Interesting Changes for D&D Adventurer's League coming up?

[Scorpienne]

Interesting Changes for D&D Adventurer's League coming up?


Here is what we know...


Yesterday on Facebook (and other places) Robert Adducci (http://dndadventurersleague.org/team-member/robert-adducci/ AKA the Community Manager AKA the big cheese for D&D AL) made this announcement:


https://www.facebook.com/groups/adventurersleague/

Wizards of the Coast has announced the Dungeon Masters Guild: There’s a new way to buy and share D&D adventures. With the Dungeon Master’s Guild, you’ll be able to self-publish material set in the Forgotten Realms using monsters, spells, characters, and locations.
Wizards' announcement today of Dungeon Masters Guild is exciting and will offer D&D players around the world more opportunities to play the game we all love. It also likely left you with a lot of questions about how this will impact your online, home, store, and convention based D&D Adventurers League games. In the coming days there will be further clarifications from Wizards about how Dungeon Masters Guild works with the D&D Adventurers League and what you can expect with adventures for season 4.


http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/news/dungeon-masters-guild-now-open

If you go to the web page in question it says

There’s a new way to buy and share D&D adventures. With the Dungeon Master’s Guild, you’ll be able to self-publish material set in the Forgotten Realms using monsters, spells, characters, and locations.


Dungeons & Dragons is all about creativity. For more than 40 years, the folks who spent the bulk of their time creating amazing adventures, those noble Dungeon Masters, did not have a convenient outlet to share them with the gamers who weren’t sitting at their table. You either had to raise money to publish a physical book or zine on your own, or convince a publisher you had the chops., The Dungeon Master’s Guild puts the power to share that creativity firmly in the hands of the DM.


The Dungeon Masters Guild is a collaboration between Dungeons & Dragons and our friends at OneBookshelf, and it is designed to support and reward you – whether you’re an experienced DM or just starting out. Today, you can upload your creations to the DMs Guild website, as well as browse submissions from some of gaming’s most esteemed designers.


For the first time ever, you’ll be able to self-publish material set in the Forgotten Realms. Set your side trek in Neverwinter or Baldur’s Gate, have your characters go toe-to-toe with the Xanathar, the beholder crime lord of Waterdeep, or fall in with some traitorous drow in Menzoberranzan. With some exceptions noted on the DMs Guild website, the Forgotten Realms is at your fingertips.


You can set whatever price you like for your creation; you can give your new monster away for free or charge a few gold coins. If you do decide to ask for money, you’ll get half of the revenue while OneBookshelf and Dungeons & Dragons will split the other. We care about our creators and that’s why they get the biggest cut!


Creators can upload whatever kind of Forgotten Realms material they’d like to the Dungeon Masters Guild, but we’ll be featuring side treks, monsters, and backgrounds on the site. At this time, the Guild is only accepting Forgotten Realms material that uses the fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons rules. For everything else, we’ve updated the Open Gaming License so that publishers can continue releasing their own material. Read more about the updated OGL here. http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd


Head to http://www.dmsguild.com/ to see what’s available to download.


QUESTIONS?
On Friday, January 15th starting at 10am PT, Mike Mearls and Chris Lindsay from the Dungeons & Dragons team will host an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the Reddit D&D channel to speak directly with the public on how the Dungeon Masters Guild works. Mike Mearls is also available for interviews upon request.

The reaction was intense and complex, with a fair number of positive and negative thoughts coming out. Many of the questions boiled down to "WTF does this mean for the D&D AL?!?!" All of the D&D AL adventures (except the Epics) are up in the dungeonmastersguild.com website already.



Later on, Greg Marks (http://dndadventurersleague.org/team-member/greg-marks/) the Associate Resource Manager and another Queso Grande for D&DAL made this remark (and it's waaaay down in the comments of the previous post and may be easy to miss):

WOTC will be making another announcement on Thursday about the D&DAL, and then there will be the Reddit AMA on Friday and then the Admins will be posting answers to the common questions once all the announcements are out.

SO... the bottom line is, more news coming on Thursday (time and means as yet unknown) and be sure and go to the Reddit AMA with Mike Mearls and Chris Lindsay.


Reddit AMA = https://www.reddit.com/r/dnd and look up at the top


Paige

 

[warfteiner]

Can confirm, interesting stuff coming soon!

(we'll all be talking about things Thursday, I'd imagine)

 

[skerritthegreen]

Also we are having a meeting with the RCs/LCs on Thursday night so that we can help disseminate answers and the AMA is on Friday. Please be patient as we do our best to address everyone's questions.