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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 […]

Started a new Star Wars d6 campaign

May 9, 2024 by newbiedm

I recently launched a new campaign I’m pretty excited about, using the venerable Star Wars d6 system, one of my all time favorites. I’m playing face to face, not online, so you won’t find any videos for it, but I did start a campaign website where I’ll be journaling the campaign’s progress. The story’s set […]

Star Wars: The Corporate Era

December 3, 2022 by newbiedm

I created a short document with a few prompts for a system agnostic setting (started as a fanfic screenplay idea) for roleplaying in the GFFA. A lot of players join games with expectations of what to find in a SW setting, and I thought it would be cool to create something to subvert those expectations. […]

Campaign Idea: What if Illithids ran a Matrix simulation of the world?

December 2, 2022 by newbiedm

I’m currently running a campaign based off of “Dragonsight”, a concept introduced in Fizban’s Treasure of Dragons. I’m having a lot of fun with it, and will likely blog about it soon, but have started turning the wheels on my next campaign and how to top what I’m currently doing. I know I want to […]

NewbieDM Review: Dragonlance Shadow of the Dragon Queen adventure

December 1, 2022 by newbiedm

Lets get one thing out of the way… Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen is not a Dragonlance setting book. You have to go elsewhere if what you’re hoping for is a Dragonlance Campaign Guide, or a 5e version of Dragonlance Adventures. It’s also not a sequel to Hoard of the Dragon Queen (in case […]