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Morrus Is this the most lopsided poll in the history of ENWorld?

Morrus your D&D shelf looks uncannily like mine BTW! Even down to 1e/5e placement.

$12,345,687.90 if I win I donate my prize to @Morrus EDIT: I dint read to last page and it appears my snarky bid has already been taken! therefore, I bid $12,345,687.91!

CleverNickName are very awesome for doing this. I was trying to do big math and guessed that they would bring in half the previous day for a number of days before the people dried up and then half again for the rest of the days, but could not get that far. I was thinking around 12 million, but don't want to be cheap and jump on Morrus and bet $1 higher. I'm going to go big and say $23,500,000

...13,102 TallIan: $15,876,374 MNblockhead: $15,555,555 77IM: $14,980,000.00 jgsugden: $14,520,000 OB1: $14,000,042 The Big BZ: $14,000,000 dregntael: $13,935,109 chrisrtld: $13,635,019 pogre: $13,500,000 Aebir-Toril: $13,224,376.89 Satyrn: $13,000,000 Yardiff: $12,456,145 ------------Highest-Funded Game Project on Kickstarter (Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5) $12,393,139-------- Radaceus: $12,345,678.91 FarBeyondC: $12,345,678.90 Morrus: $12,000,000 Mistwell: $11,800,000 Mort: $11,620,000 Zardnaar: 11,354,883 Sadras: $11,120,000 SkidAce: $11,000,000 Tazawa: $10,700,000 togashi_joe: $10,250,000 DM Dave1: $10,101,010 MichaelSomething: $10,000,000 Lazybones: $9,750,000 PabloM: $9,500,000 akr71: $9,250,000 rczarnec: $9,250,000 Azzy: $9,000,000 Henry: $8,900,000 mortwatcher: $8,666,000 Lidgar: $8,423,976.73 vincegetorix: $8,360,000 SmokeyCriminal: $8,008,135 AriochQ: $7,777,7...

Morrus may be able to provide a better perspective, but I suspect O.G.R.E. is about to be pulled as the board changes from vBulletin to... something else (Discord maybe? I haven't noticed any new updates recently)

Thanks for the information Morrus! I've been eyeing the special edition, but it was a bit too much above budget for me, but with that price it was much more within my range! Ordered!

Morrus Here is the link to the four books on the Penguin/Random House site: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EJB/dungeons-and-dragons-young-adventurers-guides/ Each book can be clicked on and each has a description of what they cover.

It rose from the depths of a dozen years and more.... Morrus It would kinda be awesome if a necro'd thread got a special tag attached to the title. Does the forum software allow for an automation like that? (huh, I forget how to do a user alert)

No evidence here that this book will not be equally Greyhawk focused as the original modules (more, quite possibly). Mike Mearls was just talking about Greyhawk and how he wants to get a Greyhawk product into the world on Dragon Talk a couple weeks ago. Relax. Pattern of behavior of taking items out of greyhawk to FR ToEE and ToH moved out of greyhawk into realms. So its very possible it will happen again. Morrus. Thanks for starting to understand. Greyhawk is important to more then a few. And love to see it fly again.

At the risk of calling someone out, I would ask that @Morrus consider rescinding the ENnies awarded to Zak Sabbath. They are mentioned prominently on Zak’s Wikipedia page, and giving him accolades is implicitly supporting his behaviour,

This phenomenon of people quoting D&D Beyond stats to prove points happens the most right after they post some of their data. Those posts and threads are months old at this point and so I'm not going to dig them up. However, there's been comments about their data in more recent threads, but it's not important enough to go digging through pages and pages of comments looking for the proverbial needle in the haystick that I know is there (because I've recently read it) just to prove you wrong. Instead I'll give you one current example. The example: @Morrus did. It's still on the front page of this forum and shows in the thread title: "90% of D&D Games Stop By Level 10; Wizards More Popular At Higher Levels" People also use invalid math to prove points. Example: "Average DPR with % hit", we have talked about it before that this is not an acute representation of actual game play damage being that average DPR is only correct about 3% of the time for any specific battle, does not account for 0 sum damage on miss, or loss of damage from over kill... however, I don't have a better metric for measuring damage. So I use it too sometimes to prove a point as do you. The same is true for D&D Beyond data. As @Morrus pointed out... We don’t need data at all. Sometimes they share stuff as a conversation point. And it’s fun to talk about. But we don’t need it. It’s just an excuse for us all to flap our lips You are correct that 1. It will be used to argue and 2. it is not accurate... However, when it agrees with an argument anyone is likel...

LOL, I love the n00b insult at the end. It's very entertaining! :) Yes which proves his point in that if post are a measure of validity Morrus's 39,521 post to your 3,940 posts would make you a n00b and irrelevant if we are calling that a valid maker of knowledge base. Which we are not. So while your one of the more interesting posters to read you do have a tendency to get a bit dismissive of posters based on off point arguments like posts. I still came to your thread because you make interesting discussion and I heard you. I have even posted a on the D&D Beyond feature requests asking for player inactive characters tags and a statement on slides listing the day delimiter so as we read slides we have a beater representation of what the slide is depicting. That said, questioning the validity of one someone says based on how much they said instead of the content of their argument makes you look bad, instead of making them look unqualified. If your going to say the statement was in jest... their is no indication in the text of the post that implies that and the person your posting to does not know you well enough to infer that ...

If one is offering a responsorial or correction to a stance that doesn't exist their entire effort is vaporware. Congratulations, you won the debate with.. [checks notes] no one. Not a single person did what you are countering. This phenomenon of people quoting D&D Beyond stats to prove points happens the most right after they post some of their data. Those posts and threads are months old at this point and so I'm not going to dig them up. However, there's been comments about their data in more recent threads, but it's not important enough to go digging through pages and pages of comments looking for the proverbial needle in the haystick that I know is there (because I've recently read it) just to prove you wrong. Instead I'll give you one current example. The example: @Morrus did. It's still on the front page of this forum and shows in the thread title: "90% of D&D Games Stop By Level 10; Wizards More Popular At Higher Levels" By the way, why the heck does someone with 762 posts in the last 4 years think he has any grasp on the variety of points and justifications for those points that people actually post on this forum?

... They already have a method to account for that, which gives an even better data set than the question you proposed: When the Data says "Active Characters" it means they have controlled for characters who haven't been updated in the past X days. It doesn't matter if the character is meant to be an NPC or PC, it just maters if someone is actually going back to update it, all other characters are considered to be abandoned or a test character. Morrus has claimed multiple times that the charts represent all characters created and even includes the ones not necessarily played. I'd lean toward him being correct on this but maybe not?

Any ideas Morrus?

Morrus If possible, I'd still like to get my subscription for this sub-forum removed. Repeating my request that you re-open the forum long enough for me to unsubscribe, then to PM you once I've done so...

Hey guys, any news about paperbacks for 5e? To follow on Morrus' post, you can get directly to them from the War of the Burning Sky home page. https://wotbsadventurepath.com/ And here is a picture of all the books that have already been released. https://twitter.com/AncrisIT/status/1088442840651309057

Knightfall I don't see why not Morrus?

I think we all know that there is a real issue with lack of diversity in the RPG world in general. ... What I will say though, is that it's a clear reason why we need to support and encourage more diversity for those in the entry level jobs and indie companies. I.e., we need to give minorities that experience so when higher level key roles do open up, we have a much greater diverse and experienced applicant pool. Address the root issue, IMO.... Agreed. And I think the industry is doing pretty well at this. One thing that I took note of recently is the bio post of the Gamma World guy a week ago on ENWorld, it took him 6 years of freelance writing before he got a full time RPG job. People need to realize that it takes time to get the job of your dreams, or even the first in your dream career. The industry is tiny, the market hard to get into, and it takes TIME. Time to get the job, time to change the industry. Perhaps but we haven't seen any hires from there yet. See below Vario...

I was surprised the ship's atmosphere control systems did not put out the smokes as soon as they started to create a hazy in the room if not sooner. And I think they need a warning sign before using their holodeck. It creates addictions! Do you get any British TV from the last 30 years? I disconnected my cable/satellite dish 15 years ago. There was not enough "good shows" to warrant paying for a subscription. I have been going to the cable channel's web-sites and view the few shows worth watching that way. They uploaded it the day after it airs, and is available for 7 days for free. At least up here. Too many of the channels based in the US don't allow non-US IP-address to access it. But if I had to PAY for it, then no. No netflex, no amazon prime, no cbs-access... @ Dannyalcatraz, I did watch Charles Craig hosting Robot Wars.

That's an early Black Mirror episode. It could be. I was talking about a documentary about Ray Kurzweil. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil I want to say it was The Singularity or Transcendent Man.

Various DMsG authors can be found in the credits of recent hardcovers. DotMM contains several, for example. Don't be too modest. One is former editor of en5ider too!

Various DMsG authors can be found in the credits of recent hardcovers. DotMM contains several, for example. Nice that's great. Hopefully they can get some experience and practice their design chops. Variety is good but with a relatively small crew and hires it makes it hard.

The system we had before the new like/laugh system. You really do like being unhelpful don't you, Guv? Try something like what Nagol wrote when you feel ready for a change, thanks.

An event might take place in round 4. Maybe a new wave of IRC’s arrives or the bridge collapses. I had thought of something like that with relation to handling new monsters joining the battle, but I don't think there are explicit rules for that in 5e... So the DM may have planned for something to happen in round #4, but it's totally up to her, and because of that she might also decides it will happen in round #4 at initiative count 10, for example.

If you were a Hollywood producer and gig had access to D&D’s entire catalogue of novels and adventures since 1974, and you had to pick one novel (or novel series) or adventure (or adventure path) to get the movie treatment... ... what do you pick? Dragonlance Chronicles, no question. It was successful as a story, not just as a D&D product tie-in. Lots of folks loved, and love, Dragonlance who have never played D&D. The story is deep and complex enough that you could make a LotR-style trilogy out of it, and filler would not be required. Even with three movies, your problem would be what to take out instead of what to put in. It has a large and varied cast, with fleshed-out personalities and a tangle of relationships. Fantasy movies often suffer from cardboard characters; Dragonlance need not have this issue. It does not require grappling with the Drow Problem. (The cartoonishly evil race of elves has all-black skin and is a matriarchy; it's fairly appalling, actually. It's only accepte...

I imagine the (threatened?) lawsuit didn't help. One of my favorite panels from the “What’s New?” Comic strip from Dragon Magazine #84: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W9kmTRhHY4Q/WPjoT2iXMRI/AAAAAAAAbyU/UN4RR-iDo0w2GM97qhKW8cVlSA3DvE0oACLcB/s1600/not%2Ba%2Bring%2Breally.JPG

Why would you have any faith absent any information about the director, actors, plot, or anything else? There’s nothing to have faith in yet.And that makes it the perfect tie to have faith. We have faith in the unknown, not the known. Except in D&D where the Gods are known to be real. That always bugged me. If ceris worship Gods that are known to exist, how can it reallly be faith...

Why would you have any faith absent any information about the director, actors, plot, or anything else? There’s nothing to have faith in yet. Still scarred from the original D&D movie :(. Hey, I thought I heard rumors a while back about a D&D cartoon? Did that get canned? I think that would be more fun than a movie, an actually high quality multi-season animated show.

Oh, god, here we go again. Does it ever stop? I guess the thread title remains relevant...

I still find it quicker to refer to a book I know well than to use an app or PDF. And I still prefer to sift through and add to my 2,000+ collection of Laser Discs, DVDs and Blu Rays, but I also admit that the industry trend is towards Digital, and that only the most hardcore movie fans under 35 buy physical anymore. :-) I hope there are enough of us that physical discs will still get made for the next couple of decades, but I ain’t holding my breath.

What are your current prevailing theories? What's (who is) the Red Angel? I have a feeling it'll turn out to be Tilly, but I'm not sure why I think that. It could also be Stamets. They established his ability to perceive non-linear time, which could be a very useful talent for the Angel. Is Section 31 dead now? Their HQ is basically a tomb. I assume they have a few ships out there, but I don't get the impression they have a fleet or anything.Well, they can't be *completely* dead. Section 31 first appears in DS9. So, they survive in some sense at least long enough to try to recruit Dr. Bashir. Logically, it would make sense for them to be working through how Section 31 went from being a legitimate, if unconventional, arm of Starfleet in this era to the nigh-mythical entirely-covert entity it had become by DS9. Current events seem like a perfectly reasonable stepping stone along that path.

SOTH NEVER WENT TO RAVENLOFT! I will maintain that until my dying day (though I will admit Lowder's books were a fun read... but in my head-canon it never happened!)In my head-Canon, Soth is STILL in Ravenloft. [emoji13]

Is Section 31 dead now? Their HQ is basically a tomb. I assume they have a few ships out there, but I don't get the impression they have a fleet or anything. Well, they can't be *completely* dead. Section 31 first appears in DS9. So, they survive in some sense at least long enough to try to recruit Dr. Bashir.

I could be reading too much into semantics here, but the reference to a singular “male lead” might indicate that this is not a Dragonlance movie. Or at least, not a War of the Lance adaptation. Don't know anything much about Michael Gillio, but his imdb credentials as a writer don't exactly inspire confidence here. Still, it's only one cook out of multiple mixing up the soup at this point. Paramount is looking at A-listers for the male lead

Well, he got D&D in his Pathfinder before he got Pathfinder in his D&D -- when he started at Paizo they were publishing Dragon Magazine for D&D 3.5. Pathfinder didn't even exist! Life is a circle, not a triangule, but a circle

These things are the few occasions I wish I had Excel! OpenOffice always seems to struggle with dynamic Excel sheets and the like. I just emailed you an Excel file and an OpenOffice file. Haven't had a chance to see how well the .ods version works. Interested in hearing your thoughts.

Important question: when will Spock shave off his beard? Oh. So .... I think it's funny. That said .... Remember the whole "mirror universe" thing. Spock with a goatee thing? Seems like a shame to not even use that. ;) Since Anson Mount is only contracted for one year, I'm guessing Pike leaves at the end of this season. That'll be a shame, as I really like him. He's more Kirk than Kirk! I would pay cash money to watch Anson Mount in several more seasons, or in his own spinoff. So perfect. Probably the best addition to Season 2. Side note- I actually thought Lorca was interesting in S1. Just (SPOILERS) It would have been better if Lorca was just damaged, and an example of the "end justifies the means" and so on INSTEAD of being EVIL EVIL mirror universe. Complexity, and all that. What are your current prevailing theories? What's (who is) the Red Angel? I had been going for Spock. And then I thought, hey, maybe it's Burnham? Because it's all about...