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Well, to be fair, we don't know anything about the specifics. Regardless of the orientations, most people I suspect would feel that discussions about one's real-world sexual escapades is not something suitable for a public gaming table. One can be inclusive about a topic and at the same time...

it sounds like the guy running it is running it like a home campaign, with his own made-up house rules and such, and just using the AL modules as a base to work off of (and also probably has a bit of a callous mean streak). He may be ignoring the underlying concept of how an Organized Play...

It's unfortunate that WotC wants people to be moving around so much, and equally unfortunate that they want them moving around so often as well. A year-long season would be so much better, IMHO, to establishing a story than the six-months versions we have, but then that wouldn't fit in as well...

While these are all fine questions, I think it sidesteps one of the larger issues in the campaign, I feel -- that of a sense of investment. With precious few exceptions, I've found very little to be invested in within the AL campaign as a whole. Sure, one can come up with personal RP reasons...

Yeah, but the point remains -- a factionless table would have been able to do that same module just fine. If there are no members of said faction at a table in a mod, that part of the mod typically just doesn't get run, and/or something else is run in it's place. Right now, belonging to a...

Given the huge range of options available at large at the time, there actually were relatively few things that were outright banned across the board in LG. Instead, most new features, spells, items, etc. that were introduced to D&D 3.X were things were automatically considered restricted by...

You seem to be missing the fact that by being factionless, you in fact do not miss out on any jobs. You'll still be going along on any adventures(modules), still getting paid, etc. Being a member of the factions are more a mechanical benefit than a requirement, altho there are concepts that...

I think you're a little wishful in your expectation of some sort of actual dialogue starting up between you and Customer Support (heck, any Customer Support), but, hey, more power to you.

No, I kinda got that; just that if that was his intent, he might want to resubmit the suggestion. What he's asking for according to his quote was something that is already legal.

Which book exactly are you referring to here? The SCAG? Because if so, that book is already legal for all Story Origins within the Adventurer's League. Season One characters can use it, Season Two characters can use it, Season Three characters can use it. Or are you talking about the fact...

I think therein is half the issue. Yes, it could be flagged, if the staff running the campaign actually had that power. But they don't. The AL staff is in the unenviable position of being the 'front' for the campaign, but they have very, very little actual say in how it's operated when it...

Unfortunately, i don't think Madness is well-suited to DnD (at least the way it's been implemented). In the Granddaddy of all madness-based RPGs, Call of Cthulhu, one's Sanity plays an integral and fundamental part of the entire game. It's slow, gradual, insidious, inevitable and hard to get...

IIRC, back in LG, the unofficial rule of thumb was three combats in a standard 4-hour module, as that would give enough time for the meat of the story, role playing, and miscellaneous paperwork and bookkeeping. Combats are a little faster in 5e due to the streamlining of mechanics, but even so...

No, there are some mods that are just plain brutal on those. One we played this weekend had a madness check each long rest (since the entirety of the mod took place in a 'place that was madness-inducing') as well as suggested after any stressful situation, such as combat, etc. We had I think...

Honestly, it's just swapping out one set of cumbersome and oft-inconsistent set of regulations for another set of cumbersome and oft-inconsistent set of regulations. All that's really changed is the flavor. The AL's set of regulations are smaller in size right now due to the lower number of...

One might then say that if they do not have the resources to put into properly running an Organized Play campaign, maybe they shouldn't be doing it to begin with. Using that as an excuse (however valid that excuse may be) is like saying you don't have enough money to advertise your product, and...

I'd say that if a person is just going to a convention only for the rewards, they're going to a convention for all the wrong reasons to begin with. Man, don't I know it. I'm sitting here with probably a couple hundred dollars worth of certs from mods we've just not run enough tables of over...

I'd actually like that less. That would mean whoever is lucky enough to be available at the store that day might be the one who gets the cert, or it might be a person who is playing that day but may not ever show up at another table again. And then even if it is given to the store owner to...

Have you seen the optimization community recently? They'll do cost-benefit spreads for different manufacturers of dice, if they feel it might give them an edge. Besides, these certs are only rare for us, in AL. To the larger gaming population, those combinations can be as common as dirt, so...

No, trust me, I know they're not, and my word choice wasn't casual. I know that there is a lot of stuff that the AL staff should be able to make rulings on their own about (IMHO), but they usually cannot because they aren't the ones who ultimately makes that decision -- WotC is (as has been...