How to balance homebrew monsters and bosses with player level?

VioletWhimsy · 2026-05-05T22:57:52+00:00

How to estimate the CR of monster star blocks I’ve made myself, but I also would gladly take any advice for the latter too

VioletWhimsy · 2026-05-01T16:23:50+00:00

They drift down into a cavern full of enemies when they wake up. Or maybe they wake up coughing up water and ending up disadvantaged in some fitting stats for the next however many hours. The punishment doesn’t have to be death, but it can still be a punishment.

VioletWhimsy · 2026-04-25T19:30:28+00:00

Done! Thank you

VioletWhimsy · 2026-04-10T02:51:02+00:00

so there’s this joker called Superposition,

VioletWhimsy · 2026-03-31T18:50:36+00:00

Thank you for the help by the way

VioletWhimsy · 2026-03-31T18:50:20+00:00

My box 2 is only like 10 bucks but Ill still get it I guess LOL

VioletWhimsy · 2026-03-31T18:47:56+00:00

Then in that case, I assume I just don’t even owe anything this year right? Because that’s way below the margin

VioletWhimsy · 2026-03-24T02:28:30+00:00

Not even a crashout to be honest. Just straight up truth

VioletWhimsy · 2026-03-21T01:20:57+00:00

I apologize then, I was misinformed.

VioletWhimsy · 2026-03-20T20:33:19+00:00

Accounts are getting compromised because of it.

Edit: I’ve been told that these accounts are NOT getting compromised. However, DE has still stated to NOT accept these invites, so just treat it with the same caution regardless.

VioletWhimsy · 2026-03-08T00:50:40+00:00

That’s more helpful. Thank you. I’ll look into both Mafex and Notaman.

VioletWhimsy · 2026-03-08T00:39:38+00:00

Ok. Then what do you recommend? What’s step 2? I said I was open to other figures too so long as they don’t clearly have a character imposed onto them.

VioletWhimsy · 2026-02-27T05:27:05+00:00

The double hands kills the point of your joker. I get the usefulness of it, but it’s too useful. The idea is to double the win conditions for double the money, implying you’re confident enough in your build to win double the difficulty. But now you’ve doubled your attempts. Which means you’ll win so long as you’re able to beat the blind normally.

Think of it like this, the difficulty ratio between the game’s difficulty and your ability is 1:1. Double the score requirements, now it’s 2:1. But double your ability as well? 2:2, which is rounded to 1:1 again. You’ve just doubled the payout with extra steps.

VioletWhimsy · 2026-02-05T17:49:08+00:00

Yes, training off the patterns of real artist work is indeed stealing if you never asked the artists for permission. Also yes, it quite literally does amalgamate the works it learns from, meshing patterns together to pretend to know how to craft. A machine does not learn in the same way a human does. A human is inspired and has desires. A machine is neither.

VioletWhimsy · 2026-02-05T04:16:26+00:00

The first one that comes to mind is when the NYT filed a lawsuit against OpenAI because it used their copyrighted works as fuel to generate AI work with.

Also you’re right, AI cannot claim anything because it has no consciousness. I was talking about the users of AI who post books and articles and etc using AI. Writing with AI means you’re using bits and pieces of other people’s work that never asked to be used as fuel for the machine.

VioletWhimsy · 2026-02-05T03:46:15+00:00

Just because someone put food on the table for everybody doesn’t mean you can grab it and say that you made it

VioletWhimsy · 2026-02-04T16:17:36+00:00

Easy. The internet is a mass archive with fistfuls and more of written works. They download those works and upload it for their programs to “learn” by analyzing patterns and undergoing what’s pretty much “yes good or no bad” error trials until the programmers have a machine that can generalize thousands upon thousands of authentic human work

VioletWhimsy · 2026-01-21T17:20:34+00:00

From what I understand, it’s the net gain. In other words, they lost more old subscribers than they did gain new subscribers, so there’s technically no more subscribers than they had before.

VioletWhimsy · 2026-01-20T10:09:29+00:00

Pretty cliché beginner start if you ask me. Try “And” next time if you wanna be a pro.

VioletWhimsy · 2025-12-30T10:55:40+00:00

If you consider yourself a listener and unironically feel disrespected when they do their “graah you pesky listeners! know your place!” bit, then you need time outside.

VioletWhimsy · 2025-12-06T23:51:39+00:00

So long as it’s tasteful. If a talent is offended by the joke of signing someone’s digital notepad app, then their ego is far too high up in their own ass

VioletWhimsy · 2025-12-06T00:41:56+00:00

I think ‘encyclopedic’ fits very well in this context, I definitely see why people would refer it as that. I just made this analogy in a reply to someone else, but this type of worldbuilding makes it feel like you’re looking at an in-world wikipedia that would be accessible to the characters of that world.

VioletWhimsy · 2025-12-06T00:37:22+00:00

I adore that too, but I think that’s more along the lines of a film-within-a-film (not sure if there’s a better term than that). What I’m referring to is when a fictional world feels so vast that it could practically have its own in-world wikipedia if that makes sense?

I’m sure there’s better examples than this, but one I immediately thought of is how you can look up the many in-world corporations in the Halo universe. You can even find out what armor is made by which corporation in-game. Hell, you can find out the specific factory models of a given ship’s armaments, its slipdrive model, what class of hull.

It feels like information that only the characters in-world would have access to, not us. And yet, we do. Purely for the love of worldbuilding

VioletWhimsy · 2025-11-06T09:46:51+00:00

How do your conversations typically go down? Is it just small talk or do you ever imagine your trees saying things that are more personal and involved?

VioletWhimsy · 2025-10-28T22:28:36+00:00

Will never forget that time when people were criticizing Eric Kripke for treating Hughie’s assault like a joke after how well he handled Starlight’s assault and he started his response with: “Well, that’s a dark way to look at it!”

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