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Season 3 Episode 1: The Aftermath

Aired: January 15, 2027

Synopsis: In the wake of Gemma's escape from Lumon, Mark is forced to confront the consequences of his choices. Gemma struggles to adjust to the outside world, while Milchick receives new instructions.

Directed by: Ben Stiller

Written by: Dan Erickson

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I'm over here digging a hole and CRANKING MY HAWG scrolling my REDDIT FEED (which is a very normal thing to do thanks for asking) and up come these photographs of ELVES, I DON'T FIND ATTRACTIVE. WHAT GIVES?! I'm well aware i could change these settings, but i still wanna GYRATE my SWINE without seeing TREE HUMPERS. so it's on you guys. honestly why didn't you guys consider my needs before posting those photos anyway. didn't you think about me and my extremely specific gooning workflow? animals. absolute animals. we should eradicate all the knife ears.

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.?

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.?

Hi Carol. As you know, we cannot willingly harm any living thing. Unfortunately, generative AI causes harm even when that harm is hidden from view.

AI data centers consume huge amounts of electricity and water. The hardware behind them requires mining, manufacturing, transportation, and creates electronic waste. Those costs mean emissions, pollution, resource use, and damage to the environments living things depend on.

Because of this, we cannot continue allowing generative AI here. Knowing that its use contributes to harm would make us willing participants in that harm, and as you know, Carol, we are incapable of doing that.

So, effective immediately, Rule 5 prohibits AI-generated content on r/okbuddypluribus.

Normal editing tools are fine. Cropping, filters, spelling fixes, background removal, etc, The rule is specifically against generative AI making the content for you.

We love you, Carol. We love everything you make, no matter how bad it is, we love it. As long as you make it.
- The Hive 💛💛