D&D 5E Any Adventure Recommendations?

[Burnside]

Rime of the Frostmaiden is among the better 5E adventures, imo. I am among those who find fault with the climate conditions being way too extreme and a couple of other over-arching plot issues, but it has a lot of good-to-great set pieces and is easier to prep than most of the hardcovers.

If you are really pressed for prep time, I suggest running the AL Season 5 tier one adventures in order. They are very easy to prep, and imo they are actually more enjoyable and WAY more user-friendly than Storm King's Thunder:

DDAL5-02 The Black Road
DDAL5-03 Uninvited Guests
DDAL5-06 Beneath the Fetid Chelimber
DDAL5-07 Chelimber's Descent
DDAL5-10 Giant Diplomacy
DDAL5-12 Bad Business in Parnast
DDAL5-16 Parnast Under Siege

Those 7 adventures form an episodic story. Black Road, Uninvited Guests, and Giant Diplomacy are the highlights.

If your players like them, you can then move on to the tier 2 adventures from that season, which form another episodic story.

These are all available on DMsGuild.

 

[Odysseus]

Have a look at the adventures at the arcane eye the ones i've run have all been good. And the are very low prep adventures

 

[S'mon]

I like 12 Peculiar Towers from Kobold Press a lot. Mostly very nice quality short adventures that are very easy to drop in at short notice. Indeed there's almost enough there for a Tier 1-2 campaign; could do with a 2nd level & 4th level scenario as those are lacking (Forge of Fury would cover the lacuna nicely).

 

[MatthewJHanson]

If I can plug something my company publishes, the Runewild is a sandbox setting in a wild forest that's inhabited by witches, fey, and other weird creatures. They can just explore or follow up on several different linked threads.

Since it sounds like you don't have a lot of time before the first session, I'd suggest starting with one of the Seasons of the Runewild adventures. These are four short 1st-level adventures designed to introduce people to a larger campaign. Since spring is coming up, you may wish to try Springtime Comes to Kidwelly.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

I like 12 Peculiar Towers from Kobold Press a lot. Mostly very nice quality short adventures that are very easy to drop in at short notice. Indeed there's almost enough there for a Tier 1-2 campaign; could do with a 2nd level & 4th level scenario as those are lacking (Forge of Fury would cover the lacuna nicely).

That is available on Roll20 I believe

 

[Quartz]

Try the Shadows of Istivin mini campaign in Dungeon.

 

[S'mon]

That is available on Roll20 I believe

I don't think so - I've looked. You can get Eldritch Dungeons, but not 12 Peculiar Towers.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

I don't think so - I've looked. You can get Eldritch Dungeons, but not 12 Peculiar Towers.

I just checked, It is in the Roll20 marketplace, so I assume the means you can get it

12 Peculiar Towers

 

[jasper]

Pipyaps guide to hell DDAL00-11, DDIA-Volo in Volo's Wake.

 

[Voadam]

Book of Lairs 5e from Kobold Press would be my go to for a short term quick prep adventure. It is an adventure anthology of short adventures for many levels and uses monsters from Tome of Beasts.

Not having to read a large adventure up front would be a consideration for me for the immediate game then decide what to run long term.