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thats pretty much what I thought the rules were. I very much dislike the dystopian rules that limit basic spell research and highly incentivises meta gamesmanship. Traditionally, wizards are loathe to share magical secrets, but in AL it the only convenient way to actually find them. No amount...

kalani, What is the value of 'used' spellbooks in AL? I believe the closest answer is half the value of a blank. But it could just be 0?

When did they change their stance on wingwear? This was a huge point of contention in season 2. They had a number of easy opportunities to fix this, up to the point of GenCon (nightmare) 2015, where they made wingwear illegal to trade to Fai Chen but still said anyone who picked it up was...

We had a ton of players the night we did neverlight grove. DM basically condensed it down so we could get escorted to the Garden. Only had 1 big fight, heavily truncated, but it was rough for us at mostly 3rd level at the time. That place is pretty scary. We decided (briefly) to go...

Also, since each spell added to a spellbook costs 50gp per level, it's categorically not true that an empty spellbook has the same 'value' as a filled one -- the spellbook in the equipment list is explicitly blank ("a leather-bound tome with 100 blank vellum pages"). This is furthur from the...

Bear-totem barbarians. Colossus slayer archery rangers. Devil sight/agonizing blast warlocks. Lore bards. Vengeance paladins. There are several folks who are the 'theatrical' types that play pretty unoptimized things like eldritch knights or arcane tricksters, or odd multi-class combos.

We never even went to Grakelstug. We found our loot at the conclusion of Blingdenstone. Some of our DMs took to replacing random magic item rewards with non-random magic item rewards MOVED from other parts of the adventure. Early groups that skipped ahead or went really fast through the...

Off the too of my head, There was a spellbook in early season 1(flameskull?), one from Azbara, and one from his boss in S1. There was boltsmelters book and one from Aerisi in S2. 2 from royal oozes in S3, and one so-far in S4. So yeah, I underestimated. There are many expeditions I've never...

Box turtle is not a legal creature choice for PCs in AL...you could do a toad though! It does come down to preference in the end. The list of BBEGs I usually see that arent outright immune to things like polymorph tend to always have Magic Resistance, or are spell-casters(ie wis is one of...

I spent $15 on a DM screen yesterday for my table...I spend about $200 per season on minis from every set to make my games more fun. I am HAPPY to spend that money and more. Hell, our DMs spring for pizza for their players pretty often. Printing a few pages of card stock to throw a bone to...

I had a number of posts on the defunkt wotc forum, regarding the near impossibility of wizards to get new spells in AL. One of the dumbest oversights on ALs part, imo. Was a very rude awakening once I saved up some cash and we went into Waterdeep(a metropolis), and I was informed that I...

Regarding the Black Dragon Mask, I think only 1 person has it in my area. We looted it off Rezmir in Chapter 6, before she escaped Castle Naertar. Its not even normally part of the story, but it was the last session of the season for us and the DM made her the 'boss' encounter....and she...

Our DM awarded my character (a polearm fighter) a cert for Dwarven Plate last week. Everybody at the table was given something decent, but imo that one was the standout. Before that, it was only a theoretical 'bet that happens at some point'. Well, it is a real thing in at least 1 state now...

i kinda added that on without fully explaining. The Polymorph spell itself is fine. But that is only because the scaling is broken. Wild shape on the other hand...or ANY high level summoning spell or polymorph spell. Shapechange, true polymorph. Sorry, you can still only ever polymorph into...

Coredump has some valid points, but he is also overly blunt, to the point of insult. The argument about creature types is highly poignant...AL imposes a bunch of rules based on creature type, and it is a defined term. Odd that the rule hasn't been 'fixed' in 2 years if it was their intent...

I haven't seen any frenzy barbarians in AL yet. One person did talk about rebuilding into 1, but I pointed out how terrible it was so he chose differently. Only thing worse than frenzy barb in AL is BM ranger! Well...anything that wants to use summon or polymorph is also terrible.

It is pretty much common sense that lip reading in general is very hard for normal people...so hard in fact that it takes a specialized feat to be able to do it. In real life, specialized birds of prey can see fish underwater from hundreds of yards away when a normal human's eye can't see the...

The truth is there is no reason to disallow milestone xp XP at all. The main benefit of it is that DMs with full tables can shorten battles and do a bit of hand-waiving and the party gets to see more of the adventure. 4-5 player groups can usually go through several combats a night if they...

Currently, there is no DMs Guild material that is legal for adventure league is there? I mean other than the DDex modules and the main campaign books?

drat! I can never remember to bring a copy of the DM basic rules with me...I just have to wing it when players spend dozens of hours developing their characters then try to summon stuff that their PHB says they can summon.