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Play with friends, or at least people you trust to forgive any mistakes you make. Explain which parts of DMing you find challenging, and ask for their help. Don't try to overwhelm yourself with getting everything right all at once. Start with simple adventures and ideas, and work up to more...

Be honest with your players about your GMing weaknesses so you can work on them together

Why should I attack that goblin when eventually it'll die of old age?

As mentioned upthread, the adventure says she hides in the shadows and uses a Major Illusion spell to project the drow to talk to outsiders.

She is a Black Shadow Dragon, and uses Major Image to project the form of a drow when interacting with the PCs.