About this new round of D&D and me

This started off after watching D20 and Brennan Lee Mulligan run some campaigns.  I missed D&D and wanted to play.  Of course with COVID restrictions and not knowing any players made that difficult.

So, I started my own little world and found some players online.  So far it has been fun creating the world and watching it change.  It is based on 5e D&D and runs races and rules using the pantheon and realm of Faerun.  Or, to put it another way, it's Faerun, but with my map.   

This allows me the freedom to make new areas or interactions between kingdoms fluid and ultimately dynamic.  Faerun is WotC property and I cannot change the rulership of say Calimport to suit my needs if the players nuke the land.  In Odir, I can. 

So, what does this mean for players? My best example right now is how a group of players freed some Lizardfolk from their dragon overlord and became their de facto leaders. They convinced the Lizardfolk to give up their chaotic evil ways. Now they're just lawful evil, but they don't eat people as often now!