cant interact with ANY monster token.

can interact with npcs but cannot change who controls them, instead it says 'determined by character settings' 

worth noting, this is only for the dragon of the icespire peak adventure. it loads with all monster tokens broken

Once a token represents a character (sheet) that is normal behavior.  If you have the token selected and shift + double click the token, it will open the character sheet to the Bio & Info tab.  With that open, you hit the edit button in the upper right corner.  You can set player permissions there.

but its happening with everything, including every single monster, so it wont allow me to interact with orc tokens at all. NPC tokens i can move but not edit who is allowed to control them. its basically acting as if im a character but im the DM

Yes, you have to be on the same layer as an object to be able to interact with that object.&nbsp; That is normal.&nbsp; You can't interact with objects on the map layer unless you are on the map layer (and the players never can be), you can't interact with things on the token/object layer unless you are on that layer (the only layer players can interact with), and you can only interact with things on the gm layer if you are actually there.&nbsp; There is an entry on the toolbar for changing what layer you are on, and there are keybinds to change layers also.&nbsp; This is normal behavior. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Layers" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Layers</a> <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Keyboard_Shortcuts" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Keyboard_Shortcuts</a> <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Advanced_Shortcuts" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Advanced_Shortcuts</a> Once a token represents a character sheet/journal, the token permissions are determined by the permissions of the sheet it is linked to.&nbsp; This is normal behavior.&nbsp; If you aren't using "loose" tokens, you set the permissions on the journal/sheet that the token represents and the token will inherit those permissions.&nbsp; You can open the associated sheet/journal from a token with a keybind as described in the keyboard shortcuts article if you don't want to look for it in the journal tab. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Journal#Bio_.26_Info_Tab" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Journal#Bio_.26_Info_Tab</a> <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Linking_Tokens_to_Journals" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Linking_Tokens_to_Journals</a>

There seem to be conflicting messages here. You can move NPC tokens but not interact with them? Could you clarify? And did you edit the permissions on the sheet , and not the tokens , as Kraynic suggested? Once a token is assigned to represent a sheet, the permissions&nbsp; field on the token becomes useless, taking it's value from the sheet. If this is still not what you are describing, some screen shots would be helpful.

So, no matter which layer i am on, i cannot interact with monsters (orcs). they are greyed out as if they are on a different layer but they are not.i cant do anything with them. i can however click on and interact with the dwarven villagers (not monsters) the only thing odd with them is i cannot change who can control them. basically it feels like i am signed in as a player as these are things i would expect if i wasnt the DM, however i am the DM

Well, there is a rejoin as player button in settings that you can access as the GM.&nbsp; If you have, you have to hit that button again (which should say rejoin as GM or something like that) to go back to your normal permissions. Other than that, I can't say why things would work differently for you than anyone else.&nbsp; Screenshots of what you are seeing would probably be helpful.