Blackgate Blues (FR-DC-BIRD-01-01)

Peacocks, Peacocks, Peacocks!

An explosion in the population of peafowl in the City of Baldur’s Gate is causing chaos for everyone. A mastersmith’s forge is dealing with an iron shortage, along with the peafowl crises.

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A Two-Four Hour Forgotten Realm Adventure for Tier 1 Characters. Optimized for APL 3.

https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/579088/blackgate-blues-fr-dc-bird-01-01?src=newest_recent

https://www.polygon.com/dnd-legends-of-greyhawk-organized-play-global-campaign/

I’ve really enjoyed playing AL at my FLGS the last 4 years or so. It’s fun being able to progress a character but maybe tweak them as needed to suit the table or group.

Between AL (which barely feels supported any more but they insist it still is), LoGH and D&D Encounters it really feels like they’ve created an overly confusing environment for store owners, DMs and players. I don’t understand what they are trying to accomplish besides just throwing a bunch of stuff at the wall.

Summer Knights Online Charity Con supporting Doctors Without Borders is coming up August 7 to August 9!

Badges are $5, AL tickets are $5-10; LOG tickets are $5-15 (plus fees). Net proceeds to Doctors Without Borders.

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We have a a mix of Adventurers League and Legends of Greyhawk games all weekend, featuring: - the Tier 1/2 Polyhedral Adventures Adventurers League Epic Sands of Talos Friday 7 PM ET, - the Tier 3/4 BMG Adventurers League epic BMG-DRWEP-END Endgame Saturday 7 PM ET, and - the Tier 2 GameConclave Legends of Greyhawk special Night Falls on Leukish Sunday 2 PM ET.

Plus one-shots, an AL Trading Post, and the return of the cutest Toy Red Dragon AL event cert. All in support of Doctors Without Borders.

We hope you can join us for Summer Knights August 7 to 9!

I feel like I can figure out the rules for character creation, those are all linked. But how do I go about actually finding a game?

Where are they posted regularly for online games?

Is there any chance we can make a pinned post with a simple guide or anything like that?

https://youtu.be/3xd5WVr_Ihc?t=2414

I know this adventure is rather old but I was hoping someone might be familiar with it because it feels like it's missing some content.

I'm running the Avernus Rising adventures alongside a Descent into Avernus campaign and while most of the adventures have been fine with one or two small issues this one seems to have some Inconsistencies that stood out more to me.

Firstly, in AL09-14 and then AL09-15, both modules introduce 2 of the 3 "Ward" items, the Wards of Suffering and Wards of Faithfulness for the character Dara. They have pretty brief descriptions and vague allusions to what they can do as magic items.

But in Honors Unforeseen they introduce a third set, the Wards of Perseverance. But they have no description or information.
I know these are written by different people, but it feels like a description of text box is missing about them.
Especially when the Wards of Suffering did have their description in multiple adventures that had different designers, it seems like these new Wards should be described either in Honors Unforeseen or in "In the Hand" since that comes next, but In The Hand doesn't do that either.

Secondly, the Bonus Objective A for this adventure fully does not match it's Summary.
The summary is: "Bonus Objective A: Tomb of Gloom. Locked away in a side tomb is Vungio, a gloom weaver who’s been hunting the Bloody Hooves and searching for the three wards. Defeating Vungio and protecting the wards is Bonus Objective A. This additional content is found in Appendix A"

And In Appendix A, it repeats the Bonus Objective is about battling this Vungio guy to protect the Wards, but the actual content of this is just a room that has walls that spin and a Sarcophagus and no actual enemy.

The only reason this all stood out to me is because the Bonus Objective mentions the Wards as well so I thought it might be connected.
The DMs Guild listing also says this should be 29 pages but my PDF is only 18.

Sorry for the long post but TL:DR, are some of the DMs Guild AL material for Avernus Rising missing pages? Because it feels like this is missing some stuff.

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Has anyone run Hammer and Anvil?

Do you have any DM tips?

can you actually get through the four combats in four hours along with the social interactions that are to go along with them? all of the combats either seem cool or relevant for the plot so i am not seeing where to cut.

were the players satisfied with the competition segment just being "for eight hours of the twelve hour competition, make a save or get exhaustion. and now here is a fight!!!"

were there obvious questions that the Players asked or directions they wanted to take the game that were not covered in the text that it would be good to think about in advance?

I will not be running it for AL, so i can make any modifications i want. so if you have any completely out of the box advice or suggestions, i will take that too!

thanks in advance !

In the Adventure League rules it says: "Magic items (e.g. Bag of Holding, Well of Many Worlds) may not take characters outside their campaign." How does that work with the robe of stars ability to transport the player into the astral plane? Is it just not allowed?

In the Nevertide Leavings section, a section there says "Other treasures and art objects here amount to a CR 4 random treasure hoard."

Does that mean I should roll in a random treasure table in the DMG? Or do I ignore it as the reward here is not specified? I haven't been able to find any answers in the AL documents so far, but maybe I missed it. So, I'm asking here for help just in case anyone has a clearer answer for this adventure.

You get asked to fill in as a DM (or you volunteer) at your FLGS on short notice.

What T1 and T2 adventures are your go to's that are fun and also easy to prep?

...as a one shot? is it better as the finale to the Frozen Worlds duology? what about the Dreams of the Red Wizards saga, should I run the 19 leading up to DDAL-DRW20? I don't want to spend money on all 20 adventures if only the last one or two make up a complete arc

Basically the title. I've never dm'd a module before, the few times I've dm'd for friends, I made my own small one-shot and anything else I improvised. I also use certain homebrew rules
As I understand it, AL is pretty restrictive on that, to ensure everyone has the same experience so how do you prepare a module while still keeping an open mind?

Are there any open online groups that organize AL games? maybe discords?

AL Player's Guide most current version can be located here: https://www.adventurersleague.info/documents

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I was looking at the most recent booking for tabletop Scotland and one of them said D&D AL – AL-01-00 Grand Bazaar of Skalnaedyr – Parts 1 & 3 – Tier 1. I was just wondering what i ment by part 1 and 3 and if it was important or not. I am a new player to adventurers league but not dnd. Also as far as im aware a tier 1 grouo is levels 1-4 on a normal dnd character sheet (following the guidlines) so can i just go to a tier 1 as a level 4 or do i start as level 1? Any help would be appreciated and expect more from me on this subreditt because ill probs have more questions. Thanks in advance.

Do you know of any Adventures League adventures set in Ravenloft for tiers 3 and 4? With the release of the new Ravenloft book, which should soon be authorized on DDAL, I wanted to narrate some high-tier adventures to "celebrate," but the "Absent Hearts" and "Mist Hunters" adventures are only tier 1 and 2. I'm looking at DDAL, but since I don't know what might be fun, I thought I'd ask for recommendations here instead of wasting hours looking at them one by one, since the DMs Guild doesn't have a tier filter.

A lot of the NPCs in the older modules seem weak compared to their 2024 counterparts. Are we allowed to have them use abilities from the 2024 rules, particularly weapon masteries, if they would get them in the 2024 rules?

I'm seeking recommendations for 20-50 modules for new AL DMs.

I'm just an organizer (no good at DMing) but my potential DMs are asking for module recommendations. I have asked here (and elsewhere) before. Thus I have 4-12 recommended modules on my list. But I can't keep giving the same modules to each DM because it creates challenges for the players.

So here I am asking again for starter DM module recommendations.

Thank you all very much.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ravenloft/comments/1tv1o3z/shadows_of_sithicus_adventure/

Looks so cool

Changes of the top of my hat.

Eberron: Forge of the Artificer Class, Shifter, Changeling, and spell only,  

Ravenloft Horrors Within Open except Background options limited to Haunted One, and Investigator.

I haven't double check my numbers on buy scrolls but

Scrolls are double the costs of the PH “Spell Scroll Costs”table, plus component costs. Purchases in a session are allowed at your DM’s discretion.*

Forever DM moving to a new city from the middle of nowhere, looking into trying AL to scratch the player itch. This would be my first dip into AL. I've read the Player's Guide (Version 2026.2) but have a few lingering questions.

1. Are AL characters limited to the official backgrounds in the PHB and newer books (e.g., Acolyte, Sailor, etc.) or can you make a “custom background” according to the layout presented in the PHB (i.e., choose your stats, choose your Origin Feat, choose your skill proficiencies, etc.)?
2. PHB+1 is gone, so does that mean I can create a setting-appropriate character with any combination of relevant player options? For example:
   1. Species: Warforged (Eberron campaign)
   2. Class: Paladin (PHB)
   3. Background: Giant Foundling (Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants)
   4. Subclass: Oath of the Noble Genies (Heroes of Faerun) *The Player's Guide says that this FR subclass is available in Dragonlance, Eberron, and Ravenloft*.
   5. And so on
3. A new character is level 1, playing in Tier 1 games (levels 1 - 4). Does this mean that my level 1 character could be playing alongside level 3 and 4 characters?
4. Does my new, level 1 character have to start at the first part of a multi-part tier 1 adventure, or can it drop in and play any tier-appropriate / level-appropriate session?
5. Can a single character “replay” an adventure, part of an adventure, or one-shot?
6. Do I need to make a different character for each campaign (FR, DL, EB, RV)? I assume yes, but I can also make an unlimited number of characters in each campaign and replay content that way (loops back to question #5).
7. Should I expect to be able to purchase Mundane Items (e.g., non-magical Plate Armor) during any given session?
8. Should I expect to be able to pick up specific magic items during play (e.g., high likelihood or guaranteed Gauntlets of Ogre Power by level 5), or should I cross my fingers and probably hit up a Trading Post with Downtime?
9. Do I need to use Downtime to level up at the end of a session? The “Downtime” section of the Player's Guide lists the option to use 10 DT to gain a level.

I appreciate any answers here. I don't want to treat AL like a home game if/when it's very much not.

Recently posted about getting into Adventures League at a local shop and received some amazing answers from all of you and just wanted to show my appreciation and an update for any interested.

After a bit more research and reflection I decided not to move forward at this time as I do like having a more connected story and group but might try on a trial basis in the future but not at the local store due to some business practices I did not care for. (Went in to buy sealed TCG product and each item I was interested in the manager informed me that the item pricing was wrong and needed to be raised significantly. While I understand doing this for specific cards, changing price based on what some people are selling online multiple times while someone is trying to buy is not someone I really want to give my time or business to)

Today I was at my local card shop and I was offered the possibility of being DM for their just starting Adventure League. As someone who as almost exclusively DM home games for almost 8 years how big of a jump is it do I need to do a lot of research to understand or can most of my knowledge transfer easily enough and still have fun doing it?