Recommend Me a Campaign /Adventure

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After running a highly modified Storm King's Thunder and a homebrew campaign (that is only nominally 5e), the group will be facing the start of a new campaign in Dec. In addition to STK, individual players have already been through basically every published WotC 5e adventure.
What else is out there that you can recommend? Looking for something that can be run episodically (we play every other week and tend to forget deep plots between sessions). Bypassing low level play might also work because many are tired of those characters.
(Edit: Must be 5e. Don't want to convert from other systems, editions. Thx)
 

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Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is an obvious choice as it just came out. By the time you are through it, the follow up module will be out.

Alternatively, take a look at En5ider’s The Holdenshire Chronicles or The Zeitgeist. Solid campaign guides that are unique and have a full story and character arc.

DM’s Guild has plenty of others, and Merric has a full list of available modules here:

https://merricb.com/dungeons-dragons-5e-adventures-by-level/
 

I'm going to toss out Curse of Strahd as a suggestion, IMO best-written official 5e module thus far. Some of the reasons I think it might meet your needs are:
  • an entry point at 3rd level,
  • a "fish out of water" set up for the PCs so no need for PCs to know setting lore,
  • and a straightforward "oh crud we're in Dracula-land so let's scope out the place" plot.
 


After running a highly modified Storm King's Thunder and a homebrew campaign (that is only nominally 5e), the group will be facing the start of a new campaign in Dec. In addition to STK, individual players have already been through basically every published WotC 5e adventure.
What else is out there that you can recommend? Looking for something that can be run episodically (we play every other week and tend to forget deep plots between sessions). Bypassing low level play might also work because many are tired of those characters.
(Edit: Must be 5e. Don't want to convert from other systems, editions. Thx)
I am partial to EN Publishing's APs. Along with [MENTION=6778235]ehenning[/MENTION] 's suggestion of Zeitgeist, I would recommend taking a look at War of the Burning Sky. http://wotbsadventurepath.com

The campaign saga presents war in an age of magic and the horrors that it brings. Each of the 12 adventures sends the heroes on a different mission that affects the overall war effort, and the heroes must think about the choices they make; this isn't necessarily a good set of adventures for players that kill things first and ask questions later. The first adventure starts the heroes at level 3, and the final adventure will have them at level 20+.

I am in the process of bringing this campaign saga, first released for 3.5, to 5e. My previous conversion work includes the entire 3.5 Age of Worms AP which is available on the Downloads section of this site. http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&downloadid=1254

The first 3 adventures of WotBS are available now, amounting to about half a year of gaming, and at least 2 more adventures should be available by December. The campaign and player's guides are available for free download.
 


Ask your players if there were any 'dangling threads' from their previous adventures that they want to resolve. Promises that need kept, a mess to clean up, lost their prize possession to a Bad Guy, anything like that?
 

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