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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve_MND" data-source="post: 6826699" data-attributes="member: 6801314">While I agree with this sentiment as far as the actual setting is concerned, the idea of an 'escape hatch' (or to a lesser extent, knowing where the 'exit' mod is) has zero to do with the setting.  It has everything to do with the structure of an Organized Play Shared Campaign, which is based (by definition) on the idea that a player can theoretically take any legal character to any other table of that OP campaign and play there.To look at it a different way, take, for example, if the same rule was put in place with the mid-tier module 1-10, Tyranny in Phlan.  What if when you played any modules from 1-1 through 1-9, you HAD to have played and succeeded in getting out of Phlan in 1-10.  If you did not get that opportunity to play that mod -- or worse yet with the current no-replay rules, did not successfully complete it -- then that character would NEVER be able to play in ANY other Adventure League module, ever again, because they were still stuck in Phlan.  And what, especially, if that story arc was designed to be very insular and tightly-knit from the beginning, meaning it'd be relatively unlikely for that one mod to be randomly played by a group or table, because it really only makes sense properly within the context of the entire story arc.That is -- as far as we've heard -- essentially what they are proposing for Season 4.  These suggestions that have been proposed have nothing to do with Ravenloft's setting, and everything to do about the structures of the AL OP Campaign and how it operates.  There are precious few ways to drive away new players or discourage existing players that to take a favorite character that they've developed and grown attached to, and manufacture a situation where you must tell them that -- through no fault of their own -- they are no longer able to play them in any other campaign module, ever again.These aren't proposed as a way of lessening the tension of the Season 4 setting; they're proposed to provide an alternative  for those people who inevitably have Real Life interfere with their gaming.</blockquote>

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