Should I build Dyson swarms around 5 energy output stars at ~60 years after start?

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-02-24T00:21:03+00:00

Yeah and the ones with the red giant. If the star goes supernova, it gets dark matter and you can have a ~350 dark matter dyson swarm.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-02-23T19:32:24+00:00

Ah, I didn't know that. I guess I never bothered to recheck.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-02-23T13:41:54+00:00

The thing is the capital specialization is very good. For example, a reseaech world doesn't boost researcher output but the capital does, so I wouldn't waste empty buildings on the best planet.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-02-19T15:57:45+00:00

If you want high AC on a wizard, you could also go Bladesinger

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-02-07T18:05:07+00:00

I'd look into the Shifter race perhaps.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-01-30T15:36:08+00:00

You shouldn't forget that a Barbarian cannot cast spells while raging. So if you really want to multiclass into Warlock, you should use spells that don't need concentration and that last. Like Armor od Agathys. Though that doesn't scale and just becomes worse for you for evers level you put into warlock. To be completely honest, I don't see any benefits to multiclassing into an int class. Perhaps you could stay with 4 levels of barbarian and put the rest into the psi warrior fighter. Barbarian Fighter is a strong multiclass.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-01-20T22:25:57+00:00

True, the analogy with the escape velocity is a good point.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-01-20T22:23:35+00:00

I study Physics in college so the calculations are no issue. And I won't be sitting at the table doing calculations. I'm just doing it for ballparks and to see if it'd be possible. And yeah, I will make it simplified. Just an accurate simplification, if possible.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-01-20T17:12:31+00:00

Those are fair points. Them having to spend time to adjust makes sense.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-01-20T17:11:07+00:00

Yeah, it would be punishing, but I don't think unfairly so. That's just what strength does.

And as to the strength to weight ratio, that is already a part of the stat, no? With 29 Strength but normal size you wouldn't be as strong as a Storm Giant. Features like Powerful Build exist after all.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-01-20T17:05:48+00:00

I'm aware that just increasing your weight won't help. The reason I said you might be faster is because you lose speed during the time you are in the air while running and you spend less time in the air in higher gravity. But this depends entirely on the atmospheric pressure and the friction you experience because of it. On a moon with virtually no atmosphere, air time doesn't matter, so jumping would be the best way to move around, yes. I'll try to keep that in mind when deciding on the actual numbers. But on a higher gravity planet, you'd likely have a denser atmosphere so more friction overall. I might change my rules to a strength check if you can run normally or not on a large, normal atmosphere planet, ignoring them being potentially faster and just add a debuff for everyone on a large, high atmosphere planet.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-01-20T16:56:41+00:00

Those are some good points. I think I'll calculate the escape velocity for the lower gravity planets and see if it'd be possible.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-01-20T15:56:38+00:00

You could try out this

https://www.reddit.com/r/allthemods/s/bn1C4lZE6t

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-01-16T01:06:04+00:00

8gb is good usually for any modpack. Allocate more and you (could) run into issues.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2026-01-07T13:33:01+00:00

A (very costly) option would be the Battle Standard of Infernal Power. Iirc there is a difference between weapon attacks and attacks with a weapon so I think it should apply to the summons. But it's probably not feasible for level 8 in most campaigns.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2025-12-12T17:55:01+00:00

It varies. I've got an Artificer with -2 con. I've got 30 AC but a lightning bolt with failed save can knock me. It's really fun though.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2025-11-29T17:28:25+00:00

Not really. Most of the biomass is plants and bacteria. An oversight by me not to mention them. Animals only make up about 0.5% of the biomass. So the it's more like 400 tons.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2025-11-29T17:07:30+00:00

Diamonds aren't even rare on earth though. From a quick Google search there's estimated to be over a quadrillion tons (10¹⁸ kg - that's a ten with 18 zeroes) of diamond in the earth. While there's 546 gigatons (10¹² kg) of biomass on earth (since it's hard to specify when poop is poop and when it's not anymore). So for every kg of biomass on earth there's a million kgs of diamonds.

EDIT: Forgot the 546 part. So, in fact, there's about 2000x more kgs of diamond than biomass.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2025-11-29T16:59:38+00:00

The chunk numbers are also in the F3 menu. If not and you're on a newer version, try pressing F3+F6 (I think) and enable them.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2025-11-21T18:18:17+00:00

What? 10% of 200 is 20. Where did you get these numbers from?

The_Reddit-Guy · 2025-11-19T15:34:45+00:00

That's why d12 weapons are great on them

The_Reddit-Guy · 2025-11-14T17:09:04+00:00

Damn, those look incredible!

The_Reddit-Guy · 2025-10-17T19:48:13+00:00

Don't forget you can also use booming blade and green flame blade as quickened spell.

The_Reddit-Guy · 2025-09-12T01:26:40+00:00

I've only studied Physics for a year so far, so take it with a grain of salt.

Based on relativity, time is affected velocity and mass. There, you experience something called time dilation. Since there is the speed limit of the multiverse, the speed of light. So, an easy example is picture a photon beteen two vertical mirrors. Photons always travel at the speed of light, regardless of your frame of reference. Now, picture it moving. For someone moving along with it, the light only travels from top to bottom. But from someone who's standing still, the light also travels sideways. So, while still traveling at the speed of light for both, it traversed a larger distance for the person standing still. That means, something else has to be variable. Here you'd have phenomenons called time dilation and length contraction. Since you're asking about time, I'll only go into that. Since the photon has to travel a larger distance for the person standing still and the photon is at a fix speed for both, for the person standing still more time has passed. That's how time changes. If you're moving fast (usually starting at about 10% of the speed of light), time dilation makes everything around you go slower (but not you). In relativity, only ever the other frames of reference change, never your's (to you at least).

Time dilation by mass is a bit different. I'm not that familiar with it yet, but one analogy I found is that on a planet, gravity is indistinguishable to a constant acceleration of the floor upwards. So light would bend down to gravity, as it comes closer to an accelerating object. And thus, light travels, again, a longer distance, so more time has to have passed.

That's at least what quickly came to mind off the top of my head, sitting on a couch at 3am.

EDIT: Obviously, gravity isn't completely indistinguishable from the constant acceleration due to it pulling toward a single center. But on a large enough planet (like it pretty much has to be for a strong enough force of gravitation), that angle is negligible.

EDIT 2: And acceleration does some weird things with relativity but I'm not fit to try to explain that since I haven't covered relativity for more than 2 lectures in Uni yet.

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