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Season 10 Goodies Giveaway Winners
Cheers and “Congratulations!” are in order for Niklas Dynesius and James Clontz! They were among over 400 contestants who entered our Season 10 Goodies Giveaway from across the globe. The winners were selected at random, one from North America and one International. Each winner won the...
Sage Advice Update | October 2020
The Sage Advice Compendium has been updated as of today, October 1 2020 — while Sage Advice is DM advice only, and is not required for AL play, this update also includes links to new errata documents for Curse of Strahd, Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Storm King’s Thunder, Tomb of Annihilation, and...
Season 10 Goodies Giveaway
On our D&D Celebration live stream of Adventurers Wanted! (video on demand now available!) our Community Manager, Amy Lynn Dzura announced a giveaway of Season 10 goodies. We are giving away two sets of the goodies listed below, one for a North American winner and one for an International...
A Plague of Ancients: Welcome to the North
“Mind the edge, Steffil,” the caravan master, Polstin, cried out, struggling to be heard over the increasingly loud wind, “that there’s a straight drop to your right; Lord Ferran will have my head if this delivery doesn’t make it to Easthaven. Two other deliveries have failed him...
Dreams of the Red Wizards: The Board Is Set
Shock and worry are clear across the faces of Maelstrom’s court as the fire giant king steps forward, his iron-shod boots ringing across the stone floor. “I have confirmed it, your Majesty. The Turmish woman has found the Iltkazar Scepter. If it pleases you, I can dispatch the Guard to take it...
Creating a Code of Conduct for Your Event
Creating a Code of Conduct for Your Event Questions to Consider So, you’re organizing an event, starting a club, hosting a drop-in game, creating an online D&D group, or similar engagement. You’ll want to codify the expected social contract, address and prevent problem...
And the 2020 ENnie nominees are…
Voting for the 2020 ENnie Tabletop RPG Awards is open, and we are THRILLED to announce that D&D Adventurers League community members have been selected for all five nominations in the Best Organized Play category! Jaunt to the Center of Faerun (CCC-ALMOG-20), Noah Grand Protégé of the...
Tier 4 Adventure Design Open Call
I’m gonna cut right to the heart of the matter here: we want to see some more awesome tier 4 designers in our community, and we (the Adventurers League admins) are creating an open call to find them and grow the roster of potential tier 4 authors and designers for the DDAL! To be frank,...
AL Guidance: The Triton Race
While Mythic Odysseys of Theros is not a valid resource for Adventurers League play, the team at Wizards of the Coast has used it to make a change to the Triton race — granting Triton characters the Darkvision trait. This is an intentional change to the race itself, and the Wizards team will...
AL Guidance: Shield of the Hidden Lord
To coincide with the release of Shield of the Hidden Lord — written by M.T. Black as part of the Dungeon Masters Guild Adept program — on the Stay At Home. Play At Home. resource page hosted by Wizards of the Coast, we’re pleased to add it to the list of products legal for play in...
Community Spotlight: Emma Hendren on Growing Game Nights
Emma Hendren knows the challenges of managing a game night of size GIANT. Emma organizes the Adventurers League games for 50-70 players every Monday night at the Chicagoland Games Dice Dojo. Hendren is lauded for helping to maintain a large, supportive, and inviting community while juggling the...
Community Spotlight: Online Roleplay & the Red War
With rumors of a Red War on the horizon, this Community Spotlight is all about the members of the Adventurers League who spearheaded roleplay amidst the factions. Do we have them to thank for what’s to come… or to blame? Origins Game Fair will reveal all with the Red War epic! These...
Community Spotlight: Will Doyle on Writing Epic Adventures
If you play the Adventurers League, you’ve likely faced foes penned by Will Doyle. This UK game designer and cartographer has written some of the League’s most beloved modules, such as Cloaks and Shadows and Outlaws of the Iron Route, and co-wrote Season 7’s hardcover adventure...
Community Spotlight: Ginny Loveday on Charity Events
Ginny Loveday is so passionate about the Adventurers League that she’s even the MAYOR of Phlan. You might recognize her now-retired character Chancellor Calypso as an NPC in the beleaguered Moonsea town, after having won an election at Winter Fantasy 2017. Outside the Forgotten Realms,...
Community Spotlight: Fenway Jones and Satine Phoenix
So, awhile back I had the opportunity to speak with both Fenway Jones and Satine Phoenix. I’ve known Fenway’s father Aaron for a while now, and he’s always been super proud of her… … but oh man, the local stores in Fenway’s area positively GUSH over her ability...
Community Spotlight: Steve Bissonnette on Building Terrain/Props
Visiting as a guest of the Festival Magic Montreal, I had the supreme pleasure of DMing for Steve Bissonnette‘s weekly players. The second the game was over, the table was quick to laud their Dungeon Master, who had been observing the game, and his amazing terrain-building...
Community Spotlight: Dave Rosser on Multi-store Events
The former local coordinator for the Omaha-area, Dave Rosser remains the go-to guy for the Adventurers League questions in Nebraska and continues to help organize the AL for local game days, conventions, and Facebook groups. A particularly special event he organized, however, was the Tour of...
Community Spotlight: Dylan Grinder on Streaming the League
Dylan Grinder is a fantasy cartographer and Twitch streamer on his channel, Anarisis. Having played Dungeons and Dragons since he was 5 years old (Dylan has a fondness for 2e but was finally won over by another edition when 5e was introduced), Dylan describes himself as a “homebrew...
Community Spotlight: Grumpy Old DM on Virtual Tabletops
David Collier has played every iteration of Dungeons and Dragons since the “red box era” when he started rolling dice in junior high and trading turns behind the Dungeon Masters screen with his friends. But between work, travel schedules, and life in general, David almost drifted away...
Community Spotlight: Luke Reid on Drawing Maps
Luke Reid admits he’s new, having started playing Dungeons and Dragons in August 2017 and the Adventurers League in September, but he insists that, if you want to be a good Dungeon Master, all it takes is a passion and a want to ensure people are having fun. In this, Luke leads by...






















