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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 6742690" data-attributes="member: 17607">Pretty much agree with everything in your response -- however, this:For this one, Tia has a point. When SCAG was first announced, and we first started to see questions about 'when can we use this stuff?', the standard answer was that AL only changes the rules when new seasons begin, so don't expect any official feedback until the next ALPG. Admittedly, this then becomes a presumption that SCAG won't be allowed for Season 3, since the legality won't be determined until the start of Season 4, but it's not an unreasonable presumption.It seems that the admins are going to pre-empt their normal silence between seasons to announce some specific guidelines for SCAG once it's in general release, so it turns out that presumption might not be true. At the time the book was announced, though, the presumption was reasonable, based on what we knew of AL.Here's another area where interpretation makes AL policy look bad. In your statement, it seems like you think the two situations above are equivalent, but to the player who doesn't travel and probably never will, it looks like you're punishing him (or her) in order to cater to the jet-setting 'pay-to-win' player.What you want to do it turn this on its head -- if the jet-setting player could go to the south of France and play an aarakockra, that would be unfair to the player who only plays in one game store in East Middle-of-Nowhere, Texas and who's DM hates aarakocra. However, I see a big problem with trying to make this argument with a straight face while also asserting that AL will never have 'official' rules interpretations -- especially when, as you note, AL already does have some 'official' rules interpretations, such as what monsters can be summoned/taken as a wild shape in an AL adventure. It's a bit disingenuous to say 'here's how you choose your starting gear', and then when a player asks what to do if he wants to sell back some of that gear, respond with 'oh, we don't do official rulings, check with your DM!' I get that nobody wants to be the 'AL Sage' because that person would get all the name-calling the other admins get cranked up by two orders of magnitude, but if you're going to make AL DMs work in the role of 'rules police', the least you can do it provide them with a Chief of Police.--Pauper</blockquote>

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