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Why is Hoard of the Dragon Queen such a bad adventure?
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<blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 6478151" data-attributes="member: 6786839"><p>I haven't played much D&D since 1E (played LOTS of other TRPGs). I walk into a game store. They have a poster about the release of 5E, and they're hosting a game playing an intro adventure in 5E. I decide that I'll give D&D another try. I pay a small fee, I show up on Game Night. I've got a first level character; decent stats, and some interesting new-to-me abilities, and single-digit HP. I'm well aware that I'm not (yet) a bad-ass. I'm more like Hermione in her second year at Hogwarts. I've played characters who could single-handedly defeat this D&D first level party that I've just now joined.</p><p></p><p>Do you think that Adventurer's League should assume that people like me don't exist or don't matter, and presume that everyone playing HotDQ *knows* that (a) the setting is FR and (b) everywhere in FR, "You see a dragon devastating a village" means "It's time to charge into the village"?</p><p></p><p>An appropriate heroic response, from what my PC knows of their abilities relative to a dragon, and what I know as a player from Call of Cthulhu or Shadowrun: help refugees fleeing the village, provide medical care, search for survivors trapped under rubble, and then go tell faction contacts, local liege lord, and people with double-digit HP.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riley37, post: 6478151, member: 6786839"] I haven't played much D&D since 1E (played LOTS of other TRPGs). I walk into a game store. They have a poster about the release of 5E, and they're hosting a game playing an intro adventure in 5E. I decide that I'll give D&D another try. I pay a small fee, I show up on Game Night. I've got a first level character; decent stats, and some interesting new-to-me abilities, and single-digit HP. I'm well aware that I'm not (yet) a bad-ass. I'm more like Hermione in her second year at Hogwarts. I've played characters who could single-handedly defeat this D&D first level party that I've just now joined. Do you think that Adventurer's League should assume that people like me don't exist or don't matter, and presume that everyone playing HotDQ *knows* that (a) the setting is FR and (b) everywhere in FR, "You see a dragon devastating a village" means "It's time to charge into the village"? An appropriate heroic response, from what my PC knows of their abilities relative to a dragon, and what I know as a player from Call of Cthulhu or Shadowrun: help refugees fleeing the village, provide medical care, search for survivors trapped under rubble, and then go tell faction contacts, local liege lord, and people with double-digit HP. [/QUOTE]
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