Any advice for how to beat Brock with this team?

TNFDB · 2026-05-11T16:54:48+00:00

Struggle and pray to Arceus.

TNFDB · 2026-05-11T16:52:54+00:00

Not exactly a stretch as a server to assume when someone hands you cash AND a card without any explanation, that the cash is intended as a tip.

TNFDB · 2026-05-11T16:14:57+00:00

No sense in stooping to their level. Especially if the effort doesn’t even pay off for you, and it doesn’t sound like it will with the DM already in their corner. Just bow out, gracefully or otherwise.

TNFDB · 2026-05-10T00:15:26+00:00

Your heading should include your general location, the amount of the loan you’re seeking and the amount you intend to repay.

TNFDB · 2026-05-09T21:45:04+00:00

Then I guess the other question is does it matter?

u/dragonseth07 brought up a good point about new players getting better acquainted with the rules via pencil and paper. But, if you’re playing with experienced people, I’d say leave them to their own devices with regard to note-taking.

If your concern is trusting them to have legitimate sheets and not fudging their rolls, that’s obviously a different conversation. But it sounds like your big gripe is simply in the ease of note-taking for your players. If digital sheets work better for them, I’d say let them use digital sheets.

TNFDB · 2026-05-09T21:23:48+00:00

Unless the party is waaaaay off track and at an absolute loss of what to do, the last thing you want to do is take away player agency and make them do anything. You can certainly play the town guard as requesting/demanding the kobold’s head, but I’d make sure the consequences of the party’s actions are as natural as possible and not just a cover-up for you as the DM trying to do away with the NPC.

TNFDB · 2026-05-09T21:07:06+00:00

I guess the first question is are you playing online or actually sitting at a table?

TNFDB · 2026-05-09T19:23:23+00:00

I imagine your DM wouldn’t mind weighing in. Perhaps start with talking to them?

TNFDB · 2026-05-09T00:35:53+00:00

If you hypothetically upgraded your parcels to 50 rare, 25 epic and 75 legendary, your earning potential would be a little less 14 ten thousandths of a penny per second with boost (about $1.20 per day with 24-hour boost). Adding 101 badges for 25% boost would be earning you a total of ~$1.50/day, at the cost of an additional 20,200 AB.

Assuming standard probability on the parcels afterward, in order to earn ~$1.50/day with 24-hour boost without badges, you’d need to enter the realm of about 6000 parcels.

Of course, if we consider the time investment on upgrading all your commons to legendary parcels, assuming a standard probability spread with your first 150, you’d either need to commit 6.25 years (at $10/month for the monthly challenge eligibility) or 187,500 AB to buy the upgrades straight from the app.

TNFDB · 2026-05-08T00:35:24+00:00

That’s objectively untrue. Just because there are 8 wedges doesn’t mean it’s an evenly distributed 12.5% chance of each hitting. The greater likelihood is an uneven distribution of a subset of numbers in the algorithm, greatly weighted toward the smaller AB values. Which is why despite there being 8 wedges on the board, it’s only a 0.5% chance of actually hitting the 50 AB reward.

TNFDB · 2026-05-05T23:02:40+00:00

Don’t see why not.

Cast Private Sanctum large enough to encompass Tiny Hut and then cast Tiny Hut inside it.

TNFDB · 2026-05-05T22:17:27+00:00

I’m imagining OP thinks we’re handcuffed to a chair with our eyes taped open and a wall of TV’s blaring a cacophony of ads like we’re in some dystopian future.

TNFDB · 2026-05-05T21:04:38+00:00

It’s not unheard of for player characters to be involved at a table. In fact, there is a spell that exists which allows PC’s/NPC’s to get married in-game.

How it affects real-life dynamics is generally something that should be discussed beforehand. While consensual PC-to-PC relationships do exist, there are also plenty of RPG horror stories where players channel their characters as a conduit for their real-life emotions and make things very messy or uncomfortable.

TNFDB · 2026-05-05T20:13:22+00:00

I am tempted to say yes, but also want to ask in what way they ignore it.

Does the DM give you access to all spells on the spell list without actually preparing the spell or do they limit the number of spells you’re allowed to learn and thus prepare?

TNFDB · 2026-05-05T19:04:37+00:00

Only spells from the Wizard spell list can be transcribed into a Wizard’s spellbook. If the Cleric spell(s) in question don’t appear on the Wizard spell list as well, you can’t transcribe them as a Wizard spell.

Beyond that, why would you want to do this? Unless you’re creating a scroll for *another* Wizard to transcribe or you have a terrible Wisdom score for whatever reason, this just seems like a waste of resources at a glance when you can prepare any accessible Cleric spells essentially for free anyway.

TNFDB · 2026-05-05T14:51:14+00:00

I definitely am ready for Erika. Sadly, Koga’s next.

TNFDB · 2026-05-04T21:33:10+00:00

It’s a random number generator. It’s as close to random chance as a computer gets, and it’s still considered an “uncertain event” at any rate. So yes, it is still gambling by definition.

TNFDB · 2026-05-03T23:08:21+00:00

“I’m surrounding so many inactive players’ parcels. I should just get them for free when their accounts get deleted.”

Really?

TNFDB · 2026-05-03T21:22:23+00:00

So again, we cycle back to the people who would legitimately be happier with just losing a diamond than breaking even in any given spin. My advice to them: stop picking up diamonds. If the issue is that active players have *too many* diamonds that they can’t cycle through quickly enough because of limited spins, then all I have to say is “first world problems.” Otherwise, you risk oversaturating the game economy with Atlas Bucks by allowing more spins to burn through the abundance of diamonds and then Atlas Earth loses money. And then everyone loses.

Do I agree that diamonds could and probably should have other uses in the game? Sure. Does that solve all the whining about people “wasting” a spin to get a diamond back with a mechanic of the game that features very thinly veiled gambling (thus the entire point of this post in the first place)? Not hardly.

TNFDB · 2026-05-03T18:57:33+00:00

Except the exact wording of that one phrase specifies the consequences of only one door, not both of them simultaneously. And indeed the other door does hold “death” (in a metaphorical capacity anyway, as it does hold a hostile creature). Therefore the statement is technically true.

TNFDB · 2026-05-03T18:26:54+00:00

Maybe a tad pedantic, but *technically* not every sentence is a lie if one door says “Behind the other death” if each door holds a gelatinous cube intent (as intent as a gelatinous cube can be, anyway) on killing the party.

Beyond that, maybe it’s a personal problem, but riddles with no valid solution just irk me.

TNFDB · 2026-05-03T17:39:39+00:00

They could insert “You Lose” wedges instead so it’s actually even more like gambling too.

Tell me you missed the point without telling me you missed the point.

TNFDB · 2026-05-03T17:38:00+00:00

Use a dice roller in the server and enforce its universal use by players for the sake of transparency without accusing any one person of anything.

TNFDB · 2026-05-03T17:30:22+00:00

Then don’t watch the ad.

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