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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve_MND" data-source="post: 6722610" data-attributes="member: 6801314">I think ultimately the real problems lie almost squarely and completely in the way the AL is set up.  Namely, that everything that is of critical import to running an Organized Play campaign is not being handled by the people with boots on the ground.The AL Coordinators have remarked before that they cannot make changes to the governing documents -- best they can do is ask WotC to make the change, and hope it shows up in the next version.  They cannot provide official errata or rulings to be used in the campaign.  Again, best they can hope for is to make the request and hope they see it happen down the line.Which again, ties into the whole ongoing theme some of us have been commenting on, in that WotC/Hasbro seems to want to hand-off stuff to other people to handle, but not give them the tools to do the job properly.  They want an AL out there to drum up support for the game and the brand, but they don't want to pay people to handle it in-house.  So they hand it over to a bunch of volunteers to handle.  However, at the same time, WotC has an important brand to handle, and so don't want any actual changes to be able to be made by the volunteer staff (since it might unknowingly contradict or interfere with a movie deal, or an upcoming Neverwinter MMO patch, or a new paperback coming out), so they keep the people they are entrusting to run the campaign out of the actual loop when it comes to implementing those needed changes.I'm not sure, but I strongly suspect most of the volunteers at the administrative level of AL are just as exasperated as we are at the oddly-disparate division of labor/authority in the Campaign, but of course can't express it openly to the general public, because, well, that's not how you handle things in a professional environment.And while I appreciate Skerrit's comments regarding upcoming major changes to the AL, I am cynical enough about stuff like this to actually believe in any sort of substantial change. I will of course be pleasantly surprised if any real changes manifest (as I was when 3-1 was singularly made playable outside the auspices of a game store), but I am in no way actually expecting it, as they claim.</blockquote>

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