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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 655783" data-attributes="member: 2">Stephen, I have tremendous respect for you, and goodness knows that I have a deep and abiding love for the RPGA - I've run close to 170 RPGA tournaments over the last ten years, played in almost as many, and been a Regional Director. I stand by my feelings. The RPGA has slowly evolved into an organization with a mandate to promote WotC product, and not to improve gaming as a whole. I can't help but see that as short-sighted.A business decision such as this one is obviously not the same as a member-supported decision. I'd be surprised to hear that notable Living Seattle organizers, such as Wes Nicholson of Australia, were in favor of this change.  Is he?  If I tuck on my MBA hat I realize that this change may be  understandable from a business perspective, if the organization wants to stay funded, but that doesn't mean that the mandate is a "good thing" for gamers.Unfortunately, the lack of nurturing for gamers and other systems tends to have a backlash. I learned to play Shadowrun, Paranoia, Call of Cthulhu, and other RPGs for the first time at a RPGA table. Speaking only for myself, my gaming experiences would have been dramatically poorer if this was not the case.I look forward to your opinions on this. I'm not a big fan of Living events in general, and since I don't know the numbers involved I'm operating at a disadvantage. Can you share any of the business logic with us, please?</blockquote>

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