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Depends where you're coming from! Here's a goofy little guide:
If you know nothing about D&D, start with Fantasy High
If you know nothing about D&D but you watch RuPaul's Drag Race, start with Dungeons and Drag Queens
If you're coming from Critical Role, start with Escape the Bloodkeep
If you're coming from The Adventure Zone, start with Tiny Heist
If you're coming from Dungeons and Daddies (or prefer other TTRPGs over D&D), start with Mentopolis
If you're coming from NADDPod, honestly pick any Intrepid Heroes season (that's Fantasy High, A Crown of Candy, Unsleeping City, Starstruck Odyssey, Neverafter)
If you're an old school College Humor fan (or if you joined Dropout for Game Changer first), you could start with Mice and Murder
If you're big into comics, sci-fi, etc., start with Starstruck Odyssey
If you like D&D for its fantasy settings, start with A Crown of Candy or Escape the Bloodkeep
If you were a Percy Jackson kid, start with The Unsleeping City
If you were a Harry Potter kid, start with Misfits and Magic
If you were a classic lit kid, start with Burrow's End
And if you prefer really long campaigns over shorter seasons, I'd go for the Spyre series (in order: Fantasy High, Fantasy High: Sophomore Year, optional Pirates of Leviathan, optional The Seven, Fantasy High: Junior Year)
There's also quite a few I WOULDN'T start with. For example:
-Fantasy High Sophomore and Junior Year, The Seven, Pirates of Leviathan, Unsleeping City live season (all sequels or expansions on established universes)
-Coffin Run (awesome season, just a slightly different vibe from many of the main seasons)
-The Ravening War (a prequel! Technically you could understand it alone, but I would watch A Crown of Candy first, especially since they're DMed by different people, so the tone is slightly different)
-Shriek Week (fuck Gabe Hicks)
real talk where do I start d20. there are so many campaigns