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What is the best official campaign to start off with for first-time D&D players?
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<blockquote data-quote="touc" data-source="post: 8767115" data-attributes="member: 19270"><p><strong>Never Played Before: </strong><em>Lost Mines of Phandelver. </em> It has prefab characters with ties to the region so people can just begin gaming, and a wonderful classic experience that's easy to run for DMs with little modification. It caps around 5th level, perfect for new folks. You'll overwhelm gamers if you aim for the stars with a 2 year project of level 20.</p><p></p><p><strong>Alternatively, </strong><em>Sunless Citadel. </em>I'd still create prefab characters with ties to the adventure so there can be a "spotlight" moment for each character. It's a bit more complex than LMOP and takes a little more DM prep, but it's a memorable and wonderfully done adventure that can whet appetite for a more complex campaign.</p><p></p><p><strong>Just Need a 1 Session Game: </strong><a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/226178/The-Boneyard" target="_blank"><em>Boneyard </em>on DMGuild.</a> For $3 full, it's a fun idea of adventurers who (in my game) gave up adventuring when one of their own was killed. Each year, they visit that gravesite but this year mysteriously the graveyard is locked tight. In my game for 1st time gamers, I used pregen characters and had the PCs go around the table inventing the story piece by piece of how the tragedy happened. I had a visual of the epitaph and headstone (along with a picture of Kevin Sorbo's Hercules as their friend for giggles), which we filled in as the players made the story up. Took 1 session, roughly 4 hours. <em>For playing, doesn't come with maps (theatre of mind or make up your own graveyard), you have to replace one of the enemies from Lost Mines with Thugs from the Monster Manual, and the gravekeeper should have a reason not to let the PCs in, who are regular customers.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="touc, post: 8767115, member: 19270"] [B]Never Played Before: [/B][I]Lost Mines of Phandelver. [/I] It has prefab characters with ties to the region so people can just begin gaming, and a wonderful classic experience that's easy to run for DMs with little modification. It caps around 5th level, perfect for new folks. You'll overwhelm gamers if you aim for the stars with a 2 year project of level 20. [B]Alternatively, [/B][I]Sunless Citadel. [/I]I'd still create prefab characters with ties to the adventure so there can be a "spotlight" moment for each character. It's a bit more complex than LMOP and takes a little more DM prep, but it's a memorable and wonderfully done adventure that can whet appetite for a more complex campaign. [B]Just Need a 1 Session Game: [/B][URL='https://www.dmsguild.com/product/226178/The-Boneyard'][I]Boneyard [/I]on DMGuild.[/URL] For $3 full, it's a fun idea of adventurers who (in my game) gave up adventuring when one of their own was killed. Each year, they visit that gravesite but this year mysteriously the graveyard is locked tight. In my game for 1st time gamers, I used pregen characters and had the PCs go around the table inventing the story piece by piece of how the tragedy happened. I had a visual of the epitaph and headstone (along with a picture of Kevin Sorbo's Hercules as their friend for giggles), which we filled in as the players made the story up. Took 1 session, roughly 4 hours. [I]For playing, doesn't come with maps (theatre of mind or make up your own graveyard), you have to replace one of the enemies from Lost Mines with Thugs from the Monster Manual, and the gravekeeper should have a reason not to let the PCs in, who are regular customers.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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