Keravath
2019-01-25, 11:53 AM
Hi All,
This is aimed at Adventurer's League experts since it depends on how some DDAL rules are interpreted.
Season 7 content introduced the death curse. This made it impossible to revivfy, raise, resurrect, reincarnate or any way return a dead character to life while playing season 7 tier 1 and 2 content and the ToA HC. If your character died, you could continue playing a pregenerated surrogate character (provided by WoTC) and the rewards earned by the surrogate transferred to your original character if they survived to be resurrected when the curse ended). However, for long rest or module played by the surrogate, a d20 was rolled to determine whether the original character was permanently killed.
The situation we are considering is what happens NOW when a character dies playing season 7 DDAL content .. in particular the hardcover being played under DDAL rules.
The curse can be ended by defeating the final encounter in the ToA hardcover or by "Waiting it out".
During season 7 the text for waiting it out was the following:
"Waiting It Out. Alternatively, characters can wait until others have done their dirty work by retiring from adventuring until the release of Season 7’s Tier 3 adventures (January 2018), or by starting any Tier 3 or 4 non-hardcover (non-DDHC) adventure, and resuming adventuring following Acererak’s defeat."
In this case, if your character died, you could take a surrogate and simply not play that surrogate until the Tier3 content was released, the death curse ended, and your character could be raised. This avoided the risk of having the character permanently killed. Many players chose to do this.
HOWEVER, :) ... we now move into season 8 of DDAL and the text for "Waiting it Out" has changed.
"Waiting It Out. Alternatively, characters can start any Tier 3 or 4 non-hardcover (non-DDHC) adventure, and resuming adventuring following Acererak’s defeat."
No longer can characters just choose to "Wait it out" until Tier 3 content is released. The only way for the death curse to be ended is for the character (or presumably their surrogate) to START any Tier 3 or 4 non-hardcover adventure. Since the character is dead and under the death curse they can not be raised until the death curse ends. The only legal way to "Wait it Out" appears to be continue playing surrogates until they reach tier 3 .. however, this incurs the significant risk of permanently losing the original character.
The question is can the player STILL choose to "Wait it out" by simply deciding not to play any further ToA content using that character as was previously available or are they now forced to play a surrogate to tier 3 in order to recover their original character?
I don't have access to the DDAL DMs group on facebook or I would have posted the question there ... but hopefully some folks here have some DDAL experience and some idea of how it should be interpreted during season 8.
This is aimed at Adventurer's League experts since it depends on how some DDAL rules are interpreted.
Season 7 content introduced the death curse. This made it impossible to revivfy, raise, resurrect, reincarnate or any way return a dead character to life while playing season 7 tier 1 and 2 content and the ToA HC. If your character died, you could continue playing a pregenerated surrogate character (provided by WoTC) and the rewards earned by the surrogate transferred to your original character if they survived to be resurrected when the curse ended). However, for long rest or module played by the surrogate, a d20 was rolled to determine whether the original character was permanently killed.
The situation we are considering is what happens NOW when a character dies playing season 7 DDAL content .. in particular the hardcover being played under DDAL rules.
The curse can be ended by defeating the final encounter in the ToA hardcover or by "Waiting it out".
During season 7 the text for waiting it out was the following:
"Waiting It Out. Alternatively, characters can wait until others have done their dirty work by retiring from adventuring until the release of Season 7’s Tier 3 adventures (January 2018), or by starting any Tier 3 or 4 non-hardcover (non-DDHC) adventure, and resuming adventuring following Acererak’s defeat."
In this case, if your character died, you could take a surrogate and simply not play that surrogate until the Tier3 content was released, the death curse ended, and your character could be raised. This avoided the risk of having the character permanently killed. Many players chose to do this.
HOWEVER, :) ... we now move into season 8 of DDAL and the text for "Waiting it Out" has changed.
"Waiting It Out. Alternatively, characters can start any Tier 3 or 4 non-hardcover (non-DDHC) adventure, and resuming adventuring following Acererak’s defeat."
No longer can characters just choose to "Wait it out" until Tier 3 content is released. The only way for the death curse to be ended is for the character (or presumably their surrogate) to START any Tier 3 or 4 non-hardcover adventure. Since the character is dead and under the death curse they can not be raised until the death curse ends. The only legal way to "Wait it Out" appears to be continue playing surrogates until they reach tier 3 .. however, this incurs the significant risk of permanently losing the original character.
The question is can the player STILL choose to "Wait it out" by simply deciding not to play any further ToA content using that character as was previously available or are they now forced to play a surrogate to tier 3 in order to recover their original character?
I don't have access to the DDAL DMs group on facebook or I would have posted the question there ... but hopefully some folks here have some DDAL experience and some idea of how it should be interpreted during season 8.