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I'm thankful for reliable weekly gaming that is generally welcoming to new players and allows those who have just moved to an area, or who are just visiting, to join in and have some fun and roll some dice. I wouldn't poke so much if I didn't love both the game and the goals as much as I do.

I'm poly. I also game with my partners - sometimes together at the same AL table. If personal conversation happens - and it will, because human beings are human beings and we talk about our lives when we're getting sheets and dice out and breaking for snacks and stiff - someone's going to ask...

I've been frequently running games for flying PCs since the 90s (winged elves were popular in my 2e groups, and Arcana Evolved with its sprytes and dracha was my favorite d20 boom-era game). It's... never been a problem. Not once. It's fun!

Yeah. This... is a thing.

So... you'd throw my above-example player out of your game in that situation because they didn't follow a rule that's not actually written anywhere? And you recommend that people pick their option from a list a random member of AL staff posted to a third-party forum?

And if the player's only level 5-10 character is their Urchin Purple Dragon Knight (born to nothing but earned her way into the nobility as a teenager by saving a nobleman's daughter's life and being adopted in return) and the game being run that day is in that tier... what then? "Just play a...

Plus, movement - like everything else in D&D - is an abstraction. A character who doesn't move mechanically - who doesn't leave their square - isn't stock still. They move within the square, move limbs, dodge attacks, jockey for position, seek openings. I have no problem at all seeing an...

How can organized play even work when "Is my basic character concept legal?" is something subject to table variation?

Paladins aren't really necessarily holy warriors or soldiers of gods in 5e - they're warriors whose power is fueled by an oath. By devotion to a cause. That cause is summed up in their subclass. And neither ability score requirements nor alignment restrictions balanced Paladins in 2e. Inasmuch...

Lightfoot/Wood Elf rule - Good, what I've been doing all along. Quicken Spell rule - Good, what I've been doing since I actually bothered to read the section on bonus action spells about two sessions after the PHB came out. Extra Attack rule - I'm not sure where this one was vague to begin with...

Though, honestly, if you're going to run a public play game, you really need to be up on the rules - and be willing to revisit on the spot if a player has an immediate "That doesn't sound right; the book says this" moment. Even if the player's not as polite as you want.

One new feat. Sandboxed to a single race. My overall point stands.

2/short rest is the majority of encounters. But at least in my campaigns, based on the structure of the adventure, players have shifted between short rests every encounter to no short rests at all - they long rest when totally dry on daily abilities and aching for HP. As long as short rests...

I remember the old days. I remember enough product coming out of TSR that no store could stock it all. I remember the market being divided to the point that per-book sales plummetted. I remember TSR ceasing to exist, and us being on the edge of losing D&D for good. I remember Third Edition and...

Yeah, I think we're on the same page. I was more seconding with an example than arguing. :)

Ooh. Yeah. I can totally dig PoL. The lack of detail in it lets you try your hand at worldbuilding while having broad strokes to fall back on. Another option is Mystara. Pick a nation - Thyatia and Karameikos are favorites - and read a bit about it. Your players aren't likely to be terribly...

Was it Defenders of the Wild that was godawful, then? I don't think it's Tome and Blood. Can we all agree that Complete Divine was a book full of terrible, terrible ideas? Ah! Tome of Magic. Tome of bloody Magic. I will never forgive that book for promising me not one, not two, but three...

Honestly? I think the current setup is actually better for the game than when the focus of WotC's money-making efforts was selling D&D books. 3.5's massive pile o' books and 4e's... well, 4e (I loved 4e, and I desperately needed it to renew my interest in the game as a whole when burn-out on 3e...

For some characters, class is part of their identity. Both the characters I'm playing now fall under that idea - an Abjurer and a Green Knight, both of whom are basically professional members of their classes. For others, though, classes are a mechanical means of expressing something about the...

At least you know. At. Least. You. Know.