Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Jesse Heinig 12-18-04, 03:26 AM	I'm a bit confused by what constitutes "home play." Does this mean you can actually score points just playing your regular D&D campaign at home, so long as you abide by the LG rules? Or does it apply only to the LG modules ordered specifically for a home group?
SteveMND 12-18-04, 09:50 AM	"Home play" in what context? Unfortunately, the RPGA has used similar terms for quite some time, and they are all kind of muddled together anymore.
King Kashue 12-20-04, 01:20 PM	I'm a bit confused by what constitutes "home play." Does this mean you can actually score points just playing your regular D&D campaign at home, so long as you abide by the LG rules? Or does it apply only to the LG modules ordered specifically for a home group? It specifically means running RPGA modules at home, either LGR, Classic, LG, LF, whatever...Not just running your home brew campaign...Official modules ordered through the system...
CruelDM 12-20-04, 02:01 PM	"Even better yet starting in January 2005 you'll be able to start sanctioning your Dungeons & Dragons home campaign for D&D Rewards points -- you can even tell us what setting you are playing in. Each session of a D&D home campaign is worth 1 reward point. Your home campaign is sanctioned like any other home play event using the adventure ordering system at least five days before game day. Play as much as you can and report it all!" IIRC, the new changes, coming in 2005, will allow you to sanction your "home brew" campaigns and report them to earn rewards points. You will be able to specify your campaign setting, sanction your event as early as 5 days in advance, and earn players (and GM) rewards points for playing them. The only requirements appear to be that you will need at least one herald level GM to sanction the event and all players will need to be RPGA members. Personaly, I believe it should have been this way all along. :) Im pretty sure we will get some specifics in the days to come, after the holidays, when the RPGA staff gets back from their vacation. Get the full scoop here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=rpga/conventions/2005ordering
King Kashue 12-20-04, 02:28 PM	IIRC, the new changes, coming in 2005, will allow you to sanction your "home brew" campaigns and report them to earn rewards points. You will be able to specify your campaign setting, sanction your event as early as 5 days in advance, and earn players (and GM) rewards points for playing them. The only requirements appear to be that you will need at least one herald level GM to sanction the event and all players will need to be RPGA members. Personaly, I believe it should have been this way all along. :) Im pretty sure we will get some specifics in the days to come, after the holidays, when the RPGA staff gets back from their vacation. Get the full scoop here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=rpga/conventions/2005ordering Ah, but that's not home brew...a "Dungeons & Dragons Home Campaign" is one run with an D&D campaign world, and RPGA rules... But yeah, you're right in general, I didn't pay attention to that announcement...
smerwin29 12-20-04, 04:18 PM	Home play is best defined in terms of other designations like "game day" or "convention." If you are running two or less games on a day, and those games are in a provate place where the public is not invited, you would select a home game. Some adventures can only be ordered as home games. If you are having a small gathering in a public place, and you want it to be public (appearing on the RPGA calendar), then you want to select a Game Day. If you are holding a large event that lasts multiple days and are going to report more than 25 tables, then you can call it a convention. A convention can have some perks that game days and home play cannot. This is the Cliffs Notes version . . . Shawn
Jesse Heinig 12-21-04, 04:30 AM	So, er, I should stick to ordered LG modules for my local RPGA players, then. Can't really run a personal campaign and score points for it.
SteveMND 12-21-04, 05:28 AM	For now, yeah. Best to wait for a more detailed explanation of the 2005 changes, come January or whenever before making too many more plans (I disagree with Kashue's interpretation of exactly what "Dungeons & Dragons Home Campaign" means, for example).
Kaelay 12-28-04, 12:20 AM	i also agree, for what i read i believe home brew campaigns, like the ones you where you make the settings n stuff, will be able to get reward points, i dont know where i read but i think it will only award one point though. but it think its cool, it'll let us play in our own worlds and still get something from RPGA. but yeah, i think we should wait for more instructions from HQ