The best piece of advice I got was when I was 25-years-old. An older, homeless gentleman listened patiently while I droned on and on about all the stuff I knew. He waited until I was finished, then looked me square in the eyes and quietly said, “You don’t know what you are talking about.”
He was right of course. And the older I get the more I realize how little know.
So the next few hundred words from me may be pure baloney. And I don’t know a lick about your homebrew world, I’m just humbly suggesting there are some compelling reasons for you to run a published D&D or Pathfinder adventure, at least for your first few years playing.
We’re nerds, so there will be an array of opinions on this. As long as there have been published Dungeons & Dragons adventures, these options of running published adventures versus homebrew adventures have existed. I simply wanted to suss out a few thoughts that you may not have considered.
The truth, of course, is run what you enjoy. Do you love running published adventures? Go for it. Do you love homebrewing your own. Go for it!