D&D 5E Quintessential Starting Campaign for a group of new, young players.

[Greenstone.Walker]

I ran Frog God Games' The Wizard's Amulet last week. I'm running Dan Head's Mystery of Malvern Manor tonight. Both are good introductions to D&D. Both are also free.

I have bought N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God. I plan to run it later this year. It needs a bit of work to convert to 5E (work which I plan to shamelessly steal from sources on the net .

Finally, the Starter Set adventure Lost Mine of Phandelver is, as other posters here have said, great. I am looking forward to running it in a few weeks.

 

[delericho]

Shattered Circle is great, though I'm not sure I'd use it as an intro for younger players necessarily. It's mostly dungeon crawl, whereas B2 or Phandelver sort of allow for a wider variety of stuff to do.

Good point. Then again, the same is true of "The Sunless Citadel", which is also 100% dungeon crawl, and I did run that for younger players with considerable success.

 

[Jan van Leyden]

Good point. Then again, the same is true of "The Sunless Citadel", which is also 100% dungeon crawl, and I did run that for younger players with considerable success.

Doesn't have The Sunless Citadel at least a modicum of a village with a sketch map, whereas The Shattered Circle simply is "there"?

 

[delericho]

Doesn't have The Sunless Citadel at least a modicum of a village with a sketch map, whereas The Shattered Circle simply is "there"?

It's been a while since I looked at it, but I don't think so - I think there's a village named, but no map or any other details. Certainly, we started at the entrance to the dungeon and glossed over any return above-ground.

Truth is, I'm not sure how much we need to tailor the game for younger players anyway. My experience (which is admittedly both somewhat limited and a few years out of date) has been that younger players are quite capable of "getting it" pretty quickly anyway.

 

[halfling rogue]

I started my kids (5, 7, 10) with the Lost Mine starter with no real tweaks for age. They did roll up characters rather than use the pregens though.

When I first started playing d&d, we started with The Shackled City but since there were a lot of new to dnd folks playing our DM just started us out in a tavern. Not sure if that was what we were supposed to do per the book, but it was really helpful for me to realize that a player could actually do anything. We spent a large portion of the session shooting black squirrels for their pelts...

 

[SeventhSon]

Palace of the Silver Princess really is something you can't go back and play after you've done a more advanced module, like B2 (which is the second most introductory module out there). Palace reads like a choose your own adventure book, limiting options for the players. Good for a novice GM if a kid wants to run one someday, should you not use it.