NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is an annual challenge presented to writers. The rules are simple: write x number of words in one month. The standard is 50,000 words, which is the minimum length for a work to be considered a novel (while typically, a novel is actually 80,000-100,000 words in length). This challenge has been going on for several years.

I've been reading through Iron Gold throughout much of November. I had hoped to have it finished earlier, but tacking NaNoWriMo onto my litany of other tasks detracted from my reading time, among many other projects and duties that befell me, this month. Additionally, I changed to an overnight (12a-9a) shift, which meant that for at least a couple of weeks, I was sleeping when I should have been reading. Nevertheless, I’ll be wrapping up my reading this week and will have a review for Iron Gold out next Wednesday. In the meantime, I thought it would be fun to put together a reading blog for Iron Gold. This is my first time doing something like this, so bear with me while I continue learning the ropes.

Your players may have given you the names and a few details of some people they may know who could be part of your story’s first arc. I know mine did! If that’s the case, take time to note down everything your players told you about those characters. It’ll be important for this lesson! Once you’ve got that, you’re ready to dive into creating the shops and notable inhabitants for the setting of our first arc. I’ll be creating some NPCs and stores for the town of Kessit, where the first arc of my homebrew campaign will be taking place.

Happy Friday and welcome to my website! Thank you for stopping by. Today’s video will be pretty out of the ordinary. Fridays are always reserved for personal content, and today’s post is no exception. At the end of October, I took a trip to Phoenix, Arizona to see one of my favorite artists perform in concert. This is my first real event since the start of the pandemic, so I was both excited and nervous about it. While in Phoenix, I also took the opportunity to see some sights, read a little, and experience some local vegan food! The journey was brief, but I packed it full of experiences as best I could. Today, I’m going to talk a bit about what I did on the trip.

In the previous lesson of my homebrew campaign creation course, I went over the process of writing copy for your players. We added details about our setting and the first arc of the campaign to a document that we could then send to our players. This document is created to enable our players to create characters that will mesh with the world and will serve the plot of the first arc in our campaign. After you wrote the copy for your players using the advice in that course, you should have sent that documentation along to your players so that they could create characters for you to work into the world. That’s exactly what we’ll be doing in this session, so you should start off by pulling up the characters your players made for your campaign!

This one is going to be a little rough, I think. It’s a concept that’s been rolling in my brain and something that I have wrestled with for some time. Titling it alone was a challenge because I’m not sure what to call the point that I’m at, now. I’ve heard this sort of thing referred to as a spiritual deconstruction, in the past, but I don’t think that really applies here because I’m still a spiritual person.