Silvera here, newish to D&D (heck, only started doing board/card games about 3 years ago, D&D about a year) and have absolutely fallen in love. Unfortunately, I have moved away from my friends that got me into gaming and have no contacts where I'm at for gaming groups, nor can I really make commitments to groups due to working overnight shifts (would kinda suck having to cut off a gaming session at 9pm, wouldn't you agree?), but my younger brother became interested in D&D/ board games. So now I am DMing a campaign for him, which is proving to be exceedingly boring as he is only 14 and can't seem to think past killing things, whereas my favorite aspect when I was a PC was all the stuff you could do out of combat. All in all, just trying to figure out ways to be a better DM/ PC when I can find a group. Not very good at optimization, but I do love reading about it, looking to start theory crafting stuff as I get a better foothold on the rulebooks and such.