D&D 5E (2014) Best third party campaign books - recommend me some

[Piperken]

...I don't care much about mechanics; I would never run these in 5e anyway. I just want to know which 3PP 5e campaigns I should read to loot for good ideas. My short list of ones that I know about and will probably read include Call From the Deep and Kobold's Empire of Ghouls...

If you aren't planning on running suggestions in 5e, why limit to reading 5e campaigns? There's a lot of well organized and written campaigns out there that don't use a 5e house layout.

That said, while I haven't run or extensively read these, some have mentioned Dungeons of Drakkenheim as being a campaign they enjoyed running. I've also been intrigued by what Metis Creative have published; they may be worth looking at as well.

 

[Desdichado]

If you aren't planning on running suggestions in 5e, why limit to reading 5e campaigns? There's a lot of well organized and written campaigns out there that don't use a 5e house layout.

Because I'm wary of scope creep. I'm already familiar with Cthulhu campaigns, Paizo adventure paths and, of course, like I mentioned, The Enemy Within and other stuff. But I want to limit the suggestions to 3pp 5e campaigns.

That said, while I haven't run or extensively read these, some have mentioned Dungeons of Drakkenheim as being a campaign they enjoyed running. I've also been intrigued by what Metis Creative have published; they may be worth looking at as well.

Good call; that's one that I'd heard of but had forgotten.

 

[Desdichado]

I like the 5e Cthulhu D&D adventure paths that were originally put out by Petersen Games. They have four part ones that are themed around Mi-Go, Yig, Tsathogua, Ghouls, and Hastur (and I think an all in one single big one about Dopplegangers/possibly Shoggoths?). Dark World is the Mi Go one and the only one they have left on Drivethru and just part one. I can't remember the name of the company they sold off their old 5e Cthulhu stuff to. Strong focused specific Lovecraft themes for a full on D&D campaign AP.

I would really love to get my hands on these if you can remember who's actually selling them. I've having a devil of a time locating them. Of course, internet searches are useless the last several years, but this one is kinda ridiculous.