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<blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 6810884" data-attributes="member: 17607">Would be nice to have some specific examples pointing this out -- AL actually allows a great deal of flexibility, via the 'DM is the final arbiter of rules questions at the table' rule in the Adventurers League Player's Guide.Sounds like you got Table Variation (tm).Folks within the AL command structure will comment on how DMs should run the game 'by the rules', but the dirty secret of 5E is that both the Sage and the Player's Handbook (See 'How to Play', p.6) give the DM permission to fold, spindle, and mutilate the rules at whim.As an outsider, you're unlikely to convince people who are having a good time that they are Playing The Game Wrong, so just chalk it up to an experience that isn't in your wheelhouse and hope for better next time. If the store offers a feedback form (stores typically don't, but some do, as do most organizers of AL at conventions), by all means fill it out, though. You never know who might be listening.--Pauper</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pauper, post: 6810884, member: 17607"] Would be nice to have some specific examples pointing this out -- AL actually allows a great deal of flexibility, via the 'DM is the final arbiter of rules questions at the table' rule in the Adventurers League Player's Guide. Sounds like you got Table Variation (tm). Folks within the AL command structure will comment on how DMs should run the game 'by the rules', but the dirty secret of 5E is that both the Sage and the Player's Handbook (See 'How to Play', p.6) give the DM permission to fold, spindle, and mutilate the rules at whim. As an outsider, you're unlikely to convince people who are having a good time that they are Playing The Game Wrong, so just chalk it up to an experience that isn't in your wheelhouse and hope for better next time. If the store offers a feedback form (stores typically don't, but some do, as do most organizers of AL at conventions), by all means fill it out, though. You never know who might be listening. -- Pauper [/QUOTE]

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