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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WolfStar76" data-source="post: 6005233" data-attributes="member: 59244">My pleasure. I'm only sorry that work and "real life" stuff bumped this off my radar. As usual, however [MENTION=56746]mudbunny[/MENTION] has kept me on-track.Um, sort of. At GenCon we had signs posted at every entrance to the D&D Next Playtest area that basically said "by entering this room, you're under an NDA - if you don't like it, you're welcome to remain outside the room".I didn't, myself, read the sign (I had way more things to juggle than that) - so I'm sorry to report I can't exactly what it covers. I'm pretty sure it really just came down to "Don't run off out of the room with a copy of the rules material (which we had printed on bright yellow paper to help us keep track of), and don't go giving people a blow-by-blow of the rules. If they want to know, they can sign up for the playtest themselves."Trying to get 2,500+ people to sign NDAs over the course of the show would have been madness, so I don't know that there would have been any other way to cover people without the signs at the doors.That's written by "the" Baldman himself, David Christ. We know the website needs work - it was supposed to get a full redesign and re-write before GenCon, but that didn't happen.I'm having lunch with Dave in about an hour, I'll add "website stuff" to my agenda, and see if he and I can't start to hammer something more solid out.I jumped in on the OP/RPGA scene around 2004 or so. A couple friends and I had been running our own D&D adventure for GenCon every year since around 1998 or 1999 - and GenCon was the only time of year I got to roll dice and play D&D.Around 2003 or 2004, I started to get an itch to play more D&D - and I'd heard about the RPGA here and there (usually a small blurb in the back of 3.x adventures), so I looked into it.While there was Living Greyhawk going on, I picked up an adventure from Mark of Heros, because I like the episodic nature - at least for dipping my toe into. My friends didn't care for it - they never ~really~ got into 3.x, and they knew little to nothing of Eberron, so it was mostly wasted/lost on them.A year or so later, I poked at the RPGA again, and read up on Xen'Drik Expeditions which was starting soon. I started to run it at my FLGS, and learned that I could volunteer to run it at conventions too - and was rather amazed.I GM'd at shows for about two years, and because I was always volunteering my "off" time to help out around HQ (and because I'm relatively personable) - I was fortunate enough to soon be invited to join HQ at shows. A sidenote - many people assume that being in HQ is some special privelege. That it's some sort of elevation or something. Let me assure you - it's not. GMing is hard work sometimes (especially in a crowded convention hall competiting to be heard over hundreds of other voices) - but you're sitll PLAYING D&D, you're still rolling dice. In HQ? We suffer papercuts, answer the same questions over and over and over, we solve problems, and we run ourselves ragged. There are many times when I realize I'm nuts for working HQ instead of DMing.Fast forward a couple more years - and Dave's operation is getting big enough that he needs dedicated help. So, he brings me and a couple others on-board, and here I am now. His semi-official PR guy (my nickname/title is "The Faceman"), and keeper/writer of our official documentation.While I ran a decent amount of LFR in my FLGS and the occasional module at a show or two, by far and large, my role in LFR has mostly been sitting in HQ and organizing things. Officially, I'm also one of the LFR admins - in the role of Point of Contact, but my involvement there is (in my opinion) pretty ceremonial/honorary at this point.Good quesiton, if he does, he's [MENTION=15080]wavester[/MENTION]. So, if that turns into a link, we'll have our answer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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