Summary

• The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide features short adventures perfect for beginners, teaching key concepts in a concise manner.
• Adventures like The Winged God provide learning opportunities for both players and Dungeon Masters through layered choices.
• Horns of the Beast is highlighted as the best adventure in the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide, offering a memorable and twist-filled quest.

At the core of every great 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons campaign is a party o🔜♚f eager and thrill-seeking players, a creative Dungeon Master, and exciting adventures to play through. Adventures, in this case, are guides you can use to help plan the activities your players can take on.

You can creat🦩e original adventures (and even make them avail🌟able for others to use), but there are plenty of official and unofficial ones that are specifically geared for players just starting or for new characters starting a new campaign. Here are some of the best adventures for low-level parties.

Updated on January 28, 2025, by Alfredo Robelo: Low-level adventures are what most players end up experiencing, no matter if they are new to the game or long-time veterans. The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide included several adventures that are barely a page long, making them easy to run and fundamental for learning the game, so we've added a few of them here.

20 ꦦ The F🎐ouled Stream

From The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide

• Intended for characters of first level.

The adventure examples in th๊e 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide are meant as a way for readers to understand how to build adventures. This is why the notes of the adventure are barely a page long: this is what your personal adventure notes are supposed to look like, instead of the elaborate lore you usually find in published books.

As such, it works as a great introduction for both new players and beginner Dungeon Masters that want to start the hobby, but won't be able to handle something to🍌o com♉plex. The adventure has a simple hook about a contaminated stream, having the players using it as a guide, befriend a treant, and deal with various dangers that lurk inside a nearby cave.

19 ♔ The Winged God

From The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide

• Intended for characters of third level.

The first three adventure examples of the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide can be ಌplayed one after the other, and they take players from their first level all the way up to level three. Not only are the players learning their characters (an▨d gaining their subclasses), but the Dungeon Master learns as well, particularly about how to deal with player choice.

The central problem of The Winged God is that a group of kobolds have been forcefully recruited by a red dragon wyrmling into collecting treasure, terrorizing the nearby travelers in the process. Players have many ways of getting hooked into aiding the kobolds, with layers added for players that may ignore each hook and culminating in theܫ kobolds themselves asking for help; basically, it teaches you to be ready for players♎ to not interact with your world.

18 Horns Of The Beast 💛

From The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide

• Intended for characters of fifth level.

The best adventure by far in the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide is Horns of the Beast, a level five ques𒁏t that involves traveling, backstabbing and spelunking. The players are hired to escort a merchant to the far reaches of the jungle, and it shows a great way to make a grand journey happen over the course of a single session.

It also has a great twist, with a seemingly in💞nocent ally becoming the final threat. At the end of the adventure, a plot hook about destroying an evil artifact shows itself, guiding the players into having adventures in the upper planes; said adventure isn't included, so it is up to the Dungeon Master to finish telling that story.

17 ꦏ 💮 Dragons Of Stormwreck Isle

From The Dragons Of Stormwreck Isle Starter Set

• Intended for characters of first level, taking them up to level three.

Dragon of Stormwreck Isle will have your players exploring a mysterious island, but they are caught up in an ancient feud 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:between dragon families. It soon becomes down to the party to ꦦdetermine if this feud can end peacefully or in disaster.

This starter set has everything you need to jump into a short but memorable adventure. The set comes with dice, the core rul♔es, and even pre-generated characters to help those a little daunted by character creation. The adventure will take your players up to level three𝓡, but nothing stops you from continuing the story in any direction you please afterward.

16 ൩ The House Of Lament

From Van Richten's Guide To Ravenloft

• Intended for characters of first level, taking them up to level three.

Not only does Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft introduce a wide range of thrilling Domains of Drཧead to explore, but it also comes🌳 with a creepy beginner's adventure to play. This adventure, The House of Lament, will allow your players to go from level one to level three if they can survive the horrors of this haunted house.

This spooky adventure begins with the party receiving a mysterious message that lures them into the ⛎mists. Arriving at the House of Lament, they agree to help communicate with the spirits that haunt the building, soon learning about the many tragedies that have happened here. The more they investigate, the more dangerous the house൲ becomes. If the party can handle this spooky beginning adventure, they are ready to face even more terrifying Domains of Dread in the future.

15 🌟 D🦹ragon Of Icespire Peak

From The Dragon Of Icespire Peak Adventure Module

• Intended for characters of first level, taking them up to level seven.

Dragon of Icespire Peak involves a group of adventurers helping out the people of Phandalin, who have not only a dragon harassing the town but also the threat of orcs taking over the area. The town noticeboard has several quests available, all suitable for a low-leveled party to handle. From exploring a fortress to fighting a giant thunder boar, there'sᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤📖ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ a lot of variety in the quests. There is also a fun final battle with the dragon at the end of the short campaign.

Dragon of Icespire Peak does feel like a collection of fun side-quests to play rather than a linear story-dr𝔍iven campaign. It is up 🌳to you as the DM to expand upon it and add your own details to connect it all. There is a lot of freedom for your players, though, and it feels like an authentic sandbox experience for newcomers to D&D.

14 ♑ 🉐 The Joy Of Extradimensional Spaces

From Candlekeep Mysteries

• Intended for characters of first level.

Candlekeep Mysteries is full of fantastic adventures for players of all levels, but it has a tale perfect for those just starting called The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces. While at Candlekeep, the famous and enormous library, a group of level one adventurers discovers a portal that leads to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion. Inside, t෴hey a༺re soon trapped and must solve various puzzles to return to the real world.

This short adventure has it all: combat, social encounters, puzzles, and more. The idea of a b💖ook trapping the party in another domain is an entertaining concept you could easily place into any campaign setting.

13 Lost Mine Of✤ Phandelver ♑

From Phandelver And Below: The Shattered Obelisk

• Intended for characters of first level, taking them up to level four.

The Lost Mine of Phandelver is an adventure well known by beginners ꦫas it comes in an official Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set. It serve♈s as an introductory to D&D 5e and recommends characters starting at levels one or two. It takes place in the Forgotten Realms setting and in a region close to the iconic D&D city: Neverwinter.

The Phaldelver starter set is now inc♏luded in the Phandelver And Below: The Shattered Obelisk campaign.

Players sta𒅌rt out escorting a🔥 caravan to the village of Phandalin but soon find themselves swept up in danger and intrigue. This adventure has five pre-generated characters to help your players get started, six dice, a rulebook, and the adventure book itself.

12 Confrontation At Candlekeep ꧋

Showcased During GenCon 2013

• Intended for characters of second level.

Confrontation at Candlekeep was originally a playtest adventure showcased during GenCon 2013. It was initially intended and presented as an adventure for multiple groups, run by several DMs at a time and a coordinator known as the ꦏFiꦺrst Reader.

It's recommended for level two characters and takes place during the Sundering in the Forgotten Realms setting. Candlekeep is under attack by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the cultists of Asmodeus, and it's up to each party to defend different areas of the stronghold. Each group has its own set of encounters, and they can ask for and offe🎃r assistance to other groups.

11 💝 ♔ Ghosts Of Saltmarsh

From The Ghosts Of Saltmarsh Adventure Module

• Intended for characters of first level and takes them up to level 12.

For levels one to 12, the Ghosts of Saltmarsh adventure covers more levels than others, so if you're trying to take a single party through many levels, a module of this scope covers much of that ground. It includes several nautical-themed adventures, such as🎐 Salvage Opera🦩tion and Isle of the Abbey.

The book also includes new backgrℱounds that players can use to build their characters as they work to save a quaint little fishing villa🐬ge threatened by pirates, smugglers, and plenty of nautical-themed monsters.