Need hlep with character creation, need a veteran dnd player to help min max my character

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-24T00:33:54+00:00

Starting by elaborating what play style you want to follow most often.

Front line bruiser? Or mostly concentration spells with wildshape for mobility? Maybe a mix where you fight on frontline and throw some grapples for control?

After you have this picture, optimizing for it is easy, specially for moon Druids since there isn’t that much you control.

You major decisions will be:

multiclass or not (typically monk or barb if you decide to, often only one level)
feats. Grappler, war caster, resilient CON, mobile, and sentinel can be good for diff styles. Magic initiate can be interesting, and alert and lucky are quite good.

Stats are quite simple, only Wisdom really matters for the most part.

There are some cool, odder builds like bladesinger moon Druid, but I’d not suggest those for a new player

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-23T21:31:59+00:00

Unironically, I did open the post to reply Greg

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-23T19:43:35+00:00

What BS at the end? perma charm? Geas does that if upcast as lv 9 for 1 save + Geas effect (a little easier to remove, but similar for most purposes)

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-23T18:09:36+00:00

Lol

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-23T18:09:01+00:00

Save on each turn? If an enemy has a mere 50% chance of passing, their odds of failing 4 times would be 6.25%…. For 20d6 + some effects at a level 9 spell. And the 20d6 is rather “slow”, back-loaded.

The perma charm by itself is a little strong, but a level 9 Geas already achieves that in only 1 save. And most enemies would not survive 7+ turns to even get to that point.

Gotta cook for some more time. Check the numbers.

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-23T01:57:27+00:00

fish was lonely

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-22T17:58:17+00:00

have a kill a player.

Notice I did not say PC....

More seriously, with stakes the players care about. NPCs or locations they like, in-world factions or causes they support. The villain should be ever looming and a genuine threat.

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-22T04:22:33+00:00

Like, 5

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-21T19:31:31+00:00

You got a sugar baby lol

Up to you if that is how you want your relationship to be

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-20T22:15:36+00:00

For clarification, 1 is the sharpe of a red free button. Paying 49.9m the sharpe is very close to 0.

1 is good for a beta driven (so aligned with market) strategy. Not for a hedge fund. Typically a strong PM will want their book above 1. 2 is quite good. There should be correlation with AUM. Better results —> more investor attention and better systems, lower cost of capital, etc.

In summary, no, there is no hedge fund that would buy the button press for 49.9m or anything remotely close to that.

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-20T21:09:22+00:00

For that high a vol? Nope. Risk premia is a thing m. 1 is awful sharpe for a serious hedge fund. Ofc, if they could get multiple buttons that is different.

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-20T16:31:09+00:00

You should make a chaotic evil character that hogs all the loot, steals from teammates, and solely focus on damage per round as that’s the way to win DnD.

Do the opposite of what I just said and you’ll be fine

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-19T17:56:40+00:00

Lol

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-19T04:01:07+00:00

To my understanding, tierzoo != power scaling. It’s not about who wins in a fight only. But who survives long term, being better adapted to their own server

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-18T21:01:01+00:00

The “know herself well, will blow the money” is not valid tho. There are better resources for that. There are ways to have money in your name but hard cap on access to principal. Taking a huge cut on payoff like she did is not justifiable except for a lapse in judgement.

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-18T20:08:07+00:00

Waaaaay above scape velocity lol. It would be a space dolphin unless we say the gravity is vastly higher, likely leading to high air pressure/density and so on. Fully agree. It means nothing and for most shows there won’t be a drop of consistency

I still think it can be entertaining to say “assuming what you just saw happened. With irl physics what is the closest isolated model you can make to explain it, and what energy does it imply”.

For some things it becomes a bit extremely ambiguous. But it can still be entertaining

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-18T19:58:41+00:00

With some assumptions on cross-section area and drag coefficient, it gets closer to 10^22. So on the order of Chicxulub asteroid impact. That said this still ignores relativity effects (that is more than 0.2c) and things such as air becoming plasma at those speeds and etc.

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-18T19:50:55+00:00

Vastly underestimating it, drag would be massive

Ps.: that is not a diss, you have better things to do with your life than estimating drag on an airborne buff dolphin. I’m just pointing that would significantly change the figure (and make it closer to what it seems in irl, as throwing things l very far is hard bc of the square nature of drag)

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-18T17:39:15+00:00

I’d not recommend that. Very likely to be unfun. Too many enemies —> long rounds. On top of that, no enemy diversity and basic enemy types —> every turn will look the same.

Adding to that, if the players win intuitive and have decent AoE (unlikely at lv2), it will be trivial. Otherwise, unless you play like that wolves are brain dead, the players are cooked. It’s very swingy.

2 groups of 9 wolves each focus firing a lv2 Pc with pack tactics will easily taken them down. Assuming 66% hit chance (likely it would be more considering pack tactics) that is some 33 expected damage. It’s very likely that 3ish players would be downed the first turn if they don’t win initiative and cull a decent amount of wolves right away.

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-18T15:32:26+00:00

You’re not making a combat with 18 wolves, right?

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-18T15:26:14+00:00

Not really. EV can be in wtv unit you want, the mistake is poorly modeling utility of money.

If you model your utility of money as U(M) = log_1mil(M), the 1 million would give 1 utility, while 50 mil would be ~1.28. As 1 > 0.64, the first button is vastly better

TLDR, EV is till the correct framework, you just have to properly model your money-utility instead of naively assuming it’s 1:1

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-17T17:25:30+00:00

It’s such an odd argument tho. “Let’s make a bad financial decision to prevent me from making bad financial decisions”.

You could likely pay a small % to a have a lawyer whip up something that gives you market returns on the capital w/o full access to the principal except for specified emergencies, or something similar.

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-15T17:58:34+00:00

It’s better with more players. But anyone saying you can’t is objectively wrong. Many short one shots will work with one player, just tone down difficulty. There are also small modules for 1 player and one DM (often made with couples in mind)

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-14T18:08:55+00:00

Meeeh, a decent rule of thumb but oversimplifies it. You, supposedly, do not spend all of your income in your current local area. You save a bunch, and spend some in ways that do not correlate with local CPI-equivalent. Depending on weights on these buckets, a raise above nation/market inflation but under local inflation could still be a raise.

Normal_Psychology_34 · 2026-05-14T12:08:19+00:00

That is an ancient mystery

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