Brown is a dirty route runner . <| sep |> That would be pretty cool if the rules actually were the official rules . But they aren ' t . AL adds in a whole heap of dumb shit on top of the official rules that makes it , IMO , really lame unless it ' s the only group you can find to game with . Core 1 is the most obvious and noncontentious , but the artificial restrictions on which of the official races you can play with and their things with factions and alignments also strike me as antifun . I also have to think that just as a consequence of the basic structure of organised play , it would have to be way less fun than running even the same premade adventures in a home game , since the DM is way less able to customise the experience to the group and the party . That ' s not something I ' d hold against AL per se , but it is a reason that I think anyone who can play a nonAL game would be better off doing it . AL should be used only when there is literally no other option it could even be used as a way to find a group to play with .