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WotC is not interested in bunch of different campaign settings, with one book each. They'd rather have a bunch of realms books, most of which will be purchased by the people that are interested (or at least tollerate) the realms than have a dark sun book (purchased only by dark sun fans) and a...

No argument there, I think if you've got a consistent week to week play group the HCs are a great experience. My only objection is that they're often unbalanced compared to the non-HC adventures, and historically they've been written in ways that make translating them to an Organized Play...

Honestly, I agree with both the "Hardcovers aren't written with Organized Play in mind" point and the "Trying to over-legislate is a fool's erand" point. The HCs are super far from being balanced relative to the AL modules, and most of the really OP stuff comes out of them. It'll probably never...

The weird thing about this is that because of the way in-store AL games can be so fluid, the difference between a "loot run" and a weekly game can be really really low. Let's say there's a table playing chapter 6 of PotA at your local store. On week 1 they play one dungeon. Then on week 2 4 out...

Honestly, I think a "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck" approach is best here. If the one-shot you're running or playing in doesn't feel like an adventure it's probably not something that should be runnable as a one-shot. If it does feel like an adventure, then it should be runnable...

My experience is largely the same, for what it's worth. This is a perfectly legitimate way to run HC campaigns, but so is "please don't play your PC outside this campaign". I know local games that fit both molds. It's really up to the players and DMs in question which they prefer...

If the store wants to require it's DMs to take all players that show up that's the stores business. That said though, in my experience there's some leeway here. Some stores have hard and fast rules on this, some give DMs that use their space more control over who's at their table. Given the...

Maybe you've got a different kind of powergamer than I've seen, but I see people running chapters, not encounters, just as the rules allow. You don't run the encounter with the Ettins in the Neronvain chapter of RoT because that's got the relevant magic item, you run the whole chapter, kill the...

For what it's worth, I kind of agree here. If I was running a regular HC table and the rest of the players were all on board with not playing their characters outside that table I'd be kind of annoyed if one or two players were going out and playing stuff on the side. It's not against the rules...

What precisely do you consider "normal play"? There's nothing in the rules that says running one-shots or dropping in to ongoing SKT or other HC runs is illegal. If you're going to ban items just on the basis of that sort of thing you're going to catch both the people who are abusing the system...

Indeed. Stuff like this makes me feel absolutely zero shame for picking and choosing the adventures I'll DM based on the Dedicated DM items I can get from them ;-)

I'm well aware that they swing by here occasionally, but I watch every post here and most of the posts on the AL Facebook Group and it's WAY more common to see an admin ruling on something there.

This is a pretty bad place to look for an admin ruling. While admins do occasionally swing by here, they are WAY more commonly seen posting on the D&D Adventurers League Facebook Group.

Absolutely, if you don't care about table portability and your DM is fine with it then go to town, do what you want.

I think this is one of those "you could reasonably argue both ways, if you actually care you should get guidance from an AL admin before you try it" sort of cases.

I seem to recall that Reincarnate changes your racial modifiers, so maybe True Polymorph would as well for a PC legal race? It's a really weird case.

Indeed, I was very happy to see that.

Oh, I'm sure that's the intention, I'm just not sure they intended to outlaw more innocuous stuff like True Polymorphing your Bladesinger into a Half Orc.

The FAQ section on Reincarnate says the following: As for asking on Facebook vs seeing it in the FAQ you are preaching to the choir. I'd love to see the FAQ instantly updated as well, but in practice it's updated on a 3-6 month time lag, and the admins answering questions on facebook in the...

I'm not convinced that this is the intended result considering that the answer for reincarnate has such different implications (and I've seen people talking with admins on Facebook about bladesinger dwarves via reincarnate, and the admins seemed fine with it). It seems weird that reincarnate...