@NautArch What's wrong with their answers?

@Grosscol Consistently downvoted

I think it has more to do with their formatting and ability to explain them than their actual responses.

They seem generally to just have... too much content, almost?

@Delioth that's part of it, but the content is just kind of dumped there. I think that's more of the issue. I just don't know if there's a way to help them. Or if they just don't care and they're fine with the downvotes.

Is there a way to see the votes applied before/after each edit?

Not necessarily bad, just lots of bullet points and extra assumptions that aren't really answering the question, but discussing tangents

@Delioth exactly!

Some of the initial answers the user gives are non-answers or non-useful. The subsequent edits make them better, but I don't know when the down votes are occurring in relation to the edits.

@NautArch Did they ask for help with writing better answers?

I don't know if advice to "try and stay succinct, avoiding tangents" would help - there's a lot of rambling/tangents I see in their answers

@Grosscol they have not. That's why i'm not sure there's a path to help (or a need to.)

I had put a comment in on another answer giving them direction and that may be the most I can do. Up to them now/.

:47694243 what specifically is the rpg you are playing?

Ohp...

@Grosscol I updated my answer how does that look?

@Rubiksmoose great. very comprehensive.

@Grosscol Thanks :)

@nitsua60 I have nommed the Troll/Stirge eating question for cheese honors in Meta. Please visit at your leisure.

@WendyG hi, did you drop by to get some ideas for the Pratchett witch?

So Stellaris Megacorp is going to be released on 6 December - Independence Day so a public holiday \o/

"The Role of the GM," by Rob Donoghue on The Walking Mind.

I hope that the author of Root RPG is not Australian.

D&D 5e. Does the Hunting Trap is the typical bear trap of metal or is a wooden cage with a spike inside and a string to activate it? How much does it cost? I can't find the price.

Where are you looking that you can see the hunting trap but not the description or how much it costs?

(5gp, saw-toothed steel ring.)

@EnderLook Sounds like a good stack question, but here is the answer anyway: It's on page 152 of the PHB, it's a steel saw-toothed ring (a bear trap), it costs 5gp

@GreySage Asked on the stack, it'd get downvoted like crazy.

@Miniman If it included "Here's where I looked, what I found, and why I'm still confused," it'd probably be fine.

@BESW Absolutely! That's why I asked where he had looked.

@GreySage Thanks

:47699850 I was about to ask, did you mean to post your directory structure there?

@GreySage Nope, that was the wrong "link" in IE, gaaaaaaaaaaaah.

@EnderLook here it is

I find linking to D&D Beyond rules easiest: Adventuring Gear, though you do need to scroll past the table of prices to see the item descriptions

Oh... they even have pages for each item

@PeterCooperJr. WoTC just compiled the Basic Rules into one pdf; when I include page numbers in the address the page is what opens in most browsers

I'm glad I looked. I hadn't realized they had pages for mundane items as well as magical.

Oh yes, I see advantages in citing the basic rules PDF too.

@PeterCooperJr. Personal annoyance with D&D beyond is that they want me to pay for the same book twice. :p I get the hardcovers.

Oh, yes. I only use D&D Beyond for Basic Rules stuff. I similarly prefer only paying for products once.

@KorvinStarmast That is one of the reasons I hate iTunes too.

Bits & Mortar is so great.

@KorvinStarmast Yes, I know. I accidentally looked in Roll20 wiki instead of PH and there it wasn't so I thought it wouldn't be in PH either.

@KorvinStarmast makes three of us

Someone know what is the difference in usage between these kind of notes?

The green one is used in the book for variant rules, non-important explanations (like how each race relation with each other) and some explainings (magic schools, why mages can't use armor, etc). The white I only seen it in the firsts pages of the spanish basic guide for quotes or fictional converstations Player-DM... haven't they more usages?