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Well, the D&D team has said they have the storylines for the next two hardcovers already laid out, so I suspect the season will end in the spring when the new hardcover adventure comes out. Data for the win! -- Pauper

Hmm, sounds like you have a budding career in conspiracy theorizing ahead of you! A better explanation would be that the CCC program started during Season 5, and thus during the time frame in which the Death Curse would be active, based on the opt-out rules. Meanwhile, most of the AO modules...

Actually, the season will likely end in the spring of next year, as every other odd-numbered season has to date, with the release of the next hard-cover: Tyranny of Dragons (Season 1): August 2014 - March 2015 Rage of Demons (Season 3): August 2015 - March 2016 Storm King's Thunder (Season 5)...

I realize I'm only cementing my reputation as the resident contrarian, but I like the rules and what they represent. Let me go through what I suspect would be a few questions regarding the rules and give my thoughts -- though, since I'm in no way connected to the AL admins, they're just my...

Now that I think about it, it probably works better if I'm not at Alan's table. After all, the first time I played at Jon Lamkin's table (former RC for the Midwest region), my character died. And the first time I played at Jay Africa's table (former RC for the Far West region), my character...

I'd say your local AL organizers are the best source of info on this question -- WotC doesn't organize AL games, they generally leave that to third-parties (like Baldman Games, for Origins, GenCon, and the like). I know our local conventions here in Minnesota get run by a rag-tag group of...

Well, sure, and the fact that those don't really work from a setting perspective would be a problem for some DMs, if the campaign really spent any effort enforcing the setting. But it doesn't, and the rules only care that you chose one of the general categories (Fiend, Fey, etc.), so you can...

Thanks, but I'm playing with 3 other people, so we're not going to make it as a team. See you there! -- Pauper

I guess at that point calling it 'playtest' material is just semantics, then. Feeling a bit better about this. -- Pauper

Wish I'd known about this a week ago, so I'd have had a shot at warfteiner's table. Ah, well, shame on me for not obsessively checking the GenCon forums daily! -- Pauper

Fair enough. I'm still concerned that it sets a bad precedent ("We don't want to wait until the next book comes out! Release the class via DMs Guild like you did with the Mystic!"), but if the DMs Guild version is identical to the release version, my concerns over the use of playtest material...

As long as any version prior to the final version is released to the AL, it's allowing unfinished, 'beta' material into the official AL campaign. The danger of harming the campaign via poorly balanced material is precisely the reason why the AL doesn't currently allow anything that isn't...

I want to believe you, but I'm curious why, if Mike isn't on the team, that he's listed as being on the team on a lot of recent AL publications, including the AL Content Catalog (published March 2017), as well as every AL module published since Season 5: I can accept that he doesn't have...

Seems a little harsh for those players who don't have illegal characters... Apologies for harping on this point, but the Mystic in particular has a sordid history of legality in AL, and with Mike Mearls now officially a member of the WotC AL team, his announcements related to the Mystic and AL...

All good questions, though I'm afraid the players in my area will simply respond saying, "Mearls said the class is AL-legal for playtesting, so I'm playing it." Looking forward to the admins' guidance on this one. -- Pauper

Thanks for the info, but I'm a bit confused by this, from the Mystic download available on the DM's Guild: "Once the classes have robust sets of features and options that are hitting the approval levels we aim for, we will make those classes available for playtesting in the D&D Adventurers...

Definitely my #1 'wish I could buy this' RPG would be a City of Heroes RPG. I encountered a guy at GenCon a couple of years ago who adapted the Savage Worlds system to run a City of Heroes scenario, but I think a more explicit mechanical expression of the City of Heroes game (explicit...

Based on Kalani's question, is the DM's Guild considered a 'rules source' for AL-legal rules items published there? (So, the Mystic that is eventually going to be published to the DM's Guild would require any mystic character to take DM's Guild as its '+1' until such time as it's re-published in...

Good to know there's a specific target audience for the work, though I'll admit to being a bit disappointed that I'm apparently not in it. :cool: -- Pauper

I don't think you did -- I think Jeremy honestly wants to get buzz going for the new book, but he is not as knowledgeable about AL-specific rules (like PH + 1), as he's not part of the WotC AL team. He probably meant to say that the book will be AL-legal (and the admins have already confirmed...