*snip* I am just trying to establish facts in AL, and help clear up any misunderstandings people might have....which is part of my job as a member of the campaign staff. It doesn't help when those facts are being argued against.
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As always, the golden rule for AL is:
Expect table variation
IMHO players who are unwilling to accept table variation in respect to their favorite character options, lack the maturity to play options in which table variation is inherent... This includes (but is not limited to) minionmancy.
Except that's not what you're doing. The last statement you make clearly shows that you just simply don't like minionmancy, period. If they were
fact as you say then this argument would take about 0.2 seconds because you could point to the object fact and bam, done. Ironically that's actually what I would prefer, to have a clear statement of fact that Animate Dead/Create Undead/Necromancy is or is not an AL legal playstyle. Because it it's an AL legal playstyle, then I have no problem telling an AL DM at a convention game (or otherwise) that they are violating AL rules for refusing to permit a Necromancer to sit at their table or when they start being actively aggressive towards that players.
I'm all for table variation and DM empowerment, when it's done in a
fair manner. I dislike it when it's done to specifically target an individual player (seen plenty of times) or a specific playstyle that the DM doesn't happen to like (as you're doing now).
That, in my opinion, is one of AL's primary purposes. To create a set of semi-uniform rules where players get treated fairly. Here, we have a playstyle that literally the campaign staff has said is AL legal. Yet we also have LC/RCs/DMs stating straight up that they would either not treat Necromancers
fairly, or even let them play at their table at all through forcing villagers and/or allowing other players to grief the other player.
The true issues presented as being against Necromancers are really just anger at things like players hogging table time, disruptive players, griefing, and honestly just a
LOT of leftover feelings from prior versions of D&D. You're entitled to feel however you want, but I absolutely will call out when DMs treat players unfairly for playing or doing something that is entirely AL legal.
The alternative is to issue some actual guidance. Believe it or not I'd be perfectly happy if the campaign staff just bucked up and banned Animate Dead/Create Undead/etc. Because I don't want to waste the significant time and effort on a character that is, in every way, AL legal, only to spend thousands of dollars to go to a convention and be told a DM will not give me a fair game.