DDAL Adventurers League seeks your input, even if you do not play AL.

[jasper]

I been a AL DM since September 2016. The survey seems a little light.

 

[Retreater]

It's always disheartening when you give the "wrong answer" and the survey jumps from 30% completed to 93%. Darn it, I had a lot more to say.

 

[jasper]

It's always disheartening when you give the "wrong answer" and the survey jumps from 30% completed to 93%. Darn it, I had a lot more to say.

Hey my firewall is fighting the survey. How about you copy the questions and we answer here.

 

[tetrasodium]

I have played in AL games, and have run AL adventures (but in the latter case not as AL games). I DM professionally and the main reason I don’t run AL is that I don’t encounter demand for it. It would be a case of me having to introduce it to players, many of whom are completely new or new to 5E, and having to explain an additional set of rules and restrictions that in some cases contradict what DNDBEYOND is telling them (DNDBEYOND, the main tool we use for character building and campaign management, has no AL integration).

I wonder if this is partly regional? In the NYC area, D&D is extremely popular but there are very few game stores and the ones we have don’t seem to use AL. Also, the NYC area has no large conventions. But there seem to be places where AL is a big deal?

Ran a lot of AL at a nearby flgs precovid & can confirm the same experience. AL is good for getting people in the door, but any gm with even a modicum of skill & stability is likely to develop a stable group unless steps are taken to avoid such a thing like randomly assigning players to gms or similar nonsense. The stable group doesn't usually give a fig if the game is strict AL legal & someone looking to find a game who shows up with an AL legal looking character doesn't likely care much either.

The only exception that seem to care about how strictly AL legal it is right down to "what's your dci number?" type stuff are problem players that bizarrely present a lot like " commercial gold farmers" in mmos who tended to abuse the fairness things built into AL loot distribution exactly like you'd expect "gold farmers" to do in an mmo until wotc redid the AL rules to make treasure more like a point buy thing.

The "log sheets" were a well meaning but misguided idea though. A newbie joining might zealously fill them out for a while until realizing that nobody cares much. Unless it says GMbob gave out a holy avenger & bob is across the room running another table to say "hey gmbob did you give out a holy avenger to a level 5 pc a month ago? wtf?" it's not like the log sheet tells me anything useful when I could just look at the character sheet & say "yea this all is cool but ixnay on the holy avenger if you want to join my level 5 group".

Those log sheets are even worse for not actually being anything notelike about the session. If a player came to me with five levels of session notes filled with things like npc/place names details plot hooks etc & things like this I don't care if every page was forged that very day because if it keeps up once they are at my table I'll feel like I won the freaking lottery with that player

 

[darjr]

I run AL and have run several steady groups through several hard covers.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Filled out the survey. Seemed fine. Nothing major or surprising of note that they were asking for, although the questions asking whether we've played AL within the last 12 months due to COVID are probably going to be their most informative (if they have noticed any drop-offs in AL play and wanted to confirm why.) All of my AL play is at conventions, which explains why I haven't played AL in the last year, and I'm sure that is the same for many people.

 

[Retreater]

My response was similar in that I played AL at conventions, but didn't this year obviously. In virtual games I've played PFS one time just to try PF2 as a player. The only thing that would make me more likely to run AL is that if the adventures were readily available on Roll20, which is how I'm playing now.

 

[Bravesteel25]

Filled it out. I haven't DM'd AL in over two years. I didn't like how decentralized the program was in terms unified tracking, rules enforcements, and logs. I'm not sure what the answer would be to fix it, but it made it so that AL at one store could be VASTLY different from AL at another store simply because one store has a cohesive organization of DMs that enforce logs and tracking and the other does not.

 

[overgeeked]

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Did my bit and filled out the survey just to vote for Spelljammer, Mystara, and Dark Sun. Here’s to hoping.

 

[HawaiiSteveO]

Was there a season for it is a kinda sorta, embers from the last war was made by the community published to dmguild & ran in parallel to... I forget. All of them are showing platinum or mithral medals & generally well recieved by the eberron community. I ran all of them AL & my players enjoyed themselves

The omission can also mean than an eberron product is in the plans & this is looking to see what levels of interest that other setting have or what settings have a lot of shared interest together

Playing Eberron Oracle of War AL series with my 'home' group right now on Shard VTT, having a blast really well done! We're on Part 6, Part 14 was just release on Dmsguild and it is scheduled for a total of 20. New adventures usually come out first Tuesday of every month but sometimes delayed a week (well this month anyway).

Adventures really capture the vibe of Eberron, some memorable sessions so far. The more straight forward nature of AL modules suit my group well.

Did survey - Oohh classic settings..!