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No, I stand corrected. That was another module that had that footnote about replacing a Bad Guy with an equivalent new one in case of 'previous' NPC death; my bad. I got them confused because we used that same rationale in this one when we ran it as well.

Well, given how unlikely it is that most DMs will explicitly target a character's permanent magic items for complete destruction, and how it is possible for a 1st level character to have said permanent item, I see little functional difference. That said, I'll agree that by the nature of the...

Actually, IIRC, for the second individual at least, they mention briefly in the module that if she had died at a table run previously, just change the name out, and it is, in fact, a new individual of the same rank and position who the characters encounter. Just one of the 'willing suspensions...

And yet, inexplicably, the campaign put a permanent magical item into the campaign that allows for that sort of flying for anyone that has it, essentially at will (for the purposes of handling most any AL encounter). Admittedly, as an item as opposed to a racial feature, it limits the number of...

Sure, it's inevitable, but it's also wrong. We don't own it in anything close to the sense that's being argued here, which was my point -- it's not a hobby club, it's a marketing campaign. And we're not members, we're consumers. And OP is by no stretch of the imagination an "intensely local...

While I understand the (legitimate) concern you perceive here, I think you're making a mistake in your assumption that the AL is a 'hobby club,' which it isn't -- it's more part of WotC/Hasbro's marketing department. It doesn't exist to provide a meeting point for people of similar interests or...

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

Agreed; that's what we did here with mine. Whenever we start an Wednesday Encounters season, I mention to anyone who is interested in it that also plays (or is thinking about playing) Expeditions the same spiel: You can technically bring characters from one to the other and vice versa, but it...

I'm not entirely sure how to make the 'spoiler' block here, but given that it's a thread discussing tips on running the module, I wouldn't think anyone who has not played it will be (or should be) in here. Still, Spoilers. My Lord's Alliance LE character sided with the Plumes right off...

I disagree. In fact, I disagree most emphatically. The whole point behind Organized Play is the idea that you can participate in it wherever you are. You can grab your character from your home in New York, where you play AL with friends in your local game store, and then be able to sit down...

Agreed. You simply can't have an organization like this being run by an absentee landlord, and not expect a lot of problems to crop up. You either need to have the people running the campaign have the ability to make decisions for the campaign, or else you need to have the people that make...

I think ultimately the real problems lie almost squarely and completely in the way the AL is set up. Namely, that everything that is of critical import to running an Organized Play campaign is not being handled by the people with boots on the ground. The AL Coordinators have remarked before...

Oh, don't get me wrong -- I don't for a minute think that Hasbro sees D&D as anything other than a revenue stream. But that's also why I mentioned that I don't think their current approach is the best for anyone -- the players, the game, or the company. D&D (both the game and the brand) is a...

Quite possible. The thing a lot of people (players and often DMs as well) miss is that Living Campaigns like AL (and the Pathfinder Society, and Living Greyhawk before them, and Living City before that, etc.,) are a completely different entity than the sort of 'traditional' home campaign you...

My concern is more over the larger issue that WoTC/Hasbro is decentralizing stuff because they don't want to have to deal with it personally, and by doing that the way they are doing so, they are making it harder for people to follow stuff because stuff is being floated around to so many little...

Which is just hammers the point home to me that getting rid of stuff like the official Forums and moving stuff to a more 'social network' approach is/was a bad idea. Social media is great for talking to people, but not so much with people -- they tend to be notoriously poor at more in-depth...

Alignment in D&D (and other roleplaying games, honestly) have always been a bit of a sore spot, because many people think your alignment shouldn't dictate your actions, but rather it would be your actions which dictate your alignment. I think that's one of the reasons why 5e largely has...

Ah, okay, I thought you meant while playing it as part of the Wednesday Encounters bit, with the inbuilt level caps, etc. I just now noticed you mentioned earlier that it was being run as a home game version. Fair enough.

I cannot easily conceive of a way how that could have happened with the way the setup begins (and I probably don't want to know), but hey, more power to them, then.

You know, honestly, I can't broadly disagree with much that Angry GM here said. It's many of the same things several of us have been commenting on, to varying degrees, since AL went live. I'd like to think as time goes on, situations like GenCon, etc., will get WotC/Hasbro to re-evaluate how...