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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DerekSTheRed" data-source="post: 6305362" data-attributes="member: 55770">This tracks pretty well with my <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/news/adventurersleague" target="_blank">predictions</a> last year. I'm glad they're doing Expeditions. I'm just sad to see it won't have the region system. Setting it only the Moonsea does have its advantages however.Epics seems like the old LG interactive except they will start a new story arc instead of being an epic conclusion. Encounters seem like it's supposed to be a first taste is free kind of thing. That sounds good in theory but I'm curious to see if it works in practice. That leaves Expeditions as the living sandbox. Presumably this means the novel line won't set any stories in the Moonsea to prevent canonical conflict. Having one region instead of many like LG or LFR is decidedly less epic, but probably much easier to maintain. I can see how this setup will be used to promote splat books. If you want to get your high level character the cool new magic item in the latest splat book, play that character in the Epic adventure story arc that is used to highlight it. Conversely, start a new character in the Epic and you can play a new race or class from the latest splat book. The Epic kicks off a story arc that continues in published adventures that you can buy after trying them with Encounters, or in the Moonsea adventure from Expedition. The trade offs seem to be canon writing vs. play location vs. setting vs. adventure cost. You have to play Expeditions and Epics at conventions if you want affect the story but can play Expeditions and possibly Epics at game days or home games later (cert issue not withstanding). Whereas Encounters won't affect the story. Expeditions are only set in the Moonsea while the others can be set anywhere but probably won't be set in the Moonsea in deference to Expeditions. Encounters are a free trial to a paid adventure while Expeditions are free. Con play has its own costs but the modules would probably be free to the player (con organizers might get charged though who knows at this point). The fact that it will be a cert based magic item system is probably due more to how 5th edition does magic items than any lesson learned from LG or LFR. The cert system worked great for Living City during the 2nd edition days of rare magic items. LG and LFR had to contend with the slotted christmas trees of magic items which led to hard to maintain (from an oganized play perspective) guidelines on character wealth at a specific level.The open question I have is how does D&D Adventures League work with D&D Insider? If Expeditions gives away adventures, will that draw sales away from DM's who look to D&D Insider for adventures? Does limiting the Expeditions setting to the Moonsea make it attractive enough for players to play them while not too attractive that DMs don't cancel the Insider subscriptions. Or is there no overlap at all? I'm not sure on any of those questions so we'll have to see.</blockquote>

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