Would you agree that aware of pantheism means universeantibody in a way ? Because I really dig animism . <| sep |> Going from knowing hardly anything about DnD to building a full campaign from scratch is a few years of experience at least . Before even considering making a campaign , you should run a few published campaigns to get some DMing experience and understand how a campaign should be structured . While you ' re doing that , build some custom encounters into the campaigns , maybe a few additional 12 session sidequests to get some experience making content . In the background , work on worldbuilding so you can have something usable in a year or three . So get the starter set , the PHB , the MM , a published adventure of your choice CoS and SKT are the top recommendations , but it depends on your group , then the DMG in that order .