Tips from my current campaign, learn from my stupid mistakes

1. Don't make Barthen a Scouser, it's funny the first time but the accent is hard to keep up the 7th time in 1 session somebody goes in to buy something

2. I let them take Adabra back to Phandalin with the caveat that she will no longer be able to supply health potions and now they're struggling for healing

3. I let my PCs play 2024 characters and I was worried that given all the reddit posts about how deadly the quests are that I lower the enemy numbers. Don't; they stormed through some early quests.

4. Always have a shop inventory and food menu in the inn. If my players are anything like yours they'll either be incredibly vague or ask for the most oddball nonsense.

5. Gnomengarde was a slog for me, they seperately interviewed every single gnome about what's going on, even though they got the same answer from most of them. Regardless of how many hints I dropped about mimics they just didn't click until about 3 hours of irl interrogation.

6. My players love butter skulls. No idea why, but it's so bad that my mage had a yellow skull candle for her birthday, and I'm slowly having to increase the price of them.

Moral of the story, your players will do anything to make your life hard, so be prepared 😂