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Oath of Vengeance paladins make great Corrections officers, or hooded executioners. After all, you probably didnt kill all of the cultists. Many of them still deserve their rightful punishment. They are the kind of army generals that can launch the heads of their enemies in catapults at the...

If a player wants to play a deep gnome wizard with the racial feat at 4th level, the odds are very good they plan on abusing the Abjurer Arcane Ward feature. So be prepared for that. It is pretty cheesy but perfectly legal. The spammable nondetection spell does count as an abjuration spell...

The same rule that keeps a PC from just saying 'I have every feat in the book!' The regular rule is when you get a ASI, you can take: +2 to one stat, OR +1 to two stats, OR Take a feat. For deep gnome PCs of -ALL- classes, the first ASI they get is at level 4.

Have they released what the 'special' reward for store ran events is?

I am curious if the DM forces the PCs to always appraise every item they intend to sell? The baseline assumption should be that when the PCs sell their crap, they get the correct price. Having armor/weapons match each other stylistically is a purely cosmetic distinction. The armor was...

It's still March 3 here, but yeah...still looking for that ALPG! or a player companion...something

I think the module looks fun, but it also looks a lot like a tpk at the end. We dont start running season 4 till next week. Yeah, its Ravenloft. But players tend to want to play heroes. We're even less likely to let our creepy demons out to play in a casual public group that tends to change...

The Wand of God Slaying(viscid globs) is one of the worst offenders IMO. My AL polearm fighter has Dwarven Plate, a Ring of Free Action, and Gloves of Swimming and Climbing. terrain-based encounters are pretty common. He is very hard to slow down.

I don't think most people cheat on purpose, and even if I know someone is blatantly cheating, its not worth interrupting an otherwise fun game to call someone out on fudged dice rolls. I do have 1 case that drives me up the wall though. Have a player with a Black Dragon Mask that misuses it...

Season 3 ALPG, page 11. Awarding Gold and Mundane Treasure Coin, art objects, trade goods, and other found wealth are converted to a gold piece (gp) value at the conclusion of a session, episode, or adventure, which is then divided by the number of characters in the party. Each character...

It is virtually impossible for a character to craft Plate armor in AL. It might actually be impossible, since tier 2 characters cant run 1-4 expeditions/encounters. I dont know what the theoretical maximum currently is but I imagine it is probably close at this point. It takes 300 downtime...

Yeah, Dracoprimus. This one probably falls under the 'we didnt really think about this when we made the rule' category. I've never seen a DM actually intervene with this. Of course, I also rarely see wizards that don't constantly forget about the familiar in their pocket. myself included.

The reason I said earlier that the -invested- value of spellbooks was impossible to calculate is simple. Crystal clear example is this: A spellbook looted from a certain scary house. 1st level: disguise self, identify, mage armor, magic missile, protection from evil and good 2nd level...

In a home game, that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. If I were running a home game, I would make up a value too. I would also let the sage background actually help a wizard in finding magical research. I would also house rule a slew of broken spells and abilities, and I wouldn't...

In a big group, you can predict a few things. High level spell slots essentually are traded for EZ wins. Big spells like Contagion, and forcecage, upcast Banishments and Heroes feast will frequently trivialize encounters. Same goes for the martial classes' feat combos. The PCs will have...

Kalani, you are leaving out the part where you need to explain the elephant in the room. 'I wanna play a necromancer!' is usually code for 'I want to have undead servants following me around!' You should explain how Animate Dead works in AL....ie that it basically doesn't. The point of the...

I think it is perfectly reasonable for spellbooks to be valuable. Heck I think they should be -very valuable- because to the people that need them they are as good as magic items. But your method of pricing goes against AL rules. Step 1: does the module say how much it is worth? Step 2: If...

well not to be a stick in the mud, but hoard of the dragon queen can't have spells from Elemental Evil season in them. There aren't a ton of wizards, and most of the ones there are are Red Wizards. Historically they usually favor evocation and necromancy. But there are are only 2 that have...

This is a very good thing. Hopefully it will pave the way for faster patching if it happens again in the future. Flavorful, minor items are way cooler when they don't perma-curse you.

There were a lot of dragonborn at the beginning of S1...then everyone realized they didnt have darkvision, and they overvalued(by a lot) the breath weapon. Same thing happened with Genasi in S2...only 1 has darkvision...wtf?! In S1 and S2 a lot of these players rebuilt to other races because...