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Message: <blockquote data-quote="osyrus68" data-source="post: 7705618" data-attributes="member: 6777470">I have, and for the most part my experiences haven't been the greatest. For "organized play" nothing seems organized. To many voices. Especially on their facebook pages. Arguments are allowed to ensue over the dumbest of things and how many times something is asked or talked about (when there's NO good way to search for anything amongst the AL program) but yet a DM asking for notes from others is told "if that exists you better not distribute that". Second I noticed no real desire for it here in a fairly large metropolitan area of Phoenix. That's not D&D's fault (though it might be from previous years) but whenever you walk into a store and here .... "Wizards sucks"...."this is edition was better"...bad taste in my mouth to have the stupid edition wars constantly.Third, this goes back to the organized bit again, but aren't they supposed to be the same set of rules from table to table?? yeah not in ANY experience I had unless it was the same DM. I know organized play isn't really a thing for me as I have come to cringe whenever I hear one of the previous LC/RC say "the community..."...wrong....organized play to me means top down structure. Not bottom up.  The miscommunication and flat out wrong answers being distributed and told over and over again is why the community should sometimes be shut up.  I also do not like that it encourages playing a character until about level 5 (sometimes 10) and then...NEW character! what if I really liked this one??? "then you can take him to a home brew!!" "well then he's not AL legal anymore for when they DO have higher adventures!! so shut your pie hole!" Factions!!!! WOO HOO!!! oh wait nope. factions were a complete waste. Had some play in the first season. what a wasted opportunity. I wanted to very much enjoy AL. Heck even wanted to become a LC at one time....then it seemed like the old nerd rules started to apply..... "nerd gets some power, everyone suffers because he/she wants his/her way" instead of buying into what the whole organized thing was supposed to be about. Plus it seemed like there was no real support from Wizards officially. everything seemed to come with the little legaleze at the bottom and that was in speak. If you have to say "I don't want to speak for someone else..." okay than don't. Unless you are authorized to. I really hope there is a future for AL.....</blockquote>

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