I know this isn ' t exactly what you were planning . but you could run through the starter set to get them to lvl 5 before heading over to SKT . The starter set does a very good job of starting off easy and then it gradually introduces more and more things that the party can pick up on and run with the graduation is also on the DM side which will help you get a feel for DMing . I am doing that for my group right now . its working out really well for myself and the players . Editting this to mention the start set is only 19 . 99 . <| sep |> first stack overflow is actually $ date date ' mdY his a ', timeYou have to skip over 4 other sites that explain date formatting before there ' s a stack overflow result if you google how to get date and time in PHP though .