AL VS LFR of 4th and why I'm so disappointed
The hardback mods are part of AL yes, but I am addressing what was expeditions here. I do understand that this name has been retired and organized play has taken on a whole new direction, so maybe my concerns are addressed in this manner. Hopefully they will put the AL stamp on more third party mods with good ratings in GM guild and we'll get adventures with different stories in different regions. That is my hope.
Did you favor have an affect on the outcome of the encounter. What if you didn't have the favor. There needs to be more of this type of stuff. Believe me when I tell you that I make the effort.
i don't thin I'm exaggerating at all. There are probably close to 200 AL players if not more in the Bay Area alone, and that is just one metropolitan area. AL is world wide. Not all that play AL are in the system.
You just pinpointed the biggest issue I have with the way things are done. Why ask us to travel 1500 miles for DND!?. Why are we catering to these megacons? They don't need our patronage. A con is a con is a con. The big cons have their own attractions. People who go to Gen Con don't do it just because they get to play an epic. The local cons are the ones that need the attention and support. Why should skerrit's adventure warrant him being flown out? Did it rate 5 stars on GM's guild. No it didn't because no one's played it yet. Gen Con should have stuff like a very popular epic being run by the guy who wrote it. That would be an exclusive worthy of Gen Con. The local cons would just have to setting with their local coordinators running the epic. This whole process just smells of an attempt at building an elitist culture, and DnD does not need that!
Once again, who is Skerrit that flying him out is tied to being able to play a mod that you are not even sure is good? You are not interested, but I am. Others may or may not be. The issue is that the story was hijacked and held hostage unless special privileges are given to an admin. I know that sounds harsh, but that is the impression I and others I talk to have about this process.
The fact that you don't know the answer to that question means you are not much into the lore. Calimsham and Memmnon are very Genasi heavy regions that were once ruled by Djinn and Efreeties. Green flame blade is fire and booming blade is thunder. These match the fire Genasi and Air Genasi concepts. Why would I use a half-elf? LFR expanded on this region a lot and it is still fresh in my mind. Its a flavor option I can't use because of blanketed rules.
Once again, I'm not saying don't restrict. I'm saying don't restrict so broadly. Find the problem and then act. Don't act on something that MIGHT be a problem without ever analyzing it.
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The method is already created with 4th edition my-realms. just make the magic item disbursement be one step behind what published mods put out. I disagree with you that my realms caused magic item farming in 4e. They were very restricted. I never played a my realm for the magic item. A my-realms mod is just a way for local games to make their organized play experience better. They were never meant to be as good as published mods.
My statement about being bored was to express my desire for more diverse and complete content. By complete I mean storylines I can finish WITHOUT having to travel 2000 miles.
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Cascade
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Actually, myself and the group I travel with would not attend WF, Origins or Gencon if it wasn't for special events.
(We've been attending Gencon since the Milwaukee days - and well, ... Spy Bar)
Where do you travel from? How much is the cost to go to those cons? Also, I'm not saying they shouldn't have epics. I'm just saying they should be the only ones to have epics.
skerritthegreen
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Please note my early response your comments. They are not the only ones with Epics. Any convention that meets some very minimal requirements may host an Epic. This was changed back at the end of Season 2. I know of two local conventions in my area that are running an epic in the next few months.
Cascade
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I'm about a 6 hour drive from WF and Gencon - usually $500 each once everything is divided up.
Gencon in Milwaukee was 11 hours but cost less.
When WF was in New Jersey, that was 7 hours.
Is it worth a few special events: yep
I'll do both the AL and PFS specials.
Inxanity
Explorer
Woo, one of the few! Clearly, I need to be writing more about Picklebeard's attempts to Persuade people with free pickles. Between him and our Wild Sorcerer who's gotten at least 6 Unicorn summons out of his surges, much shenanigans have been had.
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Steve_MND
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Are any of these actually detailed anywhere as being the results of the summaries? I ask, because I've not seen anything along those lines. Sure, we get some season recaps here and there, and some veiled references to previous mods are seen in some mods, but in most of those I've seen so far, they are somewhat opaque and it's difficult to see them as 'this is something that occurred because the players did something' versus 'this is what we had planned all along for this storyline.'
Also, regarding the low amount of critical event summaries -- you guys need to see if you can possibly extend the dates available for reporting some of these mods. By the time they make it out to the stores for availability, many of them only have a month or less on which to report, in which case getting a table together in that short time frame is often tricky for us smaller locales. Heck, I remember a pair of mods that by the time they became available for store play, they had a grand total of two days left to report in. I believe they were extended a bit after the fact, but no official notification of that went out that I was aware of, and we only stumbled across that fact because I was wandering around the website and noticed that they were still there a couple days after the mod said they would be viable.
Maybe I'm way out of the loop here, but the fact that apparently so many large-scale decisions have actually come about as a result of the 'official reports' is rather a bit of a shock, as I had seen little to no evidence of that so far. Having the storyline develop as a result of player actions is amazing, but if we never know about those consequences, it's as if it didn't happen.
This has been a huge misconception from the very beginning. Content is not the sole decision of the Admins. WotC gave the Adventurers League Expeditions the Moonsea area. That is what we have to work with. There is no veering from that. Admins have no control of Storylines. Those are dependent on the hard cover product that WotC releases. This is the price we pay, in order for the content to be canon. As someone who is ALL ABOUT the lore AND an author, that is so much more important to me than being able to go anywhere I want. None of what happened in LFR is canon. None. So the Battle Interactive in which we saved Mystra was only true at the tables there. WotC, through the novels, dictated how it actually happened.
So your critique is directed at the wrong people, concerning all of this actually. Because the admins have to OK everything that is done with WotC. Well...they have HAD to. The next season starts a more autonomous Admin staff. Let's see what happens.
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