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I am interested to see how the new regional system will work out for the Living FR Campaign. All we have gotten is that there will be fewer regions (at least in North America). Also that every place in the world will be part of a region from the get go, making this a global campaign.

I do hope that the regional system will continue to create materials that can only be played in the region. For those people extremely active in LG, their region became their identity and their play styles often reflected which region they came from. Traveling from region to region became part of the LG lifestyle I would hate to see the convention circuit ruined by making everything available anywhere. I know that our small con is about 30% people who have traveled from out side of the region. When going to even larger cons like Weekend in Dyvers it seems easily at least 50% of the attendee's traveled from out side the region.

Also I hope they are considering starting to create rewards cards that will be usable in the 4e Campaigns. It would be nice for those rewards mailings to start in the summer next year before gencon. No sense in receiving rewards cards for a campaign that will be finished. I would suggest that the first few cards are things like... masterwork sword!, Masterwork Armor! Second wind is a fantastic card for low level people. So are creation cards but since very little will be out when the campaign starts there isn't much content to refer to.

Administration will be difficult as well. It is always a tricky balance of having enough volunteers to do the work and keeping the work down to an acceptable level so as not to burn out volunteers. I think having fewer regions will help in general. With say 6 regions in North America I would suggest One global admin per 6 regions, and in each region (which are larger than current regions) 4 administrators. There were about 20 regions in North America alone. So I would expect a reduction to at least 10 if not closer to 6 regions. That reduction creates a much smaller administration team but in the end will do approximately as much work as current triad in regions (IE each region offering 6-8 modules a year). Except there will be far more travel in these new large regions. It will be interesting to see if there will be meta-regional events.

I'm interested to see how this will effect the player groups. It seems to me that in location in LG where there is a Triad (or within 2 hours drive) there is a stronger play presence and a more active community. Leadership is easily accessible and there is at least one connected person trying to keep things running via conventions or game days. People who are several states away become rather disenfranchised with ruling triad members when they have never seen them. For example it is easily a 12 hour drive from one side of our region to another. The people furthest away often feel neglected. This is a tough battle to overcome that will only increase to become difficult with larger territories.

Reconsider allowing 3-7 Players (+GM) to make a table.  Currently, 4 people can’t play (even with a cohort) and having 8 people forces someone to be excluded.

Consider allowing some (but not all) regional adventures to be playable outside the region.  Perhaps require that the GM be from the region.

Since the next batch of RPGA Rewards Cards comes out in ~4 months, please make most of them 4e compatible.

I wish you wouldn't kill LG.  It'll take some convincing for the local group to play LFR - we'll probably play Paizo's Pathfinder or some other Home Game Adventure Path instead.