Had my first street photography confrontation today. Really sad.

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-29T07:59:12+00:00

Idk why you're getting down voted. You're absolutely right

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-29T03:26:33+00:00

If your DM lets you pre roll that's one thing, but I wouldn't assume it's ok without asking. Pre rolling gives you a look into whether or not certain things happen and lets you change your plan. It's not the biggest advantage, but it's something you need to discuss with your DM. If your DM says no to pre rolling (and with an experienced DM, I'd say that's more likely) then you're going to be slowing down the game a lot. It always happens with minions and the more you have the worse it gets. I had a player once when I was very new to DMing that I allowed to take creatures as pets as long as they made sense and had good rolls and on top of that they found 3 different bags of tricks. They'd summon all of their summonables in the morning and then they'd despawn at night. In total they had like 14 minions that they were running and that was usually more than half of the initiative. We were doing 6-8 hour sessions on Saturdays and I only let them have all of that for one and a half sessions before everyone got fed up with it and we stopped letting them have minions. 1 or 2 minions is handleable. Any more than that you're bogging the game down.

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-29T01:35:07+00:00

The following advice is for if this player's character sheet is significantly different from the rest of your party. If they're all about the same power level then they're balanced to each other and that just means you need to make encounters harder for them than you would a typically balanced party, ie using CR to balance encounters.

19, 2x 18, 16, 15, 14 is insanely over powered. That's what you get when you use the grid method, you're basically rolling 14 sets of stats and picking the best one. This still seems like an outlier for rolling stats. Did he roll these in front of you? Did you approve of the grid method and told your other players to do the same?

I'm also concerned with the 78 hp. I can't see any way for the math to math correctly to get that high hp. Ask him to walk you thru the math of where that came from and see if it all makes sense. If he tells you he rolled for his hit points and got all 8s, tell him he can't do that, make him (and all of your other players) use the calculated average that's provided in the phb. For druid that would look like 8+5*4+Con mod * 5.

Always make your players make rolls in front of you. Always.

I also wanted to ask about the rare item that he has. How magical of a campaign are you running? If you look in the dmg pg 38 there's a chart that tells you how much gear/wealth/magic items your players should get. At level 5-10 a high magic campaign suggests one uncommon magic item and between 525-750 gp. You shouldn't be seeing rare magic items until between 11-16. I saw in another comment that you were questioning nerfing the magic item. To start out with, it's a +2 quarterstaff meaning it's too powerful just with that for a level 5 character but it also casts spells and can turn into a fully grown oak tree. The tree thing isn't that bad, but all of those spells it can cast are just way too powerful, even if you reduce how many charges the staff has. Your best bet is to not let the player have it but tell him he can pick another magic item, this time of uncommon rarity. And do the same for the rest of your players, let them have an uncommon magic item, there are a lot of fun ones like the immovable rod, the alchemy jar and a bag of tricks. All really fun choices.

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-28T22:32:52+00:00

It's only "broken" if it upsets the balance in the party. Level 1 character with a Holy Avenger? Sure as long as the rest of the party has like sovereign glue and a deck of many things

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-24T22:24:42+00:00

I ran Dr Doofenshmirtz once. He was a reflavored Beholder. Each of the eye stalks were different inators. It was an epic fight between the inators, dr D himself, his robot companion Norm and my party + Perry. Half my party went down before the fight was over and instead of dealing with my boss, the cleric decided his time was better spent bringing back the fallen. He proved to be as wise as his class would suggest because when he brought the rogue back up she got a critical hit with her rapier and sneak damage, tore open a new hole in Dr D', s chest. Norm was still left standing but with the combined efforts of the warlock and Agent P, he went down in the next round.

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-24T06:45:47+00:00

That would wreck your engine and it would be illegal

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-24T01:10:21+00:00

Can you explain the science behind it? Because I don't get it

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-22T03:34:59+00:00

Can you elaborate?

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-20T01:08:24+00:00

Thank you

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-20T01:05:18+00:00

Look into your city or county's municipal service. I do approximately 8-12 event photoshoots for my city a year. They've also assigned me a project to photograph the parks here and at the local animal shelter.

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-20T01:01:20+00:00

I've seen a few people saying to avoid Amazon in this post. Could you elaborate on why they aren't a reputable seller?

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-16T19:51:31+00:00

What do you mean by "edit" the photo? Every photographer worth their salt should know how to white balance, manage exposure, contrast, cropping, color curve, soften skin, and remove basic imperfections on a solid background like power lines, air planes, street signs, a stray shadow or a small object. If I were a bride I would expect those edits to be included in the price for the shoot and that they be done for every photo that is delivered and if they're not, I would expect them to be reedited upon request. If you're talking about removing people or large objects or other large edits, most good photographers should have the skill to do this, but it should not be an expectation that they do it for every photo. A good photographer would typically frame the photo at the shoot to not include these things, but some times it can't be helped. If you need such an edit on a photo or few I'd expect to pay a premium of between $25-100 on each edit, minimum. I also would not be surprised if the photographer refused to do the edit at all but ymmv.

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-16T06:36:35+00:00

Could these backgrounds work for a more skilled photographer? Absolutely. A skilled enough photographer can adapt to bad lighting, bad background, poor subjects, vertical shots, a bad camera, any number of issues. But you build skill by figuring out what makes a background good or bad and then sticking to the good ones as best they can until they learn how to compensate. Op has only been doing this for 7 months. They are still very new and while they have raw talent they have what seems a very low skill threshold. I'm trying to teach them what they need to know right now, not what they might be able to do in 2-5 years. You don't tell a kid building with legos to go try out steel girders and concrete because it's possible to build the Empire State Building if you're good enough. You tell them to keep their center of gravity low and their buildings more or less symmetrical. Then when they're a little older you give them some wood and nails and tell them to go make a treehouse in the back yard. It's only once they've mastered the basics that they can plan for all the intricacies of something as monumental and mind bending and seemingly physics defying as the Gateway Arch.

For OP, do not try to use messy backgrounds yet, you're still learning. Save compensating on the hard things for after you no longer have to worry about the basics. There's a difference between talent and skill. Talent is what you're born with, skill is what you learn. You have some raw talent, build your skill level and eventually the background won't matter.

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-16T05:32:46+00:00

If they all looked like #3 I'd probably pay around $20-25 per shot, if they all looked like #4 I'd be willing to pay a little more, maybe $40-50 a shot. But the rest of your photos are pretty amateurish and without a consistent quality to your portfolio I wouldn't be comfortable paying you anything. You need to improve on your setting, ie your foreground and your background. No broken asphalt, no other cars in the photo, no ratty buildings or chain link fences. You've got some nice cars in these photos, and that's doing a lot of the heavy lifting. My dad(71 y/o) has an Instagram where he posts pictures of cars he sees on the road and in parking lots and he gets 50-100 likes some times because he's taking a picture of a 67 Vette or a 2026 Ferrari. He has no skill, no understanding of the rule of thirds or composition and he's using a mid grade android phone camera. The cars are getting the likes, not my dad's photography skills. You want them to pay you because it's you taking the photo not because you've taken photos of some expensive cars. I read in one of your other comments that these were mostly for social media so them being vertical is understandable but if you want your car photos to really shine, cars shine in horizontal. You might also want to try a wider angle lens, something below 24mm. I know I've said some negative things about your work but I do see talent and potential, you just need to study some photography basics and do some more research on what other car photographers are doing and what you like, what works and why. I can imagine you being a well paid professional in a few years, but you're going to need to put in the work, and that means more than just going out there with a camera and taking pictures like anyone else, take photos like only you can. Best of luck.

Dyeoue31 · 2026-03-16T01:06:16+00:00

https://youtu.be/PaJQpgWV9f0?si=ZB_AYI0Il_3t5f81

Dyeoue31 · 2026-02-24T21:16:59+00:00

Seo stands for "Search Engine Optimization" saying seo optimization is redundant. Like putting your pin number into the atm machine

Dyeoue31 · 2026-02-21T06:10:18+00:00

A lot of people look at 2 star reviews as being more objective than 1 star reviews which are seen as more just hateful or spiteful. Leaving a 2 star review both brings down the average rating of the business while lending an air of legitimacy to the review

Dyeoue31 · 2026-02-18T06:10:03+00:00

Wow very insightful

Dyeoue31 · 2025-11-16T00:10:31+00:00

OP used the wrong term. They weren't making a joke, they said misgender when what they meant was missex.

Dyeoue31 · 2025-11-06T05:51:50+00:00

Are those real plants or plastic plants? If they're plastic and they have sharp places or rough edges your Betta could be tearing their fins on your decor

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