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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hastur_nz" data-source="post: 7133832" data-attributes="member: 40592">YMMV.  It's actually pretty hard to run a good published adventure for 5e, with old-timer hard core gamers, and find one that NONE of your players have actually read and/or played and/or DM'd before.  Unless you want to convert something obscure, or run something 'fringe' which is usually lame, or make it all up yourself.Personally I DM'd CoS for a group of old-timers: one had run the original AD&D game (where loads of his PC's died), one had DM'd me and another player through the 3.5 version of it (which was more combat-heavy), and one player had reviewed the 5e version all as an apha tester.  We all enjoyed it.  Mostly, the only expectations the players brought in, was that they might well all die before the end.  Some did, some didn't.  It was a fun campaign, shorter than our usual ones, a good change of pace and because it's quite heavy on 'plot', our group got a lot out of that aspect.There's a lot of random plot, any every person who runs it will run a very different game, based on the cards drawn, the players, and the DM's changes made as they all go along.  Disruptive players are a breed of their own - D&D seems to get more than it should, but in my experience people are usually disruptive or not for reasons of their own, not anything to do with any knowledge or expectations they might have about an adventure, campaign, setting, etc.By way of another example, I'm currently DMing in the Forgotten Realms, which most of my players know WAY better than me, in fact I've always deliberately avoided the setting.  But people come to my games expecting to work together and have fun, so we all work with what knowledge we have and bring to the table, but we use it pro-actively and ultimately I'm the DM so whatever the players think they know, may or may not be totally applicable in the setting and campaign as I see it, and everyone accepts and runs with that, because we all know that I'm the only one who truly sees and manages the "future plot threads", even if, in this campaign too, one of my players has indeed also reviewed (as an apha tester) the adventure book I'm using.Anyway, I have no idea how CoS might run for a group new to D&D.  I'm just speculating, that to me, it's a gamble unless you know your players are going to be into the kind of flavour that the campaign has.  IMO, it runs best when you have a "mature" set of players and DM, who can all get into the themes which are not the "heroic, good vs evil" or "murder hobo" tropes.</blockquote>

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