How to Organize a D&D Campaign with Loreum

Running a tabletop campaign means juggling NPCs, locations, factions, plot threads, and session notes. Here's how to use Loreum to keep it all organized without drowning in spreadsheets.

1. Set up your project

Create a new project in Loreum and name it after your campaign. This becomes the container for everything: your NPCs, locations, factions, lore, and session plans.

2. Create your factions as Organizations

The first thing to establish is who the power players are. Create each faction as an Organization entity. The Thieves' Guild, the Kingdom of Eldoria, the Cult of the Void. Give each one an ideology, territory, and status. These become the backbone of your political landscape.

3. Build your NPC roster as Characters

Every NPC gets a Character entity. Fill in the basics like name, role, and species, but the real value is in the backstory and secrets fields. The secrets field is hidden from the public wiki, so if your players ever look at the public version of your world, they won't see spoilers.

4. Map relationships

This is where Loreum shines for campaign management. Create relationships between NPCs and factions: "Captain Vex is a double agent for the Thieves' Guild," "The Blacksmith secretly reports to the Cult." The knowledge graph shows you the web of connections at a glance, perfect for session prep.

5. Use the timeline for world history

Create eras (The Age of Dragons, The Great War, Modern Day) and drop events into them. When a player asks "what happened 200 years ago?" you have the answer. The Gantt chart view makes it easy to see overlapping events and cause-and-effect chains.

6. Plan sessions with the Storyboard

Create a plotline for each major quest arc. Add plot points for key beats: the hook, the investigation, the betrayal, the boss fight. Each plot point can link to entities and timeline events, so you always know who's involved and when things happen.

7. Write lore as wiki articles

For deep lore that doesn't fit in an entity, like the history of magic, how resurrection works in your world, or the political system, create Lore articles. Tag them by category and link them to relevant entities.

8. Share with your players

Set your project to Public and share the wiki URL with your players. They can browse NPCs, read lore, and check the timeline, but they won't see any entity's secrets field. Perfect for player handouts without spoilers.