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Expanding Iomandra: Sea King Valkroi

April 30, 2025 by newbiedm

One of the exciting bits of lore in Iomandra are the Sea Kings, independent warlords who govern trade across the Dragon Sea. Here’s how they are introduced in the fan made document: The Sea Kings are a group of independent warlords who govern trade on the Dragon Sea. Each Sea King commands their private armada […]

Adapting Iomandra: The Isle of the Abbey

April 22, 2025 by newbiedm

One of the obvious 5e sourcebooks that I’ve leaned on for my Iomandra campaign is Ghosts of Saltmarsh, as it provides tons of nautical themed content I can, eh…plunder like a pirate for my campaign. The adventures in particular are pretty easy to convert and use, and I’m adapting them to my version of Iomandra. […]

Expanding Iomandra: Factions

April 18, 2025 by newbiedm

One of the great things about Iomandra is that there are a lot of threads to pull from for a great campaign. One of these is the amount of factions in the world, be it merchants, arcane, or imperial. The Shan Qabal, for example, was one of the main ones in Chris Perkins’s game, as […]

Expanding Iomandra: Knights of Ardyn NPCs

April 15, 2025 by newbiedm

In my last post, I expanded upon the Knights of Ardyn, as they’ll be a major player in my Iomandra campaign. In this post, I want to present a few NPCs who’ll be the main Knights the PCs interact with. They’ve already met two of them, not knowing or even suspecting them to be anything […]

Expanding Iomandra: The Knights of Ardyn

April 12, 2025 by newbiedm

One of the great things about Iomandra is that much of the canvas it gives us a DMs for world building is left with just enough blank spaces where it doesn’t feel like the world is fully fleshed out for you. The fan-made campaign document based off of Chris Perkin’s Dungeon Master Experience column in […]

An Iomandra Campaign Backstory

April 4, 2025 by newbiedm

I’ve been running Chris Perkins’s 4e homebrew campaign setting, Iomandra in my 5e home game, and we are really enjoying the newness of it all. My players were not familiar with it, and they’re committed to not looking anything up and just discovering the world as it’s presented to their characters. The low levels take […]

Running Iomandra

December 17, 2024 by newbiedm

Hey everyone, today I’m going to tell you about my new campaign, set in Iomandra, Chris Perkins’ amazing D&D campaign setting. If you’re anything like me, you’re always on the hunt for fresh inspiration, and when I stumbled onto Iomandra’s lore, it hooked me like a sailor to a sea shanty. So, grab your d20s […]

New Year, New Campaign

January 12, 2022 by newbiedm

I just launched a new campaign and I’m super excited about it. This past summer I ended a year-long campaign, and unfortunately it did not make it to the end. I wish it had, I loved the story we were telling, but we ran out of steam and ended it with the PCs at level […]

Converting the 2e Realms to 5e

September 29, 2014 by newbiedm

In a previous post I wrote about setting my home game in the Forgotten Realms around the time period of the 2nd edition version of D&D, which would put us in Faerun in 1368DR. For those of you keeping track at home, the original boxed set of the Forgotten Reams placed the timeline at 1357DR, […]

Videogame to Tabletop: Campaign Journal 1

March 8, 2012 by newbiedm

(This article was originally written for The Dragon Age Oracle blog) So I’ve decided that my Dragon Age campaign will switch to following the story line (albeit a bit altered) of the videogame. My 5 players are level 5, and we’ve gone through most of the published adventures, which I believe springboard nicely into getting […]