If you have the honour of running (DMing) and older Adventurers League adventures, there are a few things you need to know.

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This article is regarding Adventurers League adventures in (usually) PDF format, not official WotC hardcovers.

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Ignore Built-In DM Rewards

Many older AL adventures have a section labelled “DM Rewards” or “Dungeon Master Rewards” which gives instructions to the DM on their rewards for running the adventure.

Ignore that entire section.

Dungeon Masters are now rewarded for running the games through Service Awards

Ignore Advancement and Treasure Checkpoints

Some older adventures include things called “Advancement Checkpoints” and “Treasure Checkpoints”. Ignore those.

Also, the adventure may mention that some Magic Items are “unlocked”. The players should receive these items directly, using the updated rules for rewarding Magic Items in the ALPG and ALDMG (see Documents)

Watch the Gold Rewards

Some older adventures give gold as a reward, some don’t.

Gold Found In the Adventure Is Given As Written

If an adventure gives gold, then the gold (found or awarded) is given to the party and split evenly.

Even if the heroes found 0 gold, but gold could have been found in the adventure, then they split 0 GP.

Adventures Without Gold Give a Minimum/Maximum

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This is for cases where the adventure does not reward gold at all. It does not apply for when the heroes don’t find any gold.

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If the adventure does not reward any gold (for example, DDAL08-XX adventures), then gold should be awarded to the party according to the chart labelled “UNSPECIFIED TREASURE ALLOWANCE PER SESSION” in the AL Dungeon Masters Guide (see Documents). I have included the chart below.

UNSPECIFIED TREASURE ALLOWANCE PER SESSION

Note that the above chart is gold to the party. So you could give 500 GP to a T1 party, which the party then splits.