Hey, I'm a relatively new Dungeon Master. I've just run Lost Mine of Phandelver for some of my friends. We're all new, but some of us played back when the first two versions were out. We've reconnected with DND and are having a great time (most of us are over 40).
We should finish with this campaign in the next couple months, and I'm trying to figure out what to do next. So far, I'm considering: Tomb of Annihilation, Curse of Strahd, Storm King's Thunder, the Tyranny of Dragons books, and possibly Out of the Abyss. I do have (and have used) both Ghosts of Saltmarsh and Tales from the Yawning Portal and have loved those two books. Mythical Odysseys of Theros intrigues me, but I've heard mixed reviews.
I want to invite some of you more experienced people to rank the adventures by your personal preference, or tell me which ones are your favorites or not. I'm "creative enough" to probably make it work for our group, we're not that hard to please, and none of us are so experienced that we'll even notice if I screw it up. But I do want it to be a good time for them, and I don't want it to be a headache for me if possible. Thank you for your input.
MooT is a sourcebook, not an adventure, so unless you just want M:tG Greek inspired mythology, I'd ignore it.
I'm prepping to run Rime next when my current groups finish Avernus this Thursday and the other finishes Mad Mage in about 3 sessions. With maybe 3 exceptional levels, Mad Mage quickly turns into the slog of a very very long dungeon crawl. They could have taken that whole book and made a two part 1-20 campaign about Vanrakdoom and Shadowdusk hold and it would have been much better.
Storm King and Tyranny are both great. I know everyone is head over heals for Strahd, but I could take it or leave it. After the first module for it way back in 1st edition (which was amazing) TSR completely flooded the scene with the Ravenloft campaign setting and it got old, fast, so much so that I have no interest in exploring it all these years later.
So, I know everyone will say Curse of Strahd, and I'd add Tyranny, Storm King and Rime. If you can get past all the "wee snowballs."
Hey, I'm a relatively new Dungeon Master. I've just run Lost Mine of Phandelver for some of my friends. We're all new, but some of us played back when the first two versions were out. We've reconnected with DND and are having a great time (most of us are over 40).
We should finish with this campaign in the next couple months, and I'm trying to figure out what to do next. So far, I'm considering: Tomb of Annihilation, Curse of Strahd, Storm King's Thunder, the Tyranny of Dragons books, and possibly Out of the Abyss. I do have (and have used) both Ghosts of Saltmarsh and Tales from the Yawning Portal and have loved those two books. Mythical Odysseys of Theros intrigues me, but I've heard mixed reviews.
I want to invite some of you more experienced people to rank the adventures by your personal preference, or tell me which ones are your favorites or not. I'm "creative enough" to probably make it work for our group, we're not that hard to please, and none of us are so experienced that we'll even notice if I screw it up. But I do want it to be a good time for them, and I don't want it to be a headache for me if possible. Thank you for your input.
MooT is a sourcebook, not an adventure, so unless you just want M:tG Greek inspired mythology, I'd ignore it.
I'm prepping to run Rime next when my current groups finish Avernus this Thursday and the other finishes Mad Mage in about 3 sessions. With maybe 3 exceptional levels, Mad Mage quickly turns into the slog of a very very long dungeon crawl. They could have taken that whole book and made a two part 1-20 campaign about Vanrakdoom and Shadowdusk hold and it would have been much better.
Storm King and Tyranny are both great. I know everyone is head over heals for Strahd, but I could take it or leave it. After the first module for it way back in 1st edition (which was amazing) TSR completely flooded the scene with the Ravenloft campaign setting and it got old, fast, so much so that I have no interest in exploring it all these years later.
So, I know everyone will say Curse of Strahd, and I'd add Tyranny, Storm King and Rime. If you can get past all the "wee snowballs."
Rime of the Frost Maiden.
Thank you so much!