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You know the type of anxiety that strikes as you open the door into your dungeon and you remember you forgot which treasure to throw in there? You want them to feel rewarded, but you don’t want it to be something so awesome it breaks your economy for the next three sessions. This is why … Read more

The typical scenario goes like this: You all agree casually, only for it to curdle into resentment. You spend two million gold on potions and runes, burn another three hours in the Library, and come out with a chest full of nothing but standard loot. Your sorcerer buddy pulls the rare weapon, which he keep. … Read more

Have you ever farmed some high-tier boss for 20 minutes only to get back common grey junk? We all have. To compensate for this, players in New World constantly seeks out lucky gear items. Most players think of loot luck as a single sliding bar they can just push higher and higher. But it’s not … Read more

Hours go into crafting the perfect dungeon chest. You balance rare diamonds against gold and iron. Testing it twice, just to make sure it feels right. You hand it over to your players, only to find them drowning in enchanted books or staring blankly at empty voids where treasure once sat. It’s at this meeting … Read more

Floor Seven, do this dozens of times… You’ve got a perfect S+ score… And yet still nothing happens. The outcome are random. That makes it personal. When you feel like you’re owed something for your time, randomness sting even worse. This calculator removes the emotional noise. It lets you see the probability so you can … Read more

You feel an empty sensation as you race to a Launch Site and discover all the crates is empty. It is not bad luck. It was just bad timing. Respawning Rust loot doesn’t adhere to any set schedule. It follows the flow of player traffic, server activity, and even shape of monuments. Once you input … Read more

If you’ve played Black Desert Online, then you probably know that feeling when you grind for 3 hours but walk away with your inventory filled with silver and not a single rare item you was hoping to get. That’s because there’s more to loot planning than simply increasing your grinding speed. There’s probability math, pet … Read more

At some point during your Dungeons and Dragons campaign, math goes awry. You’re looking for a way to track your progress, you’ve plundered the bandit camp and now you’d like to pillage the goblin lair, and everything looks off. Despite having epic magic items worth more then the yearly budget of a kingdom, they’re still … Read more

In Old School RuneScape, you stare into the abyss of hopelessness that is the Tempoross reward pool. Your inventory’s stuffed with spirit flakes. You’ve got hundreds of permit stashed away. And yet there it sits: the ever-elusive Tiny Tempor pet just out of reach. It is unfair that this game punishes you for working so … Read more

Remember what it was like opening that very first Overwatch launch? You ground up those first couple of boxs, earning enough to open some new cosmetics on your favorite hero. Open the box, get a Rare emote you already have and three more Commons. Twice maybe, but by the fifth box its no longer about … Read more

In Last War, the Bullseye event makes you anxious, but it is not just about luck; real skill lie in understanding how guarantee tiers work and planning your ammo around them. Time ticks down and you spend your ammo sparingly, watching for your shot, but relying on luck doesn’t work out all the time. Next … Read more

Until you view hunting as a ledger in Tibia, it will feel like a grind. You kill monsters for hours, but without tracking your actual input costs against your output value, you are just gambling with time. If you’re not keeping track of the value of your output compared to cost of your input, you’re … Read more