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<blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 7393508" data-attributes="member: 6786839">This differs from my experience with 5E. Maybe I'm an outlier?I started playing 5E, after years away from D&amp;D, in Adventurer's League at the Friendly Local Game Store. I had zero previous contact with FR. But I became interested in the politics of Phlan, because that's the setting. One of the early intro adventures - for some people, their first session of 5E - involves a hidden temple, run by members of the Phlan city guard who practice a hardcore splinter cult of Bane. Okay... what's Bane? If this is Bane extremism, and the guy running the city is a more moderate worshipper of Bane, then how do those differ? Wait, his line used to be Zhentarim... there's a Zhentarim capital? Well, dang, how far away is it, could we maybe form useful links with NPCs at Zhentil Keep? Wait, there's no contact with Zhentil Keep - what happened?That's just as a player. Then I started DMing the weekly AL game, and if there's a cleric in the party, I need *some* understanding of their deity to feel like I'm properly supporting their roleplaying. There's an NPC who offers the party a mission; that NPC has a Harpers symbol; a PC might double-check - so it it *possible* for a non-Harper to falsely present themself as a Harper? Yes, there's a way, but I spent a while on Candlekeep before I found it.Then the AL table filled up, eight players every Monday with a waitlist, so I spun off a home game, and it snowballed from there once I was writing my own scenarios and trying to keep them consistent with what players could reasonably expect if they'd read Salvatore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Riley37, post: 7393508, member: 6786839"] This differs from my experience with 5E. Maybe I'm an outlier? I started playing 5E, after years away from D&D, in Adventurer's League at the Friendly Local Game Store. I had zero previous contact with FR. But I became interested in the politics of Phlan, because that's the setting. One of the early intro adventures - for some people, their first session of 5E - involves a hidden temple, run by members of the Phlan city guard who practice a hardcore splinter cult of Bane. Okay... what's Bane? If this is Bane extremism, and the guy running the city is a more moderate worshipper of Bane, then how do those differ? Wait, his line used to be Zhentarim... there's a Zhentarim capital? Well, dang, how far away is it, could we maybe form useful links with NPCs at Zhentil Keep? Wait, there's no contact with Zhentil Keep - what happened? That's just as a player. Then I started DMing the weekly AL game, and if there's a cleric in the party, I need *some* understanding of their deity to feel like I'm properly supporting their roleplaying. There's an NPC who offers the party a mission; that NPC has a Harpers symbol; a PC might double-check - so it it *possible* for a non-Harper to falsely present themself as a Harper? Yes, there's a way, but I spent a while on Candlekeep before I found it. Then the AL table filled up, eight players every Monday with a waitlist, so I spun off a home game, and it snowballed from there once I was writing my own scenarios and trying to keep them consistent with what players could reasonably expect if they'd read Salvatore. [/QUOTE]

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