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kjenks 07-28-06, 11:37 AM	I'm planning a trip from Bandit Kingdoms/Houston, TX, to FallsCON in Shield Lands/Sioux Falls, SD. I want to volunteer to run ADP6-01 Fane of the Drow while I'm visiting. I know it's not legal to run my regionals or metaregionals when I'm out of region, and it IS legal for me to run Core adventures while I'm out of region, but I'm not sure about the protocol for an ADP. (There were no ADP adventures available when LGCS 596CY was published.)
trollbill 07-28-06, 12:36 PM	Good point. Adaptable Scenerios are a new catagory of Scenario. But unless the adaptation documentation includes rules for adapting them to different regions or metaregions, I can't imagine why they would be treated any differently than Core Scenarios.
Nutation 07-28-06, 12:43 PM	Adaptable Scenerios are a new catagory of Scenario. But unless the adaptation documentation includes rules for adapting them to different regions or metaregions, I can't imagine why they would be treated any differently than Core Scenarios. These are not "Adaptable" scenarios as in Years 1-2, they are "Adapted". Each is set in a specific core location (mostly Sterich, as I recall). This year's ADP scenarios should therefore follow the same judge/venue rules as core modules, except you can't run them online.
Mommy was an Orc 07-29-06, 02:48 PM	I'm planning a trip from Bandit Kingdoms/Houston, TX, to FallsCON in Shield Lands/Sioux Falls, SD. I want to volunteer to run ADP6-01 Fane of the Drow while I'm visiting. Aren't they illegal to run at in a convention slot?
Madfox11 07-31-06, 03:50 AM	They are normal Core adventures and follow the exact same rules as core adventures when it comes to judging. They are called adaptable, because they are adapted from generic WotC adventures into Living Greyhawk adventures. Pieter Sleijpen RPGA Living Greyhawk Circle Member The Splintered Suns
pedr 07-31-06, 05:09 AM	https://events.wizards.com/RPGAWeb/external/econplay.asp?ScenarioCd=FOTDR1LG shows that ADP6-01 can only be ordered for play at a retail event or homeplay. It is not available for Conventions and Gamedays, and the system will not permit you to order it for them. Anyone running it at such an event will have to order it as a separate homeplay event in order to report it. I imagine such activity is technically against the RPGA rules. This was discussed previously, and in the announcements of the new type of module, IIRC.
kjenks 07-31-06, 08:42 AM	https://events.wizards.com/RPGAWeb/external/econplay.asp?ScenarioCd=FOTDR1LG shows that ADP6-01 can only be ordered for play at a retail event or homeplay. It is not available for Conventions and Gamedays, and the system will not permit you to order it for them. Anyone running it at such an event will have to order it as a separate homeplay event in order to report it. I imagine such activity is technically against the RPGA rules. I've read the RPGA rules and I can't find any rules against ordering a separate homeplay event to be run before, during or after a convention. In fact, I've seen this done rather often at conventions. Is there something I'm missing?
pedr 07-31-06, 11:25 AM	I've read the RPGA rules and I can't find any rules against ordering a separate homeplay event to be run before, during or after a convention. In fact, I've seen this done rather often at conventions. Is there something I'm missing?True... although this is to a certain degree a result of the convoluted and imprecise nature of some of the rules. I'm also of the opinion that unless something is clearly not permitted then there is no reason to claim it is disallowed and I think I should have written: "could be considered against the RPGA rules" rather than "technically". I think that the intent of the homeplay option is that they are run in a small private venue, rather than in a quasi-public one such as the venue for a convention. Similarly the intention is probably that gamedays are held in semi-public venues. But neither of those positions are anywhere near being adequately expressed in the rules - the closest being in the ordering system where under type of show is some text indicating that home play is an event held in a home, and game days and conventions are held at public locations. Quite what a 'public location' is I don't know. At least in English law, hotels, convention centres etc are private in that the owner's permission is required to be on the premises. Having said that, I think that the restriction to home-play and retail has some merit: at a convention, attendees want to know that the modules they play will fit reasonably well into one or two slots so that they can schedule their games in advance. Fane of the Drow, apparently, doesn't fit like that and so has the potential to frustrate players left with an empty slot, or not finishing due to the vagaries of the adventure. A homeplay group, or a game taking place in a retail store doesn't necessarily have the same problems. Well, that's my assumption anyway.
kjenks 08-01-06, 09:18 AM	For our local gang, Fane of the Drow took about six and a half hours to play at one table and seven hours at another. That seems to correspond with other observations I've read on-line. I think playing this scenario as a home game event in a hotel room before or after the con won't violate RPGA rules.
kenobi65 08-01-06, 10:25 AM	I think playing this scenario as a home game event in a hotel room before or after the con won't violate RPGA rules. Probably not. During the con would be another story.
kjenks 10-17-06, 11:01 AM	LGCS 596, page 6. Current text: "only Core adventures are available in a nation without a region assigned to it." Change to: "only Core, Core Special and Adapted adventures are available in a nation without a region assigned to it." LGCS 596, page 6, section "Adventure Types" -- add a paragraph about Adapted Adventures.