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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1456107" data-attributes="member: 3146">I've enjoyed the RPGA's Living Campaigns so far. The thing I like about the Living Campaigns is the portability. When I moved to Canada for a year in order to study for a masters' degree, I was able to find a community of gamers playing the same game and continue playing my old character from California. When I finished my classes and moved back to California to work on my thesis from home, I was able to bring my character back with me. The ability ot join a campaign, know roughly what's going on, have a rough sense of the rules, etc. is worth the paperwork associated with it.As a player, the RPGA has really given vivid demonstration of the variety of play styles and kinds of characters that can be built. (In a home game, it's very easy to fall into an insular pattern of thinking that D&D works only in XYZ way because that's the way you and your six friends play; in an environment consisting of thousands of players, you're more likely to run into concepts you hadn't considered and encounter styles that your DM doesn't typically use).As a player, it was also Living Greyhawk's 28 point buy system that broke me out of second editionitus in thinking about ability scores. Playing in a lower powered game made me realize that the game works just fine when 15 and 16 are high scores instead of 17 and 18.As for the quality of the modules, I'd say it's generally average to good. My experience is that about half of the home games I've been in have been better than a run of the mill Living Greyhawk module and about half have, for some reason or other, been worse. (Of course, I try to control the quality of both my homegame and Living Campaign experiences--the one by picking who I game with and the other by looking for good judges). I've also written a few modules for Living Greyhawk and I've found that writing modules for a range of characters isn't as difficult as some people seem to think. The big difference between a "standard" convention game and a Living Campaign scenario, is probably the role of the DM in the module. In a "standard" game, the DM generally wrote the module himself and has a bit more flexibility to make things up if the players do something dramatically unexpected. In an RPGA game, the DM doesn't have unlimited flexibility to makes stuff up and is interpreting someone else's module rather than creating their own.</blockquote>

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