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DM David has a nice Winter Fantasy recap as well on his site. One note for AL admins from that recap -- keep an eye on the Simulacrum spell, and have your adventure designers take it into consideration when designing adventures. -- Pauper

We recently played The Howling Void, and filled out the data cards based on the questions being asked by the face in the portal as we entered the air node. My paladin, who played through both The Courting of Fire and Tyranny in Phlan answered the 'what creature do you fear most' question as...

If you killed Ixusaxa during The Raven, then you probably were in for a shock when you started The Horseman. -- Pauper

The Raven is the twelfth adventure in the Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts series, the eleventh to be set in Barovia, and is a direct sequel to The Donjon in that the events of this adventure pick up immediately after the events of that one and presume that the party was successful in rescuing...

All valid points. That some folks seem eager to afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable is no reason for you to feel unjustified in making your observation. -- Pauper

And now I understand how Trump got elected. -- Pauper

I've made my point and will conclude with this: Though the AL admins have stated they have no plans at this time to retire older adventures, the only adventure they have declared as 'evergreen' (which is to say, not subject to retirement) is Lost Mine of Phandelver. They have not and will not...

- Makes DM recruitment/retention easier because DMs don't need to have run previous seasons of AL to be able to run the current material. Also, DMs don't need to adjust adventures for characters who have played later material that contradicts the material in the existing adventure (Elisande...

Sure, but just because some players can enjoy that sort of playstyle doesn't mean that the campaign should be organized so that only those players can enjoy it, from a narrative perspective. The admins strive to provide a narrative through-line for each season; this point seems to be arguing...

So the con organizers should organize the schedule of their con to favor people who can only show up one day in preference to the folks who are showing up every day (and likely paying more to do so), especially if there are more of them? Sure, it's not great to be in your shoes and the con...

In a different thread, I started a discussion on adventure retirement by saying the following: -- I feel the campaign is already on shaky ground by not retiring the Season One adventures prior to this point. Most Season One adventures don't make narrative sense if run for characters who have...

At this point, we've officially hijacked this thread, so anybody who isn't in Zapp's boat and does want to continue this conversation regarding adventure retirement should do so in a new thread. -- Pauper

Very true. I also suspect that, if you took a good look at your con schedule, you'd find that -- say the con is running a three-part series -- the first mod in that series is heavily scheduled on the first day, the second mod is heavily scheduled on the second day, and the third is heavily...

That makes sense, and it's a good reason why you as a player should probably be less devoted to the idea of getting a consistent story across your play sessions. I'm confused as to why you want to deprive other players who can commit to regular play sessions that sense of continuity and story...

Not a problem, but I find it ironic that you suggest the AL should consider other priorities, when that's exactly my point -- the AL should consider *it's own priorities first*, which goes back to all the points I made in the initial comment about why it's a good idea to retire old adventures.

For convention play, that makes some sense -- and the new convention-specific modules AL is trying to promote to add new content specifically to conventions is very much along this style of 'random play'. Even then, though, the convention authors are likely going to include some kind of internal...

Why not? It seems like most of your issues are due to local organization (or the lack of it). Again, why? The big 'win' of the Expeditions program was that it established Wednesday night as 'D&D night'. Establishing a consistent time for your gaming would seem to be better for everybody: your...

If you have a DM who is OK with that, then more power to you. I know I bring more to a game than an MMO server, so players who just want to kill monsters and tally loot don't add much to the games I run. I think this is the biggest reason that I haven't run very many convention games -- that...

Continuity of story is kind of the point of a living campaign -- otherwise, you're just playing an in-person MMO with the DM as the server. -- Pauper

And you are ignoring the other side of the PC coin, which is that player characters, during adventuring, often have to spend gold on things -- meals, mounts, consumables like healing potions, etc. Once higher than level 4, PCs even run the risk of having to spend cash on resurrection spells to...