This adventure is a great outline for a beginner dungeon master to cut their teeth on. It also has a wonderful online community of people who have gathered around the subreddit if new DMs need inspiration for what to fill the outline with! I would also highly recommend checking out Bob World Builder's series on the adventure on YouTube.

I would highly recommend creating a calendar for your game to help track things moving behind the scenes like where the dragon has been patrolling or attacking lately

The adventure contents itself are very modular, it lends itself well to a sandbox style campaign and still gives some good guidance for keeping the tension of the dragon front and center in the minds of the players. When I ran this as a first time DM doing weekly games, this was exactly what I needed. I had a solid foundation of "what goes on the map this week" but it left me with room to tweak and add my own elements to make the story my own.

There are also great bits to steal from this adventure. Axeholm is a great dungeon to explore, the Tower of Storms was one of my favorites, and Dragon's Barrow is just a good quest no matter how you frame it.

This was the first adventure I ever ran, and its got some things going for it. while I don't adore any of the dungeons, some are quite memorable to me. The adventure is really modular, so I found myself cannibalising bits of it for one shots and filler quests. overall a good starter adventure.

Best official 5e adventure book for those who prefer something more Sandbox. Players can choose which quest they will do to advance in level, the quests are short and most can be finished in a single session. The missions are all connected to the main plot about a dragon that arrived in the region and started moving the food chain. All things considered, I totally recommend this adventure, I even suggest that DMs draw up dungeons and scenarios from here to put in their campaigns.

I ran this adventure from beginning to end. I had a great time running the game and my players enjoyed the adventure as well. It provides a lot of player agency when deciding the next adventure to play. The individual adventures in this are short and easy to run spanning only a few pages.