TRPG General Chat

StuperUser

2:00 PM

Yes, I was surprised how hard it was to find

Especially given that I'm in London and there's a single place that runs it

I might have to man up and offer to DM some after getting plenty of experience with it

doppelgreener

D&D 5e has its own thing called... adventurer's league I think?

BESW

Your service will be appreciated, citizen.

doppelgreener

dnd-5e dnd-adventurers-league are the tags you're looking for at minimum

StuperUser

Aaaaaah

I thought it had become "AL", now I know why I was surprised the event at my FLGS was "Encounters"

Miniman

@StuperUser AL is divided into 3 sections - Encounters, Epics, and Expeditions.

BESW

2:04 PM

That's not confusing at all.

Miniman

@BESW I think they might be dumping those.

StuperUser

Oh goody

:)

Miniman

@StuperUser Don't quote me on that, I just vaguely remember reading something.

Polyducks

How do you guys get involved with the storylines of DnD?

Are they written out as blog posts or something, or must you play through them?

Miniman

@Polyducks I'm not sure I understand the question.

StuperUser

2:08 PM

@Polyducks they get sent to gaming stores and people run the games for them

BESW

I think he's asking how the consumer's experience of a 5e adventure path compares to, say, the consumer's experience of a White Wolf or Dragonlance story arc.

Miniman

@Miniman @BESW @StuperUser Ah, here it is.

@BESW @Polyducks I think I see. Personally, my involvement is limited to buying and running a campaign book with my group, I don't do any event-based or store-based stuff.

Polyducks

2:25 PM

@Miniman @BESW No, it's more of a question of... how do you know what the writers are talking about on twitter, in other social media etc? Recently there was a release that involved Tiamat and another which involved demons and Chaos. These are fictional lore which, from what I can tell, "changes everything". How is this given to the public?

Like, is it released in official gaming modules or what?

Or written as official stories? I find it very hard to see where the Lore is coming from

Miniman

@Polyducks This is the first I've heard of it, although I'm trying to avoid spoilers atm.

Polyducks

@Miniman spoilers of what though?

Is there an official story that is written in books or what?

Miniman

@Polyducks I'm playing in the Out of the Abyss campaign under another DM.

Polyducks

OH

So it is a module

and that's where the story comes from?

Miniman

@Polyducks It's one place. The Neverwinter MMO has bits, Forgotten Realms novels have bits, the AL modules have bits, the main campaigns have bits.

Polyducks

2:29 PM

So what is the official word of god in these situations? Is the only official thing the rules?

Miniman

@Polyducks Do you mean WRT story and lore?

Polyducks

What's WRT?

BESW

With Respect To.

Miniman

@Polyducks With respect to.

Polyducks

OH! Yes, sorry

Thanks

Yes, WRT story and lore

Miniman

2:40 PM

@Polyducks Then...I have no idea.

StuperUser

@Polyducks That would form a good question "Who decides whether published works (story books, modules, Encounters/Adventurer's League, other source books, podcasts) become D&D canon?"

Miniman

@StuperUser WOTC decides :P

StuperUser

:D

Polyducks

Oh yes! Thanks @StuperUser

I'll make that post later. I'll also try to refine it so it doesn't get too broad

StuperUser

It'd be interesting to see if there's any non-canon published works too.

Polyducks

2:46 PM

I had the thought because I was trawling through old recordings of convention panels for @Eimyr's questions and the writers were talking with a large amount of self-importance about various story arcs, and until that point I was sure you could only experience a story via a DM.

They had spoiler alerts and so forth and I was just thinking - what are you spoiling, really?

But I guess if they're in the form of written campaigns, that could be it - but I don't know anyone who has played through campaigns in any sort of order, let alone finished them

StuperUser

it's the difference between watching Breaking Bad and watching Talking Bad, I guess

Yeah, I got into it through Acq Inc, so there's a way of experiencing canon without participating (given that Omin is a masked Lord of Waterdeep) (spoiler)

And a nifty cameo from someone in the 2015 games

eimyr

@StuperUser please spoiler like that

well that's weird

right

BESW

http:// is necessary.

eimyr

I never use it in real addresses... do I?

Polyducks

@StuperUser what's talking bad, Acq Inc and Omin?

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