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<blockquote data-quote="aarduini" data-source="post: 6810958" data-attributes="member: 61920"><p><strong>My experience with AL</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">AL - So far every season has been in the Moonsea. While it is an interesting region, FR has much more to offer, and the feel and tone of the mods really hasn't changed. An oppressed city being overrun by an evil cult. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">There has only been one story award chain (Mulmaster cloaks), and the player characters don't really get a feeling of accomplishment or immersion into most stories. </span></p><p></p><p>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">Content is hijacked repeatedly under the guise of "exclusive content". Exclusive to who? The first season we got kicked out of Phlan by a Huge Green Dragon. Players around the world experienced this. Now the chance to reclaim the city was hijacked into exclusive content that less than 1% of those players will get to experience. How does that benefit the game? If it was exclusive to a local con. I could get around that. What they are doing is just ridiculous. Another example is Elisande. The girl and goat has made an appearance in all three seasons. Once again, players around the world are wondering what the hell is up with this girl. HIJACKED! Her story is now an Admin run only mod. You have the invite the admin to your game and pay for his trip in order to access this story. That is just outright idiotic! You don't even know if the admin can write well! Release the story. If it is well written and popular, then the admin will get celebrity status and get invited to run it based on that. That is how it should go! Lastly there is the blanket restrictions they are making. I understand the need for restrictions, but do it based on what is needed not what might be needed. I can't think of one combination between the Elemental Evil companion and the SCAG that would be broken, yet because of a blanket ruling I can't have a Genasi EK using Green flame blade or Booming blade. I could make a very flavorful character out of that. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">We are stuck with the content they give us which is limited and not well edited. The module output is much slower than LFR, and there has been no method to allow self created mods which would be easy to implement and control. I am stuck with the story arcs given and can't use my extensive knowledge of the realms to expand on the region for my players and improve their experience. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">The story Arch capstone issue is explained with my exclusive content rant above. My characters have no feeling of immersion into the story or sense of accomplishment. Saturday night gaming is getting kind of boring. I never had that issue with LFR. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">I hope that explains my position on this better. </span>[/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aarduini, post: 6810958, member: 61920"] [b]My experience with AL[/b] [FONT=Verdana]AL - So far every season has been in the Moonsea. While it is an interesting region, FR has much more to offer, and the feel and tone of the mods really hasn't changed. An oppressed city being overrun by an evil cult. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]There has only been one story award chain (Mulmaster cloaks), and the player characters don't really get a feeling of accomplishment or immersion into most stories. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif][SIZE=2]Content is hijacked repeatedly under the guise of "exclusive content". Exclusive to who? The first season we got kicked out of Phlan by a Huge Green Dragon. Players around the world experienced this. Now the chance to reclaim the city was hijacked into exclusive content that less than 1% of those players will get to experience. How does that benefit the game? If it was exclusive to a local con. I could get around that. What they are doing is just ridiculous. Another example is Elisande. The girl and goat has made an appearance in all three seasons. Once again, players around the world are wondering what the hell is up with this girl. HIJACKED! Her story is now an Admin run only mod. You have the invite the admin to your game and pay for his trip in order to access this story. That is just outright idiotic! You don't even know if the admin can write well! Release the story. If it is well written and popular, then the admin will get celebrity status and get invited to run it based on that. That is how it should go! Lastly there is the blanket restrictions they are making. I understand the need for restrictions, but do it based on what is needed not what might be needed. I can't think of one combination between the Elemental Evil companion and the SCAG that would be broken, yet because of a blanket ruling I can't have a Genasi EK using Green flame blade or Booming blade. I could make a very flavorful character out of that. We are stuck with the content they give us which is limited and not well edited. The module output is much slower than LFR, and there has been no method to allow self created mods which would be easy to implement and control. I am stuck with the story arcs given and can't use my extensive knowledge of the realms to expand on the region for my players and improve their experience. The story Arch capstone issue is explained with my exclusive content rant above. My characters have no feeling of immersion into the story or sense of accomplishment. Saturday night gaming is getting kind of boring. I never had that issue with LFR. I hope that explains my position on this better. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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