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My regular weekly session is on hold until November, so I’m going to shift things around and try to get my 5 year old twins into the game. Since they’re just now entering kindergarten I had to really tone down the rules, but I’m feeling pretty good about the way this turned out. True confession: a couple assets are from shutterstock.

I’ll be focusing more on short sessions with them, removed skills entirely (I’ll just cue them what to roll if they want to try something), and combined int and wis because it’s easier.

Anyway, I’d love to get some thoughts on it, especially from anyone else here who’s run games with very small kids.

Edit: After seen the exit of the post and some of the comments of the skull, here's the link to the post with us at the beginning of the campaign:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/zfl7Z5kBwS

Inspired by u/Any-Front-375, a curi meme of my own dnd party.

We are:

Flint, the one-armed goblin with a gun, a pyromaniac problem, 3rd degree burns and a sentient mage hand.

Jörguen, the tiefling who abandoned his criminal family to play his instruments around the world.

Sir Alexander Hamilton (Aham to their friends), a laboratory experiment (a simic hybrid) who fleed from his creator and now its wandering around, tasting everything (and sometimes everyone) that⁸ crosses their path (yes, it's Stitch).

Isael, a druid elf that, in less than a month in-game, from a pacifist hippie who didn't believe in money, turned into a thieve, scammer, murder, torturer and the first one to commit various war crimes of the party. And the most.

Brylniss, the beardless dwarf whose clan was almost completly exterminated and her kingdom overthrown. She always carry with her Potato, her mouse expert in theft.

And finally Garfield, the no tabaxi, but changeling wizard obsessed with kill the gods for actually no reason, that me, a deadass didn't realise the name was a reference for Beast Boy from teen titans, and no the orange cat (and now we all imagine him like this)

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After seen the exit of the first curi meme (https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/haVMjIKL2F), here we are at the start of the campaign

We are the same PC with one difference:

Flint, the one-armed goblin with a gun, a pyromaniac problem, 3rd degree burns and a sentient mage hand.

Jörguen, the tiefling who abandoned his criminal family to play his instruments around the world.

Nemeia (now playaing as Aham), the chaotic blue tiefling sorcerer who definitely won't become progressively evil, won't get possesed by her grandfather the Evil God and won't betray the party, trying to steal the magic stone of the goblin (that it turned out to be a fragment of another sealed Evil God).

Isael, a druid elf that, in less than a month in-game, from a pacifist hippie who didn't believe in money, turned into a thieve, scammer, murder, torturer and the first one to commit various war crimes of the party. And the most.

Brylniss, the beardless dwarf whose clan was almost completly exterminated and her kingdom overthrown. She always carry with her Potato, her mouse expert in theft.

And finally Garfield, the no tabaxi, but changeling wizard obsessed with kill the gods for actually no reason, that me, a deadass didn't realise the name was a reference for Beast Boy from teen titans, and no the orange cat (and now we all imagine him this)

One of my players is an Artificer, and they’ve decided that their long-term character goal is have passive income to fund increasingly expensive magic-item crafting.

Their first idea was becoming a landlord. The party saves a town, they buy damaged or cheap property there, repair it, rent it out, and then collect passive income while the party is off adventuring.

But apparently that was only the beginning.

Some of the other ideas they’ve floated:

• A village they went to was recently almost destroyed by a dragon. The artificer offered the villagers reconstruction loans to rebuild their homes and businesses. The goal is the loans eventually get paid back with interest.
• Buying businesses in places the party regularly visits and hiring NPCs to run them while they’re gone.
• Financing merchants or caravans in exchange for a percentage of the profits.
• Buying land around settlements they expect to become more valuable after the party makes the area safer. This is a big one! They want to do this one in combo with their other ideas.
• Investing in mines, lumber operations, farms, etc. to secure cheaper raw materials for their own crafting.
• Eventually establishing some kind of bank or moneylending company where NPCs can deposit money or take out loans.
• Offering towns development money after disasters, wars, monster attacks, etc., and then making money off the recovery.
• Buying warehouses and charging merchants for storage.
• Funding new taverns or shops in recovering settlements in exchange for partial ownership.
• Creating an adventurer insurance scheme where people pay regularly and receive compensation if they lose equipment, get injured, die, etc.

I like these ideas in theory, because it gives them something to care about besides adventuring and creates a ton of potential plot hooks. At the same time, I don’t really want every session to become Fantasy Accounting Simulator, or for passive income to completely trivialize the normal D&D economy.

How would you handle this mechanically?

Would you just abstract investments into downtime rolls and periodic income? Actually track individual properties, businesses, and loans? Put risks on them like defaults, destroyed property, corrupt managers, bad harvests, monster attacks, economic downturns, etc.?

She exists at the fragile boundary between two opposing worlds, a half-demon, half-human mage who relies on dark necromancy to sustain her infernal form. Without this ancient art, her demonic essence would consume her completely, leaving nothing of her origin intact. The visual elements of her design directly reflect this inner struggle, detailing the constant, painful transition between her dual natures. Her right hand is captured mid-transformation, where smooth skin gives way to hardened demonic features, sharp claws, and darkened veins pulsing with raw magical energy. Small trails of blood drip steadily from her eyes, a physical manifestation of the immense physical strain required to balance such volatile powers. These dark details underscore the sacrifice required to maintain her form, framing her not merely as a spellcaster, but as a survivor bound to her own dark powers. Across her body she wears crystal-like jewelry positioned at key arcane points. Far from being merely decorative, these radiant gems act as mystical seals crafted to suppress her demonic side and preserve what remains of her humanity. They function as a physical barrier against total corruption, glowing faintly whenever her darker nature threatens to break free. The contrast between the cold, crystalline seals and the raw, corrupting demonic energy highlights the delicate balance she must maintain to prevent her human conscience from fading entirely. This piece serves as a mage-inspired original character concept art, highlighting the intersection of dark fantasy aesthetics and character-driven storytelling. Developing her visual identity involved balancing delicate human features with sinister demonic traits to evoke a sense of tragedy, power, and restraint. This illustration marks the beginning of an ongoing character design series, with more original concepts coming in the near future.

Redesign of my old DnD character! Long ago she has been tainted by my last DM who was toxic.

So I reclaim my character by giving her a redesign, because absolutely love her.

You're free to use my art as long as you give me credit!! Please do not use it for AI!!

A bit about her-

Amalthea is an elegant unicorn who is nurturing, genuine, reliable, and gentle. She's a mother with a connection to nature and the stars. Amalthea shows compassion to the weak and those who are lost; she will do anything to help them become strong while embracing their flaws, and will do anything to make their wishes come true. Her selfless nature may lead her to take on too much responsibility, and she fears disappointing others, often trying to hide her own flaws too.

Attitude in Cooperations

Amalthea is genuinely kind and warm toward strangers and may come off as a positive motherly figure to them. She is not shy to strike up a conversation when she sees someone of interest; she has lived pretty isolated and only has met elves and the unicorns of her kind, with some creatures of the fey. The white unicorn may be a ditz at times, as she is unfamiliar with different cultures, laws and the environment.

The DM tells us that we need to meet with an NPC at a tavern of ill repute: "The Drunken Witch"
Upon arriving, he asks everyone to roll an intelligence check.
Everyone passes it, except the paladin who rolls a 1.
DM: "Everyone enters, except Roland. He still thinks this isn't the right place, due to the red B painted over the W."

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Roland just had to roll again (investigation) to come to the realization this was low-brow vandalism.
He succeeded that DC and FINALLY entered the tavern, about ten seconds after everyone else.

Roland's player: "What did I need to roll?"
DM: "You only needed a 2. Both times."

So I'm in a 5e game starting at level 3 at the moment with some stats I grabbed through point buy that I thought were a bit min-maxxed, but still reasonable. (16, 13, 14, 8, 8, 16). However when I show up to session 0 everyone else "Rolled" their stats for their characters, with the worst offender being a (20, 19, 18, 16, 14, 14). We ended up having that player remake their sheet due to that, among other issues and rules conflicts. As an example someone with a more middle of the pack stats has a (17, 16, 16, 13, 12, 10). Everyone else but me and another player has around a dozen more stat points than standard point buy.

On its own I don't think having power imbalances within a party is a bad thing. I have played in games where I've been lower/higher level than others and it's made for interesting dynamics. I just think it's disingenuous to say they all happened to 'roll' so well, and I feel like this is taking advantage of our GM being new to the game, and making their job of balancing things harder.

I'm wondering if having this big of a disparity will be a major problem? I don't think a +10% chance of success to checks/attacks and the like will matter too much. However I'm a little worried though that the GM needing to compensate for higher power characters will end up making my Frontline paladin squishy by comparison (I'm tied for the 2nd lowest HP of the group with a 24, but most other players have 30+).

Is this not really that much of a problem and I'm just over worrying, or is this something I should bring up to the GM/group?

I've been playing with this group for 4 years under various rotating GM's, and this is the first time something like this has happened. However this is also the first time we've played dnd specifically in a long time. Our last few games have been in other systems, so we haven't made characters on our own in a long time.

Zombies, don't just slap you. I know the new 5e and 5.5e and all the other basic zombies in the books just get "SLAM", but that is just a melee attack. They eat you alive. They rip out guts and devour them, claw at metal until their nails fall off, and should absolutely bite your players even if they are NOT INFECTIOUS. Give them a shitty vampire bite if you want. And it does not say that Undead Fortitude is just one time.

If they just keep succeeding the save, describe their mangled bodies lurching to keep going as they're smashed and dismembered and impaled, until they're finally decapitated or fail their save. They'll batter their faces against doors or walls or windows until either they die, or the door or window gives.

Meet this fierce little Gnome Barbarian!

Armed with a mighty axe decorated with beautiful flower carvings, this small warrior is always ready for the next adventure. But no matter how fierce the battle gets, they’re never alone. She is accompanied everywhere by their adorable little sheep companion. A tiny duo with plenty of spirit

One of my favorite parts of this piece was combining multiple outfit references into a cohesive character design and adding subtle details that help tell her story.