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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alphastream" data-source="post: 5678292" data-attributes="member: 11365">It wasn't clear to me from reading your article whether you were always using the term "RPGA" as "Organized Play" or "WotC Organized Play". RPGA means many things to many people (especially these days since the term is no longer used by most new players... and this column doesn't define what RPGA is/was). Because of this, as a reader it wasn't clear to me if you were attributing positives to all of OP or just WotC. Regardless, my personal perspective is that we are better off without negative comparisons, especially the type that are subjective assessments (an example would be saying that one OP campaign has better adventures than another, which would be just about impossible to quantify/prove). A comparison around something like release schedule is a bit easier: we can talk about Shadowrun Missions and LFR and compare how many adventures each has released and compare how often they are behind schedule... though even such a comparison is of little value if our goal is to promote organized play. It might instead be better to discuss the common problem of admins working with authors to release adventures and discuss best practices and possible solutions. I think that kind of column would be interesting, especially if you had the heads of some organized play campaigns kick in some commentary. I bet EN World could get that kind of column going and it would have pretty high value.I want to underscore that while I had these issues as a reader, I do want to see more columns about organized play and I would be pleased to see you write them. You clearly have some good ideas, great enthusiasm, and have good insights into aspects of Organized Play.</blockquote>

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