D&D 5E What is the best official campaign to start off with for first-time D&D players?

[EpicureanDM]

Let us remember that if these are new players to D&D... they will have no idea of what the "traditional D&D experience" is or isn't. They also will have no experience with what monster expectations and actions are supposed to be or what is "realistic" in a D&D context.

So just find an adventure that you would like to run and that interests you. If you like what it is you are running and it gets you excited... the players will come along for the ride no matter how well-written or not well-written it is.

Exactly right and why I recommend the Remix of Dragon Heist. The Remix focuses on making Heist easy and fun for the DM. It's all DM-facing fixes. Your players won't know or care what's been done to make Heist fun. They'll just experience the results.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

Run Dragon Heist, but do it using The Alexandrian's Remix of the book.

I remixed the Alexandrian Remix of Dragon Heist and am close to finishing it. Characters are approaching 10th level after 100 hours of play. It's gone way off the rails. Lots of fun.