Violence is broadly cartoonish. An example resolution to the first fight is to throw a tarp ov𝓰er them and chase them away.

The DM can describe violence in as much or as littleဣ detail as they find appropriate to their 👍group.

The primary motivation of the antagonist is responding to the death of their parent at the hands of another character.

You can substitute a different backstory for this character without altering their motivations or ♛needing to alter the g🌌ameplay.

The island is infested with zombies. They aren't described in graphic detail but will kill villagers if the party fails to stop them.

You could replace the zombies with another creature with an equal Challenge Rating (CR), but would need to rewrite some of the dialogue and quests.

Some players will bond more easily with a character they created.

As the DM you'll need to create a narrative 'hook' that pulls the new character into the narrative.

A draconic sorcerer, for example, might 💧🦩be studying the islands to learn about their magical ancestry.

Teaches the party they're allowed to run from fights and should scout locations before exploring.

Setting Sparkrender up as an antagonist before the final chapter.

The module﷽ recommends that Runara warn players away from the observatory if they try to approach it.

You can instead have them attacked by Sparkrender or his kobold worshippers.

Don't worry about punishing them for running. The bruise to their ego will be plenty.

The violent fungi encounter can accidentally teach players to not try and use skills in combat: The module instructs the DM to keep the hidden fungi concealed even if players active🌼ly search for them.

If a player chooses to spend an action actively searching for hidden threats, you should allow a perception check (DC13 to spot one, DC18 to spot two).

You can explain the myconids not detecting the violent fungi by in🥀toning that they use camouflages that target other senses than sight, making them much stealthier against the myconids relying on those senses.

Stops the harpy from magically duplicating when the party levels up, staying in line with the description of a singular harpy attacking ships.

Both the Compass Rose and Seagrow Caves have alternative encounter designs so that the second location they visit is always harder.

Choose one to have the level one 𝕴encounter and the other to have the level 🍬two encounter.

Lighthearted adventure.

Spelljammer is a good module for youn𒁃ger audiences. The light tone turns D&D into a pulp sci-fi story.

Wild Beyond The Witchlight does✨ the same thing for a more fae-themed adventure.

Slaying dragons

Epic quests

Dragonlance takes place in a different setting to the Sword Coast and many other fifth edition modules but captures the same narrative beat of the players participating in a great war between and against dragons.

The world of Krynn takes a darker and more melodramatic tone, 300 years after the setting's golden age was ended by a catastrophe big enough to be capitalised on in history books.

Regional conflicts with recurring characters

One of the larger locations of the setting can easily contain enough adventures for a lengthy campaign stretching from levels one to twenty.

A bit of narrative stit🅷ching can bring the same collection 💃of characters from the Waterdeep: Dragon Heist to another module focused on the city.