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    herr_s_aus_h@lemmy.zip
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    Hello. I plan to run a campaign with three of my friends. I will be the DM. I have been the DM before and I have been a Player before (in DnD 5e and also other systems). For my three friends it will be the first time they play a tabletop RPG. So which of the offical campaign moduls do you think is best suited for my friends?

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    • H herr_s_aus_h@lemmy.zip

      Hello. I plan to run a campaign with three of my friends. I will be the DM. I have been the DM before and I have been a Player before (in DnD 5e and also other systems). For my three friends it will be the first time they play a tabletop RPG. So which of the offical campaign moduls do you think is best suited for my friends?

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      Rhynoplaz
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      For first timers? None of them.

      Make up a basic introduction quest.

      How did the players meet each other? Why are they adventuring together? What are these characters all about?

      If you can get the players to connect with their characters right off the bat, they’ll be much more likely to come back for session 2.

      I like to start them in a small town of little consequence. Throw in everyday challenges, like a tavern bully, or “we need $X by end of day”. I might have some ideas of buildings and people in the town, or some low level monsters to fight, but keep it casual. Let the players guide you at first.

      If you force them to push through a pre written quest that assumes they already have a grasp on the game, they aren’t going to find the clues that the rest of us would think are pretty obvious. I’ve tried it before, thinking “if I give them a professional module, they’re getting the best experience,” but I had to hold their hand and pretty much tell them what to do, and nobody felt like they were playing their character, it was more like sitting through a Disney interactive ride. They were just watching it go by and waiting for me to tell them what should happen, and I don’t think we even finished the quest.

      Let them be silly, let them experiment and learn that they can do things here that they can’t in real life, but their choices will have consequences.

      Good luck! Have fun!

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        Hello. I plan to run a campaign with three of my friends. I will be the DM. I have been the DM before and I have been a Player before (in DnD 5e and also other systems). For my three friends it will be the first time they play a tabletop RPG. So which of the offical campaign moduls do you think is best suited for my friends?

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        misery mansion
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        I’ve had success with this in exactly this situation

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        A Wild Sheep Chase

        A Single-Session Adventure for parties of 4th-5th level The very first adventure produced by Winghorn Press, freshly updated with player feedback and suggestions, as well as a brand new map. When the party’s attempt to grab a rare afternoon of downtime is interrupted by a frantic sheep equipped with a Scroll of Speak to Animals, they're…

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          I’ve had success with this in exactly this situation

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          A Single-Session Adventure for parties of 4th-5th level The very first adventure produced by Winghorn Press, freshly updated with player feedback and suggestions, as well as a brand new map. When the party’s attempt to grab a rare afternoon of downtime is interrupted by a frantic sheep equipped with a Scroll of Speak to Animals, they're…

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          pooryorick@lemmy.world
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          This is a great one shot adventure and introduction to the system. I cannot recommend it enough.

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          • H herr_s_aus_h@lemmy.zip

            Hello. I plan to run a campaign with three of my friends. I will be the DM. I have been the DM before and I have been a Player before (in DnD 5e and also other systems). For my three friends it will be the first time they play a tabletop RPG. So which of the offical campaign moduls do you think is best suited for my friends?

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            treczoks@lemmy.world
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            I made a small, one-session adventure called “The Lost Moo”. Players immediately got suspicious when they saw the title. And yes, it is about stolen cows. Sorry, no heroic dragon fight and hoards of treasure for a first-level adventure 😉 Just a bunch of faeries “borrowing” cows to lure adventurers into their forest to take care of a problem they have.

            The idea behind this adventure was to offer a bit of everything: City adventure with NPC interactions, overland (and into the woods) with tracking and orientation, traps, riddles / problem solving, a dungeon, and finally, a fight.

            This was designed that way to see how the players deal with the different scenarios of playing and to see which suits them and which doesn’t. I adjusted the next adventures accordingly.

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              Hello. I plan to run a campaign with three of my friends. I will be the DM. I have been the DM before and I have been a Player before (in DnD 5e and also other systems). For my three friends it will be the first time they play a tabletop RPG. So which of the offical campaign moduls do you think is best suited for my friends?

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              errorcode@lemmy.world
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              My friend cribbed the first quest line from the original Diablo (I guess I am showing my age) and changed things up just a bit - Little town’s priest asks party go after the Necromancer that is animating all these good townsfolk’s dead kin. Finish that thing (low-level undead are fairly easy to scale to the party), mini-boss fight, run an errand or two, find out it was the priest all along, BBEG fight with more undead and a few human zealots (again, pretty easy scaling). It was fun, and as we realized this was the plot from a game we all played we got to have that beautiful aha moment.

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                Hello. I plan to run a campaign with three of my friends. I will be the DM. I have been the DM before and I have been a Player before (in DnD 5e and also other systems). For my three friends it will be the first time they play a tabletop RPG. So which of the offical campaign moduls do you think is best suited for my friends?

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                periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca
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                If you have enough experience to make your own custom adventure for your players, I’d recommend that, so that you can easily adjust it to suit your players needs and preferences, as you go.

                But if if you’re not comfortable with that, then probably just use the campaign that comes with the d&d starter pack (lost mines of phandelver or something like that).
                It’s not an especially amazing campaign, but it has a decent mixture of dungeon crawling and roleplaying, and the story/encounters are simple enough for beginners to understand. It’s a safe bet to ease players into TTRPG.

                You could also try a totally different system. I hear good things about Blades in the Dark. I’ve never played it, but what I hear sounds like it avoids overwhelming new players.

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                  Hello. I plan to run a campaign with three of my friends. I will be the DM. I have been the DM before and I have been a Player before (in DnD 5e and also other systems). For my three friends it will be the first time they play a tabletop RPG. So which of the offical campaign moduls do you think is best suited for my friends?

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                  dumples@midwest.social
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                  I would double down on the starter packs such as Lost Mines of Phandelver or Dragon’s of Icespire Peak. They are pretty basic and open enough that you can change or add on things that people are interested in. That only if you want to use an official campaign.

                  I would really recommend making your own campaign. Its really not as daunting as it seems. All you really need to do it make a single adventure and see what people like. From there see what parts people interact with and expand on that. I explicitly ask my players what they like, what they want to interact with and expand there. You can throw a bunch of ideas that you think might be fun into an area and see what ones people like. This is what I have been doing for the last few years and its been much less work than I expect. Also the player interaction is really engaging especially for new players. They can see that unlike a video game you can interact or change the world. Best of luck!!!

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                    I would double down on the starter packs such as Lost Mines of Phandelver or Dragon’s of Icespire Peak. They are pretty basic and open enough that you can change or add on things that people are interested in. That only if you want to use an official campaign.

                    I would really recommend making your own campaign. Its really not as daunting as it seems. All you really need to do it make a single adventure and see what people like. From there see what parts people interact with and expand on that. I explicitly ask my players what they like, what they want to interact with and expand there. You can throw a bunch of ideas that you think might be fun into an area and see what ones people like. This is what I have been doing for the last few years and its been much less work than I expect. Also the player interaction is really engaging especially for new players. They can see that unlike a video game you can interact or change the world. Best of luck!!!

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                    herr_s_aus_h@lemmy.zip
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                    The first time I was a DM for DnD I wrote my own campaign. Everybody had a good time. But I realised that the dungeons I design are really basic. So I thought that the offical moduls could be better in that aspect.

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                      The first time I was a DM for DnD I wrote my own campaign. Everybody had a good time. But I realised that the dungeons I design are really basic. So I thought that the offical moduls could be better in that aspect.

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                      dumples@midwest.social
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                      Go with stealing the adventures from dragons of ice spire since they are pretty open ended and easy to write stories around.

                      Nothing wrong with basic dungeon design either. I have a lot of go on dungeon and find things in my custom campaign. It’s a fun classic design

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