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The Adventurer’s League is pretty neat actually, you could describe it as the “D&D MMO” (not to be confused with the D&D MMO). Though since you go from group to group you never really develop the rapport with the other players that you do in a long-term group, it’s most valuable as a structured way to meet other players IMO.
It’s cool that WotC runs games anyone can participate in, but is the whole certified character thing necessary? Couldn’t they allow people to create new level 5 characters for a level 5 game? Maybe they do, it’s been years since I’ve heard about it.
They really throttle treasure and stuff in order to keep anyone’s AL-certified character from being overpowered, and in my experience the AL really attracts a lot of powergamers who want to be the strongest in the party so I see the reason for doing it the way they do it, but I would agree that the rules could be a bit looser and it would probably be fine. Like let players jump in at any level, but restrict magic items to the ones you get as treasure in a module you play, or something like that. That would solve the problem of getting games together past level 5 because it’s almost impossible to play high level stuff in AL unless you have a regular group whose GM just so happens to be an official one.
