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<blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 6565060" data-attributes="member: 6786839"><p>I'd say you made the best available choice, given (a) high priority on DM being able to "plug and play", including DMs who are just getting started via AL/EX; and (b) DMs being free to run the stories in any order, with no control over what other AL DMs are doing at other AL tables, including possibly another table at the same game store or otherwise under the same roof.</p><p></p><p>"Wait, Mr. NPC Fulano is acting as if we're meeting for the first time, but last month I played in a session, at The Other Local Game Store, in which the PCs killed him! Did he get resurrected, and lose his memories in the process?" - that's a hazard of the way AL is set up, if I understand correctly.</p><p></p><p>That said: is there a forum where AL DMs can compare notes, and where one DM can post their particular fill-ins, and then other AL DMs can adopt whatever fill-ins they find most useful for their own table? Including material which YOU had in mind, and which you left out of Story Background in order to avoid overloading DMs who don't have much prep time and who just wanna cut to the chase/conflict scenes. And also, for us to learn from each other's mistakes, possibly, though in a gentle, mutually-supportive manner.</p><p></p><p> Ah, true, so they are. That group is better positioned, so to speak, to see every other group enter or leave the building.</p><p></p><p>I added a minor upgrade to that group's plans/preparations/strategy, and as it happens, it didn't actually make life harder for the PCs, instead it gave one of the PCs the opportunity for a Crowning Moment of Awesome, and then a dramatic finale before leaving the scene. I had a BLAST running that session.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riley37, post: 6565060, member: 6786839"] I'd say you made the best available choice, given (a) high priority on DM being able to "plug and play", including DMs who are just getting started via AL/EX; and (b) DMs being free to run the stories in any order, with no control over what other AL DMs are doing at other AL tables, including possibly another table at the same game store or otherwise under the same roof. "Wait, Mr. NPC Fulano is acting as if we're meeting for the first time, but last month I played in a session, at The Other Local Game Store, in which the PCs killed him! Did he get resurrected, and lose his memories in the process?" - that's a hazard of the way AL is set up, if I understand correctly. That said: is there a forum where AL DMs can compare notes, and where one DM can post their particular fill-ins, and then other AL DMs can adopt whatever fill-ins they find most useful for their own table? Including material which YOU had in mind, and which you left out of Story Background in order to avoid overloading DMs who don't have much prep time and who just wanna cut to the chase/conflict scenes. And also, for us to learn from each other's mistakes, possibly, though in a gentle, mutually-supportive manner. Ah, true, so they are. That group is better positioned, so to speak, to see every other group enter or leave the building. I added a minor upgrade to that group's plans/preparations/strategy, and as it happens, it didn't actually make life harder for the PCs, instead it gave one of the PCs the opportunity for a Crowning Moment of Awesome, and then a dramatic finale before leaving the scene. I had a BLAST running that session. [/QUOTE]
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