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I can't remember the page, but I remember reading somewhere that if you try to target a spell on the opposite side of a barrier, it comes into effect on the side closest to you. Will edit once I find it. Edit: In the PHB on page 204, it says "If you place an area of effect at a point you can't...

If you've captured only the druid, there's not much you can do to stop him wildshaping and getting away. If you have (at least one of) his friends, threatening to kill them slowly and painfully if he tries to escape should be a good deterrent.

There's no such thing as negative hit points as you're always considered at 0 once you reach zero. However, being hit gives an automatic failure on a death save (2 on a critical), or if an attack takes you to your negative maximum number of hit points (like the example in the PHB) you...

You could make short rests 5 mins and let the players have them as frequently as they want (bearing in mind they won't always have 5 minutes available) and use the Healing Surge option from the DMG. Maybe give more HD to compensate as well?

IT BUUUUURNS US, PRECIOUS! ;D

Dragons are animals... Enormous, magically enhanced animals, but they're still lizards (according to the MM). If one were to move into an area and start building its lair it would become the apex predator of the region and modify the ecosystem, so I'd think it would be a "prevalent animal".

I'm not sure I understand your concern: For a character with maximized AC (+3 plate, +3 shield, Defense fighting style, a Defender giving +3 to AC, a Ring of Protection, and a Cloak of Protection) you're sitting at 32 AC. Yes, that's a high AC. However, anything that requires a save will still...

I'm not sure if the bearded devil's glaive wounds its target because the devil uses it, or if it's a property of the weapon. The effect is similar to a Sword of Wounding, so I'm tending towards the latter.

Sure those books exist, and can be used an infinite number of times as long as their magic persists (once per century per book), but that doesn't mean your players will get them. If you want to break bounded accuracy then you can let your players have them (either by buying them in a magic item...

The backgrounds in the PHB were made specifically to work with every race, so I think you'd be stretching suspension of disbelief to limit them to only humans. What's to stop a dragonborn from growing up in a religious community, reflected by taking the acolyte background? Why can a dwarf not be...

You don't in this edition. A bard could have Cha 3 and still cast his or her spells.

I think that although your group had a creative way to defeat this encounter, it shouldn't have worked... Driving a stake through the ribcage and into the heart is rather difficult: one important function of your ribcage, after all, is to stop pointy things from going into your heart (and...

I'm of the opinion that characters get full value for selling gems. My reasoning is that if you sell it to a jeweler they can make it into something and turn a tidy profit (your 50gp gem set in 50gp worth of gold sells for 500gp!), or if a shopkeeper buys it they can use it in place of gold in a...

Never mind me, move along.

12. A local duchess just gave birth to some deformed abomination (a cambion or half-dragon). Her husband will reward you handsomely to dispose of this whelp as she travels to (some city).

Don't be silly... Just one vorpal sword?! It has to have two so it can dual-wield them!

You can always reskin stuff: for example, using the rat template and calling it a mouse would seem to be the easiest work-around, or using calling a badger a rabbit.

Unfortunately you couldn't cast Moonbeam, because the spell you cast as an OA has to target only that creature and Moonbeam is an AoE... But you could banish it! Or levitate it 20 feet in the air and laugh at its impotence.

I was playing in HotDQ as a Moon Druid... Before we went flying off the rails by entering the dragon hatchery before we were supposed to and stealing some eggs. Now we have an adult black dragon hunting us down, who's very angry and probably hungry.

Alright, so I've run the adventure before and will try ti answer each of your questions in order: 1. There's really no best way to run each section, as how quickly you go depends on your players. Ideally you should be able to get through the Cragmaw hideout in one session, bit if you go faster...