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Tabiani 06-04-07, 12:16 PM	OK, I'm planning to run BWC-4 this weekend and one of our regulars wants to play in it. Problem is, he plans to run it next week for his home game. I'm not sure if he has actually scheduled the event, but I suspect he has. With that in mind, what actually makes a person inelegible to play a mod? Scheduling the event Downloading the file Reporting the event I'd suspect that (2) certainly would; by then you have all the "secrets" but I can imagine that the software could require that (1) would make you an invalid player. In this post (http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=754287&highlight=dm+eat) If you are the Senior DM for an event, you will not be able to get credit for playing any adventures that you ordered after the end of the event that you ordered the adventures for. THIS INCLUDES EVENTS THAT YOU CANCEL. Shawn (smerwin29) makes it look like (3) is the case for a Senior GM of an event but I don't think that would(should) apply here. Anyone know for sure or am I seriously missing something?
smerwin29 06-04-07, 12:36 PM	I honestly don't know. Your best bet is to ask RPGAsanctioning or send a PM to Chris Tulach. Shawn
pedr 06-04-07, 01:00 PM	By the RPGA General Rules, the Senior GM for a 'Home' event is ineligible to play the scenarios selected for that event from the moment the event is sanctioned, i.e. as soon as you see the "Thank you for requesting RPGA scenarios for your show" or whatever the wording is on the screen you get when you 'Next Step' from the scenario selection screen. If the event was created as a Retail, Gameday or Convention type event, then the Senior GM is not ineligible to play at that point - he becomes ineligible at the end of the day which the event was scheduled to run. I don't know whether the system enforces this. I believe that it used to, but I've heard anecdotes that suggest that it doesn't at the moment. It's worth noting that if you have created an event for your running of it which is prior to the day on which he actually created his event (the day he used the system, rather than the day he created the event for) then the system is less likely to disqualify him as it might consider this late reporting, rather than reporting an event which took place after he became ineligible. This is all quite complicated, though, and Shawn's advice is sound. The moral of the story, though, is to never sanction an event until you are sure that you have credit for playing all the scenarios you are ordering or you know that you are resigned to never being able to play them. Anything else is potentially likely to result in you not getting rewards.
Tabiani 06-04-07, 01:34 PM	Thanks for the response and advice, Shawn. I sent a PM as you suggested. I looked through the General Rules and they aren't all that clear on home games, either. When discussing home games (pg 2-3) they say (emphasis added) ...the GM is not allowed to play in an adventure from the day the event is sanctioned and the adventure downloaded.It's a bit easier for Senior GMs and event GMs who are simply expected not to have foreknowledge of the event. The download restriction seems to be the one that enforces that in other cases. As far as my friend, he'd planned to eat the mod before he knew I was running it and he's OK with helping me run it if he can't play. That worked pretty well at DDXP when I played that mod.