Recent content by abazaba

Thanks for the response. I was unaware of the 'Taking 20' rule (I'm new to D&D). But doesn't all of this mean that you are taking the randomness out of the game ? I mean, you are constantly rolling dice at random. Which to me, means that even though the PC's stats are really good you could still...

Ah. I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. So let me see if I understand that correctly. If (in the lock picking example) they have thieves tools, and are proficient with it (or other + plusses), they will be able to unlock a door with a DC of 10 without rolling, but with a DC of 17 they...

But if you can just pick a lock without the chance of failure, then why have a lock on the door in the first place ? You might as well leave it unlocked ?

It's not. In combat, the challenge is in trying to get the enemies HP down to zero before they do the same to you. There is no such mechanic in something like trying to 'pick a lock' : it's not as if the lock gets 'slightly more picked' upon each attempt, resulting in a 'fully picked lock' in X...

Hrm. Those are actually good points, but: if you can just retry until you succeed, wouldn't it be easier if you just let the player succeed without having to roll at all ? Part of what the roll means to me, is that it does mean you can actually fail at a task, and that that failure has meaning...

My personal issue with 'just trying again', is that it removes any real challenge. If you allow to try again infinitely, the player can just keep rolling until they finally roll a 20. I feel that if you fail to pick a lock, you are incapable to open it that way, and you are going to have to try...

Ok. So specifically, the average number of registered DDB users simultaneously online at any given time ? Which, without any further details or context, does not tell you all that much, it seems ? (At least not anything beyond 'not further defined DDB usage' ?)

Ah. Thanks for the info. I like these mini's, but do not own a 3D printer.

whaitwut ? These are digital STL files for printing yourself on your own 3D printer ? I got the impression that these were physical miniatures ? Oh, well.

Ah. So do I then interpret that correctly that it only includes 'direct sales' as in 'directly through 'DnD Beyond', but not 3th parties (either digital or 'brick and mortar' selling the physical copies) ? Well, this is all getting too confusing for me to interpret 'correctly' at all now...

Must be 'RuneQuest' duck.

Really ? Damn... I kinda like my physical books. Ok, but does that include 3th party VTT's (like, but not limited to, Roll20) ? Because if it does, then those won't show up in these DnD Beyond results, but they will count as 'digital sales'.

And.... I'm still playing it, so that sample size of 1 (our group, specifically) statistically proves that it must be doing great !

Point taken. Perhaps, but I still feel that it may still be that most people bought the physical books, and then decided to argue over the rules through some other means (reddit ? this forums ? someplace else ?) Agreed.

My interpretation is that the data ('as-is') is insufficient to say anything about the popularity of the 2024 core books, as the original post implied.