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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 […]

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 […]

Talking with Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb

July 9, 2021 by newbiedm

I had the opportunity to speak with legendary D&D authors Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb on the debut episode of my new webshow, The NewbieDM Show. It was an interview I’ve wanted to do for a long time, as I am a big fan of their work. Jeff Grubb is one of those D&D designers […]

My issue with social conflicts in 5e D&D

June 3, 2021 by newbiedm

I was musing on twitter about social conflicts in 5e, and how I think there’s a big disconnect with how they intersect with NPCs and Monsters, and thought I’d bring it to the blog to expand on it. I love twitter, but it’s not great for lengthy musins like this one… In 5e, social encounters […]

Tracking time in the dungeon

May 24, 2021 by newbiedm

One of the things that still gives me a little bit of difficulty when I’m DMing is tracking time in the game’s fiction when the characters are in exploration mode. Combat is simple, the 6 second rounds are codified, and we know that 10 rounds is a minute in the game world, 5 rounds is […]