SCAG Thread

[Tia Nadiezja]

Yup, just speculating on the idea of Phasing out a seasons rules. Not suggesting a changem

My suggestion wasn't to start banning old story origins - just to make sure that story origins have, on the whole, fairly comparable amounts of stuff available to them.

As the content diversifies, older content could even be brought back for later story origins if it fits well. If Season 4 is built around dragons and gives us various dragon-related things, then season 10 is also about dragons, some of Season 4's stuff could be brought back and mixed in with options from seasons 8, 9, and 10.

 

[CapnZapp]

For what it is worth, I find the notion that the SCAG be locked to just one season ridiculous.

Stuff in the season's adventure, fine.

Keeping anything in the actual Hoard of the Dragon Queen book (and related web supplements) to Tyranny characters, fine. Keeping stuff in Princes of the Apocalypse (yes, even the elemental-themed spells!) to Elemental Evil characters, fine.

But SCAG is a general resource, not tied to Rage of Demons/OotA in the slightest. It's a completely separate book, the game line's first general splatbook in fact!

Making a ruling that prevents Tyranny of Dragon characters from being elven Bladesingers or dwarven Battleragers, or Elemental Evil characters from being variant Tiefling Arcane Clerics using Greenflame Blade is insanity.

The restriction should be that the stuff in the Out of the Abyss adventure (such as the Underdark-themed backgrounds, or playing a Derro perhaps) can only be used with Rage of Demons characters.

The only connection between this season and SCAG is timing. If SCAG was delayed and released after next year's season begun, it would be equally ridiculous to restrict it to that season's characters!

 

[Pauper]

As the content diversifies, older content could even be brought back for later story origins if it fits well. If Season 4 is built around dragons and gives us various dragon-related things, then season 10 is also about dragons, some of Season 4's stuff could be brought back and mixed in with options from seasons 8, 9, and 10.

Season 4 is going to be about giants, but your point is taken.

With that said, we have heard that eventually AL will return to Phlan -- when that happens, I wouldn't expect the Season 1 background material to be incorporated as written, since Phlan has changed since the end of Season 1 and it's possible (though how likely it is remains unknown) that Season 1 adventures might well be retired when that 'return to Phlan' season begins, so as not to confuse players who play through a module where Phlan is under the thumb of the Cult of the Dragon and suddenly find themselves in a mod where it isn't anymore.

It's possible some backgrounds from the first Phlan season might be incorporated into the new Phlan season, but I'd expect that to be a deliberate choice, done by reprinting the older material on the AL Organizers Page (as an example).

Of course, if Season 1 isn't retired when AL returns to Phlan, this isn't an issue, as people could simply create Season 1 characters to make use of the older background material. Not sure right now which option would be more likely.

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Pauper

 

[StinkyEttin]

Speculatory speculations are speculatory.

 

[Pauper]

Also, the first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.

(Swiped from xkcd.)

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Pauper

 

[Z. H. Darkstar]

Speculatory speculations are speculatory.

Isn't that what we do best? I didn't take those levels as a Diviner for nothing...

 

[Steve_MND]

Season 4 is going to be about giants, but your point is taken.

Ooh, where'd you hear that? i checked the thread you linked, but didn't see anything about that specifically.

 

[StinkyEttin]

Ooh, where'd you hear that? i checked the thread you linked, but didn't see anything about that specifically.

I'm sorta curious myself.

 

[Tia Nadiezja]

Ooh, where'd you hear that? i checked the thread you linked, but didn't see anything about that specifically.

Looks like Pauper linked in the post to it.

 

[StinkyEttin]

Didn't want to scour through 11 pages but searched it for word giant and didn't see. Guess I'll have to do it the old fashioned way.