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Usually just kill them, because my kids are proud murderhobos. My husband is a half-orc thief, though. And there was once when they just wanted a toll of fresh-killed boar.

You don't need to keep to the pacing in the published adventures, though. My players earn 10 days of downtime after each chapter, but they get to spend it when they want. In fact, they don't need to wait for earned downtime. However, if they spend downtime when their "bank" is empty, there is an...

Not even with my newly crafted exploding fire arrows?

One of my players is using this to slowly gain proficiency in more languages and weapon types.

We have homebrewed an option that lets you gradually increase proficiency (and decrease cost) as you go further in your training. It doesn't make sense to go from having zero skill to BAM!!! having all the skills. Instead of having a set amount of money/time for everything, I would like...

Not in D&D. I was talking about general myths and lore.

Actually, there is a fair amount of lore that has demons not be inherently evil, usually yes, but not always.

Sounds like a fun session!

Saved by the Bell!

My library is organized by age level, genre, and then alphabetically by author/chronological time-line by series (as opposed to chronologocial written order). Except for my D&D section. I grab stuff from there so frequently that I've given up trying to keep it organized. If I had as big of a...

My players do some of this during their downtime.

It doesn't help that my teens (and my husband) seem to think that I am the only one that needs to read the rules in ANY game we play. They are getting better at looking stuff up, but unfortunately only tend to do so when they disagree with my ruling. (This one is a complaint, but not one I...

I can read the rules. I just haven't really looked at how and when to put them into practice. Frankly, it isn't that important to my group right now, when I am still trying to get them to use all the action/reaction options in a fight and not just attack. My comment wasn't a complaint about the...

We continued on in our caravan. This time, my PC and the NPC guards in her wagon got fired and replaced with actors masquerading as guards. An acquaintance happened to be trailing them, though, and tipped us off, so we convinced my bosses to hold a competition and if we won, we got our jobs...

I actually have no idea what it is or how to use it. My group jumped in with none of us having played before, and that is one of the rules that we haven't taken the time to figure out yet.

I have to admit, I still haven't figured out the exhaustion rule.

Mainly we just have non-combat sessions during downtime, but we are currently stuck on the caravan to Waterdeep and the rolled encounters have not included many fights. I keep reminding my players that they can seek out some action by going hunting or patrolling for bandits, but they'd rather...

I will kill off individual PCs that die during a battle. A TPK, though, results in an auto-reset before the battle in question, unless the players are at the point where they want to start a new campaign anyway. And yes, we have ended a battle before with only two survivors, one of which was...

I like this!

I always let them die. It is part of the game, and knowledge of what killed you can help you create a character you like better the next go round.