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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 2389869" data-attributes="member: 1515">That last bit is incorrect.Ryan Dancey has (had?) a company called Organized Play.  In 2002, Organized Play purchased the Living City campaign from WotC / RPGA.  Under that arrangement, Living City would still function as an RPGA campaign, but it would be adminstered by Organized Play.Dancey's idea was to charge people to play LC events (sort of like what White Wolf is trying here), but regardless of venue (i.e., convention, home play, whatever).  If memory serves, you could get a "pay as you go" membership (something like $2 per module, IIRC), or an "unlimited" membership for like $25 or $50 for six months or a year.He massively overestimated how much revenue he'd generate, and lost money hand over fist, apparently.  One could argue how much of this was due to the pay-for-play scheme, and how much was due to LC having already suffered a possibly-fatal wound with the wonky conversion to 3E (which predated Dancey's ownership of the campaign).Even with restaging Living City into two campaigns (Ruins of Ravens Bluff and high-level Living City), the campaign pretty much ground to a halt (I have to say, the 3 RRB modules I played were among the worst RPGA adventures I've ever played).  Organized Play returned the rights to Living City back to the RPGA in either late 2003 or early 2004, and Mr. Dancey and Organized Play had no connection to LC, or the RPGA, from that point on.  At the behest of old-time LC fans, the RPGA had two "finale" modules written for LC, which ran at GenCon Indy in 2004 (they were orderable for other gatherings, as well, through the end of 2004).  At this point, it's safe to say that LC is dead and buried.At no time did Dancey or Organized Play have any involvement with any other of the RPGA's campaigns.  RPGA continues to be an arm of the WotC marketing department.  Ian Richards and Stephen Radney-Macfarland (hope I didn't butcher his name too badly) are the leaders of the RPGA, and both of them are RPGA / WotC employees.</blockquote>

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