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Umm, certs aren't required for magic items anymore, so anything you're giving out that's actually specified in the adventure you're running should be just fine at other tables, even if there's no cert at all. As long as it's logged on their log sheet it's all good. That said, "save up gold for...

Just out of curiosity, what sort of variation are you actually seeing in practice? In my experience, things seem to work about the same from table to table. Umm, there seem to be plenty of Tier 3 adventures running at the cons I've been to lately. Tier 4 ones are starting to show up now. Not...

For what it's worth, I don't recommend taking a pregen to an epic. If you're following AL rules (and thus pregens are 1st level) your character is unlikely to survive the adventure if they're level 1 (unless you by nature stay in the back and snipe or something). If you have a character from a...

And now that I've gone back and read the thread... Yeah, there are definitely some issues you can run into in organized play. There's the 12 year old kid who is being a 12 year old kid. There's "that guy" who doesn't actually know how his character's abilities work. There's the group of...

Most of the D&D I play these days is AL. It lets me maintain some ongoing characters that level up over time, but doesn't require me to make it to a regular game, which doesn't fit with my schedule. That means I can drop in to an occasional Wednesday night game or Saturday Game Day sort of...

DMs don't have to do any of that right now. I have yet to encounter a single DM who wasn't interested in running AL adventures because they didn't know the plotline of a previous season's adventures. Most people don't seem to care at all. What prevents them from being reused now? Nothing says...

As I said on the other thread, what is gained (beyond narrative) by removing early seasons from the set of adventures legal to play? I can see some justification if they're giving out too many rewards (lots of XP/Gold, stronger than usual magic items, etc), but beyond that it seems like all it...

Why? What precisely does it hurt to have these adventures legal for play until the end of the 5e version of the Adventurers League? I could see an argument if there was some sort of broken strong magical item, or they gave out too much XP/Treasure/Whatever, but even then you can just errata them...

Who's depriving anyone of a sense of continuity? I'm saying that the level of continuity in the published adventures is fine as it is. There's no reason to take further action (such as removing earlier seasons from play, etc) to improve the sense of continuity because if the continuity matters...

My issues have absolutely nothing to do with local organization. There are multiple local Wednesday night AL games I could be playing in and at least one weekly thing on Saturday. My problem is that my work and family schedule is incompatible with them. As a result, I end up playing the...

Seriously man, I get it that you enjoy the ongoing plotlines, and you are able to run consistent tables of players through them in a reasonable order. That's super cool. Some of us don't have that option though. We play at inconsistent times, with varying groups of people, and we're limited by...

You're welcome to your opinion, but for some of us an in-person MMO with the DM as the server is just fine.

Yes, precisely that. I play AL with the full knowledge that this is a weird pseudo replication of a D&D campaign, where my PCs jump from party to party and adventure to adventure while constantly messing with their locations (both physical and temporal in many cases) and I honestly am not...

Don't forget the army of weird familiars who get to live in your apartment. That's key to the high level AL late game.

Oh, just to clarify, I totally agree with you. Honestly, any DM with sufficient rewards to be unbalancing due to these new faction downtime activities is also probably able to get their magic item shopping list completed via Dedicated DM rewards anyway, and I haven't found that to be a real...

You can get secret missions via DMing, just not via DMing normal mods. A secret mission for your character does come along with the Epic DM quest. Agreed though, it's not like the ways to get the equivalent of a secret mission via DMing are growing on trees or something. Realistically, if you...

Really, you couldn't hit a nice round 100 tables?

I presume that will happen eventually, although it's too bad, since some of them are pretty sweet (independent of the cool loot they provide). Honestly, they're already heavily incentivizing you to run the current season via DM Quests (a bunch of them are current season only) and DM Rewards (the...

FWIW, I don't see this as being a big problem at all. Hardcore AL minmaxers can already get their friends to run them through cherry picked adventures to pick up the best loot, or even cherry picked chapters from the hardcovers for even more absurd stuff. A couple of cloaks of protection and +1...

Honestly, there are always going to be bugs in any of these systems. I'm relatively pleased at the rate at which they seem to fix the issues that come up. Do I wish the problems didn't exist in the first place? Sure, but I can understand it not being a part of the system that got a whole lot of...