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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 681727" data-attributes="member: 151">Re: ReI don't believe the OGL would allow them to do that, as currently written, but I'm no expert on it.  Let me be honest: I played with the RPGA exactly once.  While it wasn't the worst game I'd ever played, it was in the top 10.  It was made worse by the fact that my friends all went to play in a non-RPGA game that they enjoyed a great deal.  But here's the thing: there were plenty of non-d20, non-RPGA games running at the same convention.  WoTC had no influence on said games, either way.The RPGA is a nice idea, but I don't know that it does as much to promote RPGs as it perhaps once did.  On the other hand, thanks to the 'net and other places, I think we have much less need for such an organization, unless it can function as more than just a mutual matching service and score-keeper.Perhaps if the RPGA did things like run sponsored seminars on how to play or learn specific RPGs, for example.  Things that would do more than just give gamer services to existing gamers, which is all I've ever felt the RPGA actually does.  I'm not saying that helping existing gamers is bad, quite the contrary...but if the RPGAs intended goal is to attract new folks, then I'm not sure how they're doing it.And if I, a gamer and RPGA member don't know, I tend to think that the average casual gamer or non-gamer has no idea.  I'd like to be wrong about that.</blockquote>