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D&D 5e: Organized Play and the Design of the System

5e, Organized Play, and You - Part 1 Last year I wrote a short article going over some of the changes from the last season of the Dungeons & Dragons Adventurers League (AL) program to Season 8, which has been up and going now for the last year or so. Some of the changes were pretty radical, and some less radical than the otherwise seemed. Looking back now, it seems clear that the changes were not particularly well received, and likely hurt the AL player base numbers, though that can be hard to quantify. It's been fairly obvious changes were coming to the program. Fifth Edition (5e) has been out for about 5 years now, and both players and designers have learned a lot about the system, and where changes and tweaks might make sense. We saw this with the publication of Xanathar's Guide to Everything (XGtE), which contained proposed Shared Campaign  rules for an organized play system. Most of the Season 8 changes to the AL reflected those ideas, if modified a little. Lo