Quick Overview

What is Phenocal?

The Science Behind Phenocal

My Evaluation of Phenocal Performance

• Contains a blend of vitamins and minerals beneficial for overall health.
• Users report increased energy levels, possibly due to the B vitamin complex & Chromium.
• Includes glucomannan, which may help in feeling full and reducing calorie intake.
• Convenient to use and fits easily into daily routines.
• May provide significant appetite suppression for some users.

• The proprietary blend lacks dosage transparency, making it difficult to assess effectiveness.
• User experiences vary widely, with some reporting no effects, questioning reliability.
• The price point is relatively high, which may not align with the benefits received.
• Some users report side effects such as discomfort, trouble sleeping, digestive and other health issues.
• Caution is advised for those sensitive to stimulants or with health conditions; consultation with a healthcare professional is recommended.

Evaluating Phenocal’s ingredients

• Green Tea Leaf Extract Powder: Rich in antioxidants and caffeine, it may boost metabolism and enhance fat burning during exercise.
• L-Tyrosine: An amino acid that could potentially aid in suppressing appetite and reducing body fat by influencing the production of neurotransmitters.
• Hoodia: Traditionally used as an appetite suppressant, although scientific evidence supporting its effectiveness is limited.
• Glucomannan: A fiber that absorbs water and can create a sense of fullness, potentially leading to a lower calorie intake.
• Phenylethylamine: Often referred to as the 'love drug' for its mood-enhancing effects, which might indirectly influence weight loss by reducing stress-induced overeating.
• Garcinia Cambogia: Contains hydroxycitric acid, which has been studied for its potential to reduce appetite and inhibit fat production.
• Yerba Mate: Contains compounds that can stimulate energy expenditure and delay gastric emptying, possibly helping to reduce food intake.
• Coleus Forskohlii: Contains forskolin, which may stimulate the release of stored fat from fat cells, although its effectiveness for weight loss is not conclusively proven.

Who should give Phenocal a shot? Should you buy it?

• Have already established a consistent exercise and diet regimen and are looking for an additional boost to their weight loss efforts.
• Are not sensitive to stimulants, as the product contains caffeine and other energy-boosting elements.
• Prefer a supplement that includes appetite suppressants to help manage their food intake.
• Are looking for a product that contains a blend of potentially metabolism-boosting ingredients.

• Sensitivity to Stimulants: If you're sensitive to caffeine or other stimulants, you might want to consider a stimulant-free fat burner. Products like HourGlass Fit and Leanbean are formulated without caffeine and could be a better fit for those who experience jitters or anxiety from stimulants.
• Transparency in Ingredients: For those who prefer to know the exact amounts of each ingredient they're consuming, a product with a fully disclosed label would be more appropriate. Instant Knockout and Transparent Labs' Stim-Free Fat Burner provide clear dosing information for all its ingredients.
• Budget Considerations: Phenocal is on the pricier side, so if budget is a concern, you might want to look for a more cost-effective supplement that still has good reviews and a transparent ingredient list. I would go for Phenylethylamine as stand-alone supplement from BulkSupplements.com ($16) and glucomannan at ($14), and avoid purchasing something like Phenocal that hides dosages in proprietary blend! That would be like 2 months supply, and providing almost same effect as Phenocal, because those are the strongest ingredients in Phenocal.
• Specific Health Goals: If your primary goal is appetite suppression, a product with a higher dose of glucomannan or other fiber could be more effective. Alternatively, if boosting metabolism is the main aim, a product with a proven thermogenic ingredient at the correct dosage might be preferable.
• Medical Conditions: Individuals with medical conditions or those on medication should consult with a healthcare provider before starting any supplement, including Phenocal. This is crucial to avoid any potential interactions or side effects.
• Preference for Natural Ingredients: If you prefer natural over synthetic ingredients, you might want to consider a product that focuses on herbal extracts with a history of use in traditional medicine.

User Experiences with Phenocal

Phenocal: Side Effects and Safety

Comparing Phenocal to Other Supplements

Why revise the OneDnD Monk?

What's the overall design philosophy?

What's the class identity of the Monk / Martial Artist?

• The prototypical unarmored dexterity-based martial melee class.
• A mobile striker; should excel at getting to and disrupting back-line enemy combatants such as squishy spellcasters.
• Probably the most-complex of the martial classes, though it should still be comparable in complexity to many spellcasters.
  • Complexity often means tradeoffs and opportunity costs. That's OK for this class, but as much as possible, these should remain balanced. That is, optimized choices, by definition, will always offer more power than unoptimized ones, but the differential should be as small as possible, and this class should be able to fit in at both optimized and un-optimized tables.
• A class that includes out-of-combat utility through mystical (or psionic?) discipline that rides the line between the mundane and the magical.
• A class that balances physical and mental attributes; suitable for being MAD.
  • As above, that does mean there are tradeoffs involved, but those should remain balanced, for both optimized and un-optimized characters.
• A class that hearkens back to martial arts movies, but that should nevertheless avoid excessively-orientalist tropes. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a great movie, but a bad source of feature names for this class.

What's wrong with the Playtest 6 version?

• Too squishy
  • It's a melee-focused martial class with d8 hit dice and not-so-great AC. And compared to the Rogue (the only other d8 non-caster class), it's more MAD and has fewer ASIs, so it will probably have lower CON.
  • Defensive features don't make up for that. Patient Defense has a high opportunity cost in action economy and ki; Deflect Missiles, Slow Fall, Self-Restoration, and Deflect Energy are all quite situational; Evasion is just table stakes; and Disciplined Survivor (aka Diamond Soul) comes online too late to matter at most tables.
• Sub-par damage output, especially in tier III-IV
• Stunning Strike is still too all-or-nothing, which makes it oscillate between too strong and too weak. Probably needs a nerf overall.
• Mostly lacks out-of-combat utility
• Just punishingly janky in how it interacts with weapon mastery and feats
• Lacks "Cool Factor" at higher levels
• Some specific features need balance tweaks

What did I change, and why?

Available Skill Proficiencies include Medicine and Perception.

Physical Focus is a level-one option for Strength/Dex instead of Dex/Wis Martial Artists.

Weapon Mastery can be applied to your martial arts attacks, with a (per-day) choice of Push, Sap, Slow, or Vex (or from L7, Cleave, Graze, or Topple).

Martial Arts includes Martial Artist weapons...

...allows using Dex for all unarmed strike options,...

...and adds the Strike Opening reaction.

• Attacks a creature aside from you.
• Casts a spell with verbal or somatic components.

Unarmored Defense AC is increased by +1.

Dedicated Weapon (L2) is added.

Martial Focus has several changes:
* Changed name (Focus, not Discipline or Ki)

* Includes Focused Breathing, a focus-recovery option that replaces Heightened Metabolism.

* Flurry of Blows does not require first taking the Attack action.

* Patient Defense and Step of the Wind both grant an extra reaction this round. Step of the Wind allows you to forego Disengage (to deliberately draw attacks).

Combat Reflexes (L3) is a broader version of Deflect Missiles, which adds reactions to defend against melee attacks and saving throws. (This replaces the second half of Diamond Soul/Disciplined Survivor)

Balanced Training (L4/8/10/12/16/19) lets you increase a weaker ability score whenever you get an ASI.

Disciplines (L4/6/9/13/17) give you a menu of (mostly non-combat) features, like a Warlock's invocations. These replace Slow Fall, Acrobatic Movement, Perfect Discipline, Superior Defense, and Defy Death.

Flexible Strikes lets you change unarmed damage type.

Strike Techniques (L5/7/11/15/18) give you special attacks using focus points. These replace Stunning Strike with options that are more varied and less all-or-nothing.

Improved Combat Reflexes (L8) upgrade your reactions.

Self-Restoration is moved to L9, and replaces not needing food (available from a Discipline) with resistance to poison damage.

You get an extra Ability Score Improvement (L10).

You get a third Extra Attack (L11).

Flexible Discipline (L20) lets you sample all options.

• Shillelagh - excellent "normal form" damage, particularly at low levels.
• Guidance - Must have out of combat spell
• Produce Flame - outstanding for utility (light until long rest) with a side-gig in ranged damage at low levels.
• Thorn Whip - a solid cantrip to move enemies - great at lower levels

• Create or Destroy Water - outstanding spell to manipulate surfaces to your advantage - great synergy with Armor of Agathys
• Enhance Leap - excellent mobility both out of combat and pre-cast before a fight. Enhance Leap Longstrider Sabretooth is insane.
• Fog Cloud - yes it's concentration, but at low levels is still good enough to be worth preparing
• Healing word - Insanely good, put downed allies back in the fight from 18 meters away as a bonus action
• Ice Knife - solid low level blaster, can use it while silenced & creates a surface
• Longstrider - Cast it after every long rest for your whole party and all your summons, it's a Ritual, no concentration, and lasts until long rest. Incredible.
• Thunderwave - moves things - almost always worth preparing for L1 slot usage
• Speak with animals - it's a ritual and nice to have when you're not in wildshape, plenty of scrolls and potions for this lying around though.

• Gust of Wind - change surfaces, move things, and knock things off balance
• Pass Without Trace - mostly out of combat concentration spell, extremely good party buff when you want to sneak
• Protection from poison - solid self-buff, being poisoned sucks
• Spike Growth - yes it's combat concentration - but this spell is incredibly powerful in BG3, fortunately you get a much better implementation of this later on, for low levels - this is still worth it even if it will likely get popped quickly.

• Daylight - this spell is incredibly powerful for large chunks of the game
• Plant Growth - excellent Crowd Control without concentration - use it a lot.
• Call lightning - awesome blaster, pair with wet

• Conjure Woodland Being - this spell is incredible. She will hang out in the back and concentrate on Spike Growth for you, while also conjuring a Wood Woad once per short rest to fight up front with you - the Wood Woad can cast Entangle. The only downside to this is she can't Jump, so will occassionally get left behind.
• Conjure Minor Elemental - not as good as Woodland Being, but still outstanding action economy. The Azer also cannot jump so can be left behind, both Mephits can fly.
• Freedom of Movement - outstanding utility for any frontliner, as soon as you have 2 L4 spell slots, self buff yourself after every long rest and abuse it.
• Blight - situationally good blaster spell for when you need one, but mostly you use these slots for summoning and self-buffing.

• Conjure Elemental - until we can upcast to Myrmidon
• TBD - we will be using your L5 spell slot for something else we will discuss later.

• Heroes' Feast - Outstanding Party Buff
• Conjure Elemental - upcast to Conjure Myrmidon.

• Wood Elf / Half-Wood Elf: +1.5m speed, Stealth proficiency + some other things
• Half-Orc: Relentless Endurance
• Lightfoot Halfling: my personal preference - Reroll Nat 1's, Advantage on Stealth & against Fear - but you get -1.5m movement, though this is compensated a lot with Wildshapes + Longstrider.
• Githyanki - strong racial traits for anything

• Outlander - the Druid Trope
• Urchin - my personal preference - since we are Baldurian's after all, also stealth is good.

• Str - 8
• Dex - 13 (14)
• Con - 17 (18)
• Int - 10
• Wis - 16
• Cha - 10

• Perception
• Survival

• L4 - Tavern Brawler (Con): Tavern Brawler only works in wildshape on attack rolls, damage rolls are currently bugged - but attack rolls are the more important one anyways so it's still very worth taking. The +1 Con ticks us over to 18 for lots of HP buffer when we get knocked out of Wildshape.
• L8 - Resilient (Dex): Dex saving throw proficiency is excellent for a frontliner. Also this feats +1 to Dex will actually pass through to Wildshaping, giving you +1 AC on Wolf, Panther, Sabretooth, Dilophosaurus, Cat.
• L12 - none.

• 1 - Druid or White Dragon Sorcerer (both are good options for different reasons, but I would take Sorc 1 for solo)
• 2 - Moon Druid
• 3 - Moon Druid
• 4 - Moon Druid
• 5 - Moon Druid
• 6 - Moon Druid
• 7 - Moon Druid
• 8 - Moon Druid
• 9 - Moon Druid
• 10 - Moon Druid
• 11 - White Dragon Sorcerer
• 12 - War Cleric

• 4 cantrips - this is awesome for us as it gives us more "normal form" utility. I chose Mage Hand, Dancing Lights, Friends, and Minor Illusion.
• 2 spells that are always prepared - Magic Missile is excellent when you're out of Wildshapes, particularly as we often end up with lots of spare spells slots to burn, Shield is also very good. Honorable Mention goes to Mage Armor only because it can be used on Woodland Being to help her concentrate (but so can Sanctuary), it can also be used for +3 AC to Air & Fire Elementals. At the end of the day though, don't take this - use Scrolls.
• White Dragon - we are here for Armor of Agathys, and get Draconic Resilience on the way.
  • Armor of Agathys - This spell is outstanding, and what we will be using those L5 slots for (L4 slot until we have 2x L5 to also conjure an elemental). at L5 this gives us +25 Temp HP and attacks anything that hits us with a melee attack for 25 damage each time until that temp HP is gone. This does transfer to Wildshape. You can also re-cast with lower spell slots once the L5 is gone. This attack always hits - it cannot miss. While you are in "normal" form - any items that increase your Cold damage (such as Heart of Ice) do apply to this attack. This alone is better than going L12 straight Moon Druid - also, no concentration required and its on until Long Rest.
  • Draconic Resilience - You cannot be wearing armor before wildshaping to get the bonus while Wildshaped. It will increase AC on wildshapes with a base AC <13. Due to class synergy, this is currently the best version of Unarmored Defense / Mage Armor / etc that you can use in Wildshape.
  • Here is a table of each Wildshape and how much AC they gain from Draconic Resilience.

• 3 cantrips - Sacred Flame, Thaumaturgy, Resistance
• 2 Subclass Spells - Shield of Faith, Divine Favor. Shield of Faith is actually awesome for us. Even though it is concentration, it's until Long Rest and we have plenty of Level 1 slots to burn. So cast it out of combat and benefit until you lose concentration.
• 4 more spells - Sanctuary is situationally amazing, Guiding Bolt, Inflict Wounds, Command
• 3 War Priest Charges per long rest - these let you expend a War Priest Charge + Bonus Action to make an Attack. Before you get too excited, these attacks will not trigger your extra Wild Strikes. They are also frustrating because in the current implementation you have no control over when you use them. This means that if you make a normal attack - your next attack will use a War Priest Charge (if available) and your Bonus Action, you don't get to choose. This is annoying as you cannot save them up for big fights - and if you want to use your bonus action for something else you must do it before you attack a second time. This is almost certainly something that will get fixed as a QoL feature in the future, but for now - it's very annoying. In any case, it's still very good because it will give your wildshapes 4 attacks per round while you have War Priest Charges.
• Heavy Armor and Simple + Martial Weapons Proficiency - the heavy armor you may or may not use at all. But this does make you proficient with your Air & Water Myrmidons Weapon Attacks. This is important because Tavern Brawler does not work on any of the Myrms that carry weapons - not being proficient on top of that can make the weapon attacks feel bad. This solves that - you are now proficient with all of your Wildshapes attacks. You can also now use hand-crossbows.

• Level 12 Wildshape HP Scaling
• Our Third Feat
• 6th Level Druid Spells (Heroes Feast)

• 7 Cantrips
• 9 Spells - including Armor of Agathys with synergy to Upcast it
• 3 War Priest Charges
• Proficiency with Air & Water Myrmidons Weapon Attacks
• Situationally useful Draconic Resilience

• Dark Justiciar Half-Plate
  • This gives us Advantage on Con Saves while out of Wildshape (among several other cool things). With our 18 Con plus this - we still do quite well at holding Concentration when we choose to do so (out of Wildshape). There are other armors that do this, including clothing. I just mentioned this one because you get it fairly early in the game.
• Armour of Moonbasking
  • The end-game Wildshape Armor. This does not override Armor of Agathys (you will get the +AC, but will not get the damage reduction if Armor of Agathys is up).

• Boots of Striding
  • This makes us immune to Prone while Concentrating (out of wildshape only). Prone is automatic lose concentration, so this is great. This plus an armoclothing can make us incredible at holding concentration in our normal form.

• True Loves Caress & True Loves Embrace
  • This gives us +1 AC, +1 to all Saving Throws, and Resistance to Everything.
  • The downside is that your damage is shared with the caster (the wearer of True Loves Embrace).
    • This spell is always good, but it's balanced around being cast by a Cleric. The reason this equipment set is so strong is because it allows you to break that balance.
    • When you give True Loves Embrace to Karlach (or any Wildheart Barb) and Bear Rage - you get resistance again to all of that shared damage (less Psychic).
  • This Equipment set has more Synergy with Moon Druid than anything else in the game because:
    • Moon Druid has a huge HP Pool with Wildshapes (Lunar Mend still sucks - don't use it)
    • This build in particular has tons of HP due to temp HP + 18 Con in normal form
    • Armor of Agathys - that 25HP just became 50 Effective Temp HP that hits back for 25 every time until it's gone.
  • DISCLAIMER: This equipment is not in any way specific to Moon Druid - anything can use it. It just happens to have the most synergy with Moon Druid, and this build in particular).
  • DISCLAIMER: There is an exploit associated with Warding Bond - don't use it, it's terrible - the game is already easy enough as it is.

• Sprite (Luminous; tiny, but not going to be in melee, so won’t need to be in same square)
• Rogue (Thief, Dex to damage)
• any Background that gives Dex (suggestions? Initial idea was Magical Misfit for Trick Magic Item; *lots* of good, low-level spells can be put on wands)
• Evanescent Wings (the long road to real flight)
• Battle Medicine (won’t be a great healer, but worth taking)
• Trap Finder
• Starting Stas: STR 8, CON 14, WIS 10, DEX 18, INT 14, CHA 14
• General Skills: Max out Intimidate and Thievery; Follow with Medicine, Crafting and Acrobatics

• You’re Next
• Swashbuckler Dedication (Braggart; start to mitigate speed penalty)
• Slippery Prey (Grab at Reach is going to be the bane of his existence)

• Fleet
• Intimidating Glare
• Item: +1 Returning Throwing Dagger (my original concept, but does another Agile thrown weapon work better here?)

• Dread Striker
• Basic Flair >> Antagonize
• Ward Medic

• Fey Disguise (Nothing is great here)
• Continual Recovery
• Stats: CON, DEX, INT, CHA

• Far Throw (halves range penalties, but would it be better to extend range by 10 feet? Curious about the math on this...)
• Advanced Flair >> Charmed Life (don’t want to get into too many Reactions that could limit You’re Next, but this one is nice)
• Terrifying Resistance

• Shield Block (wait for it...)
• Battle Cry (Intimidate as Initiative)

• Bullseye (mitigate some Cover)
• Bastion Dedication >> Reactive Shield
• Terrified Retreat (Go away. Then come back, so I can throw more knives at you)

• Energize Wings (flight, a minute at a time)
• Paragon Battle Medicine

• Precise Debilitations
• Quick Shield Block (grants another reaction)
• Quick Unlock (nothing obvious here)
• Item: Sturdy Shield (Moderate)

• Incredible Scout
• Quick Repair (at which point, this also becomes a full-on shield build)

• Critical Debilitation
• Mirror Shield
• Too Angry to Die

• Fey Skin
• Risky Surgery (nothing “important here.” Best options?)

• Instant Opening
• Shield Salvation
• Inventor

• Incredible Initiative
• Scare to Death (heh...)
• STATS at L15: STR 10, CON 18, WIS 12, DEX 21, INT 18, CHA 19

• Defensive Roll
• Swashbuckler’s Speed (with Fleet and Panache, this *should* be 45 feet/round while flying. Fleet isn’t a status bonus, so they should stack)
• Aerobatic Mastery

• Hero’s Wings (all the flight)
• Legendary Medic

• Dispelling Strike
• Destructive Block
• Advanced First Aid

• True Perception
• Craft Anything

• Enduring Debilitation
• Advanced Flair: Dazzling Display
• Planar Survival

• With Thrown Weapon Fighting Style (and Archery later via Fighting Initiate), and Dart scaling to MA die as a Monk Weapon, does equivalent to Longbow by Tier 2. Before then, it is still well above baseline DPR.
• Would allow me to hold a Warhammer (for d10 damage if in melee) and still shoot off ranged in 1H if not, without having to juggle a longbow.
• Works well with Sharpshooter for solid DPR throughout.

• Lags behind Longbow DPR early (although still above baseline).
• Comes online a bit late (because would need Thrown Weapon, Archery, Mobile).

• L1: Fighter 1 (Feat: Sharpshooter / Fighting Style: Thrown Weapon) Archery better for DPR but really delays dart throwing.
• L2: Monk 1
• L3: Monk 2 (Ki)
• L4: Monk 3 (Kensei / Warhammer & Dart Kensei Weapons)
• L5: Monk 4 (Feat: Mobile)
• L6: Monk 5 (Extra Attack)
• L7: Monk 6 (Magic Attacks / Longbow Kensei Weapon)
• L8: Fighter 2 (Action Surge)
• L9: Fighter 3 (Battlemaster / Quick Toss, Precision Strike, Trip Attack Maneuvers)
• L10: Monk 7 (Evasion / Stillness of Mind)
• L11: Monk 8 (ASI: DEX + 1 / WIS + 1) gets me to 20 DEX, 16 WIS
• L12: Fighter 4: (Feat: Archery)
• L13: Monk 9
• L14: Monk 10 (Purity of Body)
• L15: Monk 11 (Sharpen the Blade / Longsword Kensei Weapon)
• L16: Monk 12 (ASI: CON + 2)
• L17: Monk 13
• L18: Monk 14 (Diamond Soul)
• L19: Monk 15
• L 20: Monk 16 (ASI: WIS + 2)

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