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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6082262" data-attributes="member: 37579">I loved Living Greyhawk and being able to play the same character in conventions or public play and having it grow and continue.But WotC hasn't shown interest in the RPGA and really seems interested in Encounters. Living campaigns require constat and continued attention, and WotC doesn't have a corporate mindset that encourages continued and steady attention. If they did attempt a new Living world it would suffer the fate of LFR: a surge of regular attention followed by dwindling support and then apathy. And a new Living world would likely mean the death of Encountes.Encounters is more their speed. It plays and then ends, and they starts again. So WotC can regularly build up and hype the next season. But as a hypothetical, let's assume they want to work with the RPGA more.Continuing LFR might be fun. They'd have to start again rather than update, but the world is popular. It'd be fun if it could somehow spin off the regular world into its own canon. Since the attempt to make LFR interact with the world failed, it might be interesting to let it go in its own direction. Let the campaign change the Realms in small ways. Or pull it back from the entire world and let it focus on a single nation. Give LFR Sembia or a chunk of Abeir. Focus the campaign more and advertise that focus in the published 5e FR books. (I.e. "For more information on X look for LFR games in your local area.") With The Sundering in the works, this might be a good time to think about this and keep it in mind.Embracing the continuing narrative of LFR would be a good idea. The Rise of the Underdark would have worked much better as LFR tales than Encounters, where one character could play in all the stories. LFR should be the place of events, with limited run adventures that are reported and determine future events. LFR should be where they tell the metaplots of the year.Tying the two organized play programs together would be a great idea. Allowing Encounters to be run as adapted LFR adventures after the season ends would be nice. Allowing all characters in Encounters to continue in LFR would also be good: Encounters gets new players into the game and LFR let's the, continue their character's stories</blockquote>

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