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RPGA public opinion

Started by KrakaJak, November 09, 2006, 06:53:44 PM

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Mr. Analytical

#30
November 13, 2006, 04:30:10 AM
Quote from: jcfialaWell, all I need to do is find your name and address, and I can sign you up for the RPGA from here.  So, if you could videotape yourself hammering a nail through your cock and send me the picture, I'll make sure not to sign you up. :)

  Needless to say I'd far prefer hammering a nail through YOUR cock to hammering one through mine or joining the RPGA.  If you were to sign me up for the RPGA I'd be heavily tempted to act on that preference :p

jcfiala

#31
November 13, 2006, 12:52:03 PM
Quote from: Mr. AnalyticalNeedless to say I'd far prefer hammering a nail through YOUR cock to hammering one through mine or joining the RPGA.  If you were to sign me up for the RPGA I'd be heavily tempted to act on that preference :p

Ah, well, that's cool.
Hammer my cock > Hammer your cock > Joining RPGA.

I learn a little bit more every day. :)

The snark aside, it basically sounds like the RPGA is like a lot of nationwide or worldwide groups with most of the real organization at the local level.  That is to say, if the local level admins are on top of their game and do at least a decent job at it, the local group is good and folks have a good opinion of the group.  And if the local admins aren't good, then the local group is shit.  Since all folks see is their local groups, opinions sway between good and bad.
 

jrients

#32
November 13, 2006, 01:00:34 PM
Quote from: jcfialaThe snark aside, it basically sounds like the RPGA is like a lot of nationwide or worldwide groups with most of the real organization at the local level.  That is to say, if the local level admins are on top of their game and do at least a decent job at it, the local group is good and folks have a good opinion of the group.  And if the local admins aren't good, then the local group is shit.  Since all folks see is their local groups, opinions sway between good and bad.

That makes a lot of sense to me.  One of my players splits his time between various Living Greyhawk regions.  He says folks down south have their act much more together than here in Illinois.
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Bagpuss

#33
November 13, 2006, 05:51:14 PM
Quote from: Ned the Lonely DonkeyI played a Living Cthulhu game at a con a few years back (in the UK).

Living campaigns are are persistent characters that you can take from one Convention to the next. Call of Cthulhu is about you character dying a horrible death or going insane (particularly true of convention games, it's half the fun of them).

Living Cthulhu erm how does that work exactly? :confused:
 

Bagpuss

#34
November 13, 2006, 06:07:01 PM
Quote from: dpmcalisterAs an aside...

 Gen Con UK will be back next year at the University of Reading.

That's good to hear in a University is where GenCon UK belongs. It was great in Loughbourgh and it's a shame it had to leave there, it wasn't that bad at Manchester. I've fond memories of Games Day at Reading it should be a good venue.

Yeah there were some great people behind the RPGA in the UK and they got shafted like the members.

I think the thing that bothered me most about the death of the UK RPGA is the fact it was doing what the RPGA should be about. It was promoting the hobby, it wasn't just another sales arm for TSR Ltd.

I volunteered to be both a regional and finals DM for the schools competition and of the two groups I ran none of the players had ever played D&D before the competition and all of them intended to continue after. One group was from an all girls school as well. So that was 12 new gamers caught at the sort of age you want people to become interested in gaming early teens. And that was two groups.

In the regional competition there were I think 8 groups, so 48 kids playing, many of which will have only started because of the competition, I think there were 6 or 7 regions, so you could easily have had 300 new gamers, and they well might have established groups in their schools and got more people interested, (and that's just one year).

All that got screwed over when WotC took over. With 3rd Ed it would have been an excellent time to extend the school competition and support it even more. Imagine if the US RPGA had tried to do something similar home many more gamers would there be today?

Total missed opportunity.
 

Sosthenes

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November 13, 2006, 06:09:58 PM
Quote from: BagpussLiving Cthulhu erm how does that work exactly? :confused:

That is not dead which can eternal lie...

(SCNR)
 
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