I was asking @M@disqus_gLkqlrgQAP:disqus , but I’m still interested to know!

I run published by WotC adventures, tinkered a lot, but the framework is the same. So the power level must conform more or less with AL.

But even in the setting I’m slowly but constantly brewing I’m planning to limit resources.

Not sure if this question was for me…
I run mostly my own adventures. Right now I am running ToA.

Do you design your own adventures, or do you run adventures made by others?

Well yeah, if it works for you, then it is fine.

I’ve used the PHB+1 rule because it not only makes character creation faster, but also it makes the DM’s work easier. And the latter is really important to me at least who lacks proper experience.

Our group is a little more flexible with what we let in. Anything “official” is fair game (even if banned in the AL, like Aarocockra or Death Clerics), most anything in Unearthed Arcana is probably OK (although that will likely change now that Xanathar’s is out) and a DM will occasionally let in something from the DM’s Guild or the OGL if it’s not too broken.

Powergamers are going to powergame, and there’s plenty to exploit in the base rules. By opening things up a bit, you at least get some colorful combinations.

And this is why it is either prohibited or discouraged in some tables (mine for instance).

Also, it seems that the rule of PHB+1 that applies for AL games is the canon for WotC. Coincidentally enough, in all the games I’ve been in (either as a DM or as a player) the same rule has been applied.

Multiclassing is why we can’t have nice things.

Oops! Yep I had a player using bladesinger last campaign. A human that studied with elves. Totally broken from what I could see once multiclassed. He had two swords and was able to get AC so high I couldn’t hit him even with legendary monsters sometimes.