#Optimisation

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I know there's the whole trend of making a model with the restrictions being 256 polys and a 256x256 texture, but I had to wonder just HOW much optimisation you could get away with. So here's a kobold with 128 polys exactly, and with the textures amounting to just over 64x64 with only grayscale. The entire thing makes use of vertex colours and shading so you can change colours on the fly!

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User Experience (UX): Ensure a seamless and intuitive user experience by simplifying navigation, making information easily accessible, and minimizing friction points.

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Analytics: Use website analytics tools to track user behavior, identify bottlenecks, and measure the effectiveness of CRO efforts.

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madwoman

I am going to teach myself a different keyboard layout. Neo, which is very different from QWERTZ (which I am used to).

Why would I put myself through this? I can type pretty fast with QWERTZ, thanks to years of doing it a lot (never learned it properly though).

There's a few reasons, the latest that is currently tipping me over the ledge being that typing anything in Turkish with a bog standard German QWERTZ layout requires me to copypaste all the special characters from a character table, which is seriously no fun. And switching keyboard layouts just for a word or three – meh, no, uncool. Functional but uncool.

But learning a whole different keyboard layout that will enable me to write things in sooooo many languages? And generally type even more efficiently once I've mastered it?? Sign me up baby 🤩

…honestly I cannot resist the siren call of Optimisation™. Things could be better! I only need to put in a large amount of effort! 😆

But seriously, I'm giving this a go. I already installed the layout and the training programme, AND did my first lesson (two letters, did not pass). No risk no FUN!

(So if you don't hear from me for another while, it's because I cannot type quickly enough, and/or I got stuck entering my password because I can't do it with the new keyboard layout.)

[sushis4kalyo]

Il fait chaud ! 🥵

P, au téléphone : T'as fait quoi ce matin ?

Moi : j'ai fait ma viande à la plancha à 9h30 ...au pire je ferai réchauffer au micro-onde à midi.

P: T'avais peur d'être en retard à la plage ? 🤨

Moi : Ah non, juste la flemme d'avoir à nettoyer la plancha à midi par 37° dans la véranda grande ouverte alors qu'il n'y a même pas un brin de vent ...

Lui : Ah ouais ... 😬

Et c'était pas un mauvais plan :

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anti-spellcaster shadow monk

Here's a half-decent anti-spellcaster candidate: Shadow Monk.

Why Shadow Monk? So. At level 3 you get to cast a variety of spells:

Pass Without Trace, to sneak up on enemies;

Darkness to make it impossible for them to target you with any spells that require sight, and also let you just walk away without provoking AOOs;

Silence to make it impossible for them to cast any spell with a verbal component (unfortunately you can't carry this one around);

and Darkvision just for fun.

These have a fairly hefty cost in the form of 2 ki and an action, but they're often worth it imo. As the cherry on top, you even get Minor Illusion, which even ignoring raw out-of-combat utility is just a lovely cantrip full of RP possibilities.

Moving on: at level 5 you get Stunning Strike which, okay, has a lot of caveats as i'm sure you've heard, but theoretically speaking spellcasters should have slightly worse Con saves than most enemies? So it might work better? Maybe? i should analyse that sometime. And Stunned is one of the only conditions which any martials have access to which can actually stop casters from casting spells - Grappled, Prone, Restrained, none of them work, it's so sad. Whereas Stunned even breaks concentration automatically (Stunned implies Incapacitated and then it's in the Concentration rules). If you can actually get it to work, it *works.*

And then at level 6 you just get to teleport through darkness or dim light as a BA, up to 60ft, infinitely. i have an enormous soft spot for teleportation because it's just cool and you can do so much with it; get out of danger, get into range, infiltrate, exfiltrate, just flex on enemies and allies...

So those are the advantages. Now, the big drawback: the actual expected DPR output isn't great. You are a Monk without anything special to actually make you super competitive there. But you do have good anti-spellcaster tools, in return. The low damage is the price for your specialisation, alas.

A few Numbers for expected DPR at level 5-6ish (ignoring crits always and forever):

- subclassless fighter, longsword, dueling: 0.65 * 2 * (4.5 + 4 + 2) = 13.7

- monk, two qstaff attacks: 0.65 * 2 * (4.5 + 4) = 11.1

- monk, two qstaff attacks, one with advantage (eg. after shadow step): 0.8775 * (4.5 + 4) + 0.65 * (4.5 + 4) = 13

- monk, two qstaff attacks + fist: 0.65 * 2 * (4.5 + 4) + 0.65 * (3.5 + 4) = 15.9

- monk, two qstaff attacks + flurry: 0.65 * 2 * (4.5 + 4) + 2 * 0.65 * (3.5 + 4) = 20.8

Optimisation

i haven't really fully optimised this wrt. race, feats, etc.. Off the top of my head, you could go Drow for the free cast of Darkness? And that would open up the possibility of Elven Accuracy down the line... Bugbear is just really good on martials, especially MotM Bugbear for the first-turn Flurry of Blows into 4 attacks with +2d6 damage on each. Don't be fooled though, on any martial other than one of the real nova meme builds the real strength is the extra 5ft reach, which not enough people talk about - particularly on Monks, as it lets you hit people and then run away to behind the Fighter without them being able to hit back. Sure you could already do that with Shadow Step, but this doesn't eat your BA, which you want for damage in order to be remotely competitive.

Of course, fliers or VH/CL are still probably the best options, as always…

One thing to try for is to get a way to see through your own Darkness; that would let you cast it and then just teleport around with impunity, and would give you permanent advantage on anyone else in your darkness. Very tempting, but it turns out to be hard, however:

The classical solution is getting Devil's Sight, but two levels of Warlock is harsh and MAD on a monk. Could work, but it's harsh.

An alternative is taking Eldritch Adept, but this requires either the Pact Magic or Spellcasting features - which the 3rd level Shadow Monk feature does not count as. So you would need to dip one level into a caster to even be able to take the feat. Which itself is harsh given that Monks really really want ASIs in order not to die instantly, so this also isn't ideal. However, 1 level of cleric is pretty great on Monk regardless imo and there are some really strong domains after Tashas, so it might be worth. There's also just Fighting Initiate these days, which you can use to take the Blind Fighting style. It's not perfect because it only gives you 10ft of blindsight - can't get the full use out of your 60ft BA teleport. However, one feat is cheaper than one feat and one caster level, or two warlock levels. Now, if you do get a way to see through your own darkness and you're a Drow or some other flavour of elf, you could take Elven Accuracy, which would just give you three dice for each attack roll with Darkness up, which would actually make your DPR somewhat respectable i think? Not even so expensive since it's a half-feat for Dex/Wis.

You don't really want many feats, other than again maybe Elven Accuracy? Or some other Wis half-feats, maybe. You just need Dex and Wis too badly; remember your AC scales off of both, and you need to be increasing both so as not to squish.

Note that you don't really want Mage Slayer, ironically. It fits the build perfectly, but it's just too situational for me, and too weak to be worth justifying not just increasing Dex or Wis. If you have good stats or are certain you have room for it, go for it though.

Strategy

Not too much to say. Do bear in mind that you absolutely do not have to cast Darkness at the start of every combat, also - you could just go in instead, and often the best option will be not spend ki on things like this and instead just try and stun them, or just use all the ki on Flurry of Blows, or etc.

Feasibility

Completely RAW, not dubious at all; not insanely powerful either, so it's reasonable to actually play. However, the standard Darkness-build disclaimer applies: the DM may get tired of the gimmick and the rest of the party may rightfully be annoyed at you for blotting out the battlefield, even if you carefully explain the counterintuitive RAW of no one having advantage or disadvantage by default in Darkness.

(Basically, if you and an enemy are both in the Darkness, then you're Blinded, so you can't see to attack, so all attacks you make have disadvantage. But *they're* also Blinded, so they can't see attacks against them, so all attacks made against them have disadvantage. So it cancels out. This is pretty dumb, it should just be disadvantage imo, but this is the joy of 5e RAW.)

A good way to mitigate this is just to leave every turn, so as not to get in the way. However, even your slightly increased movement speed may not be sufficient for this by default. A few ways around this: just teleport out, sacrificing DPR each turn again. Alternatively, if you are a flying race or similar, you could just fly vertically upwards at the end of each turn to remove the sphere of Darkness from your party's view, and then fly back down at the start of each of your next turns.

Or just don't cast Darkness, of course.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Hoop:

Too clean

Hate it

Too many polygons! 128? Fuck you!

Hoop with alternating collapsed edges:

Organic and crunchy like an onion ring

👀👀

64 polygons. Doesn't shout about it.

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