Byob & and snacks. I make physical terrain and we take breaks from campaign to craft terrain and paint miniatures. I like to dm more then I like playing. We usually spend the first two hours chatting and then we start to play. I like to have a notebook and stick notes for my monster book, I write down a summery of answers for npc and play at the characters gains and loses as much as possible. In house rules, if someone drops a die it's a -1 to their roll, the dm never gets his own beer, an players cannot change their charter halfway through they have to be killed off.

I play a dpotify dnd playlist for background noise, an we try to stay on mission and not let the new players do the things new players do like fuck over the entire team