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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6676819" data-attributes="member: 5143"><p>I agree that this should be made clearer. It's kind of always been like this. It appears that Baldman just kind of assumes that when someone looks at the event description and sees that the game is Adventurer's League that they'll know what that means or they'll look up the rules for Adventurer's League online and then show up with appropriate characters. I think they assume a little too much. Though, having DMed in previous years, the number of people who show up completely confused as to how Organized Play works is an extremely small number and they try their best to accommodate people by finding places for them in the low level tables.</p><p></p><p>My guess is that they don't want to turn away possible players by confusing them with talk of Adventurer's League and "legal" characters when any character created out of the PHB(with a couple of small caveats) is a "legal" AL character. Plus, they'll have precon characters for anyone who shows up without a character.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That IS strange. There hasn't been an area to go online and create characters for 2 years, since we were running LFR in 4e and the character builder existed. In previous years there has been a table set up to help new players create characters and give them a basic instruction on how to play. But I know they were having issues because there was a DM sitting around waiting to give new players tutorials for the whole con and very few people were asking for the service so they had a DM sitting around doing nothing.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what they did this year since this is the first year I haven't been to GenCon in the last 10. But it sounds like some DMs were just assuming the same thing happens every year without asking anyone at HQ.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree that things could be made better. Play at GenCon though is heavily slanted towards people who already play AL at their local stores on a regular basis. There are new players who come to play at GenCon but they are in the minority. The vast majority of people preregister with Paid Tickets for a specific event they want. Each year Dave Christ tries to warn everyone that people who preregister in advance for an event have the absolutely highest priority. He plans his DMs around the number of people who preregistered for an event and he TRIES to have extra DMs available so that people show with generic tickets can play but he tries his best to warn everyone that it isn't guaranteed.</p><p></p><p>Baldman Games' goal is to make sure the people who want to play have the best experience possible but he has to follow the rules of AL just like everyone else. He isn't in charge of Adventurer's League and doesn't create their rules. Their rules prevent people from showing up with a non-legal level 5 character, even temporarily. So, Baldman Games really has two choices: Don't offer any 5-10 adventures in order to make sure that anyone who shows up can play any adventure offered, which means possibly irritating the hardcore players who go to GenCon every year who have higher level characters and want to play them OR they can deal with any misunderstandings as they come up. They've chosen the latter.</p><p></p><p>I think the one thing they REALLY need to do is better clarify that you MUST have an AL character to play in AL games. And that all the games they are offering ARE AL games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 6676819, member: 5143"] I agree that this should be made clearer. It's kind of always been like this. It appears that Baldman just kind of assumes that when someone looks at the event description and sees that the game is Adventurer's League that they'll know what that means or they'll look up the rules for Adventurer's League online and then show up with appropriate characters. I think they assume a little too much. Though, having DMed in previous years, the number of people who show up completely confused as to how Organized Play works is an extremely small number and they try their best to accommodate people by finding places for them in the low level tables. My guess is that they don't want to turn away possible players by confusing them with talk of Adventurer's League and "legal" characters when any character created out of the PHB(with a couple of small caveats) is a "legal" AL character. Plus, they'll have precon characters for anyone who shows up without a character. That IS strange. There hasn't been an area to go online and create characters for 2 years, since we were running LFR in 4e and the character builder existed. In previous years there has been a table set up to help new players create characters and give them a basic instruction on how to play. But I know they were having issues because there was a DM sitting around waiting to give new players tutorials for the whole con and very few people were asking for the service so they had a DM sitting around doing nothing. I don't know what they did this year since this is the first year I haven't been to GenCon in the last 10. But it sounds like some DMs were just assuming the same thing happens every year without asking anyone at HQ. I agree that things could be made better. Play at GenCon though is heavily slanted towards people who already play AL at their local stores on a regular basis. There are new players who come to play at GenCon but they are in the minority. The vast majority of people preregister with Paid Tickets for a specific event they want. Each year Dave Christ tries to warn everyone that people who preregister in advance for an event have the absolutely highest priority. He plans his DMs around the number of people who preregistered for an event and he TRIES to have extra DMs available so that people show with generic tickets can play but he tries his best to warn everyone that it isn't guaranteed. Baldman Games' goal is to make sure the people who want to play have the best experience possible but he has to follow the rules of AL just like everyone else. He isn't in charge of Adventurer's League and doesn't create their rules. Their rules prevent people from showing up with a non-legal level 5 character, even temporarily. So, Baldman Games really has two choices: Don't offer any 5-10 adventures in order to make sure that anyone who shows up can play any adventure offered, which means possibly irritating the hardcore players who go to GenCon every year who have higher level characters and want to play them OR they can deal with any misunderstandings as they come up. They've chosen the latter. I think the one thing they REALLY need to do is better clarify that you MUST have an AL character to play in AL games. And that all the games they are offering ARE AL games. [/QUOTE]
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