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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aarduini" data-source="post: 6811192" data-attributes="member: 61920">The hardback mods are part of AL yes, but I am addressing what was expeditions here. I do understand that this name has been retired and organized play has taken on a whole new direction, so maybe my concerns are addressed in this manner. Hopefully they will put the AL stamp on more third party mods with good ratings in GM guild and we'll get adventures with different stories in different regions. That is my hope. Did you favor have an affect on the outcome of the encounter. What if you didn't have the favor. There needs to be more of this type of stuff. Believe me when I tell you that I make the effort. i don't thin I'm exaggerating at all. There are probably close to 200 AL players if not more in the Bay Area alone, and that is just one metropolitan area. AL is world wide. Not all that play AL are in the system. You just pinpointed the biggest issue I have with the way things are done. Why ask us to travel 1500 miles for DND!?. Why are we catering to these megacons? They don't need our patronage. A con is a con is a con. The big cons have their own attractions. People who go to Gen Con don't do it just because they get to play an epic. The local cons are the ones that need the attention and support. Why should skerrit's adventure warrant him being flown out? Did it rate 5 stars on GM's guild. No it didn't because no one's played it yet. Gen Con should have stuff like a very popular epic being run by the guy who wrote it. That would be an exclusive worthy of Gen Con. The local cons would just have to setting with their local coordinators running the epic. This whole process just smells of an attempt at building an elitist culture, and DnD does not need that! Once again, who is Skerrit that flying him out is tied to being able to play a mod that you are not even sure is good? You are not interested, but I am. Others may or may not be. The issue is that the story was hijacked and held hostage unless special privileges are given to an admin. I know that sounds harsh, but that is the impression I and others I talk to have about this process. The fact that you don't know the answer to that question means you are not much into the lore. Calimsham and Memmnon are very Genasi heavy regions that were once ruled by Djinn and Efreeties. Green flame blade is fire and booming blade is thunder. These match the fire Genasi and Air Genasi concepts. Why would I use a half-elf? LFR expanded on this region a lot and it is still fresh in my mind. Its a flavor option I can't use because of blanketed rules. Once again, I'm not saying don't restrict. I'm saying don't restrict so broadly. Find the problem and then act. Don't act on something that MIGHT be a problem without ever analyzing it. ]The method is already created with 4th edition my-realms. just make the magic item disbursement be one step behind what published mods put out. I disagree with you that my realms caused magic item farming in 4e. They were very restricted. I never played a my realm for the magic item. A my-realms mod is just a way for local games to make their organized play experience better. They were never meant to be as good as published mods. My statement about being bored was to express my desire for more diverse and complete content. By complete I mean storylines I can finish WITHOUT having to travel 2000 miles.</blockquote>

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