Recent content by gss000

This is an issue with how Amazon classify things. If you see a Books ranking you can compare apples to apples. With these sublists, it's Amazon discretion what makes the specific list. Sometime in the past the new Pathfinder books were shifted from gaming and placed onto Board Game. Exactly why...

Sorry I misunderstood. You are right. Ideas are not covered under copyright just the expression of that idea. I definitely did not mean to say the basis of his case was right!

Sorry to nitpick but you are mistaken. DMCA is part of copyright law and copyright falls under intellectual property along with patent and trademark. This is probably the only time I'll say you are wrong with regards to Lanasa.

There are sites where you can place the book sales rank and get an estimate of the monthly and/or daily sales. Like this one: Amazon Book Sales Calculator - TCK Publishing. I don't know which is the best site that does this, and I don't have any data about accuracy, but at least you have an...

Jeez. That is not a tortured interpretation. First - again - I'm not even saying it's bad now. Read his actual statement. Mona writes, "Most of our subscriptions are higher now than they were 2 years ago. In ALL of those cases they are also higher than they were 3 years ago. And 5 years ago."...

Please reread what I said. You are putting words in my mouth about Roll 20 stats and their meaning, and then attacking my information literacy. I did admit there are problems with it, but I'm discounting the ICV2 ranking that you are assuming automatically means health when all it tells you is...

Your last sentence is all ICV2 numbers show. Here's a math example of why it's not the best. Say in one quarter the rankings translate to these types of sales: #1 D&D 5E - represents $100 million in sales #2 Call of Cthulhu - represents $31 million in sales #3 PF2 - represents $25 million in...

True, but without an idea of how many total are using Foundry, I'm not 100% convinced that the best supported PF2 platform is the one the most players are using. When I deal in my work with situations like the uncertain number of players you mentioned in the uncategorized group, I assume its...

Titles and short phrases aren't protected by copyright. Especially a phrase that old.

Very likely destroyed. I remember a conversation with WoTC staff at a con about a pallet of old Magic Cards they once found. I want to say Ice Age, but that may be incorrect. Anyways, they had to destroy all of the items because they didn't want to ruin the secondary sales market. I bet the same...

Thanks for the update. Having worked with reports and specialty printing teams before - much smaller scale than this! - I'm dubious of anyone claiming certainty like this when dates are more than 2 months away and there have been delays. Good communication is key, but something like "back on...

$25 million would have made it the top Kickstarter of all time, which I only know because of Brandon Sanderson breaking the record around $20 million with his "I accidentally wrote five extra novels during the pandemic" kickstarter. I think the original point is still valid. I've seen a lot of...

This best sums up my experience with rolling, which I did for the first 13 years of gaming until 3rd ed came out. I played one long term game where my character was okay in terms of stats, but another player was fantastically lucky. It did result in that one character having a lot more of the...

Yes! It was why I was more pessimistic in my PF2 outlook - it confirmed certain cases from the Roll20 numbers like more people are still playing PF1 than PF2. If they release 2021 numbers, I'll be watching to see whether PF2 will ever overtake PF1 consistently.

That's really interesting! Thanks for finding that. Do you have a link? Do they send out updates regularly? Yes, this is actually a game changer for a lot of reason. First, until this, the only VTTs that I knew published table numbers (Roll20, Fantasy Grounds) had PF2 lagging PF1 use. One could...