Hi everyone, always liked reading posts here, and now I got a question, I'm curious for some ideas.

I'm starting my 1st live session of D&D. (Been running online games for a couple years)

I didn't want to go through the trope of everyone starting in a tavern. So while talking with my buddy who is a player, I blurted out that they would be...

"Walking off a battlefield, head held down low. Over a hundred dead bodies littered around you. Others who have survived, also walking away, with a silence that can almost be tangible."

I'm curious as too what neat events can be had for a 1st game/adventure.

Who did the battle took place between, could have been two rival towns, perhaps a goblinoid incursion and the fair folk took heavy losses.

Although I'm thinking of naturally having looters, bandits and possibly goblinoids coming down from the mountains to take advantage of the situation.