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Legend
With one exception I'm not a huge fan of the 5e adventures, so much so that I stopped buying them after "Storm King's Thunder". So the following ranking only includes the titles I have actually read...
#1: "Lost Mine of Phandelver". This is quite possibly the single best adventure WotC (not TSR) have published for any edition of the game.
#2, a long way behind: "Curse of Strahd". The best of the bunch, but pales in comparison with the original. In particular, "Ravenloft" benefited immensely from its tight focus and brevity; CoS loses both of those benefits.
#3: "Out of the Abyss". The first half of this one is amazing. The second half, by contrast, is poor. And the climax is terrible - the sound and fury would make for a fine Michael Bay film, but in an RPG it's not ideal to have the PCs watching the big battle.
#4: "Storm King's Thunder". A mediocre adventure wrapped around a region guide that is rather good.
#5: "Dragon of Icespire Peak". The weak link in the otherwise outstanding "Essentials Kit", the one redeeming feature of this adventure is that it can easily be merged with "Lost Mine of Phandelver" to expand that mini-campaign.
#6: "Princes of the Apocalypse". I'm sure I had an opinion of this one once, but it's so unremarkable that I forget.
#7: "Hoard of the Dragon Queen". Better than I was led to expect by the early reviews... but that doesn't mean it's good.
#8: "Rise of Tiamat". Conversely, this one was significantly worse than I had expected.
#1: "Lost Mine of Phandelver". This is quite possibly the single best adventure WotC (not TSR) have published for any edition of the game.
#2, a long way behind: "Curse of Strahd". The best of the bunch, but pales in comparison with the original. In particular, "Ravenloft" benefited immensely from its tight focus and brevity; CoS loses both of those benefits.
#3: "Out of the Abyss". The first half of this one is amazing. The second half, by contrast, is poor. And the climax is terrible - the sound and fury would make for a fine Michael Bay film, but in an RPG it's not ideal to have the PCs watching the big battle.
#4: "Storm King's Thunder". A mediocre adventure wrapped around a region guide that is rather good.
#5: "Dragon of Icespire Peak". The weak link in the otherwise outstanding "Essentials Kit", the one redeeming feature of this adventure is that it can easily be merged with "Lost Mine of Phandelver" to expand that mini-campaign.
#6: "Princes of the Apocalypse". I'm sure I had an opinion of this one once, but it's so unremarkable that I forget.
#7: "Hoard of the Dragon Queen". Better than I was led to expect by the early reviews... but that doesn't mean it's good.
#8: "Rise of Tiamat". Conversely, this one was significantly worse than I had expected.