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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanlis" data-source="post: 4910211" data-attributes="member: 6011">What he said. I started playing in the RPGA about a year ago, somewhat skeptically, and I wound up enjoying it enough so that I started a new group when I moved to Maryland. (Ren Games represent, yo.) I like it for the community; you wind up gaming with people you'd never have met otherwise and that's sometimes bad but often good.Roleplay is where you find it. I've never been yelled at as a DM for playing up the RP in any given module, and I've never been yelled at as a player for RPing. I've also found there's no guarantee of roleplay from others.The modules are limited. For balance reasons, they're written to avoid extended rests and they've got a pretty rigid number of encounters and skill challenges. On the other hand, I've learned a lot about writing plots that'll fit in one four hour session.Oh, and don't worry about optimizing. LFR adventures can be run at high tier or low tier; high tier amps up the challenge. An optimized level 1PC group can destroy the high tier version of level 1-4 adventures. LFR is not tuned for optimization, at least at the earlier levels. I frequently bump into PCs with 16 in their primary stats, and they do just fine.</blockquote>