Questions tagged [dnd-adventurers-league]
For questions concerning D&D Adventurers League rules and play. Adventurers League is an official D&D 5e organised play format.
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Are Bombs (DMG 267) legal in AL play?
Are Bombs (DMG 267) legal in AL play?
Also relevant: Are Explosives (DMG 267-268) legal in AL play?
Explosives
A campaign might include explosives from the Renaissance or the modern world (...
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Would a character with eternal youth be AL-compliant?
I want to have my character be cursed with eternal youth from a backstory perspective. She'll still be "killable"; she just can't age.
Would that break AL rules?
I know you can add to or change ...
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How can the PCs use a reaction to avoid this effect in the season 8 epic, Stardock Under Siege?
Stardock Under Siege (DDEP08-02) concludes with all of the tables in the Epic boarding skiffs and facing off against a massive mothership. The PCs are tasked with destroying the mothership before time ...
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How do I make a Magical Dart Thrower more economical in Adventurers League?
I made a dart throwing rogue for Adventurers League only to later realise that my damage against BPS-resistant enemies will fall off at later levels compared to magical bow/crossbow users.
Given that ...
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How many gallons of mayo does one need to pour on the ground to replicate the Grease spell?
Full disclosure - the following is a silly question.
The Grease spell states:
Slick grease covers the ground in a 10-foot square centered on a point within range and turns it into difficult ...
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Can a problematic AL DM/organizer prevent me from running a separate AL-legal game at the same store?
I have an self appointed organizer at my local store that is harassing other DMs that want to run AL content. This person has berated myself and another DM at the store for wanting to run AL content ...
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Is there an age requirement to play in Adventurers League?
The people in my local D&D Adventurers League are all grown men who say I am too young to join, even though I am 13.
Is that true? Is there a minimum age to play in AL games?
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Can a 5th-level or higher Adventurer's League character join a new faction?
The document Renown Benefits v1.01 states:
Characters are free to join a faction as their membership allows.
While most have no special requirements, some do (for example, members
of Bregan D'...
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Mage Armor with Defense fighting style (for Adventurers League bladeslinger)
The Defense fighting style says:
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Can use still use this if your mage armor AC is overriding your armor's AC because you are still wearing ...
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Does making a Feral Tiefling in AL require SCAG to be your “+1” book?
Does making a Feral Tiefling in AL require SCAG to be your "+1" book?
My gut is leaning towards yes since those are variants on a PHB race, yes, but the variants themselves are only in that one book.
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How does Create Thrall, the Great Old One Warlock feature, work in Adventurers League play?
When a Great Old One Warlock uses the Create Thrall feature (PHB, p. 110) in Adventurers League play, does the Thrall work with you? Does it persist through sessions? Is there any guidance on how ...
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What resources are essential for an Adventure's League DM?
We were formerly participating in an Adventure's League at a local gaming shop, but had to step away for the last 2 months for personal reasons. Our situation has changed - but now the backlog of ...
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In Adventurers League, when a Weapon of Warning is found, is just that particular weapon unlocked? Or is Weapon of Warning unlocked in general?
Suppose I am playing an AL game wherein the party obtains a trident of warning. Is only the trident of warning unlocked? Or is weapon of warning unlocked in general?
Same question could apply to ...
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In Adventurers League (season 8 rules), is a consumable magic item found during the adventure unlocked?
Suppose I play through an AL adventure wherein a potion of flying is found. I know that I or another character can keep that potion, using it during that adventure or saving it for a later adventure. ...
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Do AL rules let me pick different starting equipment?
I'm making an Adventurers League character. He's a fighter but I want to start him off with Medium Armor (Scale Armor) instead of Heavy Armor (Chain Mail). With my stats, the only difference between ...
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In Adventurer's League, is it possible to keep the Ring of Winter if you manage to acquire it in the Tomb of Annihilation adventure?
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and get the Ring of Winter in D&D Adventurer's League, is it possible to buy the ring via treasure points after the adventure? If you can, how many points does it cost?
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Is there a low-level alternative to Animate Objects?
I am playing a lvl-4 halfling druid with a background as a woodworker craftsman. I would like to be able to carve small wooden creatures, and then animate them. The 5th-level spell Animate Objects ...
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How can I make a possessed character while remaining AL compliant?
I've always loved the idea of possession so I thought what if I made a character that's possessed by something. How can I pull this off without breaking AL rules?
My initial idea was to reskin the ...
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Is it possible to obtain normal magic/mundane plate armor in order to accommodate wings in AL?
The sorcerer draconic bloodline allows one to sprout a pair of wings. However, this only works with armor made appropriately to accommodate the wings:
You can't manifest your wings while wearing ...
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Does the PH+1 DDAL rule apply to magic items?
I'm making a Dex-based Eldritch Knight for Adventurer's League. I want to give it the cantrip Green-Flame Blade (from SCAG {this part of the question has been answered}), but the build I'm thinking of ...
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Can you play as Warforged in AL?
With the release of the Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron for 5E, can this book be used according to the "+1 rule" for characters in Adventurers League play? Can you play as a Warforged regardless of the ...
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What happens if an Arcana Cleric makes a Divine Intervention of a stressful Wish?
High level Clerics get the Divine Intervention feature, which has the following passage:
Describe the assistance you seek [...] The GM chooses the nature of the intervention; the effect of any ...
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Cleric player in Adventurer's League may have extorted us for Revivify
In an Adventurer League game, while we were starting a session, a player I didn't know until now plays a cleric. He told everyone at the table that unless they gave him 300 GP at the start of the ...
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What happens when a creature wielding an Aegis of the Raven Queen gets breathed on by a fire-breathing dragon?
I know this looks very similar to this question, but I asked it to indirectly solve what I'm about to ask now (a bad idea).
The Aegis of the Raven Queen (from the module "CCC-BWM-03 A Tale of Two ...
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In Tomb of Annihilation, why does Jobal's consort introduce the party to a certain pair of guides?
I've never understood this, and it seems so logically inconsistent that I'm inclined to believe this is a typo on Wizards' part.
To give some background to this question, Jobal is one of the ...
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Can an Adventurers League character or party reimburse a PC for casting revivify?
The Situation
One PC just died. Fortunately, another PC is a cleric that has revivify prepared, an unused 3rd-level spell slot, and 300gp of diamonds they purchased before the session. They cast ...
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Adventurers League: Brewing Potions of Healing vs. Purchasing Them
The Adventurers League Player's Guide v8.2 states that characters may purchase potions of healing for 50 gp, potions of greater healing for 100 gp, potions of superior healing for 500 gp, and potions ...
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Can you wear magical boots/gloves/gauntlets while wearing plate armor?
In Adventurers League, can you wear magical boots/gloves/gauntlets while wearing plate armor?
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In Adventurers League, does Magic Initiate let you take a spell that is not in your PHB+1?
In Adventurers League, does Magic Initiate let you take a spell that is not in your PHB+1? We know that "Feats and spells gained by advancement are subject to PHB+1", but in this case Magic Initiate ...
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Does a kenku bard need an instrument, or can they use Mimicry for one?
I'd like to play a Kenku Bard in Adventurer's League, one raised by bards since a young age to hopefully become a master of the Bardic arts through copying many other skilled bards.
One thought that ...
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Can you gain the benefit of multiple copies of a tome in Adventurers League?
In Adventurers League, can a character read multiple (different but with the same name) unused Tomes of Understanding? Do their effect stack?
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What happens if you say you're doing Adventurers League, but end up playing a completely home rule thing?
A game shop near me hosts organised play. I've visited it to play Adventurers League. The DM is instead playing a World of Warcraft adventure including variant rules like a mana system. The game has ...
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Can you understand a language without being proficient?
My character was raised by elves and never learned Common language. Throughout his adventures, he had learned some words of Common, here and there, mainly daily words, like "name", greetings, until at ...
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How do you tame a wild animal without being/knowing a beast-master?
In one of my recent D&D sessions, one of the members of the party (rogue) tamed a wild turkey. Since then, the rest of us have wanted a companion/pet as well (ex: Blood Hawk, Bat, etc.). Are there ...
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Do I unlock 3 magic items or 2 from the “Ritual of Divination” DM Quest in Adventurers League?
Do I unlock 2 items or 3 from the DM Quest for the Ritual of Divination?
The DM Quest for the Ritual of Divination requires that I join both AL Facebook groups and I follow them on Twitter. I don't ...
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Do both players have to pay the price for copying a spell in Adventurers League, and when are checks required to do so?
I was playing in adventurer's league the other day, and one other player and I were discussing on trading spells. He was a pact of the tome warlock and had the "Book of Ancient Secrets" invocation. ...
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Can I defeat Strahd von Zarovich by stuffing him in a bag of holding and tearing it?
My Adventurers League group is playing though Curse of Strahd and we will be fighting Strahd next session. I'm playing as a diviner with the Lucky feat, the spell Tasha's Hideous Laughter (which will ...
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Can my evil pirate character remain evil under the new Adventurers League rules?
I am trying to make heads or tails of whether or not my character can remain Lawful Evil under the current rules of Adventure League.
I first scribed the character to be Lawful Evil in Season 7 where ...
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Can my AL halfling ranger have a pteranodon animal companion?
Is it Adventurers League legal for a halfling ranger to use the Pteranodon as an animal companion in Eberron where halflings routinely ride dinosaurs?
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What Adventurers League rewards do players and DMs earn from “Rrakkma?”
"Rrakkma" is a short published adventure released together with Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. It is branded as an Adventurers League module and is assigned adventure code DDIA-MORD. Players must use ...
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Where is Madame Freona's Tea Kettle in the Tyranny of Dragons (ToD) Adventurers League stories?
I have this map of Phlan:
It does not list Madame Freona's Tea Kettle, however. In Defiance in Phlan, it only describes the Tea Kettle as follows:
Madame Freona’s Tea Kettle (and Freona ...
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How does the free resurrection spell from DDALEL2017 work?
One of the PCs in a game I DM is killed in the middle of adventure. The player has this certificate and wants to use the free resurrection.
The module I ran is DDEX1-10 Tyranny of Phlan where the ...
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Does AL magic item progression keep pace with the recommendations in XGE?
I've only recently started playing 5e, and have played through 2 season 8 modules in AL at a local game store.
So far, my character is level 2, and needs 2 more advancement checkpoints for level 3.
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How much does it cost to cast Raise Dead on a Zealot Barbarian in Adventure's League?
Based off of the question, How much should NPCs charge for spells cast as services to PCs?, the cost of spells from NPCs follows the formula:
Spell Service Cost = Square of the spell level, then ...
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Can the Staff of the Woodlands be used as a druidic focus?
First of all, I play in Adventurers League, so if anyone answers this - please no house rules.
I have a druid character that, for the most part, fights in melee range (up close and very personal). ...
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What is downtime and what’s it for?
The Adventurers League DM gave me 5 days of downtime. I don't even know what it is for. What can I do with my 5 days of downtime?
I'd like some examples of things that can be done other than what is ...
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What would be a Ritual Caster High level Wild Mage's average daily growth?
One of the possibilities on the Surge table is the following :
11-12 Roll a d10. Your height changes by a number of inches equal to the roll. If the roll is odd, you shrink. If the roll is even, ...
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How is XP awarded in AL for non-combat puzzles in Tomb of Annihilation?
I have been DMing our party for the final parts of Tomb of Annihilation.
Some parts of the adventure have vast numbers of puzzles. For example, tonight, the party spent almost four hours simply ...
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Slot “0” games in Adventurers League games [closed]
When can I run a slot "0" adventure for the DMs in the convention I just organized?
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Does the shared simulacrum/familar attunement rule of Adventurers League allow use of an item by both?
The Adventurers League FAQ states:
Can My Familiar Attune to a Magic Item?
Any item attuned to an NPC under your control (such as, but not limited to, familiars, beast companions, simulacrums, ...
