Morrus
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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

OK I XP'ed that post on your behalf. Your past self thanks you. Necro XP farming is broken Morrus please nerf!

Morrus: In some threads, like this one, you delete the original post and add your own. In others, like this one [ http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?656323-Artificer-UA-to-be-released-in-February ], you just edit the original post to add more info. What determines the different treatment?

Hey Morrus what's the deal with results? Are you doing an exciting podcast episode about it or other big reveal, or should we check here? Thanks!

Morrus is the meta forum the right place for this type of question, or should I message someone directly?

Danny I have Savage Worlds/Rifts I just haven’t delved into it very deeply. The issue I have with N&SS is I am a little lost about character creation. Example: OCC/Martial Arts list a variety of defence moves - does that give you a bonus to those or just allow you to do those moves? Morrus I do have O.L.D. but don’t have a gaming group to try it. If the kids like N&SS I may have to check out N.O.W.

cbwjm, if you can read this, notifications don’t always link you to only one page away from the intended post. Sometimes it’s multiple pages off. You’ll see, over time, unless you continue sidestepping the issue, in which case, yeah, it’s kind of nonsense to claim it doesn’t bother you. Of course they don’t bother you, they don’t even affect you. And again, I’m not actually blocking you to “teach you a lesson.” I’m demonstrating that the bugs with the block system allow me to do such things, which is a clear exploit and not something any well-thought-out block feature should enable. EDIT: And also, if you can read this, that’s just further proof that the system is completely borked and needs fixing. Can we Morrus about this? Because this is a serious problem.

Morrus, have you discussed compiling the EN5ider articles of ZEITGEIST into a product on DriveThruRPG?

Morrus, on a completely different note, everytime I see the "Frazzled" underneath your name I think "Fraz-urb'luu," which isn't comforting.

...ery real science. Postulating completely unverifiable elements to make your equations work is not good science. Now, at the moment, it's the best we've got, so, there's that. In any case, I was trying to be a bit tongue in cheek and poking a bit of fun at astronomers. But, I would point out, "isn't really science" is not what I said. What I said was that astronomy gets a bit more latitude than other sciences when it comes time to actually prove their hypotheses. Being able to make up stuff just so your equations work doesn't work in other sciences. And, unfortunately, people who get into sciences can be just as dogmatic as anyone else. I mean, you're apparently absolutely sure that your model of the universe is correct despite the fact that it hasn't actually been proven and remains largely theoretical. I mean, heck, NASA says you're wrong: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/review/dr-marc-space/dark-sky.html I'm a little more comfortable believing NASA than you, Morrus.

I don't know if this is a sad though but if its 1 light year or 100 right now functionally its the same thing in terms of interstellar travel. Its to far for us. Morrus theres a lot of things that scientists are still fuzzy on. For example is space infinite. Another one is the Big Bang Theory. OK there is a big ball of mass, energy or whatever and it explodes 13 billion years ago. Who or what created it? How did it get their to explode in the 1st place? Would that who or what in effect be God? Note I am not religious was just wondering. I thought the "is space infinite" question was largely resolved. If space was truly infinite, then the night sky would be solid white with stars. In an infinite universe, you would have infinite stars, therefore, from our point of view, there would be almost no space between the stars in the night sky. At least, that's the way it was explained to me. But, Morrus, I'm certainly no anti-scientist campaigner. Just pointing out that in one branch of science, the rules get... err... relaxed somewhat.

Knightfall I don't see why not Morrus?

*Please* just give it a rest. This crusade of yours is starting to make this forum less pleasant for other. it is a honor being 'invited' to shut up by the boss here, and a very unpleasant thing. anyway, I did not realise being so important to spoil the forum experience for someone here. anyway, I will not talk anymore about that, for what I care other people can freely continue to believe that the only perfect beings on earth are wotc employees. me, regardless of your censorship (or maybe more because of it), will still continue considering them fallible humans, with their work influenced by luck, emotive random choices, not-so-good plans and all other factors which normally influence the lives of normal humand like we, and they, are.

Fighter/Rogue is the most popular combo, followed by Barbarian/Fighter. Warlock/Bard is the least popular. That's not quite accurate...Warlock/Bard is the least common option on that chart, but that chart is only showing the 10 most popular combinations. Since there are 66 possible combinations of 2 PHB classes, that means Warlock/Bard is 10th out of 66, a fairly popular combination! (Considering Warlock/bard is a pretty optimal multiclass combination, that isn't too surprising.) This one is the fighter. Very popular for multiclassers, with 33% of characters, and nearly 40% at level 20. Warlock, paladin and... fighter? are popular multiclasses. Looks like it should be sorcerer in that chart instead of fighter; the same error exists on both the rogue and the wizard chart.

...The fact that you can take more than just two classes means that these won't add up to exactly 100%... Morrus, I know you are probably just the messenger, but this bit of the first post is inaccurate. Even if they restricted their data to "Active Characters with exactly 2 classes" they would still have a class graph showing over 100%. In fact in that situation it would show exactly 200%. So the reason about having more than 2 classes is incorrect, it's because they are showing a population that accounts for each character once but showing a breakdown that has each character accounted for more than once. An interesting observation: Their chart for level 2+ characters adds up very closely to 200% without Druid being shown. With him added in it's likely just a little over 200%. What this tells us is that very few characters in that population of level 2+ characters have more than 2 classes.

That certainly wasn’t my takeaway from what you were saying! Thanks for letting me know. I’ll see if I can figure out what’s wrong. All right! I'm glad I brought it up. In my experience, 50% of conflicts are nothing more than miscommunication. Who's fault was it? Does it matter? Not at all, what matters is that we solve the problem! I'm pretty sure you're operating in good faith here :)

They’re two entirely different things. One offers some little forum perks, the other offers weekly D&D articles and adventures. You can choose whichever you prefer. I know the difference. the problem is that *it's not working*. I've paid for copper, but my name isn't in copper, my signature is gone, even my custom title is gone. People with silver level are also not getting their perks. It's a little frustrating. Maybe we weren't clear enough? But essentially it's like being in a restaurant, saying "excuse me, where are the pancakes I ordered?" and you replying "oh, pancakes and crepes are different, most people here take crepes but pancakes are available". That's great, but where are the pancakes?

The functionality is still the same here, but most people choose to support the site via Patreon instead. Most, but not everyone. This is the second thread about this... if you want to drop this feature (non patreon support)... please let us know so we can switch, or stop.

Well, so did everybody. That's why they kept calling them "Klingons". I know, I didn't really go for the new look that much. Not a trekkie as such but would have preferred a tweaked older look of the Klingon's. Watching DS9 and 4 episodes in I like it more than Discovery because I like more of the characters. Discovery is basically all about Burnham and I prefer the more ensemble approach I suppose. I like Cisco and Quark, Dax, Odo, Kira etc. Orville is also great because of the characters, when Gordon is your least favourite but you still like him they're doing something right. Its basically why I liked SG1 and Atlantis over SGU.

Yeah, that means they blocked you, not vice versa. OK, so if they block me I can't see their comments? Ok, good to know. Thank you everyone for the responses.

I'm hoping for some action next week! https://viviennecraftblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bobs-eyebrows.gif?w=300&h=169

I can never work out when US shows are on. We get criticised for short series, but we show them from start to finish. With US shows it seems to be two weeks on, three weeks off, one week on, a week off, two more weeks off, two weeks on... sometimes I’ve actually forgotten shows exist and suddenly rediscover them a year later! A British show that has more than 6 episodes is a long UK season for me. Quality over quantity. Still Blackadder was so good.

Same rules as starting a new TV show. Learn as they go. A big infodump at the beginning isn't likely to stick. And if they ever ask a question of that nature, generally give them the answer. In other words, you can assume the characters know, and can access that info as needed, but the players can learn it as they play. Yeah. I might give a brief intro but ultimately I presume both competence and superior knowledge on the part of the characters in relation to the players.

The way I see it, big critters are likely to have higher VITAL but lower RANGED. So it's easy to *hit* a brontosaurus, but it isn't easy to knock it down or push it! I could see an argument for disarm, and as a GM I'd probably allow it. Yep - I get the logic on the first three but I think I will house-rule that Disarm is vs Ranged/Melee Defense (unless, of course, the weapon is a natural one :p). Thanks again!

Half of those are specifically technology-related, which is interesting. I wonder if that's the issue? *grumble*... Crazy mixed up kids and their character sheets on their smartphones... *grumble*

Yep, NEW and NOW are both v1.2 there. I know you said a while ago you were still working on OLD v1.2. How long after that will Amazon have those files?

If you really do believe it is just between them and don't care... then why are you posting in this thread??? I never understood some people's need to take the time and effort to publicly proclaim that they don't care about something. It completely undermines the point they are claiming to make. That's a logical fallacy. I do not care about the actual subject because without verifiable evidence it's all rumor-mongering to me. I do care (at least enough to post here) about people not exhibiting the same attitude to the issue. I think it's called "empathy". There's nothing to be empathic about as I have no way of deciding if the testimony is truthful or a bunch of lies. Without that information who should I be empathic to - Zak Smith or his accusers? Who has been wronged here? I don't know, so I will abstain from taking sides. Do you know?

Damage always soaks unless something says otherwise. That's why I posted this to find out if it soaks or not. Nothing wrong with what you're saying but I was hoping to a yes or no answer and maybe a book or page number. Sorry if that wasn't clear. The book itself doesn't do a good job explaining what does or doesn't soak.