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I think this is the biggest misinterpretation with "neutral": Players believe that they can commit any evil/chaotic act so long as they balance it out with something good/lawful. Not true. Neutral simply means that you don't perform overtly good/lawful acts (such as stopping a crime or saving...

Well, at that point it's the GMs job to make something happen. For instance, I had a party that sat in the local bar after a delivery job and talked for almost forty-five minutes. Real time. While being on the verge of fun, it was neither improving the story or their characters, so I had a...

I had a player once who named her elf rogue (yeah I know, cliche) Sarafina Starshimmer. I almost wanted to tell her to come up with something else, but instead I just had all of the NPCs in the dwarven city they were at laugh in her face.

This is one of the things that DMs need to realize: Not everything is black and white in the DMG and sometimes, you need to interpret the rules to your own liking. In other words; if you think something should be able to occur and it's not too disadvantageous to the players, then it should happen.