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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 6787095" data-attributes="member: 18333">I have to agree with this.  To encourage more public gaming is a great goal, and keeping material exclusively for that seems like a good strategy.   I never really thought about it, and to be honest, I have only just recently (over the past 3 years) even experienced what it is like to game with people I never knew before.  It is amazing.Prior to the D&DNext Playtest, I mostly played with a stable of the same players over a 30 year period.  We started in High School...played a little through college, took long breaks, came back to D&D in the 3e/3.5e period and did a little in the 4e period.  During the playtest, I hooked up with a number of people online via WotC Community and while playtesting (as DM and player) I felt the excitement of gaming with others who I didn't know.  Being able to do that proved to me the strength and spirit of D&D.  I have not yet gone to my local store to play or DM on Wednesday nights, but perhaps that will happen in the future.Public games and convention games/tournaments is completely part of the spirit of D&D, and if providing exclusive content for those venues keeps D&D Expeditions and Adventurer's League growing, I'm totally up for that.</blockquote>