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Well this is ... peculiar... http://forums.cubicle7.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11706 This new regulation, GDPR - some data protection thing - is apparently so onerous to meet that they feel forced to close their forum. Juuuust as the 4rth edition of warhammer was about to be released too... Morrus, could this impact EN world somehow?

Fair enough. I have to admit though, I find it a bit difficult to believe that Morrus has never seen 2pp used as a term on the boards. I have. But, hey, it's not really that big of an issue to be honest. Again, there are so few licensed publishers out there that it's not really a problem. As far as the original question goes, I'm actually frankly confused why someone would think that it's much harder for 3PP to get their name out there than it was, say, back in the d20 boom days. With the mountain of Patreons, Kickstarters and various other venues, I'm seeing an awful lot of pretty successful attempts at getting product out there. Thing is, there's just so much material out there that it can be pretty easy to get lost in the weeds.

Oh and I have a suggestion for Morrus too... try to see if there is a possibility for adding a forum functionality by which a forum member can subscribe to a thread and get notifications when someone else replies to the thread. AFAIK this is not how it works at the moment, you get notifications only if you receive a PM, mention or XP. Having notifications on subscribed threads would greatly help a PbP player know when a game has progressed, and reach the thread in a couple of clicks rather than having to find it in the subforums.

Thanks Morrus! Sorry it was silly of me not to tag you :) No drama or rush buddy, just wanted to donate a little and give a few players some GP rewards for their efforts. Have emailed you. Cheers! Ivan

Morrus: perhaps it would be good to update your instructions for this Meta subforum to include "please tag me for a speedier response"? ☺ I believe I speak for most of us when I say I expected the mod team to actively monitor the entire Meta forum; on most forums it's sole purpose (whatever it's name) is to contact the staff. Regards

...te, caring etc then men" so if a woman speaks up "loudly", she's acting against her role. I know that this holds true more in face-to-face environments, whereas online debates are often no more than mere black-on-white (or inversed) text. Still she identified as a woman. And from what I read, Afrodyte is done with playing the "nice little woman". She's (rightfully) upset about the fact that there are many victim-blaming posts or posts filled with micro-misogyny in this thread that were not being called out while her arguments were dissected. She's also under the impression that male-identifying posters are being less challenged and have it far easier being listened to. And I understand her. Because being a woman who's active online, who has a mind of her own and who gets vocal from time to time can be hard. That being said, I still think that ENWorld is one of the best places to discuss my/our hobby, including systemic problems in our community. And I'm really thankful for Morrus and the other mods to keep it this civil. (Because, honestly, other, more general gaming forums oftentimes look as if they're the little brethren of /b )

So I want to say I am sorry for the stuff I am missing and I want to do better. I don’t do cons but since the problem is everywhere I need to step up and do better in general. In general women are very willing to give individual men several chances to get it right so long as they are trying to move in a positive direction. Personally, I'll excuse any first offense that is done without malice (doing something on purpose to push buttons is not without malice in my book). I'll even accept slip-ups if you keep trying to do better. We're all human (I didn't see any AI's here) and humans make mistakes, so I'm never looking for perfection. I'm looking for progress and growth. I'll be honest, this discussion has gone on to the point where I'm surprised. That's pleasantly surprising and speaks well for Morrus and ENWorld's moderation.

So if @Morrus told you to stop he would not be on your side and he you be sustaining and supporting the structural dynamics that allow harassment and assault to continue and thrive in this environment so you won't feel safe? No. That does not seem consistent with your viewpoint. Do you yield to authority (Morrus) and because lowkey13 has none per say in this environment you deem him as an enemy if he requests the same thing from you? No. Le me try to put the dots close together. Afrodyte has stated previously that if @Morrus feels that what she is doing should stop, then upon being notified of his choice as the moderator, Then she will respect his request as the moderator. At that time she would discontinue her attempt to demonstrate through her requests (Name, SSN, pic) instances in this discussion that she personally feels fall somewhere between unfriendly and hostile toward women.

Yet, I find it interesting that my fairly benign statements showing that I don't automatically trust every self-proclaimed good dude are getting more heat than some of the deeply unsettling things several posters have been saying in the past 15 pages I've been participating on this thread. That is a curious statement. The last 15 pages have been relatively mild compared to what had been posted before where Morrus got involved several times. As for you getting heat more than the trolls, citation needed. I'm not seeing any evidence of what you're claiming, especially given the XP count which equates to support. If you really think that an exaggerated demonstration of the daily precautions I have to take to avoid harassment and assault is unfairly blaming poor, innocent men who are just trying to have a discussion, you haven't been paying attention to what several women and men have been saying on this thread, and you are not on my side (whatever being on my side supposedly means), and it all of it sustains and supports the structural dynamics that allow harassment and assault to continue and thrive in environments where people are supposed to be safe. So if @Morrus told you to stop he would not be on your side and he you be sustaining and supporting the structural dynamics that allow harassment and assault to continue and thrive in this environment so you won't feel safe? Furthermore why doe...

Wait, now people are claiming it's not even SPF who posted in this thread? The man has a Facebook account, among other internet footprints, and he's posted some of the exact same things there, as well as actually discussing his participation in this thread. And he writes (or did write) for this site, which means he already has an established forum handle and Morrus knows his IP address. Jesus fried chicken...

...o started the thread then replied "You need to read up on the concept of "plus" threads if you think I want an echo chamber, or if you don't see the very valid reasons why the site supports such threads. If you want to keep discussing this that's fine, but I will need to ask you to start a new thread to do it." A second user said they doubted the premise of the thread was possible, and was told again "This is a plus thread. If you want to argue against the premise of the thread, start a new one." When questioned on that, the poster then said, "Questioning the point of the thread is exactly what you don't get to do in a plus thread." Can a user now declare a thread they start to be designated a "plus" thread and therefore police their thread for anyone who questions a premise of the topic? Are we now supposed to always start a new thread if we question the premise of a designated "plus" thread? It's possible I missed that new rule. I asked elsewhere and someone mentioned Morrus had discussed the possibility of such a thing but it had never been enacted as a rule as far as they knew. So, is this a thing now?

Morrus On the SOME page, there is some morse code at the bottom. It reads "NO STONE UNTURNED"

Two comments: 1: I note that the "spread" of classes is much less dramatic than the race spread. The most popular class is a bit more than twice as popular as the least popular class. That's a good thing IMO! Race wise however, the spread is what, 12-13 fold? That's huge. Even is we exclude the non PHB races, the spread remains about 5-fold. I have to say that ... I'm ok with that. I would be far more concerned if the situation was reversed 2: Morrus : this is very cool info, but I'm curious why you are re-posting it?

@Morrus Did the top 10 list accidentally leave out the Elf Wizard? The chart says there are 2744 Elf Wizards and 2568 Human Wizards. This means, the Elf Wizard is a more popular combo than the Human Wizard.

Morrus: this issue doesn't go away. I'm going to report a series of my own posts where a user clicks laugh (yes, I know the button is called "laugh with this post") even though my remarks are not in any sense made with humor in mind. In short, I find it impossible to interpret this as anything else than mockery. I am writing this post because I know you are busy and might have a mod handle the reporting, so you might not even see the series of reported posts. (I need to post this first so I can include a link in my reports for your moderation convenience) If you or your mods redtext the user to stop abusing the laugh functionality all is well in the world. But I am ressurrecting this thread to clearly flag that it is not a new issue, and it remains a serious one. I've gotten dozens of laugh points I could have done well without, and I feel that if I do not bring thus back up to your attention it will never stop. I can't be alone in getting these points that only burn. If y...

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Morrus: - the expert proficiency in divine spellcasting is at 12th level, not 13th; - it's strongly implied that, when getting a new spell level, you get two spell per day; - 10th level spells aren't gained at 19th level: details are still unknown.

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No idea as I've never tried here. That's just how it's typically done. Typical being the operative word. :) It seems that this site does things differently, so I'll leave it to Morrus to help you out further.

Knightfall I don't see why not Morrus?

I would say it's fair to say that if the inclusiveness stance that I take when running this site is not to your tastes, there may be other sites more suited to your liking... To those who disagree with what gets a pass, and what does not, I think that this comment is the most important take away from this thread. This is most definitely Morrus' party, and as the host he gets to set the rules.

I can’t help feeling that if fun requires that much effort, there are probably other problems going in. Hanging out with your friends doing a thing you all enjoy pretty much makes its own fun. It doesn't take a great amount of effort to make a conscious decision to actively pursue having more fun. Sure, If I'm hanging out with my friends we'll have fun with whatever we're doing - but then it wouldn't matter if we were playing D&D, going fishing, catching a movie or whatever else, because the whole point of the exercise would be that we're hanging out with friends. But this isn't a discussion about hanging out with friends, it's about playing a game. What if I'm not playing with friends? A gaming group assembled from an online posting might not have anything in common with each other outside the game session. And I'm certainly not paying a $35 entrance fee to a gaming convention for the privilege of "hanging out" with a table full of strangers. If I'm playing AL, my purpose for being there...

4% of Facebook’s global revenue doesn’t means nothing to it. It’s stock value plummets for much smaller fluctuations. It hits big multinationals hard. The major global megacorps aren’t dismissing it as “bluster”. It was announced two years ago. It’s not a new thing, despite the last minute panic. It’s not bluster; it will be enforced if companies operate within the EU. The EU has always been strict on data protection (one reason it was always hard to export data to US companies which didn’t have adequate protection). That's why I edited my post (which was in response to me mis-reading yours). I initially thought it was "whichever is lesser" rather than "whichever is greater.

It’s 4% global revenue or 20m Euros, whichever is higher. There’s no cap. Note that’s the max penalty, not a mandatory penalty. Ach! I had that reversed. Obviously I need to check with our compliance officer.

He said it because the Tolkien estate was going after him for his use of “hobbits”, “ents”, and “balrogs”, amongst others, which all needed up being renamed. It was a pseudo-legal defence he played out in the editorial pages of Dragon Magazine, not a statement of fact. Certainly, it was an influence. particularly on the inclusion of halflings and rangers (particularly the 1E ranger), as well as some iconic creatures like ents and balrogs, a few spells (e.g., Hold Portal) and the presentation of elves and dwarves. But there are tons of aspects of the game that the Lake Geneva crowd wrote that bear little or no resemblance to LotR. The magic system is totally different, and clearly lifted from Jack Vance right down to a number of spell names. It bears essentially no resemblance to magic in LotR. There are no figures clearly identifiable as clerics in LotR. The Thieves' Guild is from Fritz Leiber. The troll and paladin are from Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions, which was also ...

If only there was a setting or three coming! :) 97895 97896 97897 I wouldn't doubt there'll be plenty more where that came from.

A 5E system of WOIN is not on the way. I don’t even know what that would be! I meant setting conversion to 5e. Heh. Apparently, I misunderstood?

That sounds pretty cool. I'd buy it with the holder in a shot!Check your email. :)

He did it with a bit of assistance. I guess it’s a spoiler thread... The droid l33t has a superior navigation computer brain which they install in the Falcon, and they use some special super fuel admixture. Plus Han pilots like a boss. ñ_ñ thank you, now I know I want to watch this movie. Which means I'm out of here, and not coming back until I've seen it. And that means you've earned a free colored drawing from me of any character you want. Just describe the character you want and I'll do my best to portray him/her -by PM-.

I would say it's fair to say that If you were to add to your list of "moderator trigger terms" - 'racism' - 'misogeny' (sp?) - 'sexism' along with 'social justice warriors' and 'virtue signaling', then you could shut off the things from both political sides that begin* the heated arguments. You are compiling a body of data on the changes you made. If it's not working out as you desired, you can tweak the rules again. P.S. When the 'Harassment at Cons' thread turned away from trying to solve society's problems and looked at on-site actions that could/would help, it brought out helpful ideas. It kept sliding back though. Kudos to Umbran for trying to stay on top of it. * in my experience; there may be other terms.

When you're down to calling people names, it's time to leave the thread, please. But inferring someone is Alt-Right is fine?

Wookies are badass! First time we've really seen the full potential of an angry wookie. And apparently Chewie has eaten people!

I ensured we were OK for GDPR months ago. For a message board like this, it's not a very onerous task... I figured - just couldn't remember getting another notification (which, perversely, seems to be required even for people who've opted in before). How did you deal with the data portability requirements? Does vBulletin allow for exports/dumps? I'm keen to understand how others are dealing with the same hurdles.

Sounds like the checkbox hit most if not all of your concerns One thing I’m worried about is that this film looks like it may show that every significant element of Han Solo’s backstory - becoming a criminal, meeting Chewie, meeting Lando, getting his blaster, getting the Falcon, being betrayed and becoming cynical, doing the Kessler Run - all happened simultaneously within the space of one adventure rather than as events spread over a rich personal history. It rather diminishes it all if everything Solo is happened within the space of a week ten years ago. If it transpires he first met Jabba and/or Boba Fett in that week too...

Me neither. I’ve been a third party publisher for D&D for nearly 20 years. Good to know, it's difficult googling backwards for something like that and I wasn't entirely sure. Prior to the last few years I had little in way of connection to any sort of larger D&D community or media, pretty much the opposite of your experience I suppose. If you haven't seen it then it seems incredibly unlikely that it's a common usage.

New on EN5ider, the 5E Patreon. Gemini are warriors that evade, confound, and attack by creating dangerous magical multiples of themselves or copying a foe's techniques. A brand new character class for your 5th Edition games! By Mike Myler; illustrated by Indi Martin. 97714 That's a creative idea for a class. I wonder if you'll create a Scorpio, class of poison and passion maybe and Libra Class too, devoted to maintain and enforcing balance.

My fictional gravity shield stops your fictional gravity beam. Turns out it’s not hard to conceive. ;) Or say another gravity beam blocks it, the way we shoot down a missile with another missile. I agree it's not that difficult to think of a countermeasure. Its easy to do the hand wave magic is technology thing. Doing time consuming orbital mechanics calcs can break the flow of the game, and nobody would call it easy; there is a balance in there, and Marc W Miller said that one of the hardest things about making Traveller was extrapolating technology into the far future. At the end of the day it's still just a game, it is better spending your time figuring out what you consider entertainingly plausible, than sweating over hand waves made 40+ years ago.

Agreed. He’s not portrayed as mad, or called “the mad Titan”. I don’t know the comics, but the movie does not display an irrational protagonist (and he is this movie’s protagonist). His very plan and the way he carried it out is "mad." He's had decades to figure things out and settle on a plan that doesn't work, as opposed to others that would. The world has gone from 3 billion in 1960 to 7 billion in 2011. It more than doubled in just 51 years. Halving the population doesn't do much to save resources since the populations will replace themselves very quickly. His plan is insane. His single minded pursuit of it, to the point of murdering what he loved most is also kinda crazy. If he was rational, he would have settled on a solution that works, such as altering birth rates so that the populations drop to half and stay that way, or just replenishing the resources while making sure that populations don't increase further. So while they don't explicitly call him the Mad Titan,...

He's Hans Gruber, rather than the Joker. He's no Hans Gruber. Gruber was smart and sane. Thanos is far from a genius and nuts.