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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6343639" data-attributes="member: 5143">I wish.  I seem to have volunteered to run some Expeditions.  I'm not sure the store understands how it works.  I was suggesting running some periodically on a Friday or Saturday(maybe once a month or every 2 weeks) so that we could transition some of the casual players from Encounters to Expeditions.  I hoped everyone had the opportunity to play both.  I even volunteered to be another DM for Encounters since a bunch of my friends said they'd like to play both Encounters and Expeditions.The store said that they already had a day reserved for D&D: Wednesdays and that they already had DMs for that.  They'd be happy if I showed up every Wednesday to run Expeditions, however.This, unfortunately, is the same store that I attempted to play Encounters at before.  I showed up for the first session of Dead in Thay and the DM was handed the adventure 30 seconds before the first session.  He then proceeded to give a speech about how he had never ran or played 5e before and hadn't even seen the rules before so they'd be making up characters the first session while he read the rules.I said if he'd been running encounters for the last 3 seasons how come he hadn't read them yet.  After all, the last season required the playtest rules to be used.  He said that they ran the first two sundering seasons using 4e rules and Legacy of the Crystal Shard had taken twice as many weeks as recommended since they skipped playing every Wednesday someone didn't show up and they didn't end it early in order to go on to the next season.  So this was the first time any of them had seen the rules.Then, he noticed that the store hadn't actually given him the playtest rules...just the adventure itself.  Going downstairs to get the rules, the person at the counter had no idea how to access the playtest or even that there were 5e rules coming out.I told him that there were precon characters that should have come with it as well, so making up characters might not be the best idea and maybe we should hand those out.  One player wanted to make up a character instead of using a precon but the DM told him no.  He wasn't going to allow anyone to make up their own character because he didn't want people to make completely overpowered characters compared to the precons.  I told him that technically the character creation rules were decided upon by WOTC since he was running Encounters and they posted on their website that anyone can show up with their own created character.  He said he didn't care and he wasn't allowing it.I pulled out my ipad and downloaded copies of the precons and showed them off to everyone and gave them a primer in 5e.  Then we cancelled the session for the day since the DM obviously hadn't read the adventure.The next week I showed up and he started running the opening weekend adventure that was supposed to be the big event that runs the Saturday before the first week.  I explain to him that that part of the adventure was supposed to be run before the first session.  He says "Oh?  Really?  Well, I didn't prepare the actual adventure...so I guess we're running it."I didn't show up the next week and have kind of given up on Encounters because they are basically the only store left running it in the city.</blockquote>

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