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I'm having trouble trying to figure out how some of these would work? For example, the first one, Best Served Cold - You must find and defeat Windharrow. Why? Why does the character want to do this? Some of them make more sense, like being robbed by a certain character and wanting revenge...

Do you tell your players how many charges an item has left? Otherwise, why would they ever use their last charge and the item being destroyed in the process?

Has anyone used one of these yet? If so, do you have a template for a monster stat block? I don't really see one in the template or at least one that looks decent.

So a spell caster casts find familiar and creates a spider. Last session, basically nothing was a surprise and he just crawled the spider in to the areas and reported back what he saw so the group was ready for anything. While this is cool every now and then, after awhile it will get old as...

I'm planning on running a adventure from Dungeon magazine where an Aboleth that has been corrupted by the Spellplague is causing the citizens of Neverwinter to murder people. This was written for levels 3-5 and in my group there are 6 level 3 characters. In 5e an Aboleth is CR10 so way too...

I was looking to adjust some of the encounters as this Saturday I will have 4 level 3 players. In looking at the Old Owl Well and Wvyern Tor quests, if you actually calculate the CR of those, both would be way beyond deadly for even a group of 5. 1 ogre and 6 orcs in one encounter which...

So if you craft a magical items (I'm probably not going to allow this but pulling info from the DMG), you can do it at increments of 25g per day. However to make regular items, you can do it at increments of 5g per day. Does this seem strange? So you could make a magical items in less time...

My group is going through LMoP and have stated searching each room for traps and listening to door. That is fine but the problem is they all started doing this and I have 6 players. The first character listens to a door, hears nothing, the 2nd listens, hears nothing, etc etc. I decided last...

So in the castle, there is a quarterstaff that can be found that has some differentiating markings on it and when held is much lighter than a typical quarterstaff. I think it says it weighs a pound when most weigh 4 lbs. My players found this last session but I'm really not sure of the benefit...

As a DM, do you all concern yourself with this at all, or just trust your players are keeping up with it and not cheating at all? I think for the most part, my players wouldn't try to slip in few gold but was just wondering what most people do. I really don't want to mess with it.

With the rule that you can knock people out instead of killing them, my group is doing this to an unusual amount of people. If the creature refuses to talk, they just threaten to kill them. After while, I run out of new conversations for my monsters to have!? Any ideas?

Do you make the group level up at a short or long rest or do you let them get the benefits of the new level immediately? That seems a little strange to me that you would instantly know new spells in the middle of a dungeon or other new abilities like that. I was thinking of making them wait...

My group prefers to have the map printed out and to use minis. I prefer this as well and usually cut out a room at a time and add them as they travel to not show the entire map at one time. However, Wave Echo Cave is enormous. The squares represent 10' for one thing on this map so you should...

Doesn't most classes get at least 4 skills? 2 or more from the class and/or race and 2 from background? I was looking at something that made me second guess myself and appeared you only got your class/race skills but could change those to whatever skills your background allowed, just giving...

This is our 3rd session in trying to get through LMoP. At this point, the group has gotten to Phandalin. They went through the Redbrand hideout in the 2nd session and this time were getting through Cragmaw castle. I had read up on the adventure beforehand but as you know, things don't really...

How do the things that happen in the novels tie into the things that happen in the premade adventures and your campaign if using Forgotton Realms? For example, I'm looking at a adventure called The Gauntlgrym Gambit that came out of Dungeon Magazine in 2011. This adventure is basically...

I was planning on running Hoard of the Dragon Queen after finishing Phandelver, but after skimming through Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle, it looks to be a much more interesting and planned out adventure. Has anyone ran this and if so, what did you think?

One of my players has been talking about doing this. I don't think there's been any written rules about it, but what are your thoughts about letting them do this and the cost of having something like this done?

At certain points in the adventure, the DM can choose to have characters presented with the option to join various factions. Will these be used in the Tyranny of Dragons storyline, or shoudl I just ignore the factions part? What benefit would we get from using factions? Also the Zhentarim is...

Do all actions listed for the monsters get as many uses as you want each encounter? My group just fought a Nothic and I only used the Rotting Gaze once as it did around 13 damage in one hit to the sorcerer. It felt as if it was a action that would require a rest to use again, but nothing is...