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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.

There was apparently a podcast that divulged more information (I don't have a link at the moment) - Alchemical items have "levels" from 1 to 20 - Bombs were supposed to require two hands to use, but that's being changed to one hand Also from the comments, PF2 will NOT use item weight, but a "bulk" system similar to Star finder. Another comment is that alchemists can get more resonance, which is rather important because they need it to use magical items AND wield alchemy. The start of day items, as you guys have guessed, are subsidized for a better rate if you can predict ahead of time which items you will need and make duplicates. Plus, the alchemist gets a class feature that adds extra resonance and scales, Intel for you Morrus ! :)

I think this is worth bringing to Morrus 's attention... neat!

We've seen goblins, elves and dwarves; now it's time to take a peek at Pathfinder 2nd Edition's small folk - the halflings and gnomes! All to be added, of course, to the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Compiled Info Page! 96491 Halflings -- 8 racial hit points Size small; speed 20 feet Dexterity and Charisma boost, plus one flexible boost; Strength flaw Ancestry feats -- Distracting Shadows (sneak using large creatures as cover) Plucky (overcome fear) Titan Slinger (damage bonus with slings vs. large creatures); also the sling does more damage than in PF1 Lucky Halfling (reroll one skill check or save you critically fail per day) Gnomes -- 8 racial hit points Con and Cha boosts, plus one flexible boost; Str flaw Low light vision Ancestry feats -- Fey Fellowship (more charismatic when dealing with fey) First World Magic (bonus cantrip with various options) Discerning Smell (find invisible creatures) Animal Speaker (talk to animals) What do ability boosts and flaws do...

Morrus, which adventure are you running? I bought the books and thought it would be a good change of pace from my Al-Qadim game, but your comments are giving me pause...how is it less fun, basically?

Any chance of compiling these into an EN5ider article? Would be great to have a PDF with them all together :) That's entirely up to Morrus, but I certainly wouldn't object.

Hey Morrus, I discovered the location of the unapproved message, but when I try to approve it, the sit gives me an error message. PHP Warning: require(..../dbtech/userthreads_pro/hooks/group_start_postcheck.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ..../group_inlinemod.php(108) : eval()'d code on line 1 Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/var/www/virtual/enworld/forum/dbtech/userthreads_pro/hooks/group_start_postcheck.php' (include_path='.:/opt/lib/php') in /var/www/virtual/enworld/forum/group_inlinemod.php(108) : eval()'d code on line 1

Hello Morrus - My understanding is that the block feature is two-way. If I block someone, I can't see their posts or respond to them and vice versa. While that does appear to be working for posters that have blocked me, it does not appear to be the case for posters I have blocked. They have been able to view and quote my posts and I have also received PMs from posters I have blocked. Would you kindly take a look at this for me? Thanks in advance for your help.

Very cool! Morrus can you send someone to get one?!

The launch date for Cubicle 7's WFRP 4E has been revealed -- the game is being released at the UK Games Expo in Birmingham, 1st-3rd June. Check out the video below at the 19-minute mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePiPbEdFAbc&t=1166s SaveSaveSaveSave

Hey Morrus, I am interested in submitting some short introductory and low level adventures to En5ider, but I have 1 question for you and the community: Do I need to provide the starting settlement? As in, I wish to submit some adventures that can be 'tacked on' to a settlement of choice by the DM, such as the ones already detailed on EN5ider. Would DMs be happy with this? Would I refer to people in their role, or still give them names etc? Eg: the watch captian vs Thorved the watch captain.

Another comment on shields, realism and gaming: using 2 shields as a fighting style seems just plain wrong to me. (This was mentioned in an earlier post by Paizo). If I was GMing the game (probably won't ever happen) I wouldn't allow it, and I certainly won't use it as a player. Edit: source: http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2018/03/pathfinder-2nd-edition-playtest-special/ said by Mona (from the compilation thread done by Morrus )

Morrus - It really gets old when someone like Remathilis feels the need to announce to the world that he is going to block you. I would report the post but as he blocked me immediately after he posted I do not have the ability to report the post.

Hi I purchased some gold, mainly as a little tip to ENW, but it has not appeared in my account. I've emailed a couple of times and had no reply. Any help Morrus?

There is, but for some reason no one can add it to the first post. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?593300-Guide-How-to-Win-Fights-and-Intimidate-People-(Another-Barbarian-Primer)&highlight=barbarian Morrus or Yunru, can either of you add this, the thread owner asked for help last page and never got a response.It's going to have to be Morrus, my changes aren't sticking.

There is, but for some reason no one can add it to the first post. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?593300-Guide-How-to-Win-Fights-and-Intimidate-People-(Another-Barbarian-Primer)&highlight=barbarian Morrus or Yunru, can either of you add this, the thread owner asked for help last page and never got a response.

Knightfall I don't see why not Morrus?

$1200? That won’t go far. Ha! That's just from the gamers I'm gaming the most with in 2018, who so far their only purchases in the current year include a copy of Xanathar's and some missing packs of Paizo's Adventure Card game. So at least among my closest circle, that'd be a 24X increase in spending. :)

Privacy tools are a standard feature of social media, including forums. It’s up to you whether to avail yourself of them. They have been made available to you. Hmmm....So your official reply to anyone feeling mocked through the Laugh point system is: hold your tongue, silently block the transgressor after the fact, let him move on to somebody else without him even knowing or realizing what he's done? With no help or support from the moderators? That's a stark contrast to your talk about Enworld being inclusive and welcoming [emoji17]

There's a bunch of privacy options available to you. Disabling it on your own account is not a punishment, but if that option doesn't work for you the block feature sounds like a perfect solution.I'm getting really disappointed in your reply Morrus. Why should I have to block transgressors? How does that help others? Why aren't people that abuse features getting sanctioned? I've brought this up several times, but I'm getting dismissed every time. Why aren't you taking this seriously? My goal here isn't to nail any user. My goal here is to convince you the Laugh points can and are abused. If you can't or won't make any technical changes (which I can understand) then redtext transgressors so the system works as intended. I'm not even convinced they realize they're doing anything wrong. With no moderation and no specific mention in the rules, how can they? I'm happy for the overwhelming majority of laugh points I get. But the system is abusable, it is abused, and it is time for it to end. Only you can do that, which I'd why we're having this conversation. Z

Both. Depends on the situation, size of the encounter, how important/tactical it is, whether the terrain is important, all sorts of things. Basically I use the best tool for the job at hand. Sorry, this is a bit unclear to me. Could you briefly sketch a combat encounter in which terrain is not important? Or describe a general set of characteristics that render the terrain unimportant?

There's a bunch of privacy options available to you. Disabling it on your own account is not a punishment, but if that option doesn't work for you the block feature sounds like a perfect solution. As someone who has disabled xp, it doesn't do what you and CapnZapp are implying it does. All the disablement does is limit total reporting on posts I make. Users can still give both xp and laughs to accounts with xp disabled.

You have to enter your *current* password to change it. That will be the string of numbers you mentioned, which it was just changed to. Really? Because I put that in, and it got to a screen that said "enter NEW password." and "Confirm NEW password". Weird...

It’s basically “I was into that band before it became popular”. It’s not really anything to do with D&D; it’s the same with every subculture. Psychologically, it’s kind of a feeling that one deserves a reward for getting there first. Of course, we intellectually know that’s not true, but it’s a common enough feeling across all types of hobby and interest that it’s certainly a thing. That is, in part, what the term “gatekeeping” refers to. In most all measurable ways, though, it’s better this way. More players, more people to game with, less stigma. Yeah, that captures most of what I had trouble articulating. I'm conscious of my feelings at least, and haven't acted upon them to feed into the gatekeeping problem. :)

@Ancalagon The third comment by JRutterbush is very interesting. They speculate that there will be four spell lists (Mental, Spiritual, Material, Vital) and that different classes will get access to a portion of those lists. The division of spells into four main themes − mental, vital, material, and spiritual − is something I have been doing and posting about for years (mostly at the former wizards .com forum site, but there might be some posts here too). What they are calling ‘vital’, I call ‘lifeforce’, but the foursome is otherwise identical. I created this thematic spell list because all D&D spells can be organized by one or more of these four themes. It works excellently because it makes users of magic *feel* different from each other. It is a marriage of flavor and mechanics.

You seem angry about something. What's up? Can't an old grognard poke fun at his least favorite edition? I'd comment on other products so as not to pick on one all the time, but I can't wait that long for the next one to appear! Ba-dum! Ching!! *rimshot*

There’s zero chance of the Star Wars movies coming to an end. "All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Again." No, wait, that was something else...

Where does that come from? Just about everywhere from the day Star Wars came out in 1977. I remember all the articles, books, trading cards, comics, games, etc., all describing Chewbacca as a "200 year old Wookiee," though it looks like that is no longer official Disney-era canon. While his Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca) still includes this, Chewie's entry at the official https://www.starwars.com/databank/chewbacca does not mention his age.

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... If Fett shows up, we may also see him disintegrate one or more folks...

I think so. I don’t quite understand it. I think you get actual shares in the game or something. Fig is the platform co-created by Brian Fargo from Interplay and the Double Fine studio as a Kickstarter alternative. It has two modes of contribution. 1. Traditional kickstarter-like pledges. You pick a pledge level that corresponds to a reward, pledge the money, and when the game is complete you get the reward. 2. Investment model. You purchase a number of shares of the game, and you get returns based on your share percentages out of the gross profits of the game. So person x might own 5% of the profits of a game, person y might own 10%, and the studio gets the remaining 85%. The purpose is to allow investments of more than a few hundred in exchange for profits on release, to support traditional kickstarter pledges, and to avoid the kickstarter fees. I'm assuming Fig by default gets a percentage of shares as its fee.

The ignore/block function does not function when you visit using the EN World app.

I think we probably need a rule to prevent it. We can’t stop it on a technical level, but taking the effort to log out and cyberstalk and quote somebody who has used the privacy features to block you is pretty much the definition of harassment. A rule would work. Also? It just seems so effortful, what with the cutting and pasting and logging on with different accounts. Being a jerk must be really tiring.

Don’t be confused. One person got something wrong. No need to stress. :) Ha! True. I think the confusion is more in how myopic their view of how to handle the Gygax name has been. But that too is something I should get over; it's been 10 years ;-)

I think I’d rather focus on fictional or semi fictional characters. The occasional real person is OK, but this is about mythology not history. The litmus test on this could be that a historical figure needs to have a significant mythology built around them that transcends their original culture and becomes something close to commonish knowledge within the community. Then remove living folks for courtesy reasons. Ex. Musashi makes sense to me, but anyone I'd have to look up to know who they were, not so much. The question likely needs to be - If I make an article with this personage, can the expectation truly be that the majority of the community will know who it is?

I think I’d rather focus on fictional or semi fictional characters. The occasional real person is OK, but this is about mythology not history. Yeah I get that, but with someone like Musashi it's tough to separate the legend from the fact. I think your rule would be safe with Tomoe Gozen, who's pretty clearly been turned into a legend over time, but Aphra Behn would be a bit too well documented. Maybe a series on real life people who make good inspiration for fictional characters? Aphra Behn, Ching Shih, and, oh, William Dampier, are all good examples, just to pick three.

It’s not “Lost” in space. It’s a remake of the old show “Lost In Space”. It has nothing to do with Lost.Er... It starts with the same word...? [emoji4]

Mythological figures are the primary focus of the article; some major historical figures might be the secondary focus; but we're not going to do stats for living people. Thank you. Should have read down before replying.