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Thanks for the follow-up! -- Pauper

That makes sense, but this also means that the DDHC adventures wouldn't count for DM Quests like Dedicated DM, Deja Vu, or Slot 0 DM, which specify DDAL/DDEX adventures. And the DDHC adventures do seem to be worked into the requirements for Cursed DM ("Run an adventure featuring the Death Curse...

So what we're saying is that an adventure 'features the Death Curse' if a character who doesn't have the Death Curse can contract it by playing the adventure? That seems reasonable to me. -- Pauper

Yes, the DMs Guild Adept adventures are AL-legal, as noted by Chris Lindsay in this note on the WotC website. No indication if those adventures count as hard-covers for the purpose of DM Quests that require hard-cover adventures, but I'm inclined to believe they don't -- the DM Quests were...

The first follow-up survey is up. It's entertaining (mind flayer death knights in +3 plate riding Gargantuan vampire beholders for the win!), but it's not clear what the purpose was other than collecting e-mail addresses. I look forward to uncovering the subtle plan of our subterranean AL...

I would say you should do the steps in the order listed, but you don't have to finalize every selection during that step. For example, you choose your race and class first, and if either of these require you to pick a specific resource as the character's +1, then you make the selection at that...

If your Extra Life event included a session of Fai Chen's Fantastical Faire, then some players may have certed pets purchased from Fai Chen -- the Extra Life I went to locally had one -- which would definitely be AL-legal. As for adventures, unless an item or object has a listed gold piece...

That definitely happens -- I'm in a Pathfinder game running through the Kingmaker adventure patch and the DM was diagnosed with colon cancer. We're going to start up again this Friday after nearly 10 months off while he went through surgery and chemotherapy. The game goes on, when it can. --...

Realized on reviewing the rules for reactions that there is a better interpretation -- the DMG contains a rule (referenced in the Sage Advice Compendium) that, if a reaction does not have a specific timing noted, the presumption is that the reaction takes place after the event that triggered it...

Good catch! I'll note the point in the question. -- Pauper

Well, it's mentioned solely due to the one answer referencing 'full cover', which actually doesn't appear in the rules for opportunity attacks (and the cover rules actually use the term 'total cover'), so this is one of those situations where I was trying to catch people relying on the...

Sounds like the Lair Assault program that existed during Fourth Edition. In our area, we had a lot more people who were interested in the idea of Lair Assault than there were people actually enjoying playing Lair Assault -- reason being, if you design your adventure well enough to actually...

Good to know! That is part of the point of putting this up, after all. Looks like the order of the questions is random when you re-launch the quiz, so I'm not sure which one your #7 was. I got 9/10 on the EU quiz, missing the one about being able to knock an opponent unconscious with a melee...

That's fair -- though my experience is that sometimes players assume certain things in the rules and thus get them wrong unless the DM specifically looks them up to confirm. Best example is #9 -- the player may well remember that the Vicious weapon gets bonus damage 'on a crit' and won't...

I knew the spoiler tag didn't work on desktop, since I originally used those and previewed the post before posting and saw they didn't work. I'll try using both sblock and spoiler tags -- let me know how that works. -- Pauper

The EU Sage (www.sageadvice.eu) has posted another 5e rules quiz, and while it's entertaining, it's also not very challenging. I thought I'd put up a quiz of my own here. Note: these are general rules questions, not AL-specific rules questions; however, since AL DMs are expected to run their...

Agreed. If the character chooses to be free of the Death Curse at that time, then yes. I see nothing in the Death Curse primer to suggest that characters are *required* to undo the Death Curse on the release of T3 adventures, simply that it's allowed. (A character who doesn't undo the Death...

Reviewed the Lost Mine adventure over the weekend -- it does say that it's an adventure "for 1st level characters" and "[d]uring the course of the adventure, the characters will advance to 5th level." Should also be noted that the intro to Part 4 (Wave Echo Cave) says, "This part of the...

Not to knock the writer, but the responses here just solidify the old saw about how the answer to any question asked in a headline is always 'no'. -- Pauper

Keep in mind that Lost Mine was released as part of the Starter Set, which was published before the core books. In that sense, the rule regarding using the most current version of a published rule applies ["The most current version of any rule is used -- even if it's reprinted in another book."...