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I'm pretty sure we've all known a couple people who are just objectively bad players, and that has nothing to do with their playstyle...

Silverfish? Cockroaches? Eeeeesh, you guys even have disturbing local pet names for each other; when you Australians embrace the whole 'we live in a continent-country filled with weird creatures,' shtick, you don't do it in half-measures, i'll give you that.

No, I meant, my fighter (non-wziard) will take the spellbook as loot if no-one else at the table wants it, so other wizards can potentially copy out the listed spellbook if I end up sitting at a table with them at a later date. Are you saying that's not acceptable? i didn't see anything...

Yah, well, none of us has the actual Mines set but him, so we have no idea how much we 'should have' gotten versus 'ended up getting.' Like I said, not a big deal, but a couple of people at the table were surprised at the large amount of XP in the final session, since they had heard it wasn't...

Ah, okay. I thought he meant that only wizards could claim a listed spellbook as loot on their AR. That would come as a blow to one of my characters, who traditionally takes the spellbook if there is no-one else in the party who wants it, just in case a wizard I'm partying in some other later...

Speaking of which (and to kinda tie this back into the original thread somewhat), does anyone know what the generally-accepted max XP is supposed to be for Lost Mines? Should it get new characters to 5th level? We participated in a somewhat abbreviated version of it the last few weeks while...

Wait, what now? What is this rule you refer to? Maybe I read that wrong.

Any games like this should always operate under the "if you don't want it in the game, don't put it on the table" maxim. Assume anything that is in a legal scenario WILL get into the hands of the players to some varying degree. Whether or not only "a few" or "a lot" of people manage to get...

Yah, while it can be fun, Out of the Abyss is perhaps not the best introduction to AL (indeed, many of the hardbacks, since they are not designed for AL specifically, have some... issues fitting into the OP format very well). I wouldn't gauge the entire AL experience on that hardback, definitely.

I guarantee that given the option, virtually everybody involved will prefer a "we are aware of this concern and have plans to address it, but we can't release specifics at this time" answer over no answer at all when a specific concern like this is brought up. Of course not; there will always...

If that had been the plan all along, then that would have been awesome to know 5 weeks ago when this concern was originally brought up. Could have saved us all a lot of discussion, arguments and debate.

Yep; As mentioned in another thread, the Admins have now reassured us that there will indeed be more than just the one way out, which, until then, was just speculation. I don't know if this was the plan all along and they just didn't want to mention it, or it was a more recent adjustment based...

Not the optimal solution from my point of view, but if this is how it ends up playing out, i think that'd be a decent compromise.

I don't think that's as much of a fix-all as people think it is, and should not be used as a let-them-eat-cake patch for fixing a potential issue in the campaign -- a lot of people out there have no interest or experience in playing a game of D&D online. The big draw of tabletop RPGs over...

IIRC from another thread here, it originally was supposed to be, but they apparently liked it so much, they decided to add it as an appendix in the hardback at the last minute.

Not a flop so much as... awkwardly implemented (as far as we've heard so far). As mentioned elsewhere, I like the idea of a character getting stuck in Ravenloft -- that is one of its key elements, after all -- but if that happens, I want it to be because of in-character decisions, not because...

I am, because it is one of the defining characteristic of what makes an Organized Play campaign and Organized Play campaign to begin with, and not just a series of scattered, independently-run home campaigns. While I agree that I may well be overestimating the concern involved in this...

I had a similar situation with my group; they left for a short rest after clearing out the front half. In the intervening time, as you said, the goblins don't have time to relocate, but they could set up defense, bulwarks, traps, etc. I had my guys archers defend the boss' parapet from the...

I'm not saying that they can't -- or even shouldn't -- "change things up." I'm just saying that there are a few (a precious few, but a few nonetheless) elements that you SHOULD NOT change if you are trying to run something as an OP-style campaign, because if you do, then it is no longer an...

In the version we got from the site, it instead mentioned that the dwarf's priority goal, once awoken, is to escape the series of chambers so it can do whatever it is planning on doing out in the expanses of the Underdark. But there were so many omitted and/or contradictory bits missed in...