A homebrew campaign has two crucial components: the world and the story. At this point in the series, we’ve already built a beautiful, vibrant, living world that is populated with unique characters and filled with civilizations and stories waiting to be encountered. We’ve written one arc, the first arc of the campaign, and I’ve talked about one-shots. Now, however, it’s time to look at the most critical part of the story: the central arc, or the arc that covers the entirety of the campaign. Sure, there will be other stories and some detours along the way, but this is the trunk of the tree from which all of the branches extend. In fact, that’s how I want you to think of this session: we’re building the trunk of the tree.

Today, I thought it would be fun to talk about my current reading list for 2022. Doing TBRs has never really appealed to me for this channel, even though I tend to enjoy that content from creators I love. It isn’t the sort of thing I want to do regularly, because I have so much else that I want to talk about. However, I think that an annual TBR could be fun! That’s what I’m setting out to do today. In this post, I’ll be talking about all of the books that I plan to read in 2022. Here we go!

I tell you this not to brag (although, heck yeah, I’m bragging—I helped this game get made!), but to let you know that I came into this game with a bit of bias. I was prepared to not enjoy it as much as I’d enjoyed the first game given that I’ve changed (and so has my taste in games), but my expectation was that I would love the game equally as much as I did the first. I was pre-conditioned to love Psychonauts 2, but I tried to give it a fair shake and aim to be fully honest in this review of the game.

your next arc. Whatever the cause is, these situations often lead to the necessity of a “side quest” or “one-shot”. However, just because something is a one-shot doesn’t mean it can’t be important to the story or fun for the players! In this part of the homebrew campaign creation series, I’ll be talking about how you can make meaningful one-shots for long-term campaigns.

I was actually surprised to learn about the origins of straight edge while I was researching for this video. I’d originally thought that it was a subset of veganism since all of the straight edge people I know are also vegan. However, I was fascinated to find out that it originally started in the hardcore punk scene as a counter to the excess drug and alcohol use that was stereotypical of punk culture. Crazy.

...honestly, what a note to end this year on. Dark Age has so much to love, so the question isn’t really did I enjoy it, but rather how much did I enjoy it? Is this going to end up being the first Pierce Brown book that I give five stars to?