA. If they had an FR campaign in the works I don't think it would have been nearly as big of a deal.
I'm really hoping for a Star Wars campaign, I really am. But when I asked about Saga Edition Classics Chris mentioned he hadn't even seen a draft copy of Saga yet. I didn't think about it until later but it seems really strange that the content manager wouldn't have at least seen the new ruleset if there was going to be a new Star Wars campaign based on them.
Planescape would also be cool, but I really don't think Wizards has it's head around it right now. As things stand right now Wizards has kind of put the setting aside for fans to work on (like Spelljammer, Birthright, etc). I don't think they would succeed in pitching a new campaign to corporate that they aren't going to sell a lot of books for. MoH and XE have sold a lot of Eberron books for sure.
Queen Talyn:
They also announced that the RPGA would be at Origins this year.
Cheers!
