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Well, I don't have access to WotC's data, but I was good friends with a game store owner back in those days -- the two 4E books published after the D&D Next announcement sold three copies, total, in his store, and two of them were to me! In retrospect this should have been obvious. Sales of...

That's correct -- the FAQ actually suggests mixed-tier parties are the norm in AL (see "Mixed-Tier Parties? Wussat?", pp.12-13 in the AL FAQ v7.1), but depending on your experience you might see a lot of it (if you play mainly hardcovers) or almost none (if you play mainly published adventures...

Well, the original PF public playtest ran for a year, and they're not totally re-inventing the wheel here, so I'm guessing they feel as though the public part of the PF 2E playtest can be done in that time. The D&D 5e playtest ran for two years, which, while it might have led to a better game...

Possible, but unlikely -- I've participated in Adventurers League since its inception, and have never been part of an event where the players' race/class combinations were recorded. (It's not required in event reporting, for example -- all that's sent to WotC are the players' names and DCI...

I'm curious about exactly what sources this data that Crawford refers to could be. - The 5th edition data is almost certainly mainly D&D Beyond data (used by fivethirtyeight to create this fairly content-free story). Note that the data only really covers base race and base class options -- it...

This is justified because the tiefling actually is in the PH, and the rule for AL is that you use the most current set of rules for any given mechanic -- this is equivalent to saying that characters with PH+SCAG use the Xanathar Swashbuckler rules even though Xanathar isn't the character's +1...

I have to agree -- for a team of creatives who are lauded for their ability to craft a good story, there's not a whole lot of actual story going on here. It's not just Tomb, either; if you boil down 'Curse of Strahd' to its story elements, you basically just get a bunch of adventurers who get...

It goes a bit farther than that, but yeah, it seems like the biggest 'problem' people have with the PHB +1 rule applying to races is that it excludes non-PH classes from being taken by Volo's monster races (so no goblin swashbucklers or yuan-ti Oath of the Crown paladins without exceptional...

It's a good thing 5e isn't a 'legalistic' RPG ruleset, like Pathfinder, then. I'm serious -- 5e has deliberately chosen to define very few general terms and provide a limited number of general rules. If you follow Jeremy Crawford on Twitter, you're no doubt aware of the number of times he says...

The existing Barexit rule isn't terribly odious -- you spend 20 downtime days to exit Barovia after playing a single module (unless you play one of the two modules that have an exit built in). The price goes up if you gain one of a handful of negative story awards, or if you exit and then...

Please note that 5E D&D is not as extensively defined as previous editions -- and the ALDMG specifically gives the DM authority to rule on a situation where there is disagreement over what the rules say. In this situation, the rules do say that Invisibility ends for a character that attacks or...

Given that the Tier 3 Season 7 modules have just been released, it's useful to go back over this tidbit from the Death Curse Primer: So, yes, by the same logic, the Death Curse affects all Tier 1 and 2 runs of Season 7 DD-adventures and Tomb of Annhiliation. QED. -- Pauper

Note that this is a 'house rule', not an AL rule -- though the ability to 'keep' objects as treasure without converting them to gold at the end of an adventure is a long-standing tradition in AL (and the final adventure in Season Four actually uses this as a mechanic in the adventure), there is...

The 'class' that is actually an Old Spice ad (there's even an ability called 'Advertisement' which is an exhortation to buy an Old Spice product) is not really playable; it's clearly a thing made by a marketing team with some D&D 5e (and probably Munchkin) experience, but formatted as a 3e class...

It's worth noting that part of the reason this is so is that player choice is largely taken out of the equation -- the only factors under the player's control when it comes to getting a magic item is 'is the item I want in the adventure we're about to play' and 'am I likely to get the item once...

Try this: If you're going to have a deposit program, you need to track enough information so that a DM can easily review the data and decide whether the character achieved those deposits legally or via error/fraud/what-have-you. This isn't "bookkeeping for its own sake", it's "bookkeeping to...

I find this curious, as the main method for ensuring continuity of play in a shared-world organized play environment depends on "mundane book-keeping". You track story awards, you track XP, you track renown, you track magic items. The updated system changes a few specific things being tracked...

This is accurate -- it is definitely a draw for Organized Play campaigns that characters be portable, and I'm not trying to say that it isn't a draw. However, there have always been limitations on character portability -- adventure tiers prevent high level characters from showing up at...

My understanding is that this situation is covered by the "Can Parts be Replayed?" question in the current FAQ: "A group of characters that play only part of a chapter or adventure can't return to that chapeter unless the entire group agrees to do so." The next sentence clarifies that "the...

People always want to argue with me when I actually answer the question, so now I just post the things that aren't in doubt, just to avoid the drama. ;) -- Pauper