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<blockquote data-quote="skerritthegreen" data-source="post: 7253186" data-attributes="member: 70203">I think you are mixing up &quot;design philosophy&quot; with &quot;game rule.&quot; I never said it was intended as a game rule. It a design philosophy that they only balance rules items against the PHB and the book that has the rules item in it. As for sourcing my claim, I regularly talk to the Designers and sitting in a meeting with them flat out asked &quot;Why do we do this in AL?&quot; and that's what I was told by Mike Mearls. I also recall not that long ago having alphastream ask Crawford the same question on Twitter and getting the same answer. It exists in AL as a rule because there needs to be a universal DM to say yes/no for an Organized Play campaign, but also because the concept of balance at WOTC is PHB+1, and the designers assume that if a DM wants more or less in their campaign, they say so. So I am NOT saying the PHB+1 is an official D&amp;D rule, but rather one of the philosophies behind how those rules are created with then the DM riding herd over exceptions to that philosophy in their personal campaign. If you want to believe I am lying to you, that's cool as it doesn't change reality that the AL rule is not going away which is really all this forum is about. If would rather the admins give you less insight into what goes on behind the scenes because you assume they are spinning tales, I am happy to frequent this forum even less.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="skerritthegreen, post: 7253186, member: 70203"] I think you are mixing up "design philosophy" with "game rule." I never said it was intended as a game rule. It a design philosophy that they only balance rules items against the PHB and the book that has the rules item in it. As for sourcing my claim, I regularly talk to the Designers and sitting in a meeting with them flat out asked "Why do we do this in AL?" and that's what I was told by Mike Mearls. I also recall not that long ago having alphastream ask Crawford the same question on Twitter and getting the same answer. It exists in AL as a rule because there needs to be a universal DM to say yes/no for an Organized Play campaign, but also because the concept of balance at WOTC is PHB+1, and the designers assume that if a DM wants more or less in their campaign, they say so. So I am NOT saying the PHB+1 is an official D&D rule, but rather one of the philosophies behind how those rules are created with then the DM riding herd over exceptions to that philosophy in their personal campaign. If you want to believe I am lying to you, that's cool as it doesn't change reality that the AL rule is not going away which is really all this forum is about. If would rather the admins give you less insight into what goes on behind the scenes because you assume they are spinning tales, I am happy to frequent this forum even less. [/QUOTE]

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