Voters' Incessant Ramble

[Eric Morton]

Oh! I didn't pay nearly enough attention to that item the first time I saw it. That's much more useful than I thought it was. Up-vote.

[KtA]

First "ZZ" item.

[Mike Welham]

A new item! It's been awhile...

[Eric Morton]

Has anyone seen more than 678 unique items?

I'm running some statistical analyses to estimate the total number of items submitted, and I'm trying to determine if my initial estimate is realistic.

[Cthulhudrew]

I have to take all those penalties- for such a small benefit? No thanks.

[Matt Morris]

Cthulhudrew wrote:

I have to take all those penalties- for such a small benefit? No thanks.

Is one of the penalties death? That seems popular :)

[Azouth]

goblin writing?

[Eric Morton]

And there's that Dedicated Voter tag I was expecting.

Seems I missed a few tally marks here and there; my count puts me a few votes short of 500.

So, my voter stats as of now:

500 votes cast
507 unique items seen
24 items in my keep folder

[Andrew Marlowe]

Camping item I could see making good (alternate) use of as a rogue. Up vote.

[Feros]

Eric Morton wrote:

Has anyone seen more than 678 unique items?

I'm running some statistical analyses to estimate the total number of items submitted, and I'm trying to determine if my initial estimate is realistic.

I'm currently holding at 654. Does that help?

[Eric Morton]

Thanks, Feros. That does help.

Last year, the mark-and-recapture method I'm using to estimate the number of entries in the contest gave an estimate about 10% lower than the highest recorded number of unique items seen. Given your current count and my last few estimates, the mark-and-recapture seems to be falling short by a similar amount this year.

My first and largest estimate of 678 entries is probably closest to correct, though it's distinctly possible that the actual number of entries this year is closer to 745.

[Andrew Marlowe]

Eric Morton wrote:

Thanks, Feros. That does help.

Last year, the mark-and-recapture method I'm using to estimate the number of entries in the contest gave an estimate about 10% lower than the highest recorded number of unique items seen. Given your current count and my last few estimates, the mark-and-recapture seems to be falling short by a similar amount this year.

My first and largest estimate of 678 entries is probably closest to correct, though it's distinctly possible that the actual number of entries this year is closer to 745.

Is that higher or lower than your estimates from last year or about the same?

[Eric Hindley]

Andrew Marlowe wrote:

Eric Morton wrote:

Thanks, Feros. That does help.

Last year, the mark-and-recapture method I'm using to estimate the number of entries in the contest gave an estimate about 10% lower than the highest recorded number of unique items seen. Given your current count and my last few estimates, the mark-and-recapture seems to be falling short by a similar amount this year.

My first and largest estimate of 678 entries is probably closest to correct, though it's distinctly possible that the actual number of entries this year is closer to 745.

Is that higher or lower than your estimates from last year or about the same?

If I'm not mistaken (and I could be), that would be lower than post-cull estimates, never mind pre-cull.

[Andrew Marlowe]

Eric Hindley wrote:

If I'm not mistaken (and I could be), that would be lower than post-cull estimates, never mind pre-cull.

Thanks. That would be inline with my gut feeling about this year.

[Eric Hindley]

Andrew Marlowe wrote:

Eric Hindley wrote:

If I'm not mistaken (and I could be), that would be lower than post-cull estimates, never mind pre-cull.

Thanks. That would be inline with my gut feeling about this year.

Of course, oddly enough, I'm not Eric ;)

[Cthulhudrew]

New item. Sort of interesting, but... I'm not sure why anyone would ever use it?

(Except maybe a GM as a plot device.)

[Eric Morton]

Eric Hindley wrote:

Andrew Marlowe wrote:

Eric Hindley wrote:

If I'm not mistaken (and I could be), that would be lower than post-cull estimates, never mind pre-cull.

Thanks. That would be inline with my gut feeling about this year.

Of course, oddly enough, I'm not Eric ;)

As the Eric in question, I'll confirm that my estimates for this year are lower than my estimates for last year, even though my estimates for last year were taken after the cull.

Edit: A decrease in numbers this year would also be consistent with Feros having seen only 654 unique items after having hit Marathon Voter.

[TimsterMon]

So stuff from last year is still estimates? It was not released how many submissions were made and how many submissions were voted on (since a portion of those could be auto-rejected)?

[Eric Morton]

TimsterMon wrote:

So stuff from last year is still estimates? It was not released how many submissions were made and how many submissions were voted on (since a portion of those could be auto-rejected)?

Paizo has never released those numbers.

We do know that last year, a Champion Voter (it might have been Feros) saw just shy of 900 unique items in four weeks of voting.

[Jeff Lee]

Scalpel vs. scalpel.

[Adam Daigle]

Snip snip

[Jeff Lee]

"The true power of the item is revealed when..." Drink!

[Jeff Lee]

Hmm...methinks I detect a JourneyQuest reference.

[Samuel Stone]

Every so often, I find myself searching this thread for key terms involving my item.

I need to fast forward about two weeks.

[Kalervo Oikarinen]

Ah, back home after a night on a train.

Why not continue voting?

Also, thought up a pretty nifty creature while trying to sleep amidst the rumble of the train. Now I'll just have to check if it's actually unique.

[Samuel Stone]

Woo, just hit marathon!

...I have no delusions about champion.

[Bardess]

Here's mine at last!
Argh... Spelling mistake, comma/dot mistake, and I DID forget that detail! Won't make it, probably.

[Samuel Stone]

Storage Wars!
Item remaker vs. creature remaker

[Heroic bartender]

I'm looking at some pretty decent items, even cool ones... and then an added effect (even two or three) with no explanation/meaning/sense to the item.
Leaving that out would make cooler items out of 70-80% of multi-effect items... really, I mean it!

[Heroic bartender]

uahah, just found a modern software in the make of an item... pretty cool though ^^

[Garrick Williams]

The only reason the rulebooks list items as "Item, Magic" is for easy reference since items have variants and rulebooks alphabetize magic items. The actual names of the items are still "Magic Item."

[Lightminder]

okay this item reminds me of when my uncle used to pretend he had stolen my nose.

[thunderspirit]

Bardess wrote:

Here's mine at last!

Argh... Spelling mistake, comma/dot mistake, and I DID forget that detail! Won't make it, probably.

Yep. Mine has a capitalization error, a formatting mistake, and is missing a part I thought of about fifteen seconds after hitting "submit".

But then, you can only edit so long before you just hafta say it's time to turn it in.

[Jacob W. Michaels]

Garrick Williams wrote:

The only reason the rulebooks list items as "Item, Magic" is for easy reference since items have variants and rulebooks alphabetize magic items. The actual names of the items are still "Magic Item."

True, but it's still legit, I'd say. IIRC, two or three years ago, the judges praised someone for using that format. Maybe Mike Welham's raptor gloves? (Nope, wasn't them. Can't find the comment now, though Gloves, Charlatan did make it in in 2012.)

[Ariax]

Whew: 600 unique items!

Can there really be a couple hundred more that I haven't seen at all?

[Andrew Marlowe]

Eric Hindley wrote:

Andrew Marlowe wrote:

Eric Hindley wrote:

If I'm not mistaken (and I could be), that would be lower than post-cull estimates, never mind pre-cull.

Thanks. That would be inline with my gut feeling about this year.

Of course, oddly enough, I'm not Eric ;)

I know you weren't the other Eric I just figured you remembered details I did not. :P

[Feros]

Samuel Stone wrote:

Woo, just hit marathon!

...I have no delusions about champion.

I have delusions about it. ;)

[Aaron Miller 335]

Bardess wrote:

Here's mine at last!

Argh... Spelling mistake, comma/dot mistake, and I DID forget that detail! Won't make it, probably.

You never know if it is a good idea, found 6 mistakes in mine, you may still have a chance!

[Mike Welham]

I know I've been consistently upvoting a couple of items with formatting/spelling issues.

[Jeff Lee]

I predict the gorget will be next year's gloves. Runes are the new filigree, but attuning just never goes out of fashion.

[Evan Draughon]

Jacob W. Michaels wrote:

Garrick Williams wrote:

The only reason the rulebooks list items as "Item, Magic" is for easy reference since items have variants and rulebooks alphabetize magic items. The actual names of the items are still "Magic Item."

True, but it's still legit, I'd say. IIRC, two or three years ago, the judges praised someone for using that format. Maybe Mike Welham's raptor gloves? (Nope, wasn't them. Can't find the comment now, though Gloves, Charlatan did make it in in 2012.)

Yeah I remember seeing that when I was doing my homework. Wasn't sure how and when to use it properly though at the time.

[Maurice de Mare]

Saw something official again

Also saw the RPG Superstar 2014

But the real question is: where is my item, I want to vote for it again.

[Antariuk]

Mike Welham wrote:

I know I've been consistently upvoting a couple of items with formatting/spelling issues.

Same here.

I know I made plenty of fun about entries with spelling or formatting errors, but that doesn't mean I can't look past that. Especially after discovering 2-3 errors in my own submission, but that has barely anything to do with anything... :)

[Anthony Adam]

Maurice de Mare wrote:

Saw something official again

Also saw the RPG Superstar 2014

But the real question is: where is my item, I want to vote for it again.

Again he says - lol.

At least one of us is waiting to vote on their item for the first time, like me! :P

[Maurice de Mare]

I downvote spelling mistakes, template failures, bad items, item that do nothing, camping items, items that talk to me, items that apologize, official items and so many more!

[Aaron Miller 335]

WOW I was so impressed until that last power! shame!

[Maurice de Mare]

Anthony Adam wrote:

Maurice de Mare wrote:

Saw something official again

Also saw the RPG Superstar 2014

But the real question is: where is my item, I want to vote for it again.

Again he says - lol.

At least one of us is waiting to vote on their item for the first time, like me! :P

You said earlier that someone else saw it? Isn't that enough ;>

[Aaron Miller 335]

Hello "It's a TRAP", you have been downvoted!